"Fruitful Spaces": Gardens In Literature, Culture And Law

UNIVERSITÀ di VERONA | Dipartimento di SCIENZE GIURIDICHE

UNIVERSITÀ di VERONA | Dipartimento di LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE

Comune di Orgiano - Assessorato alla Cultura

Con il patrocinio di: Regione del Veneto, Provincia di Verona, Provincia di Vicenza, Istituto Istruzione Superiore "Umberto Masotto", Rete Biblioteche Vicentine, AmaAmbiente Festival

11 - 12 MAY 2023 - VILLA FRACANZAN PIOVENE - ORGIANO (VI) 

SPEAKERS: Enrico Andreoli / Pascale Antolin / Chiara Battisti / Elisa Bertolini / Daniela Carpi / Myriam Di Maio/ Sidia Fiorato / Giorgio Gosetti / Anja Meyer / Matteo Nicolini / Marco Ongaro / Thomas Perrin / Peter Schneck / Laura Zander

THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
9:30: Institutional greetings

Morning session
Chair: Chiara Battisti
10:10 – 10:40: Daniela Carpi (University of Verona) - The Poetics of Gardens: from the Natural to the Naturalistic
10:40 – 11:00: Chiara Battisti (University of Verona) - Urban Gardening and Mrs Dalloway
11:00 – 11:20: Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona) - Gardens in Fairy Tales
11:20 – 11:35: Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:55: Matteo Nicolini (University of Verona) - Establishing Plantations in the ‘Wilderness’. On Seeds, Gardens, and Laws in English Colonies
11:55 – 12:15: Thomas Perrin (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Montpellier) - Experimenting Gardens
12:15 – 12:35: Giorgio Gosetti (University of Verona) - Fabbrica con giardino: il lavoro a colori
12:35 – 13:00: Discussion
13:00: Lunch

Afternoon session
Chair: Sidia Fiorato
14:30 – 14:50: Pascale Antolin (University Bordeaux Montaigne) - Nicole’s Garden, Nicole as Garden in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night
14:50 – 15:10: Peter Schneck (University of Osnabrück) - Domesticating Wilderness,Cultivating Nature: The Garden as Symbol and Myth in 19th-Century America
15:10 – 15:30: Enrico Andreoli (University of Verona) - A Nation in its Garden. Lights and Shadows in Constructing the American Eden
15:30 – 15:50: Laura Zander (University of Münster) - Roots vs. Routes – Fictions of Migrancy and the ‘Tranquil Trope’ of the Garden

FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
9:30: Welcoming address to school students and teachers
Presentation of the University of Verona

Morning session
Chair: Matteo Nicolini

10:10 – 10:30: Marco Ongaro (Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Atestino”, Este) - I giardini di Elizabeth von Arnim: un confronto tra Elizabeth and her German garden e An enchanted April
10:30 – 10:50: Anja Meyer (University of Verona) - Lily, Dalhia, Violet: rappresentazioni floreali tra arte e letteratura di inizio ‘900
10:50 – 11:05: Coffee Break
11:05 – 11:30: Elisa Bertolini (Bocconi University-Milan) - The Garden as a Mirror of Power
11:30 – 11:50: Myriam Di Maio (University of Verona) - “This other Eden, Demi-Paradise”. Il giardino come allegoria politica nel Riccardo II di Shakespeare
11:50: Discussion and Conclusion

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato, Matteo Nicolini
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Enrico Andreoli, Myriam Di Maio, Federica Fiorasi, Anja Meyer, Marco Ongaro, Giuseppe Rigobello