Date: 2 March 2023
Time: 08:30 - 13:30
Venue: The Aula Prima, University of Malta Valletta Campus
The Department of Art and Art History at the Faculty of Arts is organising a multidisciplinary conference titled, 'Contagion and Visual Culture in the Central Mediterranean', convened by Dr Christian Attard, on Thursday 2 March 2023, at the Aula Prima, University of Malta Valletta Campus.
Programme
08:30 - Registration
09:00 - Welcoming address - Dr Christian Attard (convenor of Conference)
Introduction - Dr Mark Sagona, Head, Department of Art and Art History
Session 1 - Chair – Dr Christian Attard
09:15 – Dr Ray Gatt: University of Malta
The Perpetual Fights Against Contagion
09:30 – Prof Marina Ciampi: Università Sapienza, Roma
The Pandemic Emergency In The Documentary Narrative: A Research Experience In Rome
09:50 – Dr Gilbert Calleja: University of Malta
Space, Sense, and Affective Contagion: Notes On Elio Petri’s Todo Modo
10:10 – Dr Nicholas J. Doublet: University of Malta
The Plague In The Public Pronouncements of the Bishops of Malta
10:30 – Dr Roberta Cruciata: Università degli Studi, Palermo
Amulet, Cure, And Ornament: Red Coral In Trapani During The Plague Epidemics of 1575 and 1624
10:50 - question time
11:15 - 12:00 - Coffee-break
Session 2 – Chair – Dr Mark Sagona
12:00 – Dr Christian Attard: University of Malta
Prescient Visuality: A post-COVID reading of plague imagery
12:20 – Prof Tito Marci: Università Sapienza, Roma
Rethinking the pandemic crisis in the light of the aesthetic categories of art and law
12:40 – Dr Immanuel Mifsud: University of Malta
Monochrome and pictorial canvases: Maltese poetry in the time of COVID-19 lockdown
13:00 – Dr Giuseppe Fazio: Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo
Plague saints in Sicily: The cult of St Cristina and St Sebastian in two Renaissance works of art
13:20 – question time and concluding remarks
