Staging Injustice Study Days
April 29 - 30, 2022
April 30, 2022
CIMA hosts the international conference Staging Injustice Study Days on April 29-30. This event provides an opportunity for CIMA’s fellows to share their new research alongside other scholars.
The Study Days aim to investigate the major themes of CIMA’s current exhibition, Staging Injustice: Italian Art 1880-1917, curated by Giovanna Ginex, as well as to contribute to the general debate on Italian art of the period. The conference sessions were conceived by CIMA Fellows Camilla Froio, Eduardo De Maio, and Giorgio Motisi, following an open call for papers.
The conference will take place in a hybrid format: The first panel of each day will take place online, while the later panels will be in-person. In-person tickets include the opportunity to follow the online morning sessions at CIMA on our screens.
Friday April 29
2 PM. [VIA ZOOM] Chair: Camilla Froio – Italy at the Turn of the 20th Century
Sara Boezio, “End of the Century Social Tensions: Italy and the Challenges of Modernity”
Nicol Maria Mocchi, “Visual Models and Borrowed Imagery in Fin-de-siècle Italy”
Eduardo de Maio, “ ‘How Do You Feel about Socialism? Sympathetic, Adverse, or Indifferent?’ International Sources and Italian Socially Engaged Art, 1882-1914”
3:30 PM —Keynote Speech
Vivien Greene, “Arte per l’Umanità”
4:30 PM. [IN PERSON] Chair: Giorgio Motisi — Through the Lens of the Artists: Orientalism, Marginality, Colonialism and the Social Question
Camilla Froio, “Selling ‘the Orient’: Alberto Pasini’s Paintings in Gilded Age America”
Chiara Pazzaglia, “ ‘Era povero, nato dal popolo’. At the Origin of the Critical Myth of Vincenzo Gemito in the Early Twentieth Century”
Giulia Beatrice, “Ardengo Soffici’s Room of the Mannequins (1914): a Colonial Tale on the Eve of the War”
[VIA ZOOM] Annadea Salvatore, “ ‘I Believe that the Mission of Art is Something More than that of the Florist or the Milliner’: the Figurative Reflection of Duilio Cambellotti Between Human Piety and Propaganda Effort”
Saturday, April 30
10 am. [VIA ZOOM] Chair: Eduardo de Maio —The Urban Scene: Rome, Milan, and Turin
Gloria Bell, “Sculpting Indigeneity in the Eternal City: Edmonia Lewis and Ferdinand Pettrich”
Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey Portolano, “Milano Capitale Im-morale: the Prostitute as Literary and Artistic Symbol of Social Deviance”
Anna Maria Panzera and Emanuela Termine, “Turin 1910-1913. Early Feminist Movements and the Quest for Women Artists’ Professional Status”
1 pm. [IN PERSON] Chair: Camilla Froio— Microhistories of Justice and Injustice
Giorgio Motisi, “A Lexicon of Injustice: Rethinking Titles in Italian Socially Engaged Art”
Anna Aline Mehlman Dumont, “Un proprio lavoro: Women’s Textile Work Between Charity and Industry in Morbelli’s Vecchie Calzette”
[VIA ZOOM] Romy Golan, “Staging Equality in Postwar Italy”
4 pm. [IN PERSON] Chair: Giorgio Motisi— Perceptions of Gender and Subalternity in Italian Visual Culture
Sara Vitacca, “Working Bodies: Labor and Virility in Italian Visual Culture from the Early Twentieth Century”
Viviana Costagliola, “An Italian Gaze on the Southern Question. The Representation of Southern Italy in the Monthly Review of the Italian Touring Club (1895-1915)”
FINAL DISCUSSION
Public Programming at CIMA is made possible with the generous support of Christie’s.
