Northrop Frye Centre Victoria College - University of Toronto 73 Queen's Park Cres. E. | Building 515 28 marzo 2020 INGRESSO LIBERO | APERTO AL PUBBLICO 9:30- 10:30 – Session 1 Chair: Andrea Parasiliti (University of Toronto) Matteo Brera (York University and University of Toronto), “Non Expedit Svaticanare: Mario Palmarini’s Esoteric Futurism and the Index of Prohibited Books” Monica Jansen (University of Utrecht) and Luca Somigli (University of Toronto), “From Anti-clericalism to Sacred Art: Perspectives on Futurism and the Sacred” 10:30-11:00: Coffee break 11:00-12:00 – Session 2 Chair: Marco Malvestio (University of Toronto) Barbara Meazzi (Université Côte d’Azur), “Rileggere il futurismo: il fantastico Marinetti” Paola Sica (Connecticut College), “Leandra Angelucci Cominazzini: Revisiting the Futurist Debate on Speed, the Sacred and the Spiritual for a New Reality” 12:00-1:30: Lunch 1:30-2:30 – Session 3 Chair: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto) Patrizio Ceccagnoli (University of Kansas), “On A Futurist Dog: For a Posthuman Ecocritical Reading of Marinetti’s Words in Freedom” Andrea Parasiliti (University of Toronto), “Futurism and Disability: From the ‘Cannon’ to the Aesthetic Canon of Haphaestus” 2:30-3:00: Coffee break 3:00-4:00 – Session 4 Chair: Monica Jansen (University of Utrecht) Laura Chiesa (University at Buffalo), “After Futurism: Music and Sound” John Picchione (York University), “Acceleration, Montage, Intermediality, and the Subject: Futurism and Its Legacy”   4:00-5:00 – Round table “New Directions in the Study of Modernism and the Avant-Garde” Chair: Luca Somigli Participants: Melba Cuddy-Keane (University of Toronto) Robert Davidson (University of Toronto) Paola Sica (Connecticut College) Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto)