Working Papers

Spring 2008 Papers

Ethnographical examination of "fantasy coffins"
Roberta Bonetti
April 2008

Biological functions of stable microtubules: a proposed role in cellular memory
Francesca Bartolini
April 2008

Dante, Sanudo and Polo. From the Crusades to the Perpetuation of Early Modern
Descriptions of the East as a Literary Genre
Antonio Garcia Espada
March 2008

The Other Side of Philology. Stories of Literary Creation
Mariarosa Bricchi
March 2008

Litigants' duty to disclose
Chiara Besso Marcheis
February 2008

Forms of Transmission of Anatomical Knowledge in the Age of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Vesalius (abstract)
Domenico Laurenza
January 2008


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Fall 2007 Papers

rTMS, antidepressant effect and synaptic plasticity in rodents
Rosalia Crupi
November 2007

Microtubules and actin filaments "cross-talk" in cell migration: role of the formin mDia and the tumor suppressor APC
Francesca Bartolini
October 2007

Italian Mosaicists and Terrazzo Workers in New York City. Estimating the Size, Characteristic and Structure of a High-Skill Building Trade (abstract)
Javier Grossutti
October 2007

Identity Claims and the Law: Uses and Abuses (abstract)
Giorgio Pino
October 2007

Critical edition of Leopardi's translation from Greek moral prose and the use of Greek ethics in the early nineteenth century
Franco D'Intino
September 2007

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Spring 2007 Papers

A New 2D World for Physicists?
Alberto Morgante
April 11th 2007

Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB): a prion-like protein as a regulator of local protein synthesis and synaptic plasticity
Luana Fioriti
April 11th 2007

Domestic Conversions: households and bishops in late antique 'papal legends'
Tina Sessa
March 28th 2007

"Chi sono?" (1930), Self-portrait by Aldo Palazzeschi
Simone Margherini
March 7th 2007

Practical Sense and the Limits of Deliberation
Tito Magri
January 31st 2007

Montefeltro. A Coded Conspiracy, the Medici and the Sistine Chapel
Marcello Simonetta
January 17th 2007

History versus Memory? A Discussion on Italian War Crimes in World War II
Lidia Santarelli
January 14th 2007

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Fall 2006 Papers

Reward System in children and adolescents with ADHD and Anxiety disorders
Luigi Mazzone
November 1st 2006

Diabolical appearances in late antiquity: the case of exorcism
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
October 25th 2006

Charge transport in molecular devices
Alberto Morgante
October 18th 2006

Documentality
Maurizio Ferraris
October 11th 2006

Creating Christian Rome: Households, Bishops and the Spiritual Politics of Domestic Space in Late Antiquity
Tina Sessa
October 4th 2006

Universal Duty and Global Justice
Sebastiano Maffettone
September 20th 2006

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Fall 2005 Papers

Antiquarians, objects and historical scholarship
William Stenhouse
December 14th 2005

The Invention of "Maniera Greca"
Ludovico Geymonat
December 7th 2005

Arnaldo Momigliano between history, politics and autobiography
Simon Levis Sullam
November 30th 2005

Molecular architecture of signal transduction in living cells
Antonio Feliciello
November 16th 2005

Search Engines: Google's revolution
Linda Pagli
November 9th 2005

Where did I leave my keys? (or: How we use mouse genetics to understand memory)
Bina Santoro
November 2nd 2006

Does the European Union have a fiscal policy?
Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa
October 19th 2005

A Poetics of Lacuna
Nicola Gardini
October 12th 2005

The Magus and the Strippers, or: The Indiscreet Art of Giambattista Della Porta
Sergius Kodera
October 5th 2005

Problems of historical methodology in Carlo Ginzburg's work
Francesco Borghesi
September 28 2005

Who Wrote the Book of Nature? Gianfrancesco Sagredo, masks and propaganda in seicento natural philosophy
Nick Wilding
September 22 2005

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Spring 2005 Papers

Signa et res - The pictorial discourse of the imaginary in Early Modern Italy
Klaus Krüger
January 26

Aby Warbug in America Again (abstract)
Davide Stimilli
February 9

How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know? Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century
Mauro Carbone
February 16

Black Italia: Migrant Voices From Africa (abstract)
Alessandra DiMaio
February 23

Fortunato Depero and the Space of Futurist Theatricality (abstract)
Laura Chiesa
March 2

What Does It Mean to Trust in Epistemic Authority?
Gloria Origgi
March 9

Music from the South: Non-standard Proper Mass Items in Beneventan Manuscripts
Luisa Nardini
March 23

The Anatomy of a Memory: Insights to How Information is Stored in the Brain
Maria Concetta Miniaci
April 6

