{"id":3423,"date":"2014-11-19T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:33:09","slug":"call-for-abstracts-on-italian-impegno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/11\/19\/call-for-abstracts-on-italian-impegno\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for abstracts on Italian impegno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/staff\/fiorucci.html\">Dr Wissia Fiorucci<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/staff\/index.html?tab=graduate-teaching-assistants\">Luca Di Gregorio<\/a> from\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/index.html\">Department of Italian<\/a> are organising a conference for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/researchcentres\/eurolit\/index.html\">Centre for Modern European Literature<\/a>, entitled \u2018What Commitment? Reshaping <em>Impegno<\/em> in Contemporary Italy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the conference is to outline the development of <em>impegno <\/em>[promises or commitments] in Italy from the post-war years to present-day, tracing its genealogy for a better understanding of the present condition of the Italian intellectual production. The subject will be tackled from a variety of standpoints by encouraging critical approaches from different disciplines, such as literary criticism, philosophy, cinema and visual studies, but also architecture and history of science to name but a few. It aims to\u00a0explore the issue of cultural production and its relationship with various forms of commitment, in what many have referred to as a post-ideological age.<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be held over two days, 5-6 June, in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 at the University of Kent. Confirmed speakers include:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mml.cam.ac.uk\/italian\/staff\/paa25\/\">Dr Pierpaolo Antonello<\/a> (University of Cambridge) who specialises in contemporary Italian literature, culture, and intellectual history, and has written extensively on the relationship between literature and science;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massimorecalcati.it\/\">Massimo Recalcati<\/a> (University of Pavia) a renowned\u00a0Lacanian psychoanalyst and scholar; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/staff\/sforza-tarabochia.html\">Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabochia<\/a>\u00a0from the Department of Italian (University of Kent).<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts are now being acepted for the conference on theoretical considerations on impegno (e.g. genre, realism vs postmodernism, etc.), and they would particularly welcome contributions discussing the role and function of the intellectual as a public figure, and comparisons between Italian <em>impegno<\/em> with other Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted abstracts should not exceed 350 words. The deadline for submission is <strong>19 January 2015<\/strong>. Full details of the conference and submission guidelines can be found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/italianimpegno.wordpress.com\/\">italianimpegno.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To submit your abstract, please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:italianimpegno@gmail.com\">italianimpegno@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Wissia Fiorucci and Luca Di Gregorio from\u00a0the Department of Italian are organising a conference for the Centre for Modern European Literature, entitled \u2018What Commitment? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/11\/19\/call-for-abstracts-on-italian-impegno\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}