RESEARCH PROJECT OF MAJOR NATIONAL INTEREST 2022
Literature and disability. Autobiographical writings and creative texts, between literary criticism, educational challenge and social impact
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025
FIRST SESSION
14.00 – Institutional greetings:
Pierantonio Frare, Director of the Department of Italian and Comparative Studies
14.15 Chaired by Pierantonio Frare
- Federica Millefiorini, Human experience and creative experience. Reasons, methods and perspectives
- Simonetta Polenghi, Disability in Children's and Scholastic Literature of a Unified Italy
- Elena Zanfroni, Si dice o non si dice? Overcoming language barriers to promote inclusive cultures
Discussion
15.30 – Coffee break
SECOND SESSION
15.50 Chaired by Paola Ponti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- Sandra Carapezza, The grandparents of Mercutio and Giufà: characters with disabilities in the sixteenth-century novella
- Cristiana Lardo, The Sorrowful Heroines of Pauline
- Fabio Pierangeli, «Always horrendous». Among the maidens by Matilde Serao
- Rossella Palmieri, «Bene fino a nove anni». Infantile paralysis in Pirandello, Svevo and Buzzati
Discussion
17.30 – My fragile love
Theatrical Performance, artistic direction Gaetano Oliva, curated by CRT "Teatro-Educazione" – Master Actions pedagogical interactions through narration and Education to Theatricality, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025
THIRD SESSION
9.30 – Institutional greetings:
- Domenico Simeone, Dean of the Faculty of Education
- Luigi d'Alonzo, Rector's Delegate for Inclusion
10.00 Chaired by Rossella Palmieri, University of Foggia
- Gianluca Fiocco, Historians and disability: aspects and events of a fruitful encounter
- Irene Gambacorti, Verismo e taboo: la disabilità femminile nel Canarino del n. 15 by Giovanni Verga
- Sara Lorenzetti, The horizon of disability in the narrative of Clarice Tartufari
Discussion
11.15 – Coffee break
FOURTH SESSION
11.35 Chaired by Sandra Carapezza, University of Milan
- Davide Colombo, Blind Love. A voice by Luigi Pirandello
- Giulia Tellini, «I will always be with those who suffer»: courage and joy of living in Luce d'Eramo
- Antonio R. Daniele, «In the sweet, torn and shining Crucifixion»: Giovanni Testori and disability, from moral journalism to Confiteor
Discussion
FIFTH SESSION
14.30 Chaired by Fabio Pierangeli, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Presentation of the SCRIDI database (F. Millefiorini, D. Colombo, S. Fiocchi, E. Fratocchi)
- Barbara Garlaschelli, Writing is movement
- Monica Bisi, «A point of contact between our world and his»: traces of authenticity of the human in Calvino's youthful tales
- Maria Panetta, De Giovannini, Gentile, Scalabrin: when Parkinson's becomes literature
Discussion
16.30 – Coffee break
SIXTH SESSION
16.50 Chaired by Antonio R. Daniele, University of Foggia
- Elisa Chiocchetti, On the threshold: disability in naturalism
- Ellen Patat, Disability, Stigma and Resignification: A Relational Look at The Girl, the Boxer, the Kangaroo by G. A. Stella
- Silvia Fiocchi, Into disability. Telling the story of disability in the new millennium
Discussion
FRIDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2025
SEVENTH SESSION
9.30 Chaired by Giuseppe Lupo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- Matteo Schianchi, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Representations of infirmity in early twentieth-century Italian cinema
- Daniela Bombara, The oxymoron of female disability in the production of Ada Blacks
- Elisiana Fratocchi, Vulnerable bodies and social exclusion in the works of Laura Conti
Discussion
10.45 – Coffee break
EIGHTH SESSION
11.05 Chaired by Fabio Forner, University of Verona
- Daniela De Liso, Alda Merini and her lucid crazy poetry
- Carla Carotenuto, Beyond stigma. The different truths about psychic distress: texts and genres of a female literary mosaic
- Cecilia Spaziani, Sull'antica salvezza e la moderna disperazione. Literary achievements of madness from Viola Ardone's Grande meraviglia to Alcide Pierantozzi's Lo sbilico
Discussion / Conclusion
Under the patronage of the Faculty of Education and the Department of Italian and Comparative Studies, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
NRRP for Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.1. Notice 104/2022 Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU. Project "Literature and disability. Autobiographical writings and creative texts, between literary critics, educational challenge and social impact" – Prot. 2022XLTAJK – CUP J53D23013670008
It will also be possible to follow the conference on the Microsoft Teams platform, via the link ACCESSIBLE HERE
Organizing secretariat:
Michela Iannone - E-mail: michela.iannone@unicatt.it
Department of Italian and Comparative Studies
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milan
