The invention of Italy as an imaginary homeland on the Canadian soil Storytelling, language, media
25 Ottobre 2018 - 26 Ottobre 2018
Dipartimento di Studi Letterari Linguistici e Comparati
International Conference
The invention of Italy as an imaginary
homeland on the Canadian soil
Storytelling, language, media
25-26 October 2018
Palazzo Du Mesnil, Sala Conferenze
Via Chiatamone 61/62
Napoli
Thursday, October 25, 2018
14:30 Welcome Address
Elda Morlicchio, Rector
Augusto Guarino, Head of the Department
15:00 Introduction
15:30 Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California
Re-storying Images of Home: Paul Tana and Vincenzo Pietropaolo
16:00 Ylenia De Luca, University of Bari
Scrivere la differenza: la prospettiva minoritaria di Marco Micone e Fulvio Caccia
16:30 Angela Buono, UNIOR
La demeure égarée: des voix italo-québécoises
Coffee Break
Chair: Ylenia De Luca, University of Bari
17:00 Mirko Casagranda, University of Calabria
A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Antigone by Antonio D’Alfonso
17:30 Anna Mongibello, UNIOR
The Discursive Construction of the Homeland in the Italian-Canadian Media Discourse
Extracts from the film Lives of the Saints
Dinner
Friday, October 26, 2018
Chair: Oriana Palusci, UNIOR
9:30 Keynote Speaker: Nino Ricci, writer, University of Toronto
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Negotiating Cultural Identity in the Digital
Coffee Break
Chair: Alessandra Ferraro, University of Udine
11:00 Eleonora Federici, UNIOR
Self-translating Italy in Nino Ricci’s Trilogy
11:30 Federico Pio Gentile, UNIOR
The Lives of the Saints Miniseries: a Multimodal Case Study
12:00 Round Table: Translation, Memory, Italy
Gabriella Iacobucci, translator of Ricci’s Trilogy
Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna
Eleonora Federici, UNIOR
Oriana Palusci, UNIOR
Closing Remarks