Futurismo/Futurizm: The Futurist Avant-Garde in Italy and Russia
Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, 2009
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
SCHEDULE
Friday, November 13
3:45 – 4:45 registration
4:45 – 5:00 Opening remarks
5:00 – 6:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Audacity of Hope: Futurist Aura and National Difference in the Early Manifestos
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
6:00pm – 7:00pm Exhibition and Reception
7:30pm Film Screening-L’uomo meccanico by André Deed
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall
Introduction by Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology
Saturday, November 14
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
9:00am – 10:30am THE MANIFESTO
Millicent Marcus, Yale University – Moderator
The ‘Venice Preserved’ by F.T. Marinetti
Paolo Valesio, Columbia University
Futurist Chronotopes: The Spatial Politics of the Futurist Manifesto: Italy, Russia, Georgia
Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley
‘Il Mio Futurismo’: Reflections on Women and the Italian Avant-Garde
Erin Larkin, Southern Connecticut State University
10:30am – 11:00am Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:45pm LITERATURE
John MacKay, Yale University – Moderator
Marinetti’s Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach
John J. White, Kings College
Femminismo e antifemminismo futurista tra Italia e Russia
Cesare De Michelis, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Aldo Palazzeschi e il Futurismo
Gino Tellini, Centro di studi “Aldo Palazzeschi”
12:45pm – 2:15pm Lunch (on your own)
2:30pm – 4:00pm CULTURAL POLITICS AND THE VISUAL ARTS
Sebastian Zeidler, Yale University – Moderator
Victory Over the Sun / Anguish of the Machines: Utopian Violence in Post-Revolutionary Futurist Theater
Christine Poggi, University of Pennsylvania
Liberating the Italian Colony by the Neva: Italian Futurism and the Cultural Politics of the Late Russian Empire
Sarah Warren, Purchase College, SUNY
For Immediate Release: El Lissitzky and the Topography of G
Maria Gough, Harvard University
4:00pm – 4:15pm Coffee Break
4:15pm – 5:45pm PERFORMANCE
Barbara Spackman, University of California, Berkeley – Moderator
Marinetti’s Total Theatre and the Modernist Conception of Gesamtkunstwerk
Günter Berghaus, University of Bristol
The Statistical Sublime (Marinetti x Mayakovsky)
Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University
The Abstract Novel as Futurist Performance Art: The Case of Benedetta’s “Viaggio di Gararà: Romanzo cosmico per teatro.”
Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles
