"Bridges Across Culture"
Thursday June 27 - Sunday June 30, 2013
Perugia, Italy
Sponsored by:
Washington & Jefferson College
The Umbra Institute
“Bridges Across Culture” is the First International Conference on Arts and Humanities to be held in Perugia, Italy. The “Bridges” conference provides an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. This conference will serve as a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract for papers in English. All Areas of Arts and Humanities are invited but of particular interest are papers in the following fields: American Studies, Art History, Ethnic Studies, Film, History, World Literature, Popular Culture, Postcolonial Identities, Religion, Theatre, Visual Arts and Cross-disciplinary areas of Arts and Humanities.
Provide the following by email:
• A 200-word abstract
• A cover letter listing name (last, first), academic affiliation, title of the paper, telephone number, address & email
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2013
Please send submissions to: hjmanzari@washjeff.edu (Mention area of your paper in the subject line)
Reading time for papers is limited to 20 minutes.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Peter Schepelern, born 1945, Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, is the editor and co-author of Filmleksikon, a film encyclopedia (in Danish, 1995, 2010) and has written widely on Lars von Trier and New Danish Cinema. His texts on Dogma films have been published in English, German, French, Chinese - and Italian: “Il cinema secondo dogma. Regole di recitazione, ostacoli e superamenti”, Onde del Nord. Il cinema danese contemporaneo (eds. Anders Toftgaard, Ian Hawkesworth, 2000). He has also published “Cultura e critica cinematografica in Danimarca”, Dansk film - dieci anni di cinema in Danimarca (ed. Francesco Bono, 1993).
Dr. Patrick J. Quinn is Professor of Humanities and Literature at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute at Sultan Fatih Mehmet University in Istanbul. He received his PhD in English from the University of Warwick in 1988. His dissertation concerned the failure of British poets Richard Aldington, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves to write any significant poetry for a decade after the Great War.This dissertation led him to write and edit several books on British War Poets and followers of Modernism during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Quinn has also co-written a grammar text, co-edited an anthology of post colonial short stories, and written a study of the way in which propaganda literature helped bring the United States into the Great War in 1917. Recently he has been writing about the American femme fatale in literature from 1870 to 1920. Professor Quinn has taught literature courses throughout the world including the USA, Canada, Germany, England, Greece, Iraq, and now in Turkey. He is the general editor of the Carcanet Press 24 volume Robert Graves Programme which was begun in 1995 and completed after 17 years in 2012.
Conference Organizers
Dr. Amparo Alpañés, Washington & Jefferson College
Elgin K. Eckert, Ph.D. Umbra Institute
Dr. H.J. Manzari, Washington & Jefferson College
Dr. Angela Tumini, Chapman University
Conference Committee
Dr. Paola Basile, Lake Erie College
Dr. Sintia Molina, St. Francis College
Dr. Lydia Rodríguez, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
A.B.D. Rosa Mirna Sánchez, St. Francis College
Maribel Vázquez Manzari, Washington & Jefferson College
Andrew Mulvania, Washington & Jefferson College
Travel Plans
Please feel free to contact our Conference Travel agent Chiara Bandini at c.bandini@osolemiotour.com or call +39 3471375113 and Chiara will help you plan your trip.
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