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