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The Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, Valletta, is organising the Eleventh International Conference on Anglo-Italian Studies 'Britain and Italy: Literary and Cultural Relations'

The Conference will be held between 25 and 26 April at the University of Malta Valletta Campus

19:00
Welcome reception at Plaza Hotel, Sliema

Morning Session

Registration

09:30
Welcome address

Peter Vassallo and Gloria Lauri-Lucente (Conveners)

Chair: Peter Vassallo

Leigh Hunt’s Letters from Abroad

Serena Baesi, University of Bologna

Leigh Hunt and Molini’s “English Magazine”

Tim Webb, University of Bristol

Discussion

Coffee Break

Chair: Ivan Callus

Literary Ventriloquism in Byron’s “Lament of Tasso” and the “Prophecy of Dante”

Peter Vassallo, University of Malta

James Thomson’s Response to Dante in “The City of Dreadful Night”

Enrichetta Soccio, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara

Discussion

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

Chair: Tim Webb

Edward Lear’s Excursions in the Abruzzi Soundscape

Raffaella Antinucci, University of Naples

Dreams and Frippery: Thomas Hardy Goes to Rome

Philip Mallet, University of St Andrews

Italy as a Cultural Metonymy in John Henry Newman’s “Loss and Gain”

Francesca Caraceni, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

Discussion

End of Session

Friday 26 April 2019

Morning Session

Chair: Phillip Mallett

Renzo D’Agnillo, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Reads and Teaches English Literature

Francesca Orestano, University of Milan

10:20
Discussion

Coffee Break

Chair: James Corby

Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in Forster’s

“Where Angels Fear to Tread” and “A Passage to India”

Francesca Pierini, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

11:55
“Lest we Forget”. The Grand Illusion of World War I on Celluloid in Britain and Italy 

Discussion

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

Chair: Gloria Lauri-Lucente

The Mysteries of Carini’s Castle: Radcliffean (and Burkean)

Reminiscences in Italo Toscani’s “La mano di sangue”

Fabrizio Foni, University of Malta

Discussion

End of Session

Conference Dinner