Chiasmi 2020 Conference Schedule
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Please Note: All times listed below are in Eastern Time (ET).
Friday, October 23, 2020
9:30 – 9:50 Welcoming Remarks
Daniel Rietze, Eleonora Carboni, Leonora Masini, and Pablo a Marca, Brown University
9:50 – 10:50 Keynote Address
Prof. Lucia Dacome, University of Toronto
“By the Sea: Medicine and the Arts along the Italian Shores”
10:50 – 11:00 Virtual Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Panel 1 – Diseases and Remedies: Late Medieval and Early Modern Narratives
Chair: Francesca Zambon, Brown University
Caterina Agostini, Rutgers University
“The Syphilis Case Study and Narrative Medicine in Early Modern Italy”
Antonio Borrelli, Università degli Studi di Pisa
“Il «pestifer annus» 1348 e il Secretum: le cure del medicus Agostino tra
peste nera e «pestis animi»”
Annamaria Azzarone, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa / Sorbonne Université
“I Secreti di medicina mirabilissimi di Giulio Cesare Croce”
12:00 – 12:50 Virtual Meal Break
12:50 – 1:50 Panel 2 – Mental Health and Social Others
Chair: Alessandro Moghrabi, Brown University
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow, University of Kent
“Autism and Altre Italie: Deconstructing ‘Other Italies’ as a Model for
Neurodivergent Practice”
Francesca Leonardi, University of Notre Dame
“La malinconia di Tasso: malattia del corpo e della mente.”
Giorgia Bordoni, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“No Death’s Land. The impossibility of dying as illness in Levi’s and
Morselli’s literary scenarios”
1:50 – 2:00 Wrap-Up
Friday, October 30, 2020
9:30 – 9:35 Welcome Back
9:35 – 10:35 Keynote Address
Prof. Anne Hudson Jones, University of Texas Medical Branch
“Medical Humanities and the Legacy of the Studia Humanitatis“
10:35 – 10:45 Virtual Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 Panel 3 – Doctors and Patients: Dynamics of Communication
Chair: Matthew Griffith, Harvard University
Luca Zipoli, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
“The Poet and his Physician: Umberto Saba’s letters to Amos Chiabov”
Cecilia Monina, Sorbonne Université
“Malattia, scrittura, e «desiderio di essere capiti» nei lavori di Gianni Celati:
da Comiche e Guizzardi ai taccuini del Fondo.”
Tullia Giardina, L’Istituto Statale di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “G. Carducci,” Comiso
“Gesualdo Bufalino. Malattia e vita. Scrittura e medicina.”
11:45 – 12:30 Virtual Meal Break
12:30 – 1:45 Panel 4 – The Human Body: Between Control and Autonomy
Chair: Giovanna Conti, Brown University
Julia Okołowicz-Szumowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski
“‘La lente è doppia.’ Corpi indifesi di Anna Maria Ortese”
Giulia Paganelli, Avvera S.p.A. – Gruppo CREDEM
“Danzando della Foresta di Notte. Corpi, Poteri e Danza nei processi di
stregoneria nord moravi del XVII secolo.”
Tatiana Avesani, Johns Hopkins University
“The Voice of Suor Benedetta Carlini – Lesbianism in 16th-Century Italy”
Silvia Raimondi, Johns Hopkins University
“Il corpo della donna nella letteratura e nei documentari della Resistenza.”
1:45 – 2:00 Concluding Reflections
Valentina Frasisti and Finlay Bell, Harvard University
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