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David Ward
Department of Italian Studies
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02481
Office Phone: (781) 283 2617/Fax: (781) 283 2876
Email: dward@wellesley.edu

Papers

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings, Lectures, Colloquia

1988    April, Conference on "Self and Other," Society for the Humanities, Cornell University.  Paper Title:  "Double Dealing:  Dante's Ironic Self.  Inferno, XV and XVI

 

1989    January, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene.  Paper Title:  "Dante's     Double Dealing"

            January, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania.  Paper Title:  "Dante's Double Dealing"

            February, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania.  Paper Title:  "Pier Paolo Pasolini's Rhetoric of Resistance"

            April, Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, University of Lowell, MA.  Paper Titles:  (i) "Dialect in the Novels of Pier

            Paolo Pasolini"; and (ii) "Giorgio Bassani's `Una notte del `43.'  Rewriting the Resistance"

            April,  "Redefining Marginality," Comparative Literature Department, University of Tulsa.  Paper Title:  "The Margin and the Center:  Rhetoric of Resistance in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Antonio Gramsci"

            October, Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston, Symposium on Pier Paolo Pasolini.  Paper Title:  "Pier Paolo Pasolini:  Cinema, Poetry, Ideology"

            October, Seminar on the Legacy of the European Resistance Movements, Cornell University.  Paper Title:  "The Closing of the Open City:  Fascism and Resistance in Giorgio Bassani, Florestano Vancini and GianFranco De Bosio"
 

1990    April, Center for Literary Theory, Harvard University.  Paper Title:  "The Closing of the Open City:  Fascism and Resistance in Giorgio Bassani, Florestano Vancini and GianFranco De Bosio"

            April, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington.  Paper Title:  "Una geniale mente analizzatrice:  Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni"

            April, Annual Conference of American Association for Italian Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.  Paper Title:  "Una geniale mente analizzatrice:  Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni."  Chair of Session on Pier Paolo Pasolini

            October, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University.  Alberto Moravia:  un omaggio e un ricordo.  Paper Title:  "L'originalità di Alberto Moravia"
 

1991    January, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, Università di Firenze, Italy.  Presentation of Research Project "Legacy of the European Resistance Movements"

            January, Institut des Temps Presents, Paris, France.  Presentation of Research Project "Legacy of the European Resistance Movements"

            February, Conference on The Jews of Italy, Wellesley College.  Paper Title:  "Introducing Giorgio Bassani's Il giardino dei Finzi Contini"

            February, Circolo italiano di Boston.  Paper Title:  "Una geniale mente analizzatrice:  Pier Paolo Pasolini e Michelangelo Antonioni"

            April, Annual Conference of American Association for Italian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Paper Titles:  (i) "Censorship and Self-Censorship in Post-War Italian Cinema"; (ii) "The Poet and the Ironist:  Pier Paolo Pasolini's Pilade and "Il manifesto per un nuovo teatro"; and (iii) "Fascism and Resistance in the Films of Florestano Vancini."  Chair of Session "Homosexualities in Italian Literature and Film"

            June, Western Societies' Program, Cornell University.  Presentation of Research Project "Legacy of the European Resistance Movements"

            October, Southern Modern Language Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas.  Paper Title:  "Film and Cinema in Pier Pasolini's Empirismo eretico"

 

1992    April, Northeastern Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY.  Paper Title:  "Irony in Augustine and Dante"

            April, Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Chapel Hill.  Paper Title:  "Pier Paolo Pasolini's `Il manifesto per un nuovo teatro'"

            October, International Symposium on "Pier Paolo Pasolini:  The Eyes of a Poet, Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Paper Title:  "`Film' and `Cinema' in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Heretical Empiricism"

            December, Annual Meeting of MLA, New York.  Division on Nationalisms and the Cultural Construction of Italy.  Paper Title:  "AnteFascism/ AntiFascism:  Carlo Levi and L'Italia libera"

 

1993    March, International Symposium on "Pier Paolo Pasolini:  intellettuale senza frontiere," University of Pescara, Pescara, Italy.  Paper Title:  "`Film' e `Cinema' in Eretico empirismo di Pier Paolo Pasolini"

            April, Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Austin, Texas.  Paper Title:  "Metaphors of Crisis:  Fascism and Resistance in the Italy of the Early 1990s"

            May, Annual Conference of the International Association of Literature and Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA.  Paper Title:  "A Book by its Cover:  Stefano Benni's Il bar sotto il mare"

            June, International Symposium on Carlo Levi and L'orologio, Rome, Italy.   Paper Title:  "Carlo Levi e L'orologio.  Resistenza e creatività"
 

1994    February, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester.  Paper Title:  "Ante-Fascism/ Anti-Fascism:  Carlo Levi and the Action Party"

            April, Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin.  Paper Title:  "Three Articles by Natalia Ginzburg from L'Italia libera," and Round Table Organized by McLuhan Society, "Political Satire in Italy."  Chair of Session on "Italian Anti-Fascism"

            August, Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Graz, Austria.  Paper Title:  "Carlo Levi and Italian Anti-Fascism"

            October, Purdue Romance Languages Conference, Purdue, Indiana.  Paper Title:  "Antefascism/Antifascism:  Benedetto Croce, Carlo Levi and Cultural Politics in Italy, 1943-46"

            October, Wheaton College.  Paper Title:  "Antefascism and Antifascism:  Carlo Levi and Italian Antifascism"

            November, Center for Italian Culture, Newton Free Library.  Paper Title:  "Antefascism and Antifascism:  Carlo Levi and Italian Antifascism"

 

