Conference Program

Identity and Otherness in the Romance Literatures

March 12 - 13, 1999 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA

Conference Program Friday, March 12

2:45 Registration Devlin Hall 101

3:00 Welcome and Preliminary remarks Elena IVANOVA, Editor, Romance Review
Devlin Hall 101

3:15 - 5:00 Keynote Address
Professor Jan ZIOLKOWSKI, Harvard University
"Medieval Folktales: Their Tellers and Their Writers"

Devlin Hall 101

5:00 - 5:30 Reception Devlin Hall

5:30 - 7:00 Exhibition Visit Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image
Paintings of Baroque Italian artists including the recently discovered "The Taking of Christ" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

McMullen Museum of Art
Devlin Hall

Saturday, March 13

8:30 - 9:00 - Coffee and muffins, Foyer, Fulton Hall

Session 1
9:00 - 10:30

French Studies
Fulton Hal 230
Is the Other Elsewhere? Chair: Anissa OUHIBI (Boston College)
Yaw OTENG (University of Cincinnati)
"La culture comme une dialectique d'identités dans La mère du printemps de Driss Chraïbi"
Jimia BOUTOUBA (University of Southern California)
"L'écriture cannibale"

Hispanic Studies
Fulton Hall 235
Medieval, Reconquest and 18th Century Spanish Discourse: Law, Gender and Politics Chair: José A. RAMOS (Boston College)
Cristina SCHULZE (Boston College)
"La convivencia de sistemas jurídicos en las Cantigas de Santa María, de Alfonso X"
Michelle M. HAMILTON (University of California, Berkeley)
"Moorish Women and Sexual Conquest: The Role of the Mora in the Rhetoric of the Iberian Reconquest"
José E. SANTOS (Brown University)
"Otredad y fundamentación nacional. La inversión sígnica en Antonio de Capmany"

Italian Studies
Fulton Hall 240
Boccaccio and Gender Identity Chair: María Luisa GOMEZ (Boston College)
Emilio MAZZOLA (Boston College)
"Il Matrimonio tra la II-9 e la X-9 del Decameron"
Erin HALM (University of Pennsylvania)
"Moral and Artistic Perspectives: Il Corbaccio, Elegia di madonna Fiammettaand the Decameron.Searching for truth in Boccaccio's Relationship with Women"

Plenary Session
10:45 - 12:45

Fulton Hall 230 Rountable discussion Performance and Identity Chair and Moderator: Anne CANTU (Boston College)
Cynthia PERSINGER (University of Pittsburg)
"The Jongleur Revealed"
Liora MORIEL (University of Maryland)
"The Internationalization of Romance: Dana International as the Fabulous Other"
Emilio LOCILENTO (Boston College)
"The Theatre of Luigi Pirandello: the Conflict Between the Dramatist's Art and
the Identity of the Actor"

Lunch 12:45 - 2:00 Potluck at Maison Française/Casa Hispánica, Gabelli Hall (80 Comm. Ave.) Main Lounge, 2nd floor

Session 2
2:00 - 3:30

French Studies
Fulton Hall 230
Identification Marks Chair: Lisa LOBERG (Boston College)
Laryssa SMIRNOVA (Boston College)
"La poésie de l'impossible"
Irene PERCIALI (University of California at Berkeley)
"Distance and Self-Consciousness in Samuel Beckett's Prose Works"

Hispanic Studies
Fulton Hall 235
Contemporary Discourse: Politics and Poetry in Latin America and Spain Chair: Eduardo ESCALLON (Boston College)
H. Rosi SONG (Brown University)
"La mirada social y el testimonio de la formación de una nueva identidad española"
Monique RODRIGUES BALBUENA (University of California, Berkeley)
"When the Eye Meets the World - On Two Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade"
Paloma MARTINEZ-CRUZ (Columbia University)
"La frontera en el cielo: La revolución cubana en la escritura de Cintio Vitier"

Italian Studies
Fulton Hall 240
Text, Voice and Author: Identity of Discourse Chair: Elena IVANOVA (Boston College)
Cristiana FORDYCE (Boston College)
"Old value and new price: performance and audience in Raimbaut d'Orange"
Maria Rosa TRUGLIO (Yale University)
"Giovanni Pascoli's Ventriloquized Female Voices"

Session 3
3:45 - 5:15

French Studies

Fulton Hall 230
In Search of Identity Chair: Julia NASRANI (Boston College)
Leanna BRIDGE (Boston College)
"La prière comme reflet de l'identité dans La Chartreuse de Parme et Madame Bovary"
Aleksandra STASIC (Université de Lille)
"Le personnage oublié des Liaisons dangereuses. Redacteur/Editeur ou les Intrusions de l'auteur dans les Liaisons dangereuses"

Hispanic Studies
Fulton Hall 235
Feminine Discourse: Multiple roles and identities Chair: Cristina SCHULZE (Boston College)
Ana BENITO (Indiana University)
"Santa Teresa: Cuatro extrañas en una. Un caso de alteridad asimilada"
Karen THOMAS (Boston College)
"Forming an Identity, Forging a Destiny: The Female Protagonists of Allende's Cuentos de Eva Luna"
Terry Ann M. KUPIN (Boston College)
"Through the Eyes of Three Halves, vemos la totalidad: the absent
concept of 'bi-culturalism'"

Italian Studies
Fulton Hall 240
Identity versus Otherness in Elsa Morante's La Storia Chair: Rita PICCOLO (Boston College)
Katja LIIMATTA (University of Pennsylvania)
"Questions of Identity in Elsa Morante's History"
Elana COMMISSO (University of Toronto)
"Recuperating the distance from the margins to the centre. Elsa Morante's La Storia: The stories that build History"

6:00 - Banquet Dinner Mediterranean Tapas Restaurant & Bar 1610 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton, Tel: (617) 730- 8002, By T on the B line, Washington Street stop

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2:45 Registration		Devlin Hall 101
3:00 Welcome and Preliminary remarks	Elena IVANOVA, Editor, Romance Review	Devlin Hall 101
3:15 - 5:00 Keynote Address	Professor Jan ZIOLKOWSKI, Harvard University "Medieval Folktales: Their Tellers and Their Writers"	Devlin Hall 101
5:00 - 5:30 Reception		Devlin Hall
5:30 - 7:00 Exhibition Visit	Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image Paintings of Baroque Italian artists including the recently discovered "The Taking of Christ" by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio	McMullen Museum of Art Devlin Hall