Conference Organisation
As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Mapping Literary Space: Literary Journals, Publishing Firms and Intellectuals in Italy, 1940-1960':
One-day conference ‘Poetry: Writing, Translating, Publishing’, funded by the University of Manchester
25 June 2012: Principal Organizer (with Dr Jacob Blakesley) with responsibilities of programme coordinator, budget holder, facilities manager,
marketing manager, webmaster http://poetryconferencemanchester.wordpress.com/
Student Leader for the interdisciplinary research project ‘Atelier’, funded by the University of Manchester
February – July 2012: The Atelier PhD students engage with leading scholars’ work in progress, offering constructive feedback and questioning
methodological approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Responsibilities: programme coordinator; budget holder; facilities manager; marketing manager;
webmaster http://ateliermanchester.wordpress.com/
Conference Papers
Since 2008, I have presented my research at 20 conferences in the UK, France, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland:
'Translation and Post-hegemony in post-WWII Italy: Left-wing Publishers and the Italian Communist Party'
'Dall’impegno alla crisi dell’ideologia: il ruolo della traduzione nelle collane poetiche dell’Einaudi, 1945-1969'
'Impegno, National and Transnational Identities in Il Politecnico and Sud'
‘Da «Risorgimento» a «Il Politecnico»: l’impegno degli intellettuali in Einaudi’
'Being a Research Assistant in Italian Studies: Some Thoughts and Advice’
Invited Speaker , ‘Editori e poesia straniera: il ruolo della traduzione nel campo letterario italiano’
Invited Speaker, ‘Il ruolo della poesia tedesca contemporanea nel campo editoriale italiano’
‘Reconsidering the Role of Semi-Periphery: Strategies of Publishing Foreign Poetry in Post-War Italy’
‘Redattori e traduzione: il ruolo di habitus e capitale simbolico nella pubblicazione di poesia straniera contemporanea’
‘Du centre à la périphérie: les stratégies éditoriales d’Einaudi (1964-1979)’
‘Pocket-sized contemporary foreign poetry: Einaudi’s Collezione di poesia’
‘Publishing contemporary foreign poetry in post-war Italy: a Bourdieusian perspective’
‘Pavese and Joyce: interior monologue and immagini-racconto’
Cesare Pavese translator of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
‘Soffici and Apollinaire: Chimismi, Alcools, Simultaneità and Calligrammes between Futurism and Orphism’
As part of the AHRC-funded project 'Mapping Literary Space: Literary Journals, Publishing Firms and Intellectuals in Italy, 1940-1960':
- One-day international workshop 'Journals as Transnational Ateliers and Intellectuals in Europe'’;
13 June 2014, International Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester: Co-Organizer with Dr Billiani
- One-day international workshop ‘National Connections: Realism and Impegno after WWII’;
21 February 2014, University of Reading: Co-Organizer with Dr La Penna - Exhibition 'Scripting the Globe: Italian Literary Journals in the World, 1945-1962', 16 - 27 June 2014, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, co-curator with Dr Billiani and University of Manchester Museology MA/PhD students (Ms Kenner, Witek, Zuanni): http://culturalpractice.wordpress.com/?s=chiara; with the support of Italian archives and cultural foundations (Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori - http://www.fondazionemondadori.it/cms/culturaeditoriale/438/prestiti-e-contributi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani; Fondazione e Biblioteca Benedetto Croce)
- Exhibition ‘Italy at War, 1940-1945’ http://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/news/exhibitions/sc-exhibition-italy-at-war.aspx
11 February 2014-30 April 2014, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, co-curator with Dr La Penna and Miss Lo Biundo
One-day conference ‘Poetry: Writing, Translating, Publishing’, funded by the University of Manchester
25 June 2012: Principal Organizer (with Dr Jacob Blakesley) with responsibilities of programme coordinator, budget holder, facilities manager,
marketing manager, webmaster http://poetryconferencemanchester.wordpress.com/