1995    April, International Conference on the Resistance, University of Connecticut, Storrs.  Paper Title:  "From North to South.  Resistance and Creativity in Carlo Levi"

            May, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.  Paper Title:  "Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Theory"

            October, Wellesley College, Conference on World War II and Memory.  Paper Title:  "Italy and World War II.  Fifty Years On"
 

1996    February, Yale University, New Haven, CT.  Paper Title:  "Pier Paolo Pasolini's Ragazzi di vita"

April, American Association for Italian Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.  Co-organizer with Eugenia Paulicelli and participant in Session: "Intellettuali, potere e cultura nell'Italia della prima repubblica."  Paper Title:  "Cinquant'anni dopo:  Resistenza ora, resistenza allora"

            August, Chair and Participant in Session:  "Post-Fascist Memory in Europe" at Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.  Paper Title:  "Carlo Levi's Antifascism:  From Croce to Vico"

 

1997    April, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.  Paper Title:  "Bearing his Croce:  Carlo Levi's L'orologio"

October, Associazione internazionale per lo studio della lingua e della letteratura italiane (AISLLI), Bi-Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA.  Paper:  "Piero Gobetti e la letteratura"
 

1998    April, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.  Behind Enemy Lines in Italy.  The Resistance & the OSS in World War II.  Paper Title:  "Fifty Years On:  Resistance Then, Resistance Now"
 

1999    April, Wellesley College, Translator, Reader and Co-Organizer of Clara Sereni's partecipation in Colloquium on European Women Jewish Writers

April, Casa Italiana, New York University.  Paper Title:  "The Action Party and the Italian Resistance Movement"

May, The Program for Humanities in Medicine, Yale University.  Paper Title:  with Harvey Mandell MD, "Carlo Levi, MD & the Italian Anti-Fascist Movement"

November, European Studies Faculty Seminar, Wellesley College.  Moderator, presentation of Professor Joel Krieger’s British Politics in the Global Age:  Can Democracy Survive?
 

2000    April, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Italian Studies, New York.  Paper Title:  "Piero Gobetti's Italy"

November, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Boston.  Paper Title:  "Gobetti's Myths, the Myth of Gobetti"
 

2001    April, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Italian Studies, Philadelphia.  Paper Title:  “Gobetti’s Myths”

            October, 3rd Annual Meeting of the Italian Cultural Studies Association, Boca Raton, FL. Paper             Title:  “The Anti-Italian Intellectual.  Piero Gobetti and the Italian Intellectual Tradition”

2003    March, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Italian Studies, Washington DC. Paper Title:  “Who are Luigi Meneghello’s Piccoli maestri”

            June, Wellesley College Alumnae Association Symposium on World War II. Paper Title:  “Who Fought the War and Why?  The Second World War in Italian Cinema, Historiography and Literature”

            September, Wesleyan University.  Paper Title:  “TheItalian Curriculum in the Light of ECCO”

            October, Graduate Center, City University of New York.  Paper Title:  “Rebels without a casa.  Luigi Meneghello’s I piccoli maestri”

 

2004    April, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.  Paper Title:  “Luigi Meneghello’s Fiori italiani and the Limits of a Humanistic Education”

            September, First Annual Robert Dombroski Conferente, University of Connecticut, Storrs.  Paper Title:  “In (and out) of Jail with Carlo Levi”

            October, Boston University Interdisciplinary Italian Studies Program Invited Lectures Series. Paper Title:  “The Antifascism of Fascist Youth:  Luigi Meneghello’sThe Outlaws”

 

2005    February, Presentation of special number of Journal of Modern Italian Studies on War Crimes, University of Connecticut , Storrs .  Paper Title:  “Where Myths are Born”

April, Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society, Madison , CT.   Paper Title:  “An Identikit of an Italian Antifascist”

April, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .  Paper Title:  “Fascist:  The Pros and Cons of an Adjective”

April, Department of Romance Languages, Harvard University . Paper Title:  “Italian Anti-fascism”

June, Istituto italiano di cultura (Italian Cultural Institute), Vancover , Canada .  Keynote Speaker at Retrospective of Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini.  Paper Title:  “Pier Paolo Pasolini:  An Intellectual Profile”

September, Second Annual Robert Dombroski Conference, University of Connecticut , Storrs .  Paper Title:  “Mario Martone’s Naples ”

October, AATI Annual Conference, Washington , D.C. Paper Title:  “The Politics of Pier Paolo Pasolini”

December, Queens College, City University of New York. Paper Title: "Piero Gobetti and Ethical Antifascism"

2006    June, Wellesley College Alumnae Reunion. Paper Title: "Just What Do We Mean by 'Fascist;?"

September, University of Bologna, Chair of Session, Symposium, "L'influenza dello stile italiano nell'architettura e cutlura

americana"

October, Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, Cambridge University, UK. Paper Title: "Piero Gobetti's Antifascism"

 

2007    April, University of Bologna, Sede di Forlì, Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori. Symposium, "Traduzione come Luogo di Incontro e di Scontro." Paper Title: "Il passato del Piemonte nel presente di Piero Gobetti"

 

 

2008    March, University of Bologna. Chair of Session, Symposium, "Luci e Ombre nelle Relazioni Italia-USA"

 

2009    January, University of Manchester, UK. Paper Title: "Piero Gobetti, Reader of Vittorio Alfieri"

May, AAIS Annual Conference, New York. Paper Title: "Fact and Ficition: Narrating Crime, Murder and Corruption in Srasso, De Cataldo and Saviano," online at http://confinedistato.blogspot.com/2009/05/una-sorpresa-il-sarassone-oltreoceano.html

 

 

 

 

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