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Wednesday 3 June

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Here live streaming on YouTube

Morning (9.30-13.00)

9.30-10.00 Welcome Address:

- Giovanna Rocca (Pro-Rector for Research and Full Professor in Linguistics, IULM University)

- Paolo Giovannetti (Head of the Department of Communication, Arts and Media "Giampaolo Fabris" and Full Professor of Modern Italian Literature, IULM University)


10.00-11.00 Keynote 1: Laurel Brake (Birkbeck University of London)
“Lockdown. The Order of Things: The functions of book reviews in the 19C British Press”

Chair: Andrea Chiurato (IULM University)


11.00-13.00 Panel 1: “Theatre, Language, and Radio”

Chair: Martina Treu (IULM University)


Federica La Manna 

Università della Calabria

German Theatre Reviews between the 18th and the 19th Centuries

Kristoffer Jul-Larsen

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

The Broadcast Book Review Between Literary Periodicals and Mass Media – From National Ideologues to the Young Karl Ove Knausgård

Micalea Grosso and Paolo Nitti

Università degli Studi eCampus and Università dell’Insubria

The Review in Italian L2 Teaching. A Research on Textual Competence Development

Q & A SESSION


Afternoon (14.00-18.00)


14.00-16.00 Panel 2: “Literary Reviews Between Taste and Canon”

Chair: Giuliana Bendelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)


Stephanie Palmer

Nottingham Trent University

Between Literary Criticism and Pleasure Reading: Newspaper Reviews of Edith Wharton in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Phyllis Boumans

University of Leuven

Building a Modern Short Story Canon: Strategies of Taste-making in the Review Section of The Bell (1940-1954)

Massimo Raffaeli

Independent Researcher

Cesare Cases teorico della recensione

Elena Ogliari

Università degli Studi di Milano

Analysing the Book Reviews in the Irish Radical Press: Juxtapositions, Dynamic Conjuctions and Political Agenda

Q & A SESSION


16.00-18.00 Panel 3: “Culture, Economics and Society”

Chair: Elena Ogliari (Università degli Studi di Milano)


Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska

Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków and Stefan Wyszyński University

“Summa summarum: C plus, slightly above average”. Tadeusz Sinko and the literary life of modernist Kraków

Susanna Roffredi

Independent Researcher

East or West? Representations of 'Japaneseness' through Book Reviews from Kawabata to Durian Sukegawa

Alberto Mingardi

IULM University

The Economist as Book Reviewer. Thomas Hodgskin’s role at James Wilson’s The Economist

Q & A SESSION