Futurismo/Futurizm: The Futurist Avant-Garde in Italy and Russia

Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14, 2009
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

SCHEDULE

Friday, November 13

3:45 - 4:45 registration
4:45 - 5:00 Opening remarks

5:00 - 6:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Audacity of Hope: Futurist Aura and National Difference in the Early Manifestos
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University

6:00pm - 7:00pm Exhibition and Reception

7:30pm Film Screening-L’uomo meccanico by André Deed
Whitney Humanities Center, Auditorium, 53 Wall

Introduction by Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology

Saturday, November 14

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

9:00am - 10:30am THE MANIFESTO

Millicent Marcus, Yale University - Moderator

The ‘Venice Preserved’ by F.T. Marinetti
Paolo Valesio, Columbia University

Futurist Chronotopes: The Spatial Politics of the Futurist Manifesto: Italy, Russia, Georgia
Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley

‘Il Mio Futurismo’: Reflections on Women and the Italian Avant-Garde
Erin Larkin, Southern Connecticut State University

10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break

11:00am - 12:45pm LITERATURE

John MacKay, Yale University - Moderator

Marinetti’s Experiments with Acoustic and Visual Poetry: A New Semiotic Approach
John J. White, Kings College

Femminismo e antifemminismo futurista tra Italia e Russia
Cesare De Michelis, Università di Roma Tor Vergata

Aldo Palazzeschi e il Futurismo
Gino Tellini, Centro di studi “Aldo Palazzeschi”

12:45pm - 2:15pm Lunch (on your own)

2:30pm - 4:00pm CULTURAL POLITICS AND THE VISUAL ARTS

Sebastian Zeidler, Yale University - Moderator

Victory Over the Sun / Anguish of the Machines: Utopian Violence in Post-Revolutionary Futurist Theater
Christine Poggi, University of Pennsylvania

Liberating the Italian Colony by the Neva: Italian Futurism and the Cultural Politics of the Late Russian Empire
Sarah Warren, Purchase College, SUNY

For Immediate Release: El Lissitzky and the Topography of G
Maria Gough, Harvard University

4:00pm - 4:15pm Coffee Break

4:15pm - 5:45pm PERFORMANCE

Barbara Spackman, University of California, Berkeley - Moderator

Marinetti’s Total Theatre and the Modernist Conception of Gesamtkunstwerk
Günter Berghaus, University of Bristol

The Statistical Sublime (Marinetti x Mayakovsky)
Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University

The Abstract Novel as Futurist Performance Art: The Case of Benedetta’s “Viaggio di Gararà: Romanzo cosmico per teatro.”
Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles