Convegno internazionale AIDEL su diritti umani e letteratura
AIDEL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012
LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Verona, 15-17 Novembre 2012
Sala del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Palazzo Pompei – Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9 – Verona (entrata per persone con disabilità da via Museo 2)
Ingresso gratuito fino ad esaurimento posti
Programme
THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2012
9.30-10.00 Welcoming address
Prof. Donata Gottardi, Direttore della Scuola di Dottorato in Giurisprudenza
Prof. Annamaria Babbi, Direttore della Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Umanistici
CHAIR: Daniela Carpi (Università di Verona)
10.00 Jeanne Gaakeer (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Dignity and Disgrace in Law and Literature
10.30 Piergiuseppe Monateri (Università di Torino), Apocalypse Now and Human Rights
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Francesco Palermo (Università di Verona), Indigenous Peoples and Fundamental Rights: Evolution of a difficult relationship
12.00 Patrizia Nerozzi (Università IULM, Milano), “Am I not a man and a brother?” Notes on the Representation of Slavery in Eighteenth Century English Art and Literature
12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.00 AIDEL ANNUAL MEETING
CHAIR: Romana Zacchi (Università di Bologna)
15.00 Maria Aristodemou (Birkbeck College, London), A Squeamishness About Existing: Fernando Pessoa’s quiet rejection of the human in A Book of Disquiet
15.30 Carla Dente (Università di Pisa), Docu-theatre and Human Rights
16.00 Daniela Carpi (Università di Verona), Dehumanizing the Enemy: how to avoid human rights
16.30 COFFEE BREAK
17.00 Walter Busch (Università di Verona), From Human Rights to Crimes against Humanity: Hannah Arendt’s comment on the Eichmann trial
17.30 Matteo Nicolini (Università di Verona), ‘ne Droe Wit Seisoen in die Stormkaap: André Brink and the Fundamental Rights of the Afrikaner in Apartheid South Africa
18.00 Discussion
FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2012
CHAIR: Silvia Bigliazzi (Università di Verona)
9.30 Melanie Williams (Exeter University), Feminism, Literature and Human Rights: Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly and the dark heart of culture
10.00 Paola Carbone (Università IULM, Milano), Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur and the cause of the nation’s female literacy in India
10.30 Paolo Heritier (Università di Torino), The Problematic Universality of Aesthetics and Human Rights: the case of Jullien’s China
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Riccardo Baldissone (Birkbeck College, London), Dostoyevsky as a Legal Theorist? On the Role of Literature in the Reconsideration of the Human Subject of Rights
12.00 Alessandra Tomaselli (Università di Verona) and Lino Panzeri (Università dell’Insubria), The Definition of “Linguistic Minority”: linguistic vs. legal perspectives
12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
CHAIR: Patrizia Nerozzi (Università IULM, Milano)
14.30 Cristina Costantini (Università di Bergamo), Beyond Nature: The oxymorical ambivalence inscribed in Human Rights discourses
15.00 Chiara Battisti (Università di Verona), Animal Rights/Human Wrongs in Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in Ten and Half Chapters
15.30 Valentina Adami (Università di Verona), An Ecocritical Discourse Analysis of the UN Draft Declaration of Human Rights and the Environment
16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 Mara Logaldo (Università IULM, Milano), On Crimes, Punishments… and Words: Language Issues in Cesare Beccaria’s Works
17.00 Roxanne Doerr (Università di Verona), Rumpole and the Rights of Accused Terrorists
17.30 Discussion
SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2012
CHAIR: Piergiuseppe Monateri (Università di Torino)
9.30 Ian Ward (Newcastle University), The Rights and Wrongs of Marriage: Article 16 UNCHR and the case of Edith Dombey
10.00 Fulvio Cortese (Università di Trento), Citizenship Consciousness and Fundamental Rights: The way of the others
10.30 Sidia Fiorato (Università di Verona), The Role of Forensics in Human Rights Discourse: Kathy Reichs’ crime novels
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Lisa Lanzoni (Università di Verona), Oral Tradition and Fundamental Rights in the Trial: the Jomo Kenyatta’s case
12.00 Francesca Vitali (Università di Verona), Memory and Human Rights: George Orwell’s 1984
12.30 Giorgio Resta (Università di Bari), Talking About the Past: the juridification of history and the politics of memory
13.00 Discussion
Organizzato da:
AIDEL Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura
Università degli studi di Verona – Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere
