MEDITERRANEAN VISIONS
JOURNEYS, ITINERARIES AND
CULTURAL MIGRATIONS
First International Conference
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Sant’Anna Institute
Sorrento, June 13-14, 2014
Mediterranean Visions:
Journeys, Itineraries and Cultural Migrations
First International Conference
Sorrento June 13-14, 2014
Conference Program
 REGISTRATION| Friday 9am - 9.30am
 Opening Remarks and Welcome| Friday 9.30am - 9.55am
Friday| 10.00am - 11.15am
[1.1] IN VIAGGIO PER IL MEDITERRANEO 1
Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross
(Room: 6/7)
Alberto Arbasino e la riscoperta del Grand Tour tra postmodernismo, classicismo ed orientalismo
Cristiano Bedin, Università Statale di Istanbul
A Relíquia de Eça de Queirós: a viagem de Portugal à Terra Santa
Susana Antunes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Cavalieri mediterranei e Corsari caraibici: l'Ordine di Malta nelle Antille francesi (1653-1665)
Luigi Robuschi, Università degli Studi di Milano
Friday| 11.30am - 12.45pm
[2.1] IN VIAGGIO PER IL MEDITERRANEO 2
Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
(Room: 6/7)
L’Oriente vicino e lontano: viaggiatori in cammino verso Costantinopoli
Silvia Pedone, Università La Sapienza, Roma
Travellers in a Mediterranean City: Naples between the 17th and 19th Centuries
Paola Avallone - Raffaella Salvemini, CNR, Napoli
Marco Polo’s Description of the World: Miracles as Cultural Capital
Elizabeth Ranieri, University of Texas, Dallas
[2.2] TOPOS MEDITERRANEO
Chair: Nicholas Albanese, College of the Holy Cross
(Room: Library)
Mare Nostrum ovvero la ricerca dell’armonia
Assunta De Crescenzo, Università di Napoli
Fra mare e mito: il Mediterraneo apocalittico in "Fuoco su Napoli" di Ruggero Cappuccio
Nicholas Albanese, College of the Holy Cross
Tra onirismo, realismo e topos letterario: “Respiro” di Emanuele Crialese
Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar
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LUNCH BREAK| 1pm - 2.30pm
Friday| 2.45pm - 4.00pm
[3.1] MEDITERRANEO POETICO 1
Chair: Dolores Juan Moreno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(Room: 6/7)
Asfalto y seda. Visiones mediterráneas del viaje en la poesía de Aurora Luque
Dolores Juan Moreno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Between being and universe”: il viaggio verso una patria di parole di Mahmud Darwish
Ramona Ciucani, Scuola Superiore Mediatori Linguistici, Vicenza
L’inspiration méditerranéenne dans l’œuvre de J.-M.G. Le Clézio
Lorella Martinelli, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara
Friday| 4.15pm - 5.30pm
[4.1] MEDITERRANEO POETICO 2
Chair: Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute
(Room: 6/7)
Josep Pla: la creación del paisaje de la Costa Brava
Pau Cañigueral Battlosera, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
L’emigrazione e il viaggio nelle opere e nelle parole di Mariangela Sedda
Caterina Marras, Independent Scholar
Il viaggio interiore di Carlo Levi attraverso l'uso iconografico del colore in “Cristo si è fermato a Eboli”
Paola Quadrini, Independent Scholar
[4.2] ORIZZONTI DEL MEDITERRANEO
Chair: Dolores Juan Moreno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(Room: Library)
Costruire l’immagine: luoghi di Napoli e della Campania in brochure e leaflet
Patrizia Vigliotti, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli
Italian Style? Visions of Mediterranean Cultural Migrations in Dolce and Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2013
Collection
Viviana Cois, Independent Scholar
Intorno alla villa Malaparte di Capri
Òscar Canalis, Independent Scholar
DINNER| 8pm (Registered participants only)
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Saturday| 10.00am – 11.15am
[5.1] PENSANDO IL MEDITERRANEO
Chair: Marco Marino, Sant’Anna Institute
(Room: 6/7)
Melville and Nietzsche: Nihilism on the Mediterranean
Mark Anderson, Belmont University
Segreti Mediterranei: Ustica, teatro di narrazione e costruzione del senso
Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa
L’ospite inquietante: rivoluzioni di filosofia pratica in Ramon Llull e Giordano Bruno
Domenico Palumbo, Sant'Anna Institute
Saturday| 11.30am - 12.45pm
[6.1] DIRITTI MEDITERRANEI
Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
(Room: 6/7)
Early 20th Century Levantine Immigrants in the Latin America
Idir Ouhaes, University of Exeter
The Flow of the Mediterranean into the European Union: Irregular Immigration and the Legal
Repercussions on EU States
Joe D’Ascenzo, Villanova University
La comunità italiana tra solidarietà e tensioni in Palestina occupata
Olivia Martina Dalla Torre, Università di Friburgo
Gender Dimensions of Dispossession and Displacement among Palestinian Refugee Women: Homelessness
in Impermanent Landscapes
Lori Rudolph, New Mexico Highlands University
[6.2] COMUNITÀ MEDITERRANEA
Chair: Giovanni Migliara, UNED
(Room: Library)
Electronic Postcards to Disengaged Youth: Cultural Shock’s Project for the Creation of a Multi-Cultural
Society
Ted Perlmutter, Columbia University
“No CO2, No Hotel, No Taxi, No Fast-food, No Souvenirs:” Ethical Mobility across the Mediterranean and
the Italian Multimedia Project of Cultural Shock
Chiara Ferrari, New York University
Marco Drago and “A Prison as Big as a Country”. The End of the Communist Era Seen by a Young Italian
Student
Giovanni Migliara, UNED
LUNCH| 1.00pm - 2.30pm
