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Tuesday December 1 

11.00-13.00 hrs arrival / registration
  LOCATION: CENTRAAL MUSEUM, NICOLAASKERKHOF 10, UTRECHT: AULA
13.00 opening remarks
  • Harald Hendrix, on behalf of the organising committee
  • Edwin Jacobs, director of the Centraal Museum
  • Silvio Marchetti, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Amsterdam
13.30-15.45 session 1 Futurisms and Esoterism
chair Harald Hendrix
  13.30-14.15 keynote 1
Jeffrey Schnapp: The Statistical Sublime: Futurism and Numbers
  14.15-14.45 discussion
  14.45-15.00 paper 1
Stefano Cracolici: Occult Futurism and the Horror Avant-garde
  15.00-15.15 paper 2
Stephen Marth: When ‘il nulla’ was ‘tutto’: Palazzeschi’s “Man of Smoke” and the Ethereal Aesthetics of Futurism
  15.15-15.30 paper 3
Nancy Perloff: Russian Zaum: The Futurist Incarnation of Sound Poetry
  15.30-15.45 discussion
15.45-16.15 break
16.15-17.30 session 2 Sound and Telecommunication
chair Wanda Strauven
  16.15-16.30 paper 4
Matteo Brera: ‘Tra i fili del telegrafo / col fischio del vapore’. Anticipazioni linguistiche ‘futuriste’ nella poesia italiana da Boito a D’Annunzio
  16.30-16.45 paper 5
Federico Luisetti: Marinetti’s Radiophonic Intervals
  16.45-17.00 paper 6
Francesca Bravi: ‘Immensi scenari di garza’: Liriche radiofoniche by Fortunato Depero
  17.00-17.15 paper 7
Teresa Spignoli: La ‘terra di nessuno’ tra immagine e parola: dalle tavole parolibere alla poesia verbo-visiva
  17.15-17.30 discussion
  LOCATION: ACADEMY HALL, DOMPLEIN 29, UTRECHT: MASKERADEZAAL
18.00-19.30 reception
performance by Ron Coulter: The Percussionist’s Manifesto
  LOCATION: ACADEMY HALL, DOMPLEIN 29, UTRECHT: ZAAL 1636
20.00-22.30 conference dinner [optional]

Wednesday December 2 

  LOCATION: UNIVERSITY BUILDING, DRIFT 21, UTRECHT: SWEELINCKZAAL
09.00 hrs coffee
09.30-10.30 session 3 Futurist Poetry and Self-Reflection
chair Monica Jansen
  09.30-09.45 paper 8
Davide Podavini: Marinetti critico del proto-futurismo in ‘Poeti futuristi’
  09.45-10.00 paper 9
Dirk Vandenberghe: La funzione dell’autocommento nella parabola di “BÏF§ZF+18” di Soffici
  10.00-10.15 paper 10
Stefano Magni: Luciano Folgore: ridere di sé stessi e del futurismo. Fine o rinnovamento dell’avanguardia?
  10.15-10.30 discussion
10.30-11.00 break
11.00-12.45 session 4 Futurist Women
chair Sandra Ponzanesi
  11.00-11.15 paper 11
Erin Larkin: Benedetta: La ‘volontà eroica’ and the Futurist Woman
  11.15-11.30 paper 12
Ilona Fried: Margit Gáspár, ‘passione’ per Marinetti
  11.30-11.45 discussion
  11.45-12.15 invited speaker 1
Silvia Contarini: Comment se transformer en femme du futur : ‘Une femme avec trois âmes’ – ‘Un ventre de femme’
  12.15-12.30 discussion
12.30-14.00 lunch [optional]
14.00-15.00 session 5 Futurisms Glocal Identities
chair Philiep Bossier
  14.00-14.15 paper 13
Laura Greco: Federico De Maria: le radici palermitane del futurismo
  14.15-14.30 paper 14
Patricia Gaborik: Mapping Futurism: How the First Avant-Garde Network Worked
  14.30-14.45 paper 15
Eleonora Conti: Marinetti in Francia fra Simbolismo e Futurismo. ‘Vers et Prose’ e ‘Les Guêpes’
  14.45-15.00 discussion
15.00-15.30 break
15.30-17.45 session 6 Visual Art and Technology
chair Wiljan van den Akker
  15.30-15.45 paper 16
John Welle: Reading ‘Divismo’: Bruno Corra’s Forgotten Film Novel “Io ti amo”, Commercial Literature, and Celebrity Culture
  15.45-16.00 paper 17
Pierpaolo Antonello: The Beauty and the Beast: Art and Technology in Enrico Prampolini and Leonardo Sinisgalli's Exhibition ‘Le arti plastiche e la civiltà meccanica’
  16.00-16.15 paper 18
Bharain Mac An Bhreithiún: Neon Futurista: The Poetry of the Electric Advertising Sign in Urban Space (tbc)
  16.15-16.30 discussion
  16.30-17.15 keynote 2
Günter Berghaus: Past, Present and Future of Futurism
  17.15-17.45 discussion
  LOCATION: ACADEMY HALL, DOMPLEIN 29, UTRECHT: MASKERADEZAAL
18.30-20.30 buffet diner [optional]
  LOCATION: ACADEMY HALL, DOMPLEIN 29, UTRECHT: SENAATSZAAL
20.30-22.00 Serata Marinetti (futurist performance by Federico Bonelli & Co.)

Thursday December 3 

  LOCATION: CENTRAAL MUSEUM, NICOLAASKERKHOF 10, UTRECHT: AULA
09.30-11.15 hrs session 7 Beyond Futurism
chair Thomas Vaessens
  09.30-09.45 paper 19
Kyle Hall: Poetics, Politics and ‘La fine del mondo’: Volt’s Futurofascist Apocalypse
  09.45-10.00 paper 20
Sascha Bru: Futurism and the Politics of the Ugly, Then and Now
  10.00-10.15 paper 21
Monica Biasiolo: Ritagli di guerra di Paolo Buzzi: una ‘Conflagrazione’ di parole
  10.15-10.30 discussion
  10.30-11.00 invited speaker 2
Walter Adamson: The End of an Avant-garde? Marinetti and Futurism in World War I and its Aftermath
  11.00-11.15 discussion
11.15-11.45 break
11.45-13.15 session 8 Futurism and the Other Avant-Gardes
chair Geert Buelens
  11.45-12.00 paper 22
Tobias Kämpf: Accommodating Futurists in France: Marinetti’s Group Seen by Gustave Kahn
  12.00-12.15 paper 23
Beatrice Sica: ‘In the name, always, of the great, unique, true Idea-Force’: Paolo Buzzi, Italian Futurism, and French Surrealism
  12.15-12.30 paper 24
Florian Mussgnug: Covert Gestures: Marinetti’s ‘Manifesto del Futurismo’ in the 1960s
  12.30-12.45 discussion
  12.45-13.30 keynote 3
Marjorie Perloff: The Audacity of Hope: Futurist Aura and National Difference in the First Manifestos
  13.30-14.00 final discussion / end of conference
14.00-15.00 lunch [optional]
14.00 // 15.00 departure or optional programmes
    - Visit to the Rietveld-Schröder house
    - Visit to the Van Doesburg and the International Avantgarde exhibition