Friday, November 13
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
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Registration |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm |
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Opening Remarks |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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Keynote Address
The Audacity of Hope: Futurist Aura and National Difference in the Early Manifestos
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
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| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
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Exhibition and Reception |
| 7:30pm |
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Film Screening—L'uomo meccanico by André Deed
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall
Introduction by Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Saturday, November 14
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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THE MANIFESTO |
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Millicent Marcus, Yale University - Moderator |
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The 'Venice Preserved' by F.T. Marinetti
Paolo Valesio, Columbia University |
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Futurist Chronotopes: The Spatial Politics of the Futurist Manifesto:
Italy, Russia, Georgia
Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley |
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'Il Mio Futurismo’: Reflections on Women and the Italian Avant-Garde
Erin Larkin, Southern Connecticut State University |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
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Coffee Break |
| 11:00am - 12:45pm |
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LITERATURE |
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John MacKay, Yale University - Moderator |
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Marinetti's Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach
John J. White, Kings College |
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Femminismo e antifemminismo futurista tra Italia e Russia
Cesare De Michelis, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
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Aldo Palazzeschi e il Futurismo
Gino Tellini, Centro di studi “Aldo Palazzeschi”
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| 12:45pm - 2:15pm |
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Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
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CULTURAL POLITICS AND THE VISUAL ARTS |
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Sebastian Zeidler, Yale University - Moderator |
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Victory Over the Sun / Anguish of the Machines: Utopian Violence in Post-Revolutionary Futurist Theater
Christine Poggi, University of Pennsylvania
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Liberating the Italian Colony by the Neva: Italian Futurism and the Cultural Politics of the Late Russian Empire
Sarah Warren, Purchase College, SUNY |
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For Immediate Release: El Lissitzky and the Topography of G
Maria Gough, Harvard University |
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| 4:00pm - 4:15pm |
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Coffee Break |
| 4:15pm - 5:45pm |
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PERFORMANCE |
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Barbara Spackman, University of California, Berkeley - Moderator |
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Marinetti’s Total Theatre and the Modernist Conception of Gesamtkunstwerk
Günter Berghaus, University of Bristol
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The Statistical Sublime (Marinetti x Mayakovsky)
Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University |
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Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles
The Abstract Novel as Futurist Performance Art: The Case of Benedetta's "Viaggio di Gararà: Romanzo cosmico per teatro."
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