Nel mezzo del Camin : un colloque interdisciplinaire.

Les doctorants du département d’études italiennes de Columbia organisent un colloque interdisciplinaire intitulé "Nel mezzo del camin", le 13 février 2009 pour présenter des travaux en cours sur la première modernité.

Session du matin :

Doctorants
9:30 A.M.- 1:15 P.M. 
NYU Casa Italiana
24 W 12th Street, 2nd Floor

Painting, Performance and Pirouette

9:30-11:00 A.M.

Leslie A. Geddes (Princeton - Art and Archaeology)
Undercurrents : Approaching Leonardo and his Water Studies

Olivia Powell (Columbia - Art History)
Painter/Choreographer : an experiment in the study of
figural composition

Elizabeth Blake (NYU - English)
Deus ex Machina : Chance Effects and Accidental Stage Machinery
in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women

11:00-11:15 A.M. Pause

Italian Intertextuality

11:15 A.M. - 1:15 P.M.

Kristen Renner Swann (Columbia - Italian)
E quivi partori un altro figliuol maschio : Historicizing Maternity
and the Child in Boccaccio’s Ninfale Fiesolano and Decameron.

Leah Whittington (Princeton - Comp. Lit)
Petrarch’s Africa and the Truth Claims of Poetry

Alana Shilling (Princeton - Comp. Lit)
Angelica’s Bracelet : The Problem (and Promise) of
Invented Etiologies

Katharina Piechocki (NYU - Comp. Lit)
Un/Translatables. Early Modern Translation
Studies between East and West.

Session de l’après-midi

Convférenciers invités
2:30-6:00 P.M. 
NYU Humanities Initiative
20 Cooper Square (at East 5th St.), 5th Fl.

Moderateur : Professeur Jane Tylus (NYU - Italian)

2:30 - 4:00 P.M.

Denise Budd (Columbia Art History)
Leonardo in Milan, before Milan ? A Reconsideration of the
Artist’s Early Chronology

Emily Wilbourne (Columbia Musicology)
Performance anxiety and the historical record

4:00 - 4:15 P.M. Pause

4:15 - 6:00 P.M.

Lynn Catterson (Columbia Art History)
Donatello and the Cortona Sarcophagus. Towards a Simulation
of Antiquity in the Renaissance

Gerry Milligan (Staten Island College-CUNY Department of Modern
Languages)
Spectacular War : The Beloved’s Gaze and Renaissance Manhood

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