"New Asian American writers and news from UK, Italy and Asia: Literature and the Visual Arts"
Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Aula Sabatino Moscati
DECEMBER 19th
Morning session
h: 10:00
Chairperson, Lina Unali, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lina Unali, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Introduction to the Conference
“Looking at old photos and paintings in Hakka migrants' houses and the three Emperors at the Royal Academy”
Sau-ling Wong, University of California at Berkeley
“The
Yellow and the Black: Race and Diaspora in Sinophone Chinese American
Literature”
h. 12:00
Jonathan, Katz, Wolfson College, Oxford and Westminster School
“Seeing and Hearing: the Ragamala idea”
Afternoon session
h: 15:00
Chairperson: Elisabetta Marino, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Alessandra Contenti, University of Roma Tre
“Indian Gardens, from P. Robinson's In my Indian Garden, to R. Godden's Two Under the Indian Sun and R.K. Narayan's Annamalai”
Daniela Zizzari, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Pre-orientalism
on the Elizabethan stage. J. Fletcher's Indonesia. A reading of The
Island Princess”
Erica Gardner, University of Rome
Tor Vergata
“Zen
Calligraphy as a Painting of the Mind: The Fourth Treasure by
Todd Shimoda”
Elisabetta Marino, University of Rome Tor
Vergata
“Introduction
to British Bangladeshi Literature and its visual representations”
DECEMBER 20th
Morning session
h: 10:00
Chairperson:
Daniela Guardamagna, University
of Rome Tor Vergata
Riccardo Scarcia, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Il pallore di Cleopatra”
Lia Secci, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Günter Grass e la dea Kali”
Rino Caputo, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Rappresentazioni dell'India nella letteratura italiana di oggi”
Giovanna
Stasolla, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Italiani in
Egitto: osservazioni e riflessioni”
Daniela Coramusi, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Considerazioni su The little taoshi with an image of the yellow tributary di Lina Unali’”
Valeria
Vallucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“Il viaggio di Lord
Byron alla terra di Ali Pascià Tepelene”
Afternoon session
h: 15:00
Chairperson: Elèna Mortara, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Christopher Garbacz , Mississippi Public Utilities Staff and Herbert G. Thompson, Jr., Ohio University "Telecoms On The Asian Frontier." Ohio University.
Sai Kin Lee, University of Burgos
“Han Jin: reflection of an unstable period in contemporary China”
Elisa Bracalente, University of Rome Tor Vergata
“The case of Colin Johnson/Nyoongah Mudrooroo: the discovery of aboriginality and its denial”
Lina Unali-Alessandro Unali (Ingegnere informatico Vodafone)
“Interview on Differences in Telecommunications between the West and Asia”
h: 17:00
Other Contributions and General Discussion
Chairperson,
Cristina Giorcelli, University
of Roma Tre
Marie Louise Rotasart Neppi Modona
"Témoignages de France et de Belgique"
Isabella Vat
“A Visit to a Brahma Temple in India”
Valentina Varesano
“Il concetto di bianco nei saggi di Tony Morrison”
DECEMBER 21st
h. 10:00
The Roman Places of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.
(guided tour, meeting point at the bottom of the flight of steps leading to the Capitol hill, Via del Teatro di Marcello, close to Piazza Venezia)
Please, communicate your participation as soon as possible
Conference organizers:
Lina Unali d.unali@agora.it
Elisabetta Marino emarino@hurricane.it
Conference address: aw_bodythegods@katamail.it
The Conference will take place at the Faculty of Letters,
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Columbia, Rome
Aula Sabatino Moscati, B Building, 1st floor