V Seminar on Literature and Sin: Gluttony

V International Seminar on Literature and Sin: Literature and Gluttony (of excesses, temperance and appetites)

Once again, from 12^th to 15^th July 2016, Es Baluard is the venue for the V International “Literature and Sin” Seminar, with the title of “Gluttony and Literature (of excesses, temperance and appetites)”.

The aim of this seminar is to study the connections between gluttony and literature, considering the notions of excess and the disordered appetites that are capable of redesigning the well-known phrase, “We are what we eat”. After analysing temptation, hubris, sloth and wrath, this year the V International “LITERATURE AND SIN” Seminar attempts to elucidate the relationships between the arts and gluttony from a multidisciplinary, transoceanic perspective, joining sister cultures such as those of Italy, Portugal, Spain and Catalonia and different eras representing a range going from the proposals of the medieval classics to the poetry that is published in our times.

This conference is open to the public and free, and in addition is accredited with 10 hours of training for teachers and 1 free-choice credit for students of the UIB (University of the Balearic Islands).

The seminar is led by professor Lourdes Pereira, of the Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Philology of the UIB, professor Dolores Juan Moreno, of Clark University (USA), and professor Giovanni Spani, of the College of the Holy Cross (USA). The Cultural Activities Service of the UIB is a collaborating entity.
Objectives of the conference

To offer different visions that study the relationship between literature and gluttony – where this connection comes from and grows, and how the relationship is not exclusive to one culture, one time in the history of man or of a people.
To stimulate reflection on the core theme based on its exposition from a wide range of periods, genres and authors.
To create a debate on the matter on the basis of the different interventions.

Tuesday 12^th July

18.00-18.15 Presentation of the seminar
18.15-19.15 Inaugural speaker: Elena Medel (Poet and editor): “You will eat your words. When poetry meets gastronomy”
19.15-19.30 Break
19.30-20.00 Gabriel ST Sampol (UIB): “Against gluttony, temperance: the abstinent vampires”
20.00-20.20 Giovanni Spani (College of the Holy Cross) presents “Claudio Bettio: Gluttony”
20.20-21.00 Rosa Planas (Writer): “Two gluttons and an ascetic. Villon, Rabelais and Ramon Llull” + Tasting

Wednesday 13^th July

18.00-18.30 Dolores Juan Moreno (Clark University): “Under the tablecloth: gluttony and desire in 21^st-century Spanish poetry and film”
18.30-18.45 Break
18.45-19.15 Federico Canaccini (Libera Università SS. Assunta): “Mangiare o non mangiare? Questo è il dilemma: gola e astinenza nel Medioevo”
19.15-19.45 Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (UConn): “Food, hunger, love and desire in the poetry and painting of Picasso”
19.45-20.00 Break
20.00-20.40 Perfecto Cuadrado (UIB): “Recognition of a 16^th-century Portuguese choral planctus”
20.40-21.00 Tasting

Thursday 14^th July

18.00-18.30 Lourdes Pereira (UIB): “Os Canibais de Álvaro do Carvalhal: “Um banquete de seduções à sombra da Literatura”
18.30-19.00 Maribel Ripoll (UIB): “Gluttony is vice due to superfluity of food and drink. From the definition to practice in the literature of Ramon Llull”
19.00-19.15 Break
19.15-19.45 Antonio Illescas (Mount Holyoke College): “The big feast of the Hispanic world in Spanish teaching manuals”
19.45-20.00 Break
20.00-21.00 Giovanni Migliara (EOI): Taller: “Tentazioni del palato e peccati di gola. La sottile differenza in esempi tratti dalla cultura letteraria e cinematografica italiana contemporanea” + Degustación

Friday 15^th July

18.00-18.40 Antonio Bernat Vistarini (UIB): “What is inside meat?Devouring the invisible in Hispanic Baroque culture”
18.40-18.50 Break
18.50-19.40 Possidónio Cachapa (Escritor): “Da Voracidade da Escrita e Choro do Leitor que Come”
19.40-19.45 Break
19.45-20.45 Final speaker: Barbara Zecchi (UMass, Amherst): “Gynogluttony: films and female oral pleasure”
20.45-21.00 Closing of seminar