‘Reimagining Ecologies in Italian Visual Culture’, Cambridge, 11 giugno 2025

Si trasmette il programma del seminario Reimagining Ecologies in Italian Visual Culture che si terrà presso l’Università di Cambridge l’11 giugno

SG2, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46680

09:45 – 10:00
Opening Remarks
Robert Gordon and Pietro Agnoletto

10:00 – 12:00
Session 1: Altered Landscapes
> Marina Spunta (University of Leicester): Luigi Ghirri’s photography and Viaggio in Italia: Reframing/Reimagining the Landscape
> Elena dell’Agnese (University of Milan-Bicocca): Beauty and Environmental Discourse in Contemporary Italian Cinema
> Joseph Viscomi (Birkbeck, University of London): Landscape and Loss in Calabria: Environmental Histories of spopolamento

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch

13:00 – 15:00
Session 2: The Anthropic Impact
> Deborah Howard (University of Cambridge): Learning from the Past: The Imagery of Flooding in the Early Modern Veneto
> Daniel Finch-Race (University of Bologna): Atmospheric Harm in Umberto Boccioni’s ‘Twilight’ and ‘Factories at Porta Romana’
> Andrea Lerda (National Mountain Museum, Turin): Art-Ecology-Community. A Dialogue for the Future

15:00 – 15:30
Break

15:30 – 17:30
Session 3: Human/Non-Human Relationships
> Stefania Benetti (University of Eastern Piedmont): Natural Elements in Italian Murals: Between Environmental Aesthetics and Deep Ecology
> Esme Garlake (University College London): Recovering Human Understandings of Nonhuman Animals in Early Sixteenth-Century Italy: An Ecocritical History of Art
> Silvia Ross (University College Cork): Calvino’s Human/Non-Human Entanglements: People and Plants in ‘Marcovaldo, ovvero le stagioni in città’ on Page and Screen

17:30 – 18:00
Concluding Remarks