19-20 May 2026

PROGRAMME

19 MAY

Room Co-Working (Palazzo di Lingue)

09:30 – 09:45    Opening Remarks

09:45 – 10:05    Marco Duranti

“Between Nostalgia and Estrangement: Foreignness and Exile in Euripides’ Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Helen”

10:05 – 10:25    Silvia Bigliazzi (University of Verona)

“Nostos and Loss: Remembering Return in The Tempest”

10:25 – 10:45    Q&A

10:45 – 11:00    Break

11:00 – 11:20    Rocco Coronato (University of Padua)

“Bit Parts: Nostalgia for Heaven in Travelling, often Minor Shakespearean Characters”

11:20 – 11.40    Fernando Cioni (University of Florence)

“In Search of Shylock: Identity, Otherness and Contemporary Appropriation”

11:40 – 12:00    Shaul Bassi (University Ca’ Foscari, Venice)

“Unhoused. Othello in the Nomad Century”

12:00 – 12:15    Q&A

13:00 – 15:00    Lunch

15:00 – 15:30    Fernando Cioni: interview with Virginia Mason Vaughan

15:30 – 16:30    Serpieri Lecture: Virginia Mason Vaughan:

“To my home I will no more return”:  Shakespeare and Early Modern Immigration

16:30 – 16:45    Q&A

16:45 – 17:00    Break

17:00 – 17:20    Maurizio Ascari (Bononia University)

“Empty Houses, Travelling Luggage and the Country of the Mind: The Case of Katherine Mansfield”

17:20 – 17:40    Barnaba Maj (Bononia University)

“Heimat, Heimweh, and Fernweh: A Linguistic and Historical Inquiry”

17:40 – 18:00    Arturo Larcati (University of Verona)

“Ingeborg Bachmann’s Origin Complex”

18:00 – 18:30    Q&A

20 MAY

Room Messedaglia  (Chiostro Santa Maria delle Vittorie)

09:00 – 09:20    Gherardo Ugolini (Verona University)

“Classical Greece as the Idealised Heimat of German Culture”

09:20 – 09:40    Pier Alberto Porceddu Cilione (University of Verona)

“The Unappropriable Heimat. Hölderlin, Zanzotto, Agamben”

09:40 – 10:00    Dietrich Borchmeyer

“Homeland – Immediate Environment or Utopia: A German Dilemma”

10:00 – 10:20    Albert Meier (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

“Wo meine Wiege stand (Where my cradle stood). The German ‘Wunschkonzerts’ as the home of the Heimat discourse during the 1950/60s”

10:20 – 10:45    Q&A

10:40 – 11:00    Break

11:00 – 11:20    Isolde Schiffermueller (University of Verona)

“Morbus Austriacus – The Return and Haunting of the Writer Jean Améry / Hans Mayer”

11:20 – 11:40    Gianluca Solla (Verona University)

“The Landscape of the Living and the Dead: On Heimat by Edgar Reitz”

11:40 – 12:00    Davide Di Maio (University of Verona)

“Peter Handke’s ‘Slow Return Home’: Another Take on the Concept of Heimat”

12:00 – 12:20    Markus Ophälders (University of Verona)

“Abysses and Reflections. Notes towards a Tentative Reflection on Heimat”

12:20 – 12:45          Q&A

12:45 – 13:00          Closing Remarks

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