25–26 February 2026 | University of Bergamo
HOMER
Sailing the Sea of Words
5 February 2026 — 14:00–18:30 | Room 1 Bernareggi
Palazzo Bassi Rathgeb – Via Pignolo, 76
Moderator: Paolo Cesaretti
14:00 Ocean, cornerstone, model: Homer from antiquity to the present day — Filippomaria Pontani
14:45 Poetic readings from the Iliad — curated by Sofia Amighetti and Miriam Ghezzi
14:55 Homer as a “transnational asset”. The Odyssey between cinema and television, 1954–1969 — Giorgio Avezzù
15:20 Film interlude
15:40 Navigating a restless Mediterranean: visual art and contemporary migrations — Anna Chiara Cimoli
15:40 Coffee break
Moderator: Cecilia Nobili
16:30 Challenging a narrative model: Odysseus, Franz Kafka and the silence of the sirens — Amelia Valtolina
16:55 Three women readers of the poem of force: Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff and Alice Oswald — Riccardo Fanciullacci
17:20 Homer according to Luigi Dallapiccola — Virgilio Bernardoni
17:45 Musical interlude
18:05 Poetic readings from the Odyssey — curated by Sofia Amighetti and Miriam Ghezzi
26 February 2026 — 9:30–13:30 | Castoldi Room
Sant’Agostino Complex – Piazza Sant’Agostino 2
Moderator: Riccardo Fanciullacci
9:30 War reporting and female perspectives from Homer to today — Cecilia Nobili
9:50 Homer and Alexander: the king as hero — Monica D’Agostini
10:10 Homer in Ammianus Marcellinus: heroic characterization of historical figures — Elena Gritti
10:30 “That Greek whom the Muses suckled more than any other” — Luca Carlo Rossi
10:50 Coffee break
Moderator: Luca Carlo Rossi
11:10 Homer in Rome: school tradition and philosophical reflection — Lucia De Giovanni
11:30 Homer the Theologian: Platonic readings — Maