Women in Hell

Francesca da Rimini & Friends

Between Sin, Virtue, and Heroism

 

Donne all’inferno
Francesca da Rimini & Co. tra peccato, virtù ed eroismi

 

GIORNATE INTERNAZIONALI FRANCESCA DA RIMINI

VI Edizione

Los Angeles CA, april 20 - 21, 2012

 

PROGRAMMA

 

Friday, April 20 | UCLA

314 Royce Hall, Los Angeles

 

9:00     Registration, Coffee

 

9:30     Welcoming remarks by
Massimo Ciavolella, (Interim Director, CMRS),
Ferruccio Farina, (Università di Urbino), and
Lee Walcott (Ahmanson Foundation)

 

9:45     Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University) — “Dido in Love”

 

10:15    Luigi Ballerini (UCLA) — “Theodora: A Gift of God Nowhere to Be Found But Probably in Hell, Somewhere”

 

10:45    Break

 

11:15    Eduard Vilella (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) — “Not Even in Hell: Dante’s Isolde”

 

11:45   Heather Sottong (UCLA) — “Three Argentine Visions of Francesca: Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Leopoldo Lugones”

 

12:15    Lunch

 

12:00    Deirdre O’Grady (University College, Dublin) — “A ‘Dantesque Dualism’: Francesca da Rimini between Temptation, Betrayal and Perturbation”

 

12:30    Lucia Re (UCLA) — “Metamorphoses of Thäis”

 

13:00    Break

 

13:30    Brittany Asaro (UCLA) — “Boccaccio’s Francescas: Comparing Inferno V and the Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti (Dec. V.8)”

 

14:00    Roberto Fedi (Università per Stranieri, Perugia) — “Hell on Earth. A Women’s Madhouse at the End of the XIXth Century”

 

14:30    Gianluca Rizzo (Franklin and Marshall College) — “Mucchiachias Sathanae: The Female Sinners of Dante and Folengo’s witches”

 

Friday, April 20 | Italian Cultural Institute

1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

 

7:00      Welcome by Alberto di Mauro, Director IIC
Opening of “Passioni d’Italia — Francesca da Rimini nell’immaginario popolare,” an exhibition of engravings

 

8:00      Brief films of Dante’s Divine Comedy

 

8:30      Religious Mantis: Interactive video installation by Alessandro Marianantoni with live performance by Tiffany Trenda

 

Saturday, April 21 | Italian Cultural Institute

1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles

 

9:30      Coffee

 

10:00    Giulio Ferroni (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”) — “Inferni femminili nel Decameron” (via Skype from Zurich)

 

10:30    Raffaele Pinto (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) — “Le lacrime di Beatrice (Inf. II)” (via Skype from Barcelona)

 

11:00    Break

 

11:30    Rossend Arqués i Corominas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) — “Scellerate donne. Note sulla semantica della “scelleratezza” nel Trecento” (via Skype from Barcelona)

 

12:00    Cindy Stanphill (UCLA) — “Damned if She Does and Damned If She Doesn’t: The Griselda Complex in Moderata Fonte’s Il merito delle donne”

 

12:30    Remo Bodei (UCLA) — “Attaccamento e abbandono: Francesca e Didone in Dante”

 

1:00      Lunch

 

2:00      Paolo Golinelli (Università degli Studi di Verona) — “Le ‘antifrancesche’ storiche: Cunizza da Romano e Matelda/Matilde di Canossa”

 

2:30      Melina Madrigal (UCLA) — “A Lightly Veiled Hell: Arcangela Tarabotti’s La tirannia paterna”

 

3:00      Break

 

3:30      Rita Severi (Università degli Studi di Verona) — “ ‘The Love That Made Hell, Paradise.’ Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé, 1839-1908) Re-writing the Paolo and Francesca Theme in Held in Bondage”

 

4:00      Dominic Siracusa (UCLA) — “For the Poet’s Sake: the Linguistic Sign and Women Who Lead to Hell”

 

4:30      Ferruccio Farina (Università di Urbino) — “Dall’inferno al paradiso: la trasformazione di Francesca nelle arti visive tra XIX e XX secolo”