Italy and China, Europe and East Asia: Centuries of Dialogue / Italia e Cina, Europa e Asia orientale: Secoli di dialogo / 意大利与中国，欧洲与东亚：跨世纪对话
Organised by the Department of Italian Studies
University of Toronto
100 St Joseph Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
Here is a tentative list of the speakers:
Locations: Three locations at the St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto (see the program for details).
Father Madden Hall in Carr Hall: 100 St. Joseph Street
Charbonnel Lounge in Elmsley Hall: 81 St. Mary Street
Classroom 406 in Carr Hall: 4th floor, 100 St. Joseph Street
Organizers: Francesco Guardiani and Gaoheng Zhang, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto
Co-sponsors: Departments of Italian Studies, Cinema Studies Institute, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, French, History, Islamic Studies, Language Studies (UTM), Language Studies – Italian Unit (UTM), Spanish and Portuguese, the Faculty of Music (Historical Performance), and the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto. The Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) in Toronto. The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Website: italychinaconference.wordpress.com
Conference description and goals:
Increasing dialogue between China and Italy constitutes a significant issue in today’s world. Recently, several Italian and Chinese industries competed directly in the global market. The Chinese migrant entrepreneurship in fashion and garment industry in Prato was spotlighted in Italian and international media as emblematic of the tension between “Made in Italy” and “Made in China.”
Over the centuries, crossings between Italy and China have produced the most sustained strand of cultural texts on East-West borrowings. The work by the likes of Marco Polo, Li Madou (Matteo Ricci), Giacomo Puccini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Bernardo Bertolucci is among history’s most influential intercultural texts. More recently, Luca Bigazzi’s cinematography in Gianni Amelio’s La stella che non c’è/The Missing Star and in Andrea Segre’s Io sono Li/Shun Li and the Poet shows the influence of Chinese landscape painting.
Chinese perception of Italy has been equally textured and powerful. Liang Qichao formulated his influential nationalist thinking with explicit references to the Italian Unification. The “Sixth Generation” Chinese filmmakers extensively adapted Italian neorealism for their Chinese subject matter.
In recent years, English-language scholarship on Italy-China issues in particular have received renewed interest. What was at stake in Italian-Chinese, East Asian-European dialogue? How can we best examine the dialogical process in these crossings? What theoretical insights and policy advice can we yield from these intellectual endeavors? This conference will explore the contexts, ways, and reasons for which such exchanges took place. We will also examine the specific knowledge that was produced, interpreted, and negotiated when the two countries and the two continents communicated. The focus countries are Italy and China.
The goals of the conference are to pool together existing research strands on China-Italy issues in one place; to study these issues in comparative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-centuries contexts; to attract emerging and established scholars to this field and to create a network of them for long-term collaboration based at the University of Toronto; to set agenda for future research; and to reach out to the strong Italian and Chinese communities in Toronto.
Nightly special public events:
April 7, 18:00-19:30 (Father Madden Hall), lecture and Q/A with Marco Wong (Chinese-Italian entrepreneur in Italy and Director of the Board of Extrabanca, the first Italian bank focused on migrants).
April 8, 18:00-19:30 (Father Madden Hall), screening of the film Leonardo (Paolo De Falco 2008) and Q/A with De Falco (filmmaker, HYPERLINK “http://www.paolodefalco.it/” http://www.paolodefalco.it/).
April 9, 17:00-18:00 (Charbonnel Lounge), Music Recital of Teodorico Pedrini – Sonate per Violino Solo col basso, Opera Terza (introduced by Fabio G. Galeffi and Gabriele Tarsetti and performed by Michelle Odorico and David Henkelman).
