Neorealismo Conference:

EXAMINING THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF A TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL MOVEMENT

Thursday, October 4 - Friday, October 5

St. Mary's Hall, Multipurpose Room

Co-sponsored by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, the Department of History, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Office of International Programs, DRIF and the College of Arts and Humanities

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday October 4

LANGUAGE HOUSE: MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM

8:30am – 9:00am

  • Breakfast

 

9:00am - 9:45am

  •  Welcoming Remarks: Prof. Sonya Michel and Prof. Richard Price
  • Opening Remarks: Prof. Saverio Giovacchini and Ms. Paula Halperin

 

10:00am – 12:30pm

Neorealism: Circulation and Exchange

Participants:

  • Prof. Vito Zagarrio (University of Florence/Rome III), Exporting Neorealism. A
    Re-Vision of Post War Italian Film
  • Commentator : Prof. Silvia Carlorosi ( University of Maryland )
  • Prof. Neepa Majumdar ( University of Pittsburgh ) , Importing Neorealism, Exporting Cinema: Indian Cinema and Film Festivals in the 1950s
  • Commentator: Prof. Sangeeta Ray ( University of Maryland )

 

12:30pm – 2:00pm

  • Lunch

 

2:00pm – 4:30pm

Neorealism in Urban and Rural Contexts

  • Participants:
  • Prof. Robert Sklar ( New York University ), Neorealism's Influence on U.S. Filmmaking: A Preliminary Inquiry
  • Commentator: Prof. Jonathan Auerbach ( University of Maryland )

3:15pm – 3:45pm

  • Coffee Break
  • Sarah Sarzynski ( Bowdoin College ), Documenting the Social Reality of Brazil : Roberto Rossellini, the Paraiban Documentary School , and the Cinemanovistas
  • Commentator: Paula Halperin ( University of Maryland )

 

Friday October 5

LANGUAGE HOUSE: MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM

 

9:00am – 9:45am

  • Breakfast

 

10:00am – 12:15pm

Neorealism and the Post Colonial World

Participants:

  • Prof. Mariano Mestman (Universidad de Buenos Aires), The World of Labor and Social Conflict. From Italian Neorealism to New Latin American Cinema
  • Commentator: Prof. Saverio Giovacchini ( University of Maryland )
  • Prof. Sada Niang ( University of Victoria ), Aspects of Neorealism in the Films of
  • Ousmane Sembène
  • Commentator: Prof. Caroline Eades ( University of Maryland )

 

12:15pm – 1:30pm

  • Lunch

 

1:30pm – 3:45pm

Neorealism: the Russian and the Iranian Perspective

Participants:

  • Prof. Hamid Naficy (Northwestern University), Neorealism Iranian Style
  • Commentator: Prof. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ( University of Maryland )
  • Profs., Masha Salazkina and Luca Caminati ( Colgate University ), Italian Neorealism in/and the Soviet Union : Reception and Influences
  • Commentator: Prof. Elizabeth Papazian ( University of Maryland )

 

3:45pm – 4:00pm

  • Coffee Break

 

4:00pm – 5:30pm

Round Table: Neorealism as a Global Movement

Moderator: Prof. Giuseppe Falvo, ( University of Maryland )

Participants:

  • Prof. Mary Kay Vaughan, History Department, ( University of Maryland )
  • Prof. Regina Igel, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, ( University of Maryland )
  • Prof. Peter Beicken, Department of Germanic Studies, (University of Maryland )
  • Prof. Eric Zakim, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, ( University of Maryland )
  • Prof. Paul Landau, History Department, ( University of Maryland )

 

5:30

  • Closing Remarks : Prof. Saverio Giovacchini