Programme
Thursday, September 23
(Cold buffet from 1pm to 3pm)
AFTERNOON
3.30pm: Seminars’ and Theatre Workshop Presentation:
Gillian Beer, Roberto Bigazzi, Laura Caretti, Laurent Darbellay and Julien Zanetta, Maria DiBattista and Barry McCrea, José González Garcia, Florian Mussgnug, Giuseppe Piccioni and Anna Masecchia
6pm: Flashback on Synapsis 2008: Presentation of the volume Metropolis (ed. by Anna Masecchia)
Friday, 24
MORNING
Lectures
9.15am: Gioachino Chiarini (Università di Siena) Wanderings through Ancient Utopia
11am: Daniela Guardamagna (Università di Roma) Ineluctable Utopia
1pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
3.30-6.30pm: Seminars (Gillian Beer, Roberto Bigazzi, Laurent Darbellay and Julien Zanetta, Maria DiBattista and Barry McCrea, José González Garcia, Florian Mussgnug, Giuseppe Piccioni and Anna Masecchia)
8pm: Dinner
EVENING
Film screening
Saturday, 25
MORNING
Lectures
9.15am: Matthew Beaumont (University College, London) Utopia as Flight: Utopian Fiction and the "Fugue Epidemic" of the 1880s
11am: Laura Caretti (Università di Siena) She exits to Utopia
1pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
3.30-6.30pm: Seminars (Gillian Beer, Roberto Bigazzi, Laurent Darbellay and Julien Zanetta, Maria DiBattista and Barry McCrea, José González Garcia, Florian Mussgnug, Giuseppe Piccioni and Anna Masecchia)
8pm: Dinner
EVENING
Film screening
Sunday, 26
MORNING
Lectures
9.15am: Ariane Landuyt (Università di Siena) Utopias of Europe
11am: Gillian Beer (Cambridge University): "Our natural loneliness": Solitude and Utopia
1pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
3.30-6.30pm: Seminars (Gillian Beer, Roberto Bigazzi, Laurent Darbellay and Julien Zanetta, Maria DiBattista and Barry McCrea, José González Garcia, Florian Mussgnug, Giuseppe Piccioni and Anna Masecchia)
8pm: Dinner
EVENING
9pm: Claudio Franceschi (Università di Bologna): Utopia and Science: the Relief from Diseases, the Extension of Human Lifespan and the Emergence of New Inequalities
Monday, 27
MORNING
Lectures
9.15am: Neil Ten Kortenaar (University of Toronto) Utopias and Generational Succession in African Literature
11am: Vita Fortunati (Università di Bologna) Utopia 2010: is it Time for Meta-utopia?
1pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
3.30-6.30pm: Seminars (Gillian Beer, Roberto Bigazzi, Laurent Darbellay and Julien Zanetta, Maria DiBattista and Barry McCrea, José González Garcia, Florian Mussgnug, Giuseppe Piccioni and Anna Masecchia)
8pm: Dinner
EVENING
Film screening
Tuesday, 28
MORNING
Lectures
9.15am: Other Selves, other Worlds
Simona Corso (Università di Roma Tre): Pastoral, History, and Utopia;
Simona Micali (Università di Siena): Alternate History, or A Trip to Elsewhen;
Orsetta Innocenti (Università di Siena), "It's so nice to be at home again". Between Neverland and Oz.
I bambini nella tradizione utopica: conversazione con Paolo Zanotti sul suo romanzo Bambini bonsai
1pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
3.30-6.30pm: Work on the research projects
8pm: Dinner
EVENING
Theatre (organized by Laura Caretti)
Wednesday, 29
MORNING
Work on the research projects
1pm: Lunch
AFTERNOON
3pm (Plenary Session): Students’ Presentation of the Results of the Seminars
8pm: Dinner
EVENING
11pm: Final Party
Thursday, 30
Departure after Breakfast