Conference program
(for most recent updates, visit italychinaconference.wordpress.com):
April 7
9:00-9:15 (Father Madden Hall)
Light breakfast and coffee
9:15-9:30 (Father Madden Hall)
Opening remarks
9:30-11:00 (Father Madden Hall)
Confucius and Matteo Ricci’s On Friendship
John Meehan, S.J. (University of Regina), “Humanism East & West: Matteo Ricci, Neo-Confucians and Friendship as Dialogue”
Sebastiano Bazzichetto (University of Toronto), “The Celestial Amicizia: Classical Reasons for Matteo Ricci’s Book About Friendship”
Sheng Ping Guo (University of Toronto), “Lineage Patterns of Conversion in the Late Ming Dynasty: Matteo Ricci and His Colleagues’ Christian Faith Accommodating in a Confucian Land”
11:15-12:45 (Father Madden Hall)
Surprising Italian-Chinese Connections: The Press, Scholarship, and Colonial Architecture
Renata Vinci (Sapienza University of Rome), “The Contribution of the Shenbao to the Perception of the Italian Cultural Tradition in late-Qing China (1872-1911)
Angelo Paratico (Writer), “Leonardo Da Vinci: A Chinese Scholar Lost in
Renaissance Italy”
Nino Rico (Independent scholar and architect), “Dreams and Delusions of Benevolent Colonialism: The Italian Concession in Tianjin”
13:00-14:00 (Senior Common Room, 2nd Floor, Brennan Hall, 81 St Mary Street)
Lunch (provided free of charge to all presenters)
14:00-15:30 (Father Madden Hall)
The Italian Unification and Chinese Intellectuals and Travelers
Chair: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)
Federica Casalin (Sapienza University of Rome), “A Chinese Investigator in Italy: Hong Xun and his Youli Yidali wenjian lu (1887)”
Federico Brusadelli (University of Napoli “L’Orientale”), “Catholicism and the Political Role of Religion in Kang Youwei’s Yidali Youji/Journey to Italy (1904)”
Donatella Guida (University of Napoli “L’Orientale”), “The Teaching of
Chinese in Naples in the Nineteenth Century: The Three Character Classic
Annotated and Translated by Guo Dongchen (1846-1923), alias Giuseppe
Maria Kuo”
15:45-17:15
(parallel sessions)
Italian Travel Literature on China during the 1950s and 1960s (Father Madden Hall)
Chair: Sylvia Gaspari (University of Toronto)
Linetto Basilone (University of Auckland), “Italian Intellectuals, Their Travelogues and the ‘New China’: Strategies of Discursive Production of People’s Republic of China in the 1950s”
Roberto Bertoni (Trinity College Dublin), “Italian Intellectuals as Travelers to China since the 1950s: Utopian Illusions, Realistic Perplexities, and Rebalancing of Perspectives”
Elisa Attanasio (University of Bologna), “Goffredo Parise and the Orient: A Continuous Fascination for Alterity”
Elisabetta Carraro (University of Toronto), “Goffredo Parise and Alberto Moravia Traveling in Mao’s China”
2. Jesuits between Catholicism, Buddhism, and Confucianism (Classroom 406)
Guo Wei (Sichuan University), “War on the Paper: The Debate between
Matteo Ricci and Late Ming Buddhism”
Lucilla Bonavita (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”), “Father Alessandro Valignano sj: An Example of Dialogue between East and West”
Stefano Benedetti (East China University of Political Science and Law), “Prospero Intorcetta (1625-1696), First Translator and Editor of Confucius in the West”
18:00-19:30 (Father Madden Hall)
Lecture and Q/A with Marco Wong (Chinese-Italian entrepreneur in Italy and Director of the Board of Extrabanca, the first Italian bank focused on migrants)
April 8
9:00-9:30 (Father Madden Hall)
Light breakfast and coffee
9:30-11:00 (Father Madden Hall)
Chinese Migration, Interracial Intimacy, and Films
Daniele Brigadoi Cologna (Insubria University), “Societal Perceptions of Chinese Migrants and Chinese-Italian Marriages in Fascist Italy”
Paolo Frascà (University of Toronto), “The Effective Interaction of Cinematic Genres and the Portrayal of Migration in Io sono Li by Andrea Segre”
Paolo De Falco (Filmmaker and director of the Liquid Archive of Identity), “Leonardo and Chinese Migration to Bari”
11:15-12:45 (Father Madden Hall)
Surprising Italian-Chinese Connections: Military Strategies, Noodles, and Toys
Chair: Sylvia Gaspari (University of Toronto)
Andrea Polegato (University of North Texas), “The Problem of Efficacy in Machiavelli and Sunzi”
Hong Li and Christine Ristaino (Emory University), “Noodle Narratives on the Silk Road: A Cultural Exploration of China and Italy Through Noodles”
Anthony Cristiano (University of Toronto), “China and Italy: A Look into the Meaning of the Exchange of Toys and Games”
13:00-14:00 (Senior Common Room, 2nd Floor, Brennan Hall, 81 St Mary Street)
Lunch (provided free of charge to all presenters)
14:00-15:30 (Father Madden Hall)
Traveling Arts
Chair: Benedetta Lamanna (University of Toronto)
Eiren Shea (University of Pennsylvania), “Weaving a Path from Beijing to
Venice in the Footsteps of Marco Polo: Chinese Textiles and the Italian
Renaissance”
