Event Program: Rethinking the Italian Eighteenth-Century and Its Transnational Connections
April 4, 2025—April 5, 2025, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Friday, April 4
2:30-3:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Florence Hsia, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Arts & Humanities
Grazia Menechella, Chair, Department of French and Italian
Mario Alberto Bartoli, Italian Consul General of Italy in Chicago
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Music, Performance, and Aesthetic Debates Across Borders
Moderator: Anne Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Corie Marshall (Loyola University): “Eighteenth-Century Italian Tragedy:
A Transnational Perspective”
Guido Olivieri (University of Texas-Austin): “The ‘Image’ of Italian Culture Through the Debates on Music National Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century”
Michael Weinstein-Reiman (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Giuseppe Tartini: Singing on the Violin During (and After) the Querelle des Bouffons”
5:00-5:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 5
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Networks of Culture and Thought: Intellectual Crossroads
Moderator: Michael Martoccio (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Margaret Butler (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Operatic Celebrity and the Transnational in the Eighteenth Century: Caterina Bonafini, the ‘Aspasia of Modena,’ and the Fame Trade”
Rebecca Messbarger (Washington University): “Women in the Room: The Italian Settecento’s Making of the Modern Public Sphere”
Pasquale Palmieri (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): “Transnational Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Italy”
12:00 -12:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Panel 3: Transnational Literary and Theatrical Receptions
Moderator: Christopher Kleinhenz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Stefania Buccini (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “An American in Venice: William D. Howells’s Perspectives on 18th-Century Italian Literature”
Clorinda Donato (University of California, Long Beach): “Rethinking the Transnational and Transhistorical Dimensions of Italian 18th-Century Theater: The Reception of Carlo Gozzi in Europe”
Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Foscolo’s Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis as Transnational Novel”
4:00-4:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
4:30-4:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:45-5:15 p.m.
Panel 4: Beyond Continents: The Italian Enlightenment and the Wisconsin Idea
Moderator: Leah Sandner
Graduate Student Readings
5:15-5:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Stefania Buccini, Symposium Organizer