Convegno del Leopardi Centre di Birmingham su “Pensare in frammenti: Romanticismo e oltre” University of Birmingham, 16-17 dicembre 2010
Per il 2012-2013 è prevista la pubblicazione dell’intero ‘Zibaldone ‘tradotto in inglese, benemerita impresa del Leopardi Centre di Birmingham che ha richiesto anni di lavoro e che il CNSL, fin dall’inizio, ha fortemente sostenuto anche con contributi finanziari. In prossimità della pubblicazione, e in collegamento con la scrittura che caratterizza lo ‘Zibaldone’, il Leopardi Centre annuncia un convegno su “Pensare in frammenti: Romanticismo e oltre”, assumendo il “frammento” come forma di pensiero e di espressione squisitamente moderna, dal Settecento ai giorni nostri, nella poesia, nella prosa d’invenzione, nella saggistica non solo filosofica. E Leopardi ne è supremo modello. Il convegno, fitto di interventi, si svolgerà a Birmingham il 16 e il 17 dicembre 2010, con il coordinamento di Michael Caesar. Di seguito riportiamo l’annuncio, con il programma provvisorio, che ci è stato trasmesso dal Leopardi Centre.
Conference Announcement:
Thinking in Fragments: Romanticism and Beyond
Worcester Room, Hornton Grange, Birmingham Conference Park University of Birmingham (UK), 16-17 December 2010
An international conference organized by the Leopardi Centre at Birmingham, sponsored by the AHRC as part of the Zibaldone Project (www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk), and supported by the Society for Italian Studies. Conference co-ordinator: Michael Caesar (m.p.caesar@bham.ac.uk).
Attendance at the conference is free, but early registration is recommended. Please complete the simple registration form downloadable from www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk/fragments/fragments-registration.doc and return to Judith Allan (jra501@bham.ac.uk).
The theme: The first complete English edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s 4,526-page notebook (his Zibaldone di pensieri) will be published in 2012/13. The final stages of this project provide an opportunity to examine the poet-thinker’s fragmentary writing in a wider conceptual context than is usual and to address issues concerning fragmentariness as a distinctive form of the modern, the fragment in space and time, the relation between fragmentary thinking and philosophical materialism, the fragmentation of language, fragmentation and the lyric voice, (re-)assembly. The conference will bring Leopardi scholars together with specialists in eighteenth-century thought, British and German Romanticism, and competing concepts of the modern, in order to explore fragmentariness in modern culture from the Enlightenment to Baudelaire, Benjamin and beyond.
Although its working language is English, the scope of the conference theme is trans-national and interdisciplinary. Confirmed speakers include Pierpaolo Antonello on Carlo Ginzburg’s evidential paradigm, Diego Bertelli on fragments and footnotes, Jennifer Burns on fragments of thinking in Cletto Arrighi’s political commentary, Fabio Camilletti on detail in Leopardi, Warburg and Freud, Paola Cori on the rhizome, Paul Hamilton on Romantic fragments and the aesthetic of sobriety, Marian Hobson on fragments, satire and philosophy in Diderot, Florian Mussgnug on death, prosopopeia and the language of inauthenticity, Alexander Regier on J.W. Ritter and Walter Benjamin, Charlotte Ross on the body in fragments, Gabrielle Sims on speaking about infinity, Giuseppe Stellardi on Gadda, Baudelaire and Benjamin, Cosetta Veronese on Leopardi, Baudelaire and the experience of transience, James Vigus on the Romantic fragment and the legitimation of philosophy. Jonathan Galassi, translator of Montale’s ‘Selected Poems’, will be reading from his eagerly-awaited new version of Leopardi’s ‘Canti’. A full conference programme will be published in November.
Registration and accommodation: Attendance at the conference is free and includes refreshments on both days. Because space is limited (max. 60 at any one time), and the conference will be run as a single strand (no parallel sessions), early registration is strongly recommended.
http://www.leopardi.it/cattedre_leopardiane1.php