8:00-8:30am
Registration & breakfast
8:30–8:45am
Opening Remarks: Professor Anne Vila (UW-Madison)
9:00–10:15am
Panel A : Early Modern Hazards: Toxicity, Resistance & Exile (Moderator: Nathan Germain)
- Lauren Surovi (UW-Madison), “The Toxic Cure: Remedy and Poison in Machiavelli’s Mandragola”
- Anthony Radoiu (UW-Madison), “Mélancholie and Enfer: Charles d’Orléans, Clément Marot, and the poetic experience of exile and prison”
- Emily Epperson (Harvard University), “Sounds of Violence in Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Misères”
10:15–10:30am
Break in the Alumni Lounge
10:30–11:45am
Panel B : Taking Risks: On Aesthetics, Cinema & Painting (Moderator: Ben Hair)
- Mason Johnson (UW-Madison), “And You And I: The Aesthetic Attitude and the Beautiful Thou”
- Caitlin Yocco-Locascio (UW-Madison), “Hazardous Images: A Labyrinth on Screen”
- Sophia Maxine Farmer (UW-Madison), “Painted Deception or Kitsch Genius? Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior With Biscuits (1950)”
12:00–1:00pm
Lunch in Varsity Hall
1:15–2:30pm
Panel C : Madwomen in the Attic: Mothers, Writers, Artists (Moderator: Katie Blackman)
- Ashley Byczkowski (SUNY Buffalo), “The Caribbean Poetic Rebellion: Demanding Madness”
- Sara Mattavelli (UW-Madison), “All About You, All About Us: The Unspoken Dark Side of Maternity in Alina Marazzi’s Tutto parla di te”
- Cari Landrigan (UW-Madison), “Feminism and Prostitution in the Art of the Weimar Republic”
2:30–2:45pm
Break in the Alumni Lounge
2:45–4:00pm
Panel D : Parts and Partitions: Social & Linguistic Marginalities (Moderator: Jeffrey Thomas)
- Hilary Emerson (UW-Madison), “Pasolini’s Intimate, Profound, Archaic Devotion in La ricotta”
- William B. Noseworthy (UW-Madison), “From King Ibrahim to the foundation of the ‘Western Cham’: The rise of the Cham Priest-Cleric Class, 1642-1835”
- Lora Jury (University of Oregon), “‘A geography of the dispossessed’: Neorealist cinema and the question of authenticity in the portrayal of the sottoproletariato experience”
4:00–4:15pm
Break in the Alumni Lounge
4:15–5:30pm
Roundtable (Moderator: Matteo Billeri)
- Professor Kevin Birmingham (English, Harvard University)
- Professor Jan Miernowski (French and Italian, UW-Madison)
- Professor Max Statkiewicz (Comparative Literature, UW-Madison)
5:30-6:30pm
Closing Reception in the Landmark Room, 3rd Floor