Talk:3rd Italian Jewish Studies Conference (Camaldoli 2024)

Potenziali partecipanti

Stefano Carrai, professore alla Normale di Pisa, autore di numerosi libri, incluso Umberto Saba (2017).

Alberto Cavaglion <alberto.cavaglion@unifi.it>, autore di numerosi libri e video sul soggetto.

Monica Quirico <monica.quirico@unito.it>, ricezione di Primo Levi nel mondo.

Marco Belpoliti <marco.belpoliti@unibg.it>, University of Bergamo, biografo di Primo Levi.

Elena Loewenthal, traduttrice di opere di autori ebrei in italiano. Autrice di Capolavori della letteratura ebraica (1998) e Sarah Kaminski

Stefania Lucamante <lucamante@cua.edu>, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the Catholic University of America, autrice di Forging Shoah memories: Italian women writers, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust -- Lucamante joined the Italian faculty at Georgetown University, where she worked for seven years, first as a lecturer and then as an Assistant Visiting Professor. In 2000 Lucamante accepted a position in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America where she has been the coordinator of the Italian Studies Program until recently. She has taught at the University of Maryland. She has also been Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Cagliari, Italy (Spring 2011) and Emilio Goggio Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto (2014-15). She has taught both at the undergraduate and graduate level courses ranging from the twentieth century Italian novel to the representations of Rome in film and literature; International women writers' fiction and autobiography, the Holocaust in comparative studies, Italian American studies and social issues in Italian cinema.

Risa B. Sodi, Yale University, <risa.sodi@yale.edu>, author of Narrative and imperative : the first fifty years of Italian Holocaust writing (1944-1994) (New York : Peter Lang, 2007)

Sergio Parussa <sparussa@wellesley.edu>, Professor of Italian Studies, Wellesley College, author of Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony: Four Italian Writers and Judaism (Syracuse University Press, 2008)

Sibilla Destefani <sibilla.destefani@gmail.com>, University of Zurich, autrice di L'anticiviltà: il naufragio dell'Occidente nelle narrazioni della Shoah

Raniero Speelman <r.m.speelman@uu.nl>, University of Utrecht -- Raniero M. Speelman teaches Italian literature at BA level and Renaissance & Baroque culture, Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication, all on MA level. His research is focused on Jewish Italian literature of the post-war period, on which he published two books and numerous articles, as well as translations of Primo Levi's essays, poems and short stories. The Italian Jews' reaction to the Holocaust, the contribution of immigrant Jewish authors to literary culture and the descriptions of the State of Israel are all central aspects in this research. Together with Monica Jansen <m.m.jansen@uu.nl>, he was initiator of the International Conferences on Jewish Italian Literature (ICOJIL), held in Amsterdam (2006), Warsaw (2007), Rome (2007 en 2017), Istanbul (2010), Trento (2011), Ferrara (2013 en 2015), Ljubljana (2014 en 2016). He is among the editors of the Icojil conference proceedings.

Sandra Debenedetti Stow, Bar Ilan University, <sandra.stow@biu.ac.il> -- Prof. Debenedetti Stow was born in Rome and arrived in Israel in 1976. She was the Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar Ilan and she specializes in the following areas: Italian linguistics, especially the Italian-Jewish dialect; Medieval literature and culture, especially twelfth-century neo-Platonism; Medieval Italian literature, especially the writings of Dante Alighieri; Renaissance Italian literature; and modern Italian literature, especially the writings of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco. In addition, Prof. Debenedetti Stow teaches and writes about conceptions of women in medieval and renaissance European literature.