© 2025 Beatrice Sica.
The Diasporic Canon: Anthologies of Italian Literature in Translation
International conference on anthologies of Italian literature published outside the peninsula; featuring Italian poet Rosita Copioli.
London, 1 June 2019
University College London
Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
Room 834 (Core B, Level 8)
PROGRAMME
MORNING
9:00–9:15, Introductions
9:15–9:45, Niccolò Scaffai (Université de Lausanne) “Le forme del canone: le antologie di letteratura contemporanea in Italia”
9:45–10:15, Marie-José Tramuta (Université de Caen Normandie), “Antologie poetiche in Francia: le ragioni di una poesia”
10:15–10:45, Coffee break
10:45–11:15, Daniela La Penna (University of Reading), “Broken glass in the Italian garden: traduzione, accademia e periodizzazione nelle antologie poetiche italiane in Gran Bretagna”
11:15–11:45, Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford), “The Diasporico Canon. Antologie americane di poesia italiana contemporanea”
11.45-12:00, Closing remarks
12:00 – 14:00, Lunch break
AFTERNOON
14:00–14:30, Beatrice Sica (University College London), “Samuel Putnam, ‘This Quarter’ and the European Caravan”
14:30–15:00, Alejandro Patat (Università per Stranieri di Siena), “L’antologia della letteratura italiana nella rivista ‘Sur’ (1953)”
15:00–15:30, Coffee break
15:30–16:00, Stefano Colangelo (Università di Bologna), “Antologie contemporanee: canone e transizione”
16:00–16:30, Rosita Copioli (poet), “Esperienze di antologie”
16:30–17:00, Closing remarks
This international conference was sponsored by the UCL Global Engagement Funds
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