Borders of the Visible. Intersections between Literature and Photography

The Conference is organised by Centro Studi Arti della Modernità (http://centroartidellamodernita.it) and sponsored by Università degli Studi di Torino, and the Departments of Studi Umanistici and Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne

Programme

WEDNESDAY 15 November

18:00 OPENING EVENT
(Circolo dei Lettori - 9, Via Bogino)
Introduction: Giuliana Ferreccio, Chiara Simonigh, Università di Torino
Keynote Address: Walter Guadagnini, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna
Ferdinando Scianna and Franco Marcoaldi, Di bestie e di animali

THURSDAY 16 November

8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)

9:00-9:30 WELCOME ADDRESS
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Sergio Scamuzzi, Vice Rettore, Università di Torino
Mario Squartini, Vice Direttore alla Ricerca, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Francesco Panero, Direttore del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne
Giuliana Ferreccio, Presidente del Centro Studi “Arti della Modernità”

9.30-10.45 OPENING PLENARY
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Jens Brockmeier (American University of Paris)
Marie-Laure Ryan (Independent Scholar), Photos, Fact and Fiction: Literary Texts and Mechanical Representation
Michele Cometa (Università di Palermo), What Do Phototexts Want?

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
(Rettorato - 17, Via Po)

11.15-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY

1A - Photography and Biography
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Carmen Concilio (Università di Torino)
Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths, University of London), “Here I am”. The Vernacular Vision of Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in “The Sweet Flypaper of Life” (1955)
Sophie Mayr (Universität Wien), The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath – Photographs in Literary Biographies
Ricarda Menn (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt), (De)-Visualizing the Author: Paul Auster’s (Auto)Photography

1B - Photography and the Self
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Chiara Lombardi (Università di Torino)
Epifanio Ajello (Università di Salerno), Fotografia come autobiografia?
Roberta Coglitore (Università di Palermo), Soglie fotografiche e artifici narrativi in “Leggenda privata” di Michele Mari
Margareth Amatulli (Università di Urbino), Il velo opaco. Il dispositivo fotoletterario di “Le voile noir” di Anny Duperey

1C - Photography and Portrait
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Franca Bruera (Università di Torino)
Alessandra Mascia (Université de Fribourg), La photographie et le récit du mal
Ariane Carmignac (Université de Saint-Étienne), Ce que la photographie (d)écrit. Figurer l’écriture, une archive de la création contemporaine
Sabrina Grillo (Université d’Artois), Portraits photographiques et mise en scène éditoriale

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-15.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE GAZE

2A - Photography and the Gaze (I)
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Roberto Gilodi (Università di Torino)
Marco Belpoliti (Università di Bergamo), Italo Calvino e la fotografia della fotografia
Liborio Termine (Università di Torino), L’immagine nel paradosso di Palomar
Francesca Tucci (Università di Palermo), “Io scrivo ciò che vedo”. “Einmal” di Wim Wenders fra “immagini autocelebrative” e “priorità della storia”

2B - Photography and the Gaze (II)
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Nourit Melcer-Padon (University of Jerusalem)
Barbara Montefalcone (Paris College of Art), “Words Inspire Me More than Pictures”: Intersections between Robert Frank’s Photography & Literature
Ioannis Tsitsovits (KU Leuven), “The Same Only Totally Different”: Authorial Intention and the Totalled Cartier-Bresson in Ben Lerner’s “10:04”
Annalisa Federici (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), “Truth! Truth! Truth!”: Image and Text, Fact and Fiction in Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando”

2C - Photography and the Gaze (III)
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Chloé Conant-Ouaked (Université de Limoges)
Pierre Hyppolite (Université Paris Nanterre), Littérature, photoréalisme et peinture
Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk (Université Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań), Écrire contre les images : à propos de “Baudelaire. Les années profondes” de Michel Schneider
Julia Lukasiak (Université de Varsovie), “Dulle Griet” (1977) de Dominique Rolin: album photographique intérieur

15.15-16.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND LITERARY THEORY

3A - Photography and Literary Theory (I)
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Peppino Ortoleva (Università di Torino)
Magali Nachtergael (Université Paris 13), Barthes’”Camera Lucida” as a Visual Manifesto for Minorities
Margaret Owens (Nipissing University), Photography as Automaton: Roland Barthes and the Mechanical Doll
Marius Bomholt (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), Poetry, Thought and Image Intertwined: “El Truco Preferido De Satán” by Walter Benjamin and Alberto García-Alix

3B - Photography and Literary Theory (II)
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Chiara Simonigh (Università di Torino)
Elisa Bricco (Università di Genova), Forme fototestuali brevi: ironia e intermedialità
Silvia Verdiani (Universität Potsdam/ Università di Torino/ Università di Genova), Fra lingua e immagini. Introduzione alla linguistica visuale
Gaia Bertoneri (Università di Genova/ Università di Torino), L’effetto Droste nell’opera letteraria di Ana Teresa Pereira

