92644 - Seminars (O) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar the student will acquire skills and knowledge together with specific notions, which allow him/her to face linguistic, cultural and literary questions and issues.

Course contents

The seminar will take place following this schedule:

- 12 September 2019,  15.30-18.00, Carla Comellini (Univ. di Bologna): “Panoramica introduttiva alla letteratura canadese e l’intreccio fra i vari aspetti cultirali”, Sala Convegni

- 19 September 2019,  15.30-18.00, Gabriella Catalini (Univ. di Bologna): “Across the Pacific Anne of Green Gable's surprizing - or not - success with Japanese audiences”. Introduction with Notes by Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 20 September 2019,  15.30-18.00, Giuliana Gardellini (Univ. di Bologna): “Canadian Renaissance”. Introduction, with Notes and Debate by Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

26 September 2019,  15.30-18.00, Carmen Concilio (Univ. di Torino): "A Mark on the Floor" Alice Munro on Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease in The Bear Came over the Mountain and Sarah Polley's Away from Her”. Introduction, with Notes and Debate by Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 27 September 2019,  15.30-18.30, Carla Comellini (Univ. di Bologna): “Dal romanzo alla sceneggiatura e al film: il caso di The English Patient di M.Ondaatje” . Sala Convegni.

- 3 October 2019,  15,30-18,00, Michele Ballazzini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofica- INAF- Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna): “Dal Quebec alle stelle: la vita poetica di Rebecca Elson”. Con Introduzione, dibattito e annotazioni di Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 10 October 2019, 15.30-18.00, Giovanna Buonanno (Univ. di Modena): “Transcultural routes in Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness in the Belly (2008)”. Introduction, with Notes and Debate by Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 11 October 2019, 15.30-18.00, Joseph Ingram (Canadian writer and Co-Chair of Capitalis Investment Advisors): “A comparison between Canada’s and China’s presence in Africa”. Introduction, with Notes and Debate by Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 17 October 2019, 15.30-18.00, Vita Fortunati (Univ. di Bologna): “L’arte di Emily Carr e il suo rapporto con il gruppo dei sette”. Con Introduzione, dibattito e annotazioni di Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 18 October 2019, 15.30-18.00, Pasquale Verdicchio (Italian-Canadian writer and Director of the Italian Studies Program of the University of California, San Diego, in Bologna):”ALL OUR RELATIONS : Re-mediation, identity, and agency”.Introduction with Notes and Debate Carla Comellini, Sala Convegni

- 24 October 2019,  15.30- 18.00, Eleonora Rao (Univ. di Salerno) e Rocco De Leo (dottore di ricerca): “’Immigration is a form of abjection’: in the second person/in seconda persona, il diario poetico di Smaro Kamboureli”. Con Introduzione, dibattito e annotazioni di Carla Comellini, Aula Lugli

- 25 October 2019, 15.30- 18.00, Rosy Giordani (Dottore di ricerca in letteratura canadese Univ. di Bologna) : “Atom Egoyan: an Armenian voice in the Canadian cinema”. Con Introduzione, dibattito e annotazioni di Carla Comellini, Aula Lugli

- 31 October 2019,  15.30- 18.00, Mariella Lorusso (Univ. di Bologna- sede di Rimini): “Le parole della moda e la Global Fashion”. Con Introduzione e dibattito di C. Comellini, Sala Convegni

Readings/Bibliography

Selected bibliography:

• George Woodcock, Northern Spring, The Flowerung of Canadia Literature;
• Carla Comellini, I Tanto Inglesi, Clueb,
• Penny Petrone, First People, Fiest Voices

Professor Comellini will suggest further readings during the seminar.

Teaching methods

Seminars, frontal lectures, questions and answer, open discussion.

Assessment methods

Attendance to the seminars and final interview with prof. Carla Comellini.

For any further information please get in contact with prof. Comellini (carla.comellini@unibo.it)

Teaching tools

Viedos and power point presentations.

Seminars by Italian and International Scholars.

Language: Italian and/or English.

Office hours

See the website of Serena Baiesi