Student Leader for the interdisciplinary research project ‘Atelier’, funded by the University of Manchester
February – July 2012: The Atelier PhD students engage with leading scholars’ work in progress, offering constructive feedback and questioning
methodological approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Responsibilities: programme coordinator; budget holder; facilities manager; marketing manager;
webmaster http://ateliermanchester.wordpress.com/
Conference Papers
Since 2008, I have presented my research at 20 conferences in the UK, France, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland:
'Translation and Post-hegemony in post-WWII Italy: Left-wing Publishers and the Italian Communist Party'
- 11 February 2016: Italian Studies Research Seminar, University of Warwick
'Dall’impegno alla crisi dell’ideologia: il ruolo della traduzione nelle collane poetiche dell’Einaudi, 1945-1969'
- 19 December 2014: 'L'immaginario politico: impegno, resistenza, ideologia', Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura, University of Bologna
'Impegno, National and Transnational Identities in Il Politecnico and Sud'
- 20 June 2015: Canadian Society for Italian Studies Annual Conference, Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento
- 24 May 2014: American Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference, University of Zurich
- 13 June 2014: 'Journals as Transnational Ateliers and Intellectuals in Europe', International Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester
‘Da «Risorgimento» a «Il Politecnico»: l’impegno degli intellettuali in Einaudi’
- 21 February 2014: ‘National Connections: Realism and Impegno after WWII’, University of Reading
'Being a Research Assistant in Italian Studies: Some Thoughts and Advice’
- 30 September 2015: Society of Italian Studies Biennial Conference, University of Oxford
- 22 November 2013: Joint PhD Training Day, University of Durham (with Dr Caterina Sinibaldi, The University of Manchester)
Invited Speaker , ‘Editori e poesia straniera: il ruolo della traduzione nel campo letterario italiano’
- 27 November 2012: ‘Bourdieu e il campo letterario’, University of Bergamo (Italy)
Invited Speaker, ‘Il ruolo della poesia tedesca contemporanea nel campo editoriale italiano’
- 16 November 2012 : ‘Italian and German Literature Compared’, Istituto di Studi Germanici (Rome)
‘Reconsidering the Role of Semi-Periphery: Strategies of Publishing Foreign Poetry in Post-War Italy’
- 19 January 2012: British Comparative Literature Association ‘Comparing Centres and Peripheries’, SOAS, London
‘Redattori e traduzione: il ruolo di habitus e capitale simbolico nella pubblicazione di poesia straniera contemporanea’
- 22 November 2011: ‘Tra i libri degli altri: il lavoro editoriale tra progetto culturale e strategie di mercato, University of Trento (Italy)
‘Du centre à la périphérie: les stratégies éditoriales d’Einaudi (1964-1979)’
- 10 November 2011: ARTlas workshop, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
‘Pocket-sized contemporary foreign poetry: Einaudi’s Collezione di poesia’
- 7 July 2011: 2011 Society of Italian Studies Biennial Conference, University of St Andrews
- 20 May 2011: Joint Postgraduate Day (Durham, Leeds, Manchester), The University of Manchester
‘Publishing contemporary foreign poetry in post-war Italy: a Bourdieusian perspective’
- 30 October 2010: International PG Conference in Translation and Interpreting, The University of Manchester
- 5 May 2010: Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Day, University of Warwick
‘Pavese and Joyce: interior monologue and immagini-racconto’
- 27 February 2010: Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, University College Cork (Ireland)
Cesare Pavese translator of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 27 November 2009: Comparative Literature Association of Ireland Postgraduate Symposium, Trinity College Dublin
- 23 May 2009: Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Day, University of Oxford
‘Soffici and Apollinaire: Chimismi, Alcools, Simultaneità and Calligrammes between Futurism and Orphism’
- 25 September 2009: European Avant-Garde Symposium, University College Dublin
- 29 November 2008: Comparative Literature Association of Ireland, Dublin College University