Roslyn Lee Hammers (University of Hong Kong), “Asian and Italian Perspectives in Qing Court Painting: Making Space for Agrarian Labor Imagery”
Maria Teresa Gonzalez Linaje (University of Veracruz), “From Art to Literature: Italian Contributions to Knowledge of China in Colonial Mexico”
15:45-17:15
(parallel sessions)
1. Coffee Bars and Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurship: Threat or Integration? (Father Madden Hall)
Chair: Donna Gabaccia (University of Toronto)
Ting Deng (Harvard University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong),
“‘Invading’ Italian Coffee Bars: Business Choice and Family Entrepreneurship
of Chinese Migrants in Italy”
Chiara Giuliani (University of St. Andrews), “The ‘Chinese-Italian Threat’ to
Italian National Identity”
Sabrina Ardizzoni (University of Bologna), “The Integration of Students of
Chinese Cultural Background in the Town and Province of Bologna”
Jesuits and Scientific Knowledge in Texts (Classroom 406)
Chair: Francesco Guardiani (University of Toronto)
Oana Baboi (University of Toronto), “Saving the Jesuit Body: Francesco Brancati’s Medicinal Recipes in 17th-century China”
Rui Sang (University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès), “Alfonso Vagnoni and the
Female Saints in His Chinese Work: A Preliminary Study on the Last Two
Volumes of Tian Zhu Sheng Jiao Sheng Ren Xing Shi”
Francesco Guardiani (University of Toronto), “Li Madou (Matteo Ricci) and the Dawn of Typographic Modernity in Chinese Culture”
18:00-19:30 (Father Madden Hall)
Screening of the film Leonardo (Paolo De Falco 2008) and Q/A with De Falco (filmmaker, HYPERLINK “http://www.paolodefalco.it/” http://www.paolodefalco.it/)
April 9
9:00-9:30 (Charbonnel Lounge)
Light breakfast and coffee
9:30-11:00 (Charbonnel Lounge)
Chinese Migrants in Italian Documentary Films
Chair: Gaoheng Zhang (University of Toronto)
Valentina Pedone (University of Florence), “From a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Orientalism in Documentaries about Chinese in Italy”
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan (Fairfield University), “Documenting Chinese Youth in Miss Little China (2009)”
Gaoheng Zhang (University of Toronto), “Morality and Italian Documentary Films on Chinese Migrants”
11:15-12:45 (Charbonnel Lounge)
Translating Italian Classics for Chinese
Gang Zhou (Louisiana State University), “Marco Polo in China”
Zhou Ting (University of Language and Culture of Beijing and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), “Chinese Translation of Italo Calvino’s Works in the 1950s”
Sheng-mei Ma (Michigan State University), “Turandot: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen”
Li Zeng (University of Louisville), “Jia Zhangke’s Film Xiao Wu: A Neorealist
View”
13:00-14:00 (Senior Common Room, 2nd Floor, Brennan Hall, 81 St Mary Street)
Lunch (provided free of charge to all presenters)
14:00-15:30 (Charbonnel Lounge)
Italian-Chinese Translation
Shiamin Kwa (Bryn Mawr College), “A Masked Ball: From Zhaoshi gu’er to L’Eroe Cinese”
Gabriele Tola (Sapienza University of Rome), “Primavera cinese: Carducci and the Unwitting Translation of a Chinese Poem”
Andrea Tullio Canobbio (University of Monastir), “Fra Li Po e Po Chu-i: Govoni e i poeti cinesi”
Giulia Falato (Sapienza University of Rome), “Introducing the Italian
Education System of the Renaissance into late Ming China: A Comparative
Analysis of Alfonso Vagnone S.J.’s Xixue (Western Learning, c. 1615) and
Giulio Aleni S.J.’s Xixue Fan (Summary of Western Learning, 1623)”
15:45-17:00
(parallel sessions)
Italian-Chinese International Relations, Journalism, and Films during the Cold War (Classroom 406)
Lorenzo M. Capisani (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), “Telling the New from the Old: Commercial and Political Discourses for a Renewed Relationship between Italy and China during the Cold War”
Alberto Gelmi (City University of New York), “Crickets, Rugs, and Coffins: Tiziano Terzani’s China”
Stefano Bona (Flinders University), “From Behind the Great Wall (1957) to Marco Polo (1982): Italian cinematic bridges between the West and the People’s Republic of China”
Italian-Chinese Music and Sounds (Charbonnel Lounge)
Wong Tsz (University of Göttingen), “Matteo Ricci in East West Music
Exchange”
Sun Simin and Elisa Segnini (University of British Columbia), “From Italy to
China and Backwards: Audiovisual Translation as Renegotiation”
Fabio G. Galeffi and Gabriele Tarsetti (The Teodorico Pedrini Study Center),
“Teodorico Pedrini (1671-1746), missionary and musician at the Kangxi court:
a milestone in the development of the cultural relations between Italy and
China”
17:00-18:00 (Charbonnel Lounge)
Music Recital of Teodorico Pedrini – Sonate per Violino Solo col basso,
Opera Terza
Introduction by:
Fabio G. Galeffi and Gabriele Tarsetti
Performers:
Michelle Odorico, violin David Henkelman, harpsichord
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