Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • Laurel Brake (Birkbeck University of London): Lockdown. The Order of Things: The functions of book reviews in the 19C British Press  Ppt Presentation
  • Silvia Contarini (Università di Udine): Recensione e narrazione: la Frusta letteraria di Baretti al confine dei generi
  • Sebastian Domsch (Universität Greifswald): Critical Authority and Media Change: Debating Reviews in the 18th and the 21st Century
  • Alberto Pezzotta (Università IULM): Le costanti della recensione cinematografica

PANELISTS

  • Andrea Bellavita (Università dell’Insubria): Fiction seriale e strategie di recensione: sistema, concept, pilot, racconto
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  • Phyllis Boumans (University of Leuven): Building a Modern Short Story Canon: Strategies of Taste-making in the Review Section of The Bell (1940-1954)
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  • Lorenzo Cardilli (Politecnico di Milano): Il critico "teologo". Gli scritti del giovane Contini su "Rivista Rosminiana"
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  • Raffaella Carluccio (Università di Parma): Lo “spettatore critico”. Il Nerone di Boito alla prova della recensione musicale italiana.
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  • Alessandro Carrera (University of Houston): The Rock Review as a New Literary Genre.
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  • Luca Cerchiari (Università IULM): Hugues Panassié to Joachim Berendt: the jazz critic as “artist”. Aesthetic debates, self-promotion, marketing strategies.
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  • 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.
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  • Aneta Kliszcz e Joanna Komorowska (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Kraków e Stefan Wyszyński University): "Summa summarum: C plus, slightly above average”. Tadeusz Sinko and the literary life of modernist Kraków 
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  • Federica La Manna (Università della Calabria): German Theatre Reviews between the 18th and the 19th Centuries
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  • Livio Lepratto (Università di Parma): Dalla “satira” all’“insulto”. Per una fenomenologia della stroncatura dal dopoguerra al web
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  • Alberto Mingardi (Università IULM): The Economist as Book Reviewer. Thomas Hodgskin’s role at James Wilson's The Economist 
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  • Emiliano Morreale (Università La Sapienza): La critica come autofiction. Mario Soldati spettatore cinematografico [tr. “Film criticism as autofiction: Mario Soldati as a film viewer”]
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  • Paolo Nitti and Micaela Grosso (Università dell’Insubria and Università degli Studi eCampus): The review in Italian L2 teaching. A research on textual competence development.
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  • Elena Ogliari (Università degli studi di Milano): Analysing the Book Reviews in the Irish Radical Press: Juxtapositions, Dynamic Conjuctions and Political Agenda
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  • Stephanie Palmer (Nottingham Trent University): Between Literary Criticism and Pleasure Reading: Newspaper Reviews of Edith Wharton in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
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  • Massimiliano Raffa (Università IULM): Recensioni e popular music: tendenze, ambiguità e futuro della critica pop [tr. “Reviewing the popular: trends, ambiguities and future of pop music criticism”]
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  • Massimo Raffaeli (independent researcher): Cesare Cases teorico della recensione
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  • Susanna Roffredi (independent researcher): East or West? Representations of 'japaneseness' through book reviews from Kawabata to Durian Sukegawa 
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  • Roberta Sapino (Università di Torino): André Pieyre de Mandiargues' "Declarations of Love" in the “Nouvelle Revue Française”
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  • Giulio Tosi (independent researcher): “The twilight of the rondan: The transformation of post-war Japanese criticism observed in the reviews of Italian films.
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