There are a number of these Papers regarding Italy that I wish were available on a
Web Site and/or at least a synopsis/excerpt published in OSIA's Italiana Americana.

It is a shame that this type of scholarship will be heard by too few ears,
and seen by too few eyes.
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[Sessions NOT relating to Italy have been deleted]

Modernity and Modernism in the Mediterranean
Toronto, October 30 - November 1st, 2003

Conference programme

Thursday, 30 October
9:00 - 10:30---Session 1 –
Northern Visions: Modernist Approaches to the Mediterranean
=>Claudia Clausius (University of Western Ontario) –
"Self-Portrait of the Artist as Traveller"
=>John McIntyre (McGill University) –
"Traumatic Geographies: Virginia Woolf's Mediterranean Imagination"
=>Alex Smith (Columbia University) –
"Pound's Quest for 'Mediterranean Sanity'"

10:45 - 12:45---Session 2 –
Insular Literatures? Sicily and Sardinia and/in Literary Modernity
=>Margherita Marras (Université de Avignon) –
"Insularité et modernité: les responses (ou les non responses) culturelles au
phénomène de la modernisation dans les littératures narratives sarde et sicilienne"
=>Marisa Ruccolo (University of Toronto) –
"De Paris à Catane: le voyage d'un nouveau réalisme psychologique dans le roman sicilien.Paul Bourget et Federico de Robertis"
=>Lucienne Kroha (McGill University) –
"Tradition and Modernity in Pirandello"
=>Jana Vizmuller-Zocco (York University) –
"Sicily, a Metaphor for the World, or Gattopardismo's Progress"

2:15 - 4:15---Session 3 –
Approaches to the Mediterranean: Tourism and Culture
=>Stephanie Hom Cary (University of California, Berkeley) –
"Unpacking Italy: Tourism, Modernity and the Mediterranean"
=>Anne Toxey (University of California, Berkeley) –
"Matera: Modernity à la mode (Méditerranée)"
=>Melita Richter Malabotta (Università degli Studi di Trieste) –
"How to Teach the Mediterranean?"

4:30 - 6:00---Session 4 –
Mediterranean Architectures
=>D. Medina Lasansky (Cornell University) –
"Colonial Anxieties: Rooting Modern Italian Architecture in Its Native Soil"
=>Panayiota Pyla (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) –
"Modernizing Old Cities: The Politics of Development in Post-WWII Mediterranean"

Friday, October 31 (parallel sessions)
8:30 - 10:30 I---Session 5 –
Tradition and Modernization I: The Debate in the Late Ottoman Empire

8:30 - 10.30 II---Session 6 –
Rediscovery through Periphery: The Mediterranean Italian Cinema
=>Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto (University of Connecticut) –
"Evasion to the Periphery: The Case of Salvatores's Mediterraneo"
=>Felice Italo Beneduce (University of Connecticut) –
"Fugue from the Fringe: Italians in Albania in Amelio's Lamerica"
=>Anthony Cristiano (University of Toronto) –
"The Collapse of Traditional Social and Cultural Practices in Amelio's Lamerica"
=>Fulvio Orsitto (University of Connecticut) –
"Oriental Escapism in Hamam"

10:45-12:15---Session 7 –
Commodities of Modernity: Constructing Identities for Ottoman Women

10:45-12:15 II
Session 8 – Aegean Exchanges

2:00 - 3:30---Session 9 –
Modernity and Gender
=>Gabriella Romani (Princeton University) –
"Fashioning the Modern Italian Woman: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Rhetoric of Female Italianness"

2:00 - 3:30---Session 10 –
Egypt: A Mediterranean Cultural Crossroad

3:45 - 5:45---Session 11 –
Modernity and Nationalism: The Case of Italy
=>Andrea Sallese (University of Connecticut) –
"Familism and Local Identity in Restoration Italy"
=>Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University) –
"On the Peculiarities of the 'Latin Nations': Fears of National Decline and the Quest for Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Italy and France"
=>Mario Moroni (Colby College) –
"Reinvigorating the 'italica gente':D'Annunzio, Colonialism, Modernism"
=>Paul Colombani (Université de Nantes) –
"Tentatives de modernisationdans l'Italie post-unitaire: d'Annunzio, Marinetti, Corradini, Prezzolini"

3:45 - 5:45---Session 12 –
East-West/North-South: Intellectuals between Worlds
=>Karla Mallette (American University of Beirut) – "Orientalist
Philology and National Narrative in Mediterranean Europe"

6:30-7:15---Plenary session
Francesco Loriggio (Carleton University) –
"Modernism, Memory and the Mediterranean: Italian Variations"

Saturday, 1 November

8:30 - 10:30---Session 13 –
Decentering Modernism: Mediterranean Sites of Modernity
=>Roberto Ludovico (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) –
"Decentralizing Modernism: The Decline of the 'Myth of Paris' and the
Peripheral Alternative of Trieste"

10:45 - 12:15---Session 14 –
Tradition and Modernization II: The Contemporary Debate
=>Goran V. Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University) –
"Global Exchanges in the Renaissance Mediterranean: Orhan Pamuk's Novels

1:45 - 3:45---Session 15 –
"Mare Nostrum:" The Mediterranean in the Modern Italian Imaginary
=>Paul Arpaia (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) –
"Il Giornale d'Italia, the New Mediterranean Order and Italian Modernism"
=>Claudio Fogu (University of Southern California) –
"Imperium or Emporium? Fascist Modernism and Mediterranean-ness"
=>Federico Caprotti (University of Oxford) – "Insecticidal Tendencies:
The Creative Destruction of Malaria in the Pontine Marshes, 1930-1939"
=>Joshua W. Arthurs (University of Chicago) –
"'The Italy of Augustus and the Italy of Today': Roman Modernity in Fascist Italy"

4:00 - 5:30---Session 16 –
Cinema and National Identity

6:00-6:45
Plenary session