CFP: AMOR VINCIT OMNIA: LOVE AS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN ITALIAN ARTS AND LITERATURE
Deadline (extended) 15 February 2015
24-25 April 2015, University of Chicago. Keynote Address: Dr. Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities for Italian, Yale University; Closing Address: Dr. Hendrik Dey, Professor of Art History, Hunter College. The students of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the specialization of Italian and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago invite papers for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference. All current graduate students, as well as junior scholars in Art History, Literature, and related disciplines are invited to submit an abstract to this conference.
- Objects of desire: variations of Venus, the Donna Angelicata, and Adonis, and the effect of gender on portrayals of both the lover and the beloved
- Unorthodoxy in depictions of sexuality
- Portraiture, funeral monuments, and elegies as expressions of longing or loss
- Funeral processions and the relationship of death and urbanism
- Tragedy within the familial or Platonic framework
- Narcissism as an impetus towards self-destruction
- Suicide and self-harm as a result of unrequited or deceptive love
- Alienation from Godly or spiritual love
- Love misdirected at animals or the inanimate
- Philosophies of tragic love in art and literature
- Portrayals or imitations of the Italian lover in theater
- Self-destructive love through the medium of cinema
- Theories, remedies, and consequences of lovesickness
- Music’s ability to provoke and dramatize tragic love