Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture, from Dante to the Present

Friday, 9 October to Saturday, 10 October
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane


Confirmed speakers

Please click on paper titles below for abstracts. (Unless specified, papers will be delivered and discussed in English.)

Gillian Ania (Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Salford)
Present and Future Trajectories of Apocalypse in Contemporary Italian Literature

Maria Stella Barberi (Associate Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Messina, Italy)
La discesa agli inferi di Dante (e di Empedocle) in Inferno XII, 34-45
NB. This paper will be delivered in Italian. Discussion will be in English.
English paper title: Dante's (and Empedocles') katabasis in Inferno XII

Michele Cometa (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Palermo, Italy)
Stimmungen: 'The Triumph of Death' of Palermo

Allison Cooper (Assistant Professor of Italian, Colby, USA)
Technology, War, and Literary Apocalissi from 'Mafarka il futurista' to 'La coscienza di Zeno'

Anne Derbes (Professor of Art and Archaeology, Hood College, USA)
Visions of the End in Late Medieval Padua

Roberto Farneti (Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Between Arcadia and Apocalypse: Italian Culture after World War II

Giuseppe Fornari (Associate Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Bergamo, Italy)
The Silent Apocalypse of Boccaccio's Decameron: The 'Strange Case' of Ser Ciappelletto

Jessica Goethals (PhD Candidate in Italian, New York University, USA)
Early Modern Ends: The Sack of Rome and the Renovatio Imperative

Manuele Gragnolati (Reader in Italian, University of Oxford)
Mediating the Apocalypse: History and Writing in Dante’s Divine Comedy and Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro

Ron Herzman (Professor of English, SUNY-Geneseo, USA)
Dante, the Apocalypse, and the Frescoes at Santi Quattro Coronati

Elizabeth Leake (Associate Professor of Italian, Rutgers University, USA)
History, Counter-History, Chance: The Equivocal Apocalypse in Guido Morselli’s 'Dissipatio H.G.'

Armando Maggi (Professor of Italian, University of Chicago, USA)
The 'New Jerusalem' in the Literature of the Counter-Reformation

Simona Micali (Assistant Professor in Italian Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo, Italy)
When UFOs Will Land in Lucca: Apocalypse in Italian SF

Florian Mussgnug (Lecturer in Italian, UCL)
On World Catastrophe: Zeno, Schreber, Freud

Alan O’Leary (Lecturer in Italian, University of Leeds)
Counterfactuals, Fantasy, Revelation: How Contemporary Italian Cinema Does History’s Ends

Bruno Pischedda (Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, State University of Milan, Italy)
1970 – 1980: The Decade of Pessimism
(Click here for Italian abstract.)

Gian Luca Potestà (Professor of History of Christianity, Catholic University, Milan, Italy)
L’Apocalisse di Dolcino, fra mito e storia
NB. This paper will be delivered in Italian. Discussion will be in English.
English paper title: The Apocalypse of Fra Dolcino: Between History and Myth

Dana Renga (Assistant Professor of Italian, Ohio State University, USA)
Pastapocalypse! New York Revisited in the Italian Exploitation Film

Mark Sandona (Professor of English, Hood College, USA)
Visions of the End in Late Medieval Padua

John Took (Professor of Italian, UCL)
Dante and the Eschatos: Intimacy and Urgency


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