Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche

Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche
Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura
AIDEL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2014
Fables of the Law
Verona, 12-14 November 2014
SALA DEL MUSEO CIVICO DI STORIA NATURALE, Lungadige Porta Vittoria n.9
WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014
9.30-10.00
WELCOMING ADDRESS
Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Verona
Roberta Facchinetti, Direttore del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature
Straniere
Donata Gottardi, Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche
Daniela Carpi, Presidente AIDEL
CHAIR: Daniela Carpi (University of Verona)
10.00 Pier Giuseppe Monateri (University of Turin): Witches and Kings. James I and His
Jurisdiction over Magic at the Root of the Modern Demonology of
Sovereignty
10.30 William McNeil (Griffith University, Australia): Driving a Stake through Modernity’s.
Fables of Law: Popular Culture’s Lex Vampirica and the Law of the Undead in True Blood
and Twilight
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Heinz Antor (University of Köln): Post-Mabo White Settler Fables and the
Negotiation of Native Title Legislation in Andrew McGahan's The White Earth (2004)
12.00 Patrick Hanafin (Birkbeck College, London): The Invitation to Narrate is a
Summons': The Fable of Law's Narrating Voice
12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
CHAIR: Jeanne Gaakeer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
14.30 Daniela Carpi (University of Verona): Politically Correct Fairy Tales
15.00 Matthew Anderson (University of New England): Baudelaire's Two Swans
15.30 Marett Leiboff (University of Wollongong): Concocting the Fabulous and Fabulosing
the Law: Fabulizing the Fable of the Catspaw, the Good Old Rule, Alexander’s
Bung-hole - and a Two Headed Baby
16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 Patrizia Nerozzi and Mara Logaldo (University IULM, Milan): ‘A Nice Piece of Law
and Order for You’ The Parody of Law in the Nonsensical World of Flann O’ Brien
17.15 Riccardo Baldissone (University of Kent / Curtin University): Tales of Mystical
Bodies: On theDouble Nature of Western Collectives
17.45 Discussion
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2014
CHAIR: Pier Giuseppe Monateri (University of Turin)
9.30 Donata Gottardi and Marco Peruzzi (University of Verona): Stereotypes and Gender
Identity
10.15 Maria Caterina Baruffi and Alessandra Cordiano, (University of Verona): Archetypes
and Family Models
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Giovanna Ligugnana (University of Verona) An Invented Executive: the Ministry of
Magic in Harry Potter
12.00 Matteo Nicolini (University of Verona): A Mythological Past or an Allegory of the
Present? The 'Tales of the Elders of Ireland' beyond Time, Fables, and Law
12.30 Discussion
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
14.30- 15.00 AIDEL ANNUAL MEETING
CHAIR: Paola Carbone (University IULM, Milan)
15.00 Julia Chryssostalis (University of Westminster): Fable, Fiction, Truth? What Does
Literature Know About Law?
15.30 Chiara Battisti (University of Verona): Law and Order: Fairy Tale Unit. The Case
Hoodwinked
16.00 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 Sidia Fiorato (University of Verona): The (Non)sense of the Law in Alice in
Wonderland
17.00 Sara Soncini (University of Pisa): Parables of Prevention: Storytelling and the War
on Terror in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman
17.30 Discussion
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2014
CHAIR: Patrizia Nerozzi (Emeritus)
9.30 Paola Carbone and Giuseppe Rossi (University IULM, Milan): Ethics and Law at
Play on the Football Field
10.15 Cristina Costantini (University of Perugia): The Haunting Memory of Law. Mystic
Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality
10.45 Filippo Sgubbi (University of Bologna): The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary
Penal Law.
11.15 COFFEE BREAK
11.45 Anna Enrichetta Soccio (University of Chieti-Pescara): Divorce and the Failure of
Law in Dickens’s Hard Times.
12.15 Valentina Adami (University of Verona): Earth Jurisprudence and the Myth of Gaia.
12.45 Discussion
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
CHAIR: Heinz Antor (University of Köln)
14.30 Doris Pichler (University of Graz): When a Legal Case Becomes a Legal Tale: The
Role of Fable, Fact and Fiction in Reshaping Legal Discourses in Italian literature.
15.00 Raffaele Cutolo (University of Verona):Law and Magic: The Myth of King Arthur
15.30 Roxanne Doerr (University of Verona): Summons, Prophecies, Possession and
Madness: Intersections of Law and Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
16.00
John Gooch (University of Texas at Dallas): The Anti-Fabulist Legal Rhetoric of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in ‘The Path of the Law’.
16. 30 Discussion
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Daniela Carpi
Chiara Battisti
Sidia Fiorato
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Raffaele Cutolo
Valentina Adami