THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, present a conference on futurism in the twenty-first century.
Northrop Frye Centre
Victoria College – University of Toronto
73 Queen’s Park Cres. E. | Building 515
March 28, 2020
FREE EVENT | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Convenors: Luca Somigli and Andrea Parasiliti
9:30-10:30 – Session 1
Chair: Andrea Parasiliti (University of Toronto)
Matteo Brera (York University and University of Toronto), “Non Expedit Svaticanare: Mario Palmarini’s Esoteric Futurism and the Index of Prohibited Books”
Monica Jansen (University of Utrecht) and Luca Somigli (University of Toronto), “From Anti-clericalism to Sacred Art: Perspectives on Futurism and the Sacred”
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:00 – Session 2
Chair: Marco Malvestio (University of Toronto)
Barbara Meazzi (Université Côte d’Azur), “Rileggere il futurismo: il fantastico Marinetti”
Paola Sica (Connecticut College), “Leandra Angelucci Cominazzini: Revisiting the Futurist Debate on Speed, the Sacred and the Spiritual for a New Reality”
12:00-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:30 – Session 3
Chair: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)
Patrizio Ceccagnoli (University of Kansas), “On A Futurist Dog: For a Posthuman Ecocritical Reading of Marinetti’s Words in Freedom”
Andrea Parasiliti (University of Toronto), “Futurism and Disability: From the ‘Cannon’ to the Aesthetic Canon of Haphaestus”
2:30-3:00: Coffee break
3:00-4:00 – Session 4
Chair: Monica Jansen (University of Utrecht)
Laura Chiesa (University at Buffalo), “After Futurism: Music and Sound”
John Picchione (York University), “Acceleration, Montage, Intermediality, and the Subject: Futurism and Its Legacy”
4:00-5:00 – Round table “New Directions in the Study of Modernism and the Avant-Garde”
Chair: Luca Somigli
Participants:
Melba Cuddy-Keane (University of Toronto)
Robert Davidson (University of Toronto)
Paola Sica (Connecticut College)
Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto)