CALENDAR 2008 - WU MING'S INTERNATIONAL FORAYS


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2008 is a globetrotting year. After Canada, the US, Spain, France, Belgium and Sweden, we'll go to the UK, Spain (again) and Austria.
On 2 October 2008, WM1 will be in London, at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies of the Royal Holloway University of London, where he'll take part to this event:

CONFERENCE
The Italian perspective on metahistorical fiction: The 'New Italian Epic'
Organiser, Claudia Boscolo, Royal Holloway University of London
2nd October 2008

A thorny debate is taking place in Italian media, triggered by an essay published online by Wu Ming 1 (alias Roberto Bui, founding member of the Luther Blisset Project and currently one of the Wu Ming writing collective). The essay is entitled: New Italian Epic. Memorandum 1993-2008: narrativa, sguardo obliquo, ritorno al futuro [so far, available in Italian and French]. It is a reflection on current cultural circumstances in Italy and attempts a classification of several recent novels, such as Wu Ming's Manituana, Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah, Giuseppe Genna's Hitler, Carlo Lucarelli's L'ottava vibrazione, under the common aegis of a renewed interest in epic in Italian literature.
The aim of this round-table is to explain the New Italian Epic movement to the English speaking public, to introduce the question of intergeneric transmediality, which is an essential component of New Italian Epic, and to offer the opportunity for an interdisciplinary debate on this question.

Programme

2pm: Introduction: Claudia Boscolo (Royal Holloway University of London)
2.20pm: Wu Ming 1 (Italian writer): "New Italian Epic – An introduction"
3pm: Vanni Santoni (Italian writer): "Stylistic matters in the NIE and future prospectives"
Coffee break
3.30pm: Marco Amici (University College Cork): "The front before our eyes. Some reflections on the New Italian Epic"
4.10pm Monica Jansen (University of Antwerpen): "New Italian Epic – A critical approach"
Discussion

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