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
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