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Saturday| 2.45pm - 4.00pm
[7.1] IL MEDITERRANEO COME IDENTITÀ
Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross
(Room: 6/7)
Fascist 'Root Tourism' from the United States (1922-1941)
Matteo Pretelli, University of Warwick
Across the Atlantic from the Mediterranean Basin: Italian Immigrants in the United States and the
Reshaping of Their Ethnic Identity in the Interwar Years
Stefano Luconi, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Prima di Colombo. Dal Mediterraneo agli USA: Il Medioevo nel Nuovo Mondo
Federico Canaccini, Independent Scholar
[7.2] NOTEBOOK MEDITERRANEO
Chair: Domenico Palumbo, Sant’Anna Institute
(Room: Library)
Translating the Mediterranean Space: Philology, Cartography, and Disease between Venice and Hispaniola
Katharina Piechocki, Harvard University
Del principio y costumbres de Venecia, un ambasciatore spagnolo a Venezia nel Cinquecento
Ignazio Siddi, Independent Scholar
Il “Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece” nello Zibaldone di Leopardi
Ugo Perolino, Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara
Saturday| 4.15pm – 5.30pm
[8.1] MEDITERRANEO MEDIATICO
Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
(Room: Library)
The Myth of America: Transmediatic Influences in “Lamerica” by Amelio
Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
Da Cuore a “Marco dagli Appennini”: l’emigrazione geografica e mediatica
Susan Amatangelo, College of the Holy Cross
Looking Backward: Palestine as Utopian Space in Zionist Thought and Fiction
Alex Marshall, Brasenose College Oxford
La rappresentazione filmica di Napoli e dintorni: alcuni esempi della filmografia statunitense tra gli anni
‘50 e ‘60
Virginia Formisano, Università Parthenope
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[SPECIAL EVENT]| 5.40PM - 7.30PM
SUMMER ’82: WHEN ZAPPA CAME TO SICILY
Documentary, Italy-Usa 80’
Directed by Salvo Cuccia (2013)
July 14, 1982. A young Sicilian doing his military serve in the north sets off on a journey to Palermo to
attend to the last concert on the European tour of the legendary Frank Zappa, the eclectic and much loved
rock star with Sicilian roots (1940-1993). An unforgettable journey, but one that culminated in a great
disappointment: the young man did not arrive in time for his idol’s concert. That young man was Salvo
Cuccia, who thirty years later picks up again the unused ticket and set out to reassemble the pieces of that
particular moment in his life. The memory of his father, who died prematurely, is intertwined with the story
of Frank’s family, that is now visiting the land of their forebears. And along with Zappa’s widow Gail, his
children Moon, Diva and Dweezil, and Massimo Bassoli, great friend and biographer of the musician, Salvo
Cuccia embarks on a journey/story made up of meetings and returns: a moving and ironic memoir. A story
made of music and families, studded with never-before-seen images of the concert in 1982, interrupted by
disturbances on the terraces and the reaction of the police, while outside fireworks and the crowd wildly
celebrated the feast day of Santa Rosalia. Thus another Italy, another America and quite another music are
brought back to life.
World Premiere: 70° Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia, 2013
Premio Chopin come Miglior Documentario sulla musica al Planete
Doc Festival Varsavia 2014
Salvo Cuccia, director and visual artist, combines in his eclectic experimentation video-art, fiction and new
media in documentary. Prolific author, he has made many video works, fiction short films, performances,
video-installations and documentaries. His works have been presented and screened in many International
festivals. In 2005 Martin Scorsese presented his film documentary Détour De Seta at the Tribeca Film
festival and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. His research stretches today towards the new frontiers of
augmented reality and fiction cinema.
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Final Remarks| 8 pm
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Albanese Nicholas, 2.2
Amatangelo Susan, 8.1
Anderson Mark, 5.1
Antunes Susana, 1.1
Avallone Paola, 2.1
Balma Philip, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1
Bedin Cristiano, 1.1
Canaccini Federico 7.1
Canalis Òscar, 4.2
Cañigueral Battlosera Pau, 4.1
Ciucani Ramona, 3.1
Cois Viviana, 4.2
D’Ascenzo Joe, 6.1
Dalla Torre Olivia Martina, 6.1
De Crescenzo Assunta, 2.2
Ferrari Chiara, 6.2
Formisano Virginia 8.1
Juan Moreno Dolores, 3.1, 4.2
Luconi Stefano, 7.1
Marino Marco, 5.1
Marras Caterina, 4.1
Marshall Alex, 8.1
Martinelli Lorella, 3.1
Migliara Giovanni, 6.2
Ouhaes Idir, 6.1
Palumbo Domenico, 4.1, 5.1, 7.2
Pedone Silvia, 2.1
Pera Andrea, 2.2
Perissinotto Cristina, 5.1
Perlmutter Ted, 6.2
Perolino Ugo, 7.2
Piechocki Katharina, 7.2
Pretelli Matteo, 7.1
Quadrini Paola, 4.1
Ranieri Elizabeth, 2.1
Robuschi Luigi, 1.1
Rudolph Lori, 6.1
Salvemini Raffaella, 2.1
Siddi Ignazio, 7.2
Spani Giovanni, 1.1, 7.1
Vigliotti Patrizia, 4.2
Conference Directors: Marco Marino, Giovanni Spani
Edited by: Domenico Palumbo, Dolores Juan Moreno
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Sponsored and Organized by:
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
PeccatA OrbiS
Associazione di Studi Culturali
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