International conference "Legacy and currency of Futurism": Roma, 11th-12th April 2013

11th-12th APRIL 2013

Rome - Centro Culturale Elsa Morante

Legacy and currency of Futurism

International conference

The conference aims to provide a critical and updated survey on the legacy and currency of Futurism.
The centenary of 2009 provided an opportunity for hundreds of events scattered throughout the country: high-profile scientific conferences, well-groomed exhibitions staged with rigor, relevant new publications on the subject. All these events, though, revealed a limit: they remained within  the mere boundaries of historical reconstruction, and  did not deal, or they did it just sporadically, with the crucial point of the legacy and currency of the Futurist ideology and poetics. Aim of the conference is to bring together and compare the voices of those who have helped to trace the poetic and / or ideological line which, starting from Futurism, has developed with more or less manifest influences throughout the twentieth century. Therefore, all those scholars or thinkers who have researched on the legacy and the currency of the Futurist ideology and/or poetics, will be invited to participate to the event.
The conference will take place on 11th-12th April 2013 at the Cultural Center Elsa Morante (Piazzale Elsa Morante, Rome-Eur).
The reports will be subsequently collected and published by Avanguardia 21 Editions and Lantana in co-edition.

The focus of the conference is:

• The legacy of Futurism in the artistic movements and the avant-garde of the late twentieth century

• The legacy of Futurism in the poetics of individual artists working in the late twentieth century

• The currency of futurist poetics, aesthetics, ideology in artistic, cultural, scientific contemporary movements

• Current means of research, diffusion, promotion and reception in the range of studies on Futurism (archives, yearbooks, computerization of texts, etc.).

The invited scholars are requested to confirm their adherence to the conference by writing within 9th March 2013 to futurismoroma2013@yahoo.it  and by communicating at the same address the title of their report within March 15th.

Giancarlo Carpi e Antonio Saccoccio

Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”

http://www.centriculturali.roma.it/elsa-morante