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Registration and Coffee | 8:30 | 314 Royce Hall
Opening Remarks | 9:00
- Massimo Ciavolella, CMRS Interim Director, and Giulia Sissa, Conference Organizer and President, Network of Italian Scholars Abroad (NISA)
Plenary session: States on Stage | 9:15-10:45
- Moderator: Giulia Sissa (UCLA & NISA)
- Davide Susanetti (Padova): Outrage and Political Crisis | 9:15
- Pietro Pucci (Cornell & NISA): From Philosophy to Rhetoric to Questionable Political Action | 9:45
Coffee | 10:45
Simultaneous Panels | 11:00-1:00
1. Eros, Egos | Royce 314
- Moderator: Giulia Sissa (UCLA & NISA)
- Paolo Fasoli (Hunter College & NISA): Movere et delectare on the Libertine Rhetorical Scene | 11
- Matteo Soranzo (McGill University & NISA): Reconstructing the Elegiac Self in Aragonese Naples | 11:30
- Shane Butler (UCLA): « De profundis » | 12:00
- Discussion | 12:30
2. Epistemology | Bunche 4276
- Moderator: Libby Barringer (UCLA)
- Joshua Dienstag (UCLA): Against Happiness | 11:00
- Andrea Borghini (College of the Holy Cross & NISA): I am, therefore I eat. | 11:30
- Damian Stocking (Occidental College): Being as Soul, being as Hole | 12:00
- Discussion | 12:30
Lunch | 1:00 | Royce 306
Simultaneous Panels | 2:30-4:30
3. Political Passions | Royce 314
- Moderator: Kat Lecky (UCLA)
- Rossella Pescatori (UCLA & NISA): Envy: What an Ugly Beast! | 2:30
- Megan Gallagher (UCLA): Republican Passions in Cicero and Machiavelli | 3:00
- Claudia Zatta (Northwestern University & NISA): Beyond Aristotle: Webs
of Emotions in Tragedy | 3:30
- Discussion | 4:00
4. Emotional Communities: Doings and Undoings | Bunche 4276
- Moderator: Althea Sircar (UCLA)
- Franco Sciannaemo (Carnegie Mellon University & NISA): Mazzini’s Filosofia della musica (1929): Envisioning a Social Opera | 2:30
- Vincenzo Pascale (Rutgers University & NISA): Pirandello and the Crisis of Political Participation | 3:00
- Charles Stocking (UCLA): Anger, Kingship, and the Primordial Politics
of Emotion in Ancient Greece | 3:30
- Discussion | 4:00
5. Aesthetic Experiences | Royce 334C
- Moderator: Rebekah Sterling (UCLA)
- Andrea Fedi (SUNY Stony Brook & NISA): The Vertiginous Delights of Speed: Emotions in Movement, and the Dawn of Automobilism (1900-1910) | 2:30
- Davide Panagia (Trent University & NISA): Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics | 3:00
- Marcello Neri (Graft & NISA): Emotions in a Visible Space | 3:30
- Maurizia Boscagli (University of California, Santa Barbara & NISA): The Aesthetics and Politics of Affect | 4:00
6. Gendered Passions | Royce 342
- Moderator: Heather Suttong (UCLA)
- Ombretta Frau (Mount Holyoke College & NISA): A Tale of Repressed Passions: Women and the Art of Silence | 2:30
- Cristina Gragnani (Temple University & NISA): “Se ci commuove ha vinto”: The Role of the Emotions in the (Literary) Campaign for a Divorce Law (1902) | 3:00
- Andrea Baldi (Rutgers University & NISA): Anna Maria Ortese’s Unsettling Encounters with Marginality | 3:30
- Discussion | 4:00
Coffee | Royce 314 | 4:30
Plenary Session: Pathos in the Polis | Royce 314 | 4:45-6:15
- Peter Stacey (UCLA): Seneca and Anger | 4:45
- Giulia Sissa (UCLA & NISA): Politics of Pleasure from Athens to Utopia | 5:15
- Anthony Pagden (UCLA): Classical Politics of Honor in the Baroque | 5:45
Reception and Dinner | Royce 306 | 6:30
