Transnational Shelley(s): Metamorphoses and Reconfigurations

OCTOBER 6, 2022
8:45-15:00 – REGISTRATION
9:00-9:30 – WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
Orazio Schillaci, Rector, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lucia Ceci, Dean of the Department of History, Humanities, and Society
Luigi Miraglia, Founder and Director of Accademia Vivarium Novum
Paolo Bugliani, Elisabetta Marino, Conference Organizers
9:30-10:30 – KEYNOTE THE YEAR 1829 (AND THEREABOUTS): THE TIPPING POINT FOR SHELLEY’S REPUTATION NORA CROOK, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Chairperson: Lilla Maria Crisafulli, University of Bologna, IT
10:30-11:00 − COFFEE BREAK
11:00-13:00 − SESSION 1
Chairperson: Keir Elam, University of Bologna, IT
Re-mediating the Gothic through Shelley’s Works - Serena Baiesi, University of Bologna, IT
Rambles in Rome: Mary Shelley’s Anglo-Italian Visioning - Renée Schlueter, Kirkwood Community College, USA
Edward Dowden’s The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley- Bysshe Inigo Coffrey, Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK                                         P.B. Shelley’s Fin de Siècle Reception in Scotland: The Case of William Sharp/Fiona Macleod - Giuseppe Capalbo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
Political Compromises, Poetical Reconfigurations: H.I.E. Dhlomo and P.B. Shelley’s Voice in Pre-Apartheid South Africa - Marco Canani, “G. D’Annunzio” University, Chieti-Pescara, IT
13:00-14:15 – LUNCH
14:15-15:50 − SESSION 2 Chairperson: Andrea Peghinelli, Sapienza University of Rome, IT
“Hearts Beat as Mine Now Beats, with such Intent as Renovates the World”: Shelley and the Youth Counterculture Movement - Roberto Baronti Marchiò, University of Cassino, IT
The Legacy of Shelley’s Vegetarianism: From Henry Stephens Salt to Gandhi - Elisabetta Marino, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
Mary Shelley’s Visions Live Again through Diane Arbus’s Photographs - Daniela Coramusi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
From Yoomi to Beatrice Cenci: “Shelley’s Vision” in Melville’s Work - Carla Francellini, University of Siena, IT
15:50-16:20 – COFFEE BREAK
16:20-17:20 – KEYNOTE P.B. SHELLEY, HUMPHRY DAVY AND TRANSFORMATION
SHARON RUSTON, Lancaster University, UK Chairperson: Nora Crook, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
17:20-18:20 – BOOK PRESENTATION
Mary Shelley, Valperga, Mondadori, 2021
Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam (translators) in conversation with Serena Baiesi and Elisabetta Marino
18:30-19:15 – CONCERT
20:30 – GALA DINNER
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OCTOBER 7, 2022
8:45-12:00 – REGISTRATION
9:00-11:00 − SESSION 3 Chairperson: Carla Sanguineti, Presidente dell’associazione “Amiche e amici di Mary Shelley”
Commistioni ottocentesche: quando Frankenstein incontra Hyde - Carla Fusco, “G. D’Annunzio” University, Chieti-Pescara, IT     P.B.Shelley in Russia e negli Stati Uniti tra fine Ottocento e inizi Novecento: le traduzioni e le riscritture di Konstantin D. Bal’mont e John Reed - Marzia Dati, University of Pisa, IT
Frankenstein nel teatro contemporaneo francese: le riscritture di Philippe Faure (1994) e Jean-François Peyret (2018) - Simona Munari, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
Il Prometeo post-moderno: strategie narrative nella riscrittura fumettistica del Frankenstein di Benoît Becker - Alessio Rischia, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
La fortuna di Mary Shelley in Francia e in Italia: dal Frankenstein di Jules Saladin (1821) a quello di Ranieri Cochetti (1944) - Letizia Carbutto, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
11:00-11:30 − COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:45 − SESSION 4 Chairperson: Maria Valentini, University of Cassino and Board Member of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association in Rome, IT
“The Burthen of the Curse of Babel”: Mary Shelley’s Handling of Shelley’s Translations - Valentina Varinelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Brescia, IT
Metaphor as Translation: Frankenstein in the Press - Vitana Kostadinova, University of Plovdiv, BU
The Anxiety of Influence Unbound. Shelley’s Prometheus vs. Philippide’s Prometheus - Sorin Ciutacu, West University of Timişoara, RO
12:45-14:00 – LUNCH
14:00-15:00 − KEYNOTE
“A SHADOW TRACKS THY FLIGHT”. P.B. SHELLEY AND AMERICAN WRITING
MARK SANDY, Durham University, UK
Chairperson: Sharon Ruston, Lancaster University, UK
15:00-16:15 − SESSION 5 Chairperson: Mark Sandy, Durham University, UK
The Legacy of Defence of Poetry in Anglo-American Modernism - Paolo Bugliani, University of Pisa, IT
Technological Progress and the Disturbing Epilogue of Humanity: The Influence of Mary Shelley’s Novels in Ray Bradbury’s Short-Stories - Marta Lucari, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
A New Spanish Translation of The Triumph of Life – Book Launch Luis Castellví, University of Manchester, UK – Prue Shaw, University College London, UK
16:15 – CLOSING REMARKS