Transits. The Nomadic Geographies of Modernism 
                 Progetto di ricerca di Interesse Nazionale 2006-2008, Milano – Genova – Trieste
                        Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano del Garda, 16-18 October 2008

Thursday, 16th October

15.00 – 16.30	(Chair : to be defined)
•	Welcome message by Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genoa), Giovanni Cianci (University of Milan) and Renzo Crivelli (University of Trieste)
•	Introductory Lecture, Giovanni Cianci, (University of Milan) Open Space versus Closed Space: the Crisis of Domesticity in Literary and Visual Early Modernism 

16.30 – 18.30		Gaining Momentum (Chair: to be defined)
•	Ian Duncan (UCLA Berkeley), Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle: Circumnavigation, History and the Map of Mankind
•	Sara Haslam (The Open University), “Victims of Time And Train”: Modernist Means of Getting There
Coffee Break
•	Barrie Bullen (University of Reading), The Imaginative Geography of Hardy’s The Return of the Native
•	Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna), Primitivism as Nostalgia for the Origin in Modernist Writing and Painting

18.30 	Home is Always Somewhere Else, a film by Giulia Ciniselli, presented by the author and Caroline Patey	
20.00 	Dinner

Friday, 17th October

9.00 – 11.30		Poetics on the Move (Chair: to be defined)
•	Max Saunders (King’s College London), Ford Madox Ford and Nomadic Modernism
•	Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester), Loss, Movement and Memory in Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus
•	Laura Scuriatti (ECLA Berlin), “And Certainly Difficult to Place”: Minna Loy’s Nomadic Routes Through the Historical Avantagarde
Coffee Break
•	Ann Hoag (University of Cambridge), Vita Sackville West’s Passenger to Teheran and Literary Geography: Travel, Gardens and Women’s Creativity
•	Giuseppina Restivo (University of Trieste), Exiles en abyme: Joyce, De Chirico, Plato and Dürer in Beckett’s Endgame
12.30 Lunch

14.30 – 17.00 		Visit to Vittoriale

17.30 – 19.30 		Parallel Sessions (A/B)
Session A: Urban Crossings (Chair: to be defined)
•	Renzo Crivelli, (University of Trieste) James Joyce and Nomadic Dublin-Trieste
•	Laura Pelaschiar, (University of Trieste) “…in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored…” Politics and poetics of space in Joyce’s Ulysses
•	Sara Sullam, (University of Milan) Berlin Transfer: Isherwood’s Anglo-Germanic Poetics
•	Silvia Panizza (University of Genoa), Landscape and Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet
Session B: Scouting Other Spaces (Chair: to be defined)
•	Massimo Bacigalupo, (University of Genoa) Western and Arabic Tradition in Essad Bey/Lev Nussimbaum’s Work
•	Laura Colombino, (University of Genoa) Moments of Being, Moments of Transit: Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana
•	Nicoletta Brazzelli, (University of Milan) A Symbolic Geography of the Ice: Aspley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World and Modernity
•	Anna Viola Sborgi, (University of Genoa) Images of Turkey and Visions of Identity in Rose Maucaulay’s The Towers of Trebisond (1956)
•	Gabriella Ferruggia, (University of Genoa) Discontinuities in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco

20.00 Dinner

Saturday, 18th October

9.00 – 11.00		Passing Places (Chair: to be defined)
•	Luisa Villa, (University of Genoa)  Kipling’s Egypt of the Magicians: the River, the Desert and the Enigma of Empire
•	Stan Smith, (Nottingham Trent University) Island Distractions
•	David Bradshaw, (Worcester College, Oxford)“A River of Turning Wheels”: Woolf, London and Modernism
•	Cinzia Schiavini, (University of Milan) Across the Lines: Transfronteras and Diasporic Identities in Mexican-American Travel Narratives

Coffee Break
11.30
Concluding Lecture by Werner Sollors (Harvard University), 1941: “The Peoples of the Worlds Are Rapidly Being Scrambled!”: the Word multicultural is launched
12.30 Final reflections

Lunch