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FUTURISM: RUPTURE AND TRADITION
THE 2008 COCCIA CONFERENCE


PROGRAM


FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 9:30am - 5:30pm

9:30 am
Welcoming Remarks
Ann Matter, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters, University of Pennsylvania
Fabio Finotti, Director, Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Christine Poggi, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

10:00 am
Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Stanford University
Keynote Address:
Why Is Speed a Religion-Morality?

10:45 am
Luca Somigli, University of Toronto
The Poet and the Vampire: Re Baldoria and the Crisis of Symbolist Values

11:15 am
Ara H. Merjian, Harvard University
The Future by Design: Balla's Reconstruction of the Universe and the Historical Avant-Gardes

11:45 am -12:00 noon
Discussion

12:00-2:00 pm
Lunch Break

2:00 pm
Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania
Futurism and the European Revolt Against Reason: 1890-1915

2:30 pm
Christine Poggi, University of Pennsylvania
The Futurist Noise Machine

3:00 pm
Stefania Benini, University of Pennsylvania

Dynamisms, Colors and Dreams in the Writings of Benedetta Cappa Marinetti

3:30-4:00 pm
Coffee Break

4:00 pm
Marion Kant, Senior Lecturer in Theater Arts, University of Pennsylvania
The Fusion of the Mountain and the Shrapnel: The Manifesto of Futurist Dance

4:30 pm
The Fusion of the Mountain and the Shrapnel
Dance Performance with Christina Catanese, Julia Cuccaro. Dramaturgy: Mary Mitchell

5:00-5:30 pm
Discussion

7:00 pm
Dinner (By invitation only)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 9:30am - 1:00pm

9:30 am
Maria Elena Versari, Carnegie Mellon University
The Myth of the Temporal Fracture: Futurist Foundations and the Genealogy of the Historical Avant-Garde

10:00 am
Paolo Valesio, Columbia University
The Soft Machine: F. T. Marinetti 'Against' Venice

10:30 am
Fabio Finotti, University of Pennsylvania
Futurism: Words and Numbers

11:00-11:15 pm
Coffee Break

11:15 am
Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania
Futurist Temporality

11:45 am
Guido Bartorelli, Universitá di Padova
The Futurist 'Advertising Painting'

12:15 am
Luca Buvoli, Artist, New York City

Scenes from a Post-Utopian Futurism

12:45 pm
Discussion and Closing Remarks