Italian Media & Popular Culture

at Indiana University

A Virtual Conference

Simultanea, in collaboration with the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University – Bloomington, has organized a virtual conference in English and Italian, in the hope to offer an opportunity for debate about multiple themes emerging in the field of Italian media and pop culture.

La redazione di Simultanea, in collaborazione con il dipartimento di Italianistica di Indiana University – Bloomington, ha organizzato una conferenza virtuale in inglese e italiano, nella speranza di offrire un’occasione di dialogo su diversi temi emergenti nell’ambito dei media e della cultura popolare nell’Italia contemporanea.

Program – Programma

0:00:15 – 0:07:26

Andrea Ciccarelli, Indiana University – Bloomington

Introduction and welcome

GUEST SPEAKERS

0:07:30 – 0:34:49

Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University

Cantautori e memoria letteraria

0:34:50 – 1:06:43

Eugenia Paulicelli, CUNY, Graduate Center

Cultural Translation, Cultural Identity and Fashion: The Case of Gucci

1:06:44 – 1:28:33

Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College

“Adrenaline Pulses in the Cables of Reality”:

The Technohumanist imaginatio of Italian Science Fiction’s Connettivist Movement

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

with participants from Indiana University – Bloomington

1:31:21 – 1:45:22

Marco Arnaudo

Studying Games as Cultural and Aesthetic Artifacts

1:46:17 – 1:53:28

Leonardo Cabrini

Pop culture, cinefilia e critica cinefila oggi

1:54:40 – 2:01:02

Sara Dallavalle

Note sull’industria fumettistica in Italia oggi

2:01:20 – 2:08:49

Carlotta Vacchelli

Reminiscenze, omaggi, calchi, Pathosformeln tra pittura e fumetto italiano.

Appunti per una casistica

2:09:10 – 2:16:45

Francesco Samarini

Figure di passaggio nella musica indipendente italiana:

Niccolò Contessa e Calcutta

2:16:46 – 3:58:05

Discussion with the Guest Speakers and the IU participants