NARRATIONS OF ORIGINS IN WORLD CULTURES AND THE ARTS
International conference | 11-14 May 2021
Da: Mercoledì 12 maggio 2021 ore 09:00
Fino a: Venerdì 14 maggio 2021 ore 17:00
The international ESCL (European Society of Comparative Literature) conference Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts (University of Torino, 11-14 May 2021, on-line) will investigate the relationships between ancient and modern cultures, analyzing the most relevant mythologies, archetypes and narrations of origins according to groundbreaking critical perspectives.
It will compare literature, science and any form of artistic representation – including cinema and new media – in order to study the different cosmological patterns from cultural, historical and anthropological frameworks. It will also reflect on the role of narratives of pure invention, including parodic and provoking ones. In general, it will explore how poetic, fictional and artistic experimentations intersect in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. We therefore encourage members and participants to think about these questions from the greatest range of possible perspectives.
Personal and panel proposals may address issues (clusters and subthemes) like the following:
- Narrations and representations of origins in world cultures: the archetypes and their developments
- The Big Bang and the birth of human beings: science narratives
- Cosmology, art and poetry
- Imagining the origins, representing the sublime
- Origins as textual genesis, in the arts, literature, styles and literary genres
- Languages and narratives of origins in the arts of modernism and modernity
- A big deception? Fakes, simulations, inventions, and odd hypothesis about origins
Advisory Board
ESCL/SELC Bernard Franco (Université Paris- "Sorbonne"); Emilia di Rocco (Roma “Sapienza”) ; Brigitte LeJuez (Dublin City University); Jean-Louis Haquette (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne).
Torino Clara Allasia, Silvio Alovisio, Erminia Ardissino, Carola Barbero, Elisabetta Berardi, Massimo Bonifazio, Carmen Concilio, Alessandra Consolaro, Emilio Corriero, Paola Dolcetti, Maria Beatrice Failla, Daniela Fargione, Attilio Ferrari, Giuliana Ferreccio, Maria Teresa Giaveri, Chiara Lombardi, Alessandro Mengozzi, Francesco Mosetti Casaretto, Luigi Marfè, Giuseppe Noto, Antonio Pizzo, Cinzia Scarpino, Luigi Silvano, Stefania Stafutti, Piera G. Tordella.
Conveners Chiara Lombardi, Cristiano Ragni
Organizing Committee Mattia Cravero, Valentina Monateri, Salvatore Renna, Marta Romagnoli.
Program
Circolo dei Lettori, Torino
16.30 Opening event
Raccontare le origini: dal mito al Big Bang e oltre
Vincenzo Barone, Giorgio Ficara, Massimo Fusillo, Giulio Guidorizzi, Chiara Simonigh,
Alberto Voltolini
University of Torino, Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Magna
9.00 Welcome Address
10.00 Plenary
chair Chiara Lombardi and Cristiano Ragni
Piero Boitani (Comparative Literature, Lincei, University “Sapienza” Rome, Italy), Principia.
chair Carola Barbero
Stefano Piano (Indology, University of Torino, Italy), The Origin of the Universe as Narrated in “Old” Texts of India.
Maurizio Ferraris (Philosophy and Education Sciences, LabOnt, University of Torino, Italy), Archeology as Teleology.
13.00 Plenary
chair Pietro Boitani
Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy and Physics, University of Yale, USA), Conceptions of Cosmos from Then to Now.
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15.00 Plenary
chair Paola Cifarelli
Claude Calame (Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques, directeur d'études de l’École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France), Narration des origines de la femme: la naissance d’Êve et la création de Pandôra en comparaison différentielle.
Maria Teresa Giaveri (Comparative Literature, Accademia delle Scienze, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Torino and Milano, Italy), Sur l’Ébauche d’un serpent. L’origine selon Paul Valéry.
17.00-19.00 Parallel Sessions
University of Torino, Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Magna
9.30 Plenary
chair Chiara Lombardi and Cristiano Ragni
Enrico Bertino (Neonatal Care Unit of the University, City of Health and Science Hospital, Turin, Italy), Nature or Nurture? Where Inequalities Begin.
Silvia Romani (Mythology and Religions of the Classical World, University of Milano, Italy), Irrelevant Bodies: the creation of woman as a model of post-natural creation.
11.00-14.00 Parallel Sessions
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15.00-17.00 Parallel Sessions
18.00-19.30 Auditorium "A. Vivaldi", Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Torino
Reading/Musical Performance The Wooden Dolphin: Alberto Rizzuti (History of Music Civilization, University of Torino, Italy), con Irene Zagrebelsky, Carlo Pestelli e Ugo Macerata.
University of Torino, Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Magna
9.30 Plenary
Alessandro Vitale Brovarone (Romance Philology, University of Torino, Italy), La création: de la Bible au Roman de Renart.
Lihi Turjeman (Visual artist) and Francesca Referza (Art Historian, "Quartz Studio", "Project Space"), Unearth.
11.00-14.00 Parallel Sessions
15.00 Castello del Valentino, Salone d'onore.
Plenary
Sergio Pace (Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico of Torino, Italy), The Day after the Seventh Day: The Origins of Western Architecture and its Changing Narratives.
The list of invited Keynote Speakers includes: Vincenzo Barone, Physics, University of Piemonte Orientale; Enrico Bertino, Neonatal Care Unit of the University, City of Health and Science, University of Torino; Piero Boitani, Comparative LIterature, University of Roma “Sapienza”, Accademia delle Scienze e Accademia dei Lincei; Claude Calame, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris; Maurizio Ferraris, Philosophy and Education Sciences, LabOnt, University of Torino; Giorgio Ficara, Italian Studies, University of Torino; Massimo Fusillo, Comparative LIterature, University of Aquila, ICLA; Maria Teresa Giaveri, Comparative LIterature, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino e Accademia Peloritana, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres; Giulio Guidorizzi, Classics, University of Torino and Milano; Priyamvada Natarajan, Astronomy and Physics, University of Yale; Sergio Pace, Architecture and Design, Politecnico of Torino; Stefano Piano, Indology, University of Torino; Alberto Rizzuti, Musicology, University of Torino; Silvia Romani, Università degli Studi di Milano; Lihi Turjeman, Visual artist, Torino and TelAviv; Alessandro Vitale Brovarone, Romance Philology, University of Torino; Alberto Voltolini, Philosophy, University of Torino.
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