Ateneo

Saturday, 12th September 2026

Schedule

8:45: Registration

9:00: Introduction and Greetings

9:30:

PANEL 1

Parchment, paper, bytes
Carlo M. Bajetta

A Gospel for the Saxons: the manuscript tradition of the Heliand as a case study
Rosella Tinaburri (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)

English as the language of Protestantism: the case of the Cambridge Epicedium
Maddalena Repetto (University of Genoa)

Scattered Loosely: Reading, Writing, and the Book as Monument in Donne's Manuscript and Print Transmission
Maria Grazia Dongu (University of Cagliari)

10:45 - 11:00: 

Coffee break (Campus Café)

11:00:

PANEL 2 

Culture, Business and Communication Strategies
Luca Polidoro

A Linguistic-Stylistic Analysis of English Online Advertisements: Hero Images of Global Cosmetics Companies
Kallaya Chanphetch Petty (King Mongkut's University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand)

Gloss, Mediality, and Meaning: Lidel and the Remediation of Text, Image, and Reading Across a Century
Camilla Fabretti Campagnol (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)

‘Pull the Author out of the Headscarf:’ Shifting Interpretations of Žemaitė works (1845-1921) through a book historical analysis of her editions
Monika Kazabuckaité (Vilnius University)


Textual Embodiments in the Age of Generative AI: Remediating English Through Human–Machine Language Practices
Federico Valente (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio): 

12:30:

PANEL 3

Networks of Cultural Dissemination 
Alberto Gabriele

The case of textual exchanges and intermediality between Safed, Venice, Paris and London during the XVIth and XVIIth century
Yona Dureau (Université du Littoral, France) 

The Eighteenth-Century Architectural Book as Printed Object:

The Irish Architect, Michael Shanahan (c. 1731-1811), and the Constitutive Role of Cost, Content, and Politics
Mary Nevin (Trinity College Dublin) 

The Network of Patrons, Printers, and book smuggling
Jasna Michailovich (Fostering Literacy in Serbia) 

13:30 - 14:30:

Lunch break (Link Campus University)

14:30 - 16:00:

PANEL 4

Writing the Body, Remediating the Image: Embodiment and Textuality in Contemporary Art and Narrative 
Sergio Lo Gatto

Writing Bodies, Performing Texts: Embodiment and Mediality in Contemporary Narrative Practices
Cristina Moraru (‘George Enescu’ National University of the Arts, Iași, Romania)

The ‘Corps’ of Gina Pane, Image Embodiment from the L’Art Corporel Movement in Contemporary Performance Art Discourse
Ella Spitzer-Stephan (Goldsmiths University of London)

Embodied Archives: Digital Mediality and the Remediation of Meaning in May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Mounira Zennia (Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz)

On the Ubiquity of Digital Images and the Textualization of Contemporary Art
Cole Gruber (University of Chicago)

16:30: Conclusions