11 Giugno 2019

International Summer School – City of Lerici 17-21 June 2019 ROMANTICISM ON THE COAST Monday 17 June: Castle of Lerici 14.30 – 15.00 Arrival and Registration 15.00 – 16.00 Welcome and Preliminary Remarks: Leonardo Paoletti (Mayor of the City of Lerici), Lilla Maria Crisafulli (University of Bologna) and Carla Sanguineti (President of the Cultural Association “Amiche e Amici di Mary Shelley) 16.00 – 17.45 Master Class – Keir Elam (University of Bologna): “The romantic heritage of early modern tempests: sea-storms, shipwrecks and other maritime mishaps in the plays of Shakespeare” 17.45 – 18.00 Break 18.00 – 19.30 Workshop – Fernando Cioni (University of Florence): “Shakespeare’s tempests, storms, and shipwrecks on the Romantic Stage. Close readings of excerpts from Romantic promptbooks, adaptations and performance editions of Shakespeare’s plays” 19.30 – 21.00 Welcome Party 21.15 – 22.30 Evening Event: Lecture by Maria Mattei: “Elizabeth Lavenza, ou de l’Italie: Geography, Politics and Names” Tuesday 18 June: Castle of Lerici 9.00 – 10.45 Master Class – Michael Bradshaw (University of Worcester): “Water Snakes and Empathy? Making a Blue Romanticism” 10.45 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 12.45 Master Class – Jane Stabler (University of St. Andrews): “‘The coast – I think it was the coast that I / Was just describing – Yes, it was the coast’: Byron and the Sea” 13.00 – 16.30 Trip to Fiascherino and Lunch Reception 17.00 – 18.45 Master Class – Norbert Lennartz (University of Vechta): “The Poet as Deucalion: Wordsworth, Hydrophobia and his Stony Poetics” 21.00 – 22.30 Evening Event: Literary Walk to Villa Magni and Poetry Reading by Guy Lydster Wednesday 19 June: Castle of Lerici 9.00 – 10.45 Master Class – Alan Rawes (University of Manchester): “‘Upon a lonely desert beach’: Romantic Women Poets and the English Coast” 10.45 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 12.45 Workshop – Mirka Horova (Charles University, Prague): “‘In the sea of Life and Agony’: P.B. Shelley’s Maritime Mutability. Close reading of a selection of texts” 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 18:30 Boat Trip to Porto Venere 19.00 – 20.30 Evening Event: Lecture by Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genova): “Poets in Their Youth: Shelley and Others in and around Lerici” Sala Consiliare Comune di Lerici Thursday 20 June: Castle of Lerici 9.00 – 10.45 Master Class – Rossana Bonadei (University of Bergamo): “Lerici tangible and intangible. Romancing the land and the sea” 10.45 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 12.45 Master Class – Gioia Angeletti (University of Parma): “Byron and the Sea: Mobility, Infinity and Identity” 13.00 – 15.00 Lunch 15.00 – 16.45 Workshop – Lilla Maria Crisafulli (University of Bologna): “The Sea between Life and Death: Mary Shelley’s Narrative and the Water as an Existential Metaphor. Close reading of excerpts from selected texts” 16.45 – 17.00 Break 17.00 – 18.45 Workshop – Carlotta Farese (University of Bologna): “‘Of rears and vices I saw enough’: Jane Austen and the Sea. Close reading of a selection of texts” 21.00 – 22.30 Evening Event: Lecture by Roberto Baronti Marchiò (University of Cassino): “Green Romanticism and the Environmental Imagination” Sala Consiliare Comune di Lerici Friday 21 June: 9.00 – 10.45 Workshop – Diego Saglia (University of Parma): “Sea, Nation and Empire from Shakespeare to Romanticism. Close reading of selected excerpts” 10.45 – 11.00 Break 11.00 – 12.45 Workshop – Gilberta Golinelli (University of Bologna): “Sound of waves and water imagery in Virginia Woolf’s fiction. Close reading of selected excerpts” 12.45 – 13.00 Concluding Remarks 13.00 Departure