3C - Photography and Reality
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Chiara Nannicini Streitberger (Université de Bruxelles)
Alexis Lussier (Université du Québec à Montréal), Jean Genet et la photographie. Poétique de l’image blanche
Chloé Conant-Ouaked (Université de Limoges), Rendre visibles les invisibles : à propos de quelques enquêtes photo-littéraires engagées
Anis Ben Salem (Institut des Arts et Métiers de Sfax, Tunisie), Comment rendre les villes invisibles? Une recherche-création post-photographique comme écho au récit de Calvino

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
(Rettorato - 17, Via Po)

17.00-18.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 – PHOTOGRAPHY, TIME AND SPACE

4A - Photography and Time
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois), Public Memory Underground: Photographs of Protest in Uwe Johnson’s “The Third Book About Achim” (1967)
Cecilia Novero (University of Otago), Photographic Land-Marks in Christoph Hein’s “Der fremde Freund”
Tom Denlinger (DePaul University), Photography’s Edges in Ekstatic Edgewater: from Index to Object

4B - Photography and Landscape
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Cristina Iuli (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Dominic Jaeckle (Goldsmiths, University of London), Real Estate: Place & Possession, Private & Public, in the Thoreauvian Wild
Ayse Erek (Kadir Has University) – Esra Almas (NIT, Halic University), Literature and Photography: Representing the Entangled Pasts and Presents of Istanbul
Ozan Yavuz (Yildiz University), The Role of Photography and Narrative in Autoethnographic Historical Metafiction

4C - Photography and the Space of Text
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Alessandra Mascia (Université de Fribourg)
Martine Lacas (Independent Scholar), Portrait photographique du roman
Julie Cailler (Université Paris 8), Marie L., les vacillements du visible
Rodrigo Fontanari (Universidade Católica de São Paulo), L’instant devient l’instant dans la photographie : Haruo Ohara et le haïkaï

FRIDAY 17 November

9:30-10:45 PLENARY
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Silvia Albertazzi (Università di Bologna)
Jens Brockmeier (American University of Paris), The Presence of Absence: Images and Words in Anne Carson’s “Nox”
Angela Breidbach (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), W.G. Sebald’s Images: Figurations of Absence and Alteration

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
(Rettorato - 17, Via Po)

11.15-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

5A - Photography and History
(Rettorato, Sala Mario Allara - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Andrea Carosso (Università di Torino)
Nourit Melcer-Padon (University of Jerusalem), Visual Memory and Visual Imagination: Ida Fink’s Tangible Narrative
Nicoletta Leonardi (Accademia Albertina, Torino), A War Fought in the Media as well as on the Battleground: Women and Politics in Photography, Travel Literature, Journalism and Criminal Anthropology in Late Risorgimento Italy
Serena Fusco (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”), “Fading into Unborn Photographs”: Narrativizing/Allegorizing the Historical Object in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction

5B - Photography, Memory and Post-Memory
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Federico
Vercellone (Università di Torino)
Laura Quercioli (Università di Genova), “Eyes Wide Shut”: l’incontro a Leeds fra Zygmunt Bauman e Mirosław Bałka
Valeria Cammarata (Università di Palermo), Ombre di memorie. Immagini e storie di migranti da Richard Mosse a Georges Perec
Alice Balestrino (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), “Ogni fotografia è una catastrofe”. Lacerazioni prospettiche e istantanee postmemoriali

5C - Photography and the Shoah
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Alexis Lussier (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Chiara Nannicini Streitberger (Université de Bruxelles), Photographie et littérature de déportation Nesrine Elamine (Institute of Fine Arts, Soussa, Tunisie), Géométrie de la mémoire, le lieu quitté ou poétique de la trace
Serifou Adelaide Bakissia (Université d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire), Photographie et souvenirs-écrans dans la création de Georges Perec

12.30-14.00 – Lunch break

14.00-15.15 PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE NOVEL

6A - Photography and the Novel (I)
(Rettorato, Sala Mario Allara - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Cecilia Novero (University of Otago)
Gabriella Bologna (Università di Verona), Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn. Authorship and Freedom in the Frontispieces to the New York Edition
Spencer Meeks (Manchester Metropolitan University), Affective Temporalities: The Transformative Power of Photography in Siri Hustvedt’s “The Blindfold”
Tatjana Kielland Samoilow (NTNU, Trondheim), Catastrophe Images in Contemporary Scandinavian Narratives

6B - Photography and the Novel (II)
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Epifanio Ajello (Università di Salerno)
Michela Meschini (Università di Macerata), Fra storia e memoria: la quête foto-visionaria di Antonio Tabucchi ne “Il filo dell’orizzonte”
Silvia Mazzucchelli (Università di Bergamo), Carla Cerati: appunti sulla relazione tra scrittura e fotografia
Silvia Cucchi (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Fotografare l’Assoluto: dualismo e temporalità in
“Autopsia dell’Ossessione” di Walter Siti

6C - Photography and the Novel (III)
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Krizia Bonaudo (Università di Torino)
Fatima Seddaoui (Université de Toulouse), Seuil, photographie et fiction: “L’Amant” de Duras
Andreea-Maria Preda (ATM București), La photographie dans les romans de Pascal Quignard – enjeu esthétique ou appui de la remémoration?
Aziza Benzid – Zineb Moustiri (Université Biskra, Algérie), Du texte à la photographie chez Yasmina Khadra: de « ça a été » à « ça est toujours »

15.15-15.45 Coffee Break
(Rettorato - 17, Via Po)

15.45-17.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY

7A - Photography and Society (I)
(Rettorato, Sala Mario Allara - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Federico Sabatini (Università di Torino)
Carmen Concilio (Università di Torino), Ivan Vladislavic’s World of Words and Images
Pablo Celis-Castillo (Elon University), Peru’s Visual Legacy of Violence: Photography and Political Action in Alonso Cueto’s “La hora azul” and Héctor Gálvez’s “NN.”
Maria Festa (Università di Torino), The Contribution of Photography to Anglophone Postcolonial Literature

7B - Photography and Society (II)
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Anke Pinkert (University of Illinois)
Brianne Bilsky (United States Military Academy, West Point), “In Media Res”: Dictée as Media Theory
Cristina Iuli (Università del Piemonte Orientale), The Past Is a Life Sentence, a Blunt Instrument Aimed at Tomorrow
Saudamini Deo (Independent Scholar), The Underreality of Photography: Reading the Hindi Cult Classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron

7C - Photography and Society (III)
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Walter Guadagnini (Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna)
Emanuele Crescimanno (Università di Palermo), Il volto fotografato: logiche di potere e strategie di resistenza
Luigi Marfè (Università di Torino), Geografie dello sguardo: Ghirri, Berger, Celati
Aureliana Natale (Università di Bologna), Ritratti immaginari ai tempi del terrorismo: temporalità disordinata tra storia, fotografia e romanzo

19.00-19.30
Visit to Camera - Italian Centre for Photography
(Camera. Centro Italiano per la Fotografia - 8, Via delle Rosine)

SATURDAY 18 November

9.30-10.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND FICTION

8A - Photography and Fiction (I)
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Margaret Owens (Nipissing University)
Silvia Albertazzi (Università di Bologna), Geoff Dyer’s Ways of Seeing
Peppino Ortoleva (Università di Torino), In the Time of Balzac: The Daguerrotype and the Discovery /Invention of Society
Agnes Neier (University of Tartu), The Curious Photo: Reading Photographs in Literature

8B - Photography and Fiction (II)
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Teresa Prudente (Università di Torino)
Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki (Catholic University of Lublin), The Narration of Photography on the Example of Selected Famous Photographs
Cinzia Scarpino (Università di Milano), “Cotton Tenants. Three Families” (1936) / “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” (1941): Evans’ and Agee’s Complementary and Conflicted Visual and Verbal Texts
Luca Bandirali (Università del Salento), Shooting in the Storyworld

8C - Photography and Fiction (III)
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Franca Bruera (Università di Torino)
Julie Gaillard (ICI Berlin), «Rechercher l’aleph de l’autre». Archive photographique et structuration narrative dans la prose d’Edouard Levé
Jin Young Hwang (Université Paris 8), La croisée des regards entre littérature et photographie: Han Kang et Cha Mihye
Mezhar Assia (Université de Fès, Maroc), L’univers photo-socio-biographique d’Annie Ernaux, le cas de “L’Usage de la photo” (2005) et Mémoire de fille (2016)

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
(Rettorato - 17, Via Po)

11.15-12.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 – PHOTOGRAPHY AND OTHER ARTS

9A – Photography, Illustrations, Graphic Novels
(Rettorato, Sala Principi d’Acaja - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Carmen Concilio (Università di Torino)
Elisa Carandina (INALCO, Paris), “These Aren’t the Right Pictures”: Framing Strategies in Rutu Modan’s Ha-nekes (2013)
Bojana Vujin (Univerzitet Novi Sad) – Arijana Luburić Cvijanović (Univerzitet Novi Sad), Venturing Beyond the Illustration in Young Adult Literature: Ransom Riggs’s Peculiar Children Books
Virginia Pignagnoli (Università di Torino), Instagram Narratives; or What Instagram Can Tell Us About the Author-Reader Relationship, Fictionality and Reliability

9B - Photography and Poetry
(Rettorato, Biblioteca Arturo Graf - 17, Via Po)
Chair: Nicoletta Leonardi (Accademia Albertina, Torino)
Arianna Marelli (SNS Pisa), Sovrimpressioni. Per una retorica memoriale in poesia e fotografia
Federico Fastelli (Università di Firenze), Senso e funzioni della fotografia nella poesia verbo-visiva
Salvatore Spampinato (Università di Torino), La “Kriegsfibel” di Brecht e le sue edizioni italiane: prospettiva storica, intermedialità e didattica

9C - Photography, the Visible and the Invisible
(Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Multifunzione - 7, Via Verdi)
Chair: Katarzyna Thiel-Jańczuk (Université Adam Mickiewicz, Poznań)
Anne Cécile Guilbard (Université de Poitiers), L’objectif photographique de Beckett : « ne que ! »
Laurence Petit (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3), “Brief Lives” d’Anita Brookner (1990), ou L’Invitation au dernier voyage
Martine Baldacchino (Université Paris 8), Vers une abstraction de l’image cinématographique dans "Bleu" de Krzysztof Kieślowski