INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES
AND THE QUESTION OF WORLD LITERATURE
A Symposium of the International American Studies Association (IASA)
Organized by the IASA and the English-Language Literatures Doctoral
Program of the “Sapienza” University of Rome
“Sapienza” University of Rome, April 14 - 15
Symposium Venues: Villa Mirafiori, Via Carlo Fea 2, Aula V and
Ex Vetrerie Sciarra, Via dei Volsci 122, Aula Seminari e Tesi
PROGRAM
Thursday April 14, Villa Mirafiori, Aula V
11:00 - 11:30 Greetings, Announcements, General Introduction
Giorgio Mariani, Professor of American Literature,
Coordinator of the English - language literatures doctoral program at “Sapienza”
11:30 - 12:45 First Session - Chair, Professor Giorgio Mariani
Paul Giles, Challis Professor of English, University of Sidney
“World Literature and International American Studies: Convergence, Divergence, and Contest”
Respondent: Cristina Giorcelli, Università di Roma Tre
Lunch Break
14:45 - 16:15 Second session - Chair, Professor Giorgio Mariani
Ulfried Reichardt, University of Mannheim
“Theories of the Global, Global Literature, and American Literature in a Globalizing Digital Age”
Respondent: Marina Camboni, University of Macerata
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45 Third Session - Chair, Professor Marina Camboni
Mena Mitrano, Loyola University Chicago, John Felice Rome Center (JFRC)
“American studies as Italian Thought”
Respondent: Carlo Martinez, University “Gabriele d’Annunzio” of Chieti -Pescara
Break
18:00 - 19:15 Fourth Session - Chair, Professor Marina Camboni
Cristina Iuli, Università del Piemonte Orientale
“Trans - Atlantic American Studies Transatlantic Pedagogies: Some Methodological Perspectives and Questions”
Respondent: Ugo Rubeo, “Sapienza” University of Rome
Friday, April 15, Ex Vetrerie Sciarra, Aula Seminari e Tesi
9:00 - 10:15 Fifth Session - Chair, Professor Cristina Giorcelli
Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
“Agnotology and the Know - Nothing Party: Then (Continental), and Now (Global)”
Respondent: Manuel Broncano, Texas A & M University at Laredo
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 Sixth Session - Chair, Professor Cristina Giorcelli
Markha Valenta, University of Amsterdam
“Must the ‘American’ in American Studies Be Dissolved? Why the Field Needs a Critical World Polities (That Does Not Yet Exist) to Disrupt Its Structural Nationalism Once and for All”
Respondent: Giorgio Mariani, “Sapienza” University of Rome
Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00 Final session - Chair, Professor Zilá Bernd, Unilasalle (Brasil)
Introducing the 2017 World Congress of the I.A.S.A. in Laredo, Texas
Manuel Broncano, Texas A & M University at Laredo
“Marginalia: The Borders of the Border”
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