Motionless Gesture: The Reclining Body in the Renaissance
Davide Stimilli
April 13

Narrative Memory, Episodic Memory and W.G. Sebald's Idea of Memory
Gloria Origgi
April 20

Composing Vinteuil: Proust's Unheard Music
Mauro Carbone
April 27

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Fall 2004 Papers

The Young and the Restless: Scientific Institutions in the late 17th and early 18th Century
Luciano Boschiero
September 22

Italian Music and Aesthetic Debates in France at the Beginning of the 18th Century
Guido Olivieri
September 29

Transmission of Repertories/Contamination of Styles: The Case of Liturgical Music in Southern Italy (9th to 13th Century)
Luisa Nardini
October 6

Nietzsche Italiano
William McCuaig
October 20

Behavioral Game Theory: Towards a Realistic Represenation of Strategic Behavior?
Giovanna Devetag
October 25

The Anatomy of a Memory: Insights into How Information is Stored in the Brain
Maria Concetta Miniaci
November 3

Building Social Memory: Enduring Networks of the Neapolitan Nobility Around 1500
Tanja Michalsky
November 17

System Identification to Detect Damage in Historical Constructions
Maura Imbimbo
December 1

Pictorial Frames and Textual Thresholds. Bitextuality in Rebecca West and David Low's The Modern Rake's Progress
Francesca Frigerio
December 15


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Spring 2004 Papers

Image and Narration (from Wickhoff to the Fantastic Four)
Andrea Pinotti
January 28

Now That's Italian!
Simone Cinotto
February 11

The Place of the Tyrant in Machiavelli's Political Thought and the Literary Genre of the Prince
Giovanni Giorgini
February 18

Roman Archaeological Heritage and Cultural Identity in Republican Italy
Gabriele Cifani
March 10

Enumerative Geometry
Enrico Arbarello
March 24

Embodying Literature
Ellen Esrock
March 31

Self-knowledge (But not: "Know Thyself")
Annalisa Coliva
April 7

Something from Nothing: Making Sense of Early Modern Nonsense
Eileen Reeves
April 14

Film and Video Work
Sarah Ciraci, Premio New York Artist
April 21

Italy in the Atlantic World: The View from OGGI, 1950-1955
Marco Mariano
April 28


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Fall 2003 Papers

Touching Art: Intimacy, Embodiment, and the Somatosensory System
Ellen Esrock
September 17

Randomness
Fabrizio Luccio
October 1

Memory and Image
Andrea Pinotti
October 8

In The Mind's Eye
Marina Warner
October 15

Of Language and the Lodestone
Eileen Reeves
October 22

Why are fertility and participation rates so low in Italy (and Southern Europe)?
Daniela Del Boca
October 29

Is Italy an "Atlantic" country?
Marco Mariano
November 5

A Story in Color, at Notre Dame in Paris
Alessandra Tesi, Premio New York Artist
November 12

Style, difference and uniqueness
Carla Benedetti
November 19

Public History and the Production of the "Culture of Shiraz"
Setrag Manoukian
December 3

Civic Pedagogies, Cultural Identity and the Issue of Liberal Education in Italy
Giovanni Giorgini
December 10

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Spring 2003 Papers

Music, Fascism, and Resistance in Mussolini's Italy: Six Sites
Annie Randall
January 29

Canon-Making in Italy and the Italian Tradition of Moral Enquiry
Roberto Farneti
February 5

Peiresc and Ethiopia: Oriental Studies and the Origins of Orientalism
Peter Miller
February 12

Staging Europe
P.A. Skantze
February 19

Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment
Noga Arikha
February 26

Subliminal Perception and Music. A Brief Survey
Carlo Alessandro Landini
March 12

Receptiveness, knowledge and influence – The Spread of Italian economic thought in the United States (1890-1940)
Luca Fiorito
April 2

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Fall 2002 Papers

Tracing lineages in Italian Culture: modes of viewing from Vasari to film
Jonathan White
September 18

Shakespeare and Italian Confessional treatises: Pestilent speeches, infected ears
Rosanna Camerlingo
September 25

"The Real Italians": On the Discourse and Politics of Italian Character in the 1940s
Silvana Patriarca
October 2

Receptiveness, Influence, Knowledge: The Spread of Italian Economic Thought in the United States
Luca Fiorito
October 16

Winner of NY Premio Presentation of Films
Sara Rossi
October 23

Hadrian's Stylus
Noga Arikha
October 30

Mnemosyne, memoria and the engram
Amy Morris
November 6

Thirteen Ways of Crossing the Piazza: Rome as Cinematic City
Pellegrino D'Acierno
November 20

Sardinian Fishmarkets: The Operation of the Eye
Leide Porcu
December 4
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