The California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS)
and Cowell College
Present a Public Lecture by
Alexander Stille
(San Paolo Professor of International Journalism, Columbia University)
Original Sin:
State Formation and Violence in Italian History
Friday, February 29th, 5:30 PM
Stevenson Event Center
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alexander Stille’s books include Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism (1991); Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (1995); The Future of the Past (2002); and The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi (2006).

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Saturday Conference Schedule
The California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS)
March 1st, 2008
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alumni Room, University Center
8:30 AM—Coffee

9:00 AM—Opening remarks

9:30-11:30 AM— Chair: Clorinda Donato (CSU Long Beach)
All in the Family: Domestic and Intimate Violence in Early Modern Italy

1. Joanne Ferraro (San Diego State University), “Hidden Violence, Contested Justice: Infanticide in Early Modern Venice”
2. Corinne Wieben (UC Santa Barbara), “‘As men do with their wives’: Domestic Violence in Fourteenth-Century Lucca”
3. Sara Russell (UC Berkeley), “Sexual Violence in Matteo Bandello's Novelle”
4. Thomas Dandelet (UC Berkeley), “Domestic Violence, Imperial Violence: The Revolt of Marc Antonio Colonna II Against his Father, Ascanio Colonna”

11:30-12:00 Noon—Coffee Break

12:00-1:00 PM—Chair: Stephanie Jed (UC San Diego)
Violence and Italy’s Others

1. Giulia Centineo (UC Santa Cruz), “Targeting the ‘Other’: The Italian Press and Crime”
2. Claire Lavagnino (UCLA), “‘What about the Half That's Never Been Told?’ Italian Violence from Ethiopian Perspectives”

1:00-2:00 PM—Lunch Break

2:00-4:00 PM—Chair: Lucia Re (UCLA)
Staging Violence

1. Laura Wittman (Stanford University), “Mutilation and the Invention of the Unknown Soldier Memorial, Italy and France, 1916-1922”
2. Ara H. Merjian (Stanford University), “The Language of Violence/The Violence of Language: Marinetti's Mafarka le futuriste (1909) and the Sculptural Imagination”
3. Evan Williams (UC Santa Cruz), "Killer Design"
4. Lenore Kitts (UC Berkeley), “Non più una storia segreta: Italy's Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes in the Wake of Nurenberg”

4:00-4:30 PM—Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 PM—Chair: Eleonora Pasotti (UC Santa Cruz)
Gli Anni di Piombo

1. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi (UC Santa Barbara), “Memories of ‘Gli Anni di Piombo’”
2. Aaron Thomas (UCLA), “Sine effusione sanguinis: Norberto Bobbio, Democracy, and the Problem of Violence”

6:00 PM—Reception

CICIS gratefully acknowledges financial support for this conference from:
Fondazione Cassamarca (Treviso, Italy)
Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz
UC Berkeley Institute for European Studies and the Terrill Professorship in Italian Studies
UCLA
CICIS MRG, University of California
CSU Long Beach
Italian Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Department of History, UC Santa Cruz

Information about accommodations is forthcoming. Please look for an email.