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SUMMARY:Expanding the Boundaries of the Republic of Letters: Il Caffè\, En
 lightened Italy\, and the Global Enlightenment
DESCRIPTION:\nConference organized by Clorinda Donato\, California State Un
 iversity\, Long Beach\, and Sabrina Ferri\, Independent Scholar\n\n\nCo-sp
 onsored by the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Tra
 nslation Studies\, California State University\, Long Beach\n\nBorn out of
  an extraordinary confluence of talent in the socio-political context of H
 absburg Lombardy\, Il Caffè (1764–66) was a short-lived but wide-rangin
 g periodical\, which would prove to be one of the most original and influe
 ntial intellectual products of the Italian Enlightenment. The journal\, wh
 ich owed its title to English coffee houses and to the invigorating virtue
 s of coffee\, was the product of a collective effort involving a group of 
 young people. Most of them had been members of the Milanese Accademia dei 
 Pugni\, a think-tank of intellectuals including Pietro and Alessandro Verr
 i and Cesare Beccaria. Inspired by the Spectator and by the Encyclopédie\
 , the contributors wrote on the most disparate aspects of cultural\, socia
 l\, and political life: from agriculture to natural history\, from aesthet
 ics to medicine. The journal is a unique incarnation of the ideals of the 
 Republic of Letters. The ideas of the authors of Il Caffè traveled far an
 d wide\, reaching well beyond the geographical and chronological limits of
  Habsburg Lombardy. By promoting a collective discussion on Il Caffè and 
 its global impact\, this conference aims to showcase the transnational and
  trans-ideological nature of the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters\, 
 to trace the global movement of ideas\, and to explore the tensions and ex
 changes between the centers and peripheries of the Enlightenment. This con
 ference will bring together scholars across the disciplinary spectrum to e
 ngage in a rich dialogue\, both bringing attention to local cultural and s
 ocio-political contexts\, and looking at Il Caffè as an original product 
 of and contribution to the network of multifarious discourses that shaped 
 the global Enlightenment.\n\nSpeakers\nShane Agin\, Duquesne University\nP
 hilippe Audegean\, Sorbonne Université\nLidia De Michelis\, Università d
 egli Studi di Milano and Lia Guerra\, University of Pavia\nClorinda Donato
 \, California State University\, Long Beach\nSabrina Ferri\, Independent S
 cholar\nGianmarco Gaspari\, University of Insubria\, Varese-Como\nLavinia 
 Maddaluno\, Ca' Foscari University of Venice\nRebecca Messbarger\, Washing
 ton University\nPierre Musitelli\, École Normale Supérieure\, Paris\nFra
 ncesca Savoia\, University of Pittsburgh\nGisela Schlüter\, Universität 
 Erlangen-Nürnberg\, Institut für Romanistik\n\n\n\nFriday\, September 22
 \, 2023\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nBronw
 en Wilson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nDirector’s Welcome\n
 \nClorinda Donato\, California State University\, Long Beach\nSabrina Ferr
 i\, Independent Scholar\nOpening Remarks\n\n10:15 a.m.\nPanel 1: The Pursu
 it of the Public Good in Il Caffé\nChair: Thomas Harrison\, University of
  California\, Los Angeles\n\nLidia De Michelis\, Università degli Studi d
 i Milano and Lia Guerra\, Università di Pavia\n“’Cose tutte dirette a
 lla pubblica utilità‘: Reconfiguring the ’Pleasures‘ of the Imagina
 tion in the Lombard Enlightenment”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nGianmarco Gaspari\, Un
 iversità degli Studi dell’Insubria\, Varese-Como\n“ll Caffè as a Pro
 ject for the Enlightened City” [Remote Presentation]\n\n11:15 a.m.\nPhil
 ippe Audegean\, Sorbonne Université\n“Books and Law in Il Caffè”\n\n
 11:45 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n12:15 p.m.\nLunch\n\n2:00 p.m.\nPanel 2: Il Caff
 è: A Transnational Republic of Letters\nChair: Isabelle Kelman\, Californ
 ia State University\, Long Beach\n\nPierre Musitelli\, École Normale Sup
 érieure\, Paris\n“When the Philosophes Translated the Italian Enlighten
 ment into French: The Case of Il Caffè and Other Works from the Accademia
  dei Pugni”\n\n2:30 p.m.\nClorinda Donato\, California State University\
 , Long Beach\n“’Like bringing clay pots to Samos\, owls to Athens\, or
  crocodiles to Egypt‘: Il Caffè and the Estratto della letteratura euro
 pea”\n\n3:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n3:30 p.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n4:00 p.m.\nP
 anel 3: Il Caffè as a Network of Ideas\, People\, Practices\, and Product
 s\nChair: Viola Ardeni\, Sacramento State University\n\nShane Agin\, Duque
 sne University\n“Il Caffè\, Smallpox\, and the Communicable Spread of t
 he Enlightenment”\n\n4:30 p.m.\nLavinia Maddaluno\, Università Ca’ Fo
 scari\, Venice\n“Travels\, Plants and Machines: Material Practices of Em
 ulation from Il Caffè to the Società Patriotica”\n\n5:00 p.m.\nDiscuss
 ion\n\n5:30 p.m.\nReception\n\nSaturday\, September 23\, 2023\n\n9:30 a.m.
 \nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nPanel 4: Advancing the En
 lightenment in Il Caffè\nChair: Carole Paul\, University of California\, 
 Santa Barbara\n\nGisela Schlüter Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlange
 n-Nürnberg\, Institut für Romanistik\n“The Motif of Contemporaneity in
  Il Caffè” [Remote Presentation]\n\n10:30 a.m.\nRebecca Messbarger\, Wa
 shington University\n“Embodying the Enlightenment in the Age of Il Caff
 è”\n\n11:00 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n11:30 a.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n11:45 a.m.\
 nPanel 5: “Il piacere di scrivere”: Style and Narrative Techniques in 
 Il Caffè\nChair: Susan Carlile\, California State University\, Long Beach
 \n\nSabrina Ferri\, Independent Scholar\n“Piccoli racconti\, dialoghi an
 d seri ragionamenti: A Polyphony of Literary Genres in Il Caffè”\n\n12:
 15 p.m.\nFrancesca Savoia\, University of Pittsburgh\n“Il Caffè (1764-1
 766): Narrative Strategies and Framing Techniques”\n\n12:45 p.m.\nDiscus
 sion\n\n1:15 p.m.\nProgram concludes\n\n\n\nThe conference is free to atte
 nd with advance registration. It will be held in-person at the Clark Libra
 ry and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. In-person registrat
 ion will close on Monday\, September 18 at 5:00 p.m. No registration is re
 quired to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; 
 walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\n\n\n\nComposite Image: 
 Frontispiece of the second edition of Il Caffè (1766)\, public domain. An
 tonio Perego\, L'Accademia dei Pugni\, 1766\, oil on canvas\, public dom
 ain. Images courtesy of Professor Sabrina Ferri.
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