Hello, please help us circulate this reminder among your faculty and  

students. Thank you, Gaoheng Zhang





Note that the deadline for proposal submission is January 2nd.



Call for paper for a panel in the American Association for Italian  

Studies Annual Conference, May 7-10, 2009, St. John's University,  

Manhattan Campus.



Views from the Grand Tour: On Cinema and Architecture



Over the centuries, grand tourists have produced numerous literary  

and artistic works that disseminated knowledge and captured the  

imagination of Italy. How has cinema, an art form that emerged during  

the fin-de-siècle and is uniquely adept at capturing architectural  

and town planning configurations, depicted the Grand Tour cities?  

Following the lead of Bruno (1993), Bertozzi (2001), Cresti (2003)  

and others, we invite panelists to consider the nexus between Italian  

cinema and architecture, be it formal, structural, aesthetic,  

ideological, socio-historical, cultural, functional, or gender  

related. Interdisciplinary and comparative studies are particularly  

welcome. Organizers: Alberto Zambenedetti ([log in to unmask]) and Gaoheng  

Zhang ([log in to unmask]), Department of Italian Studies, New York  

University. Proposals due to the organizers on January 2, 2009.  

Please include title, brief abstract (150-200 words) and audio-visual  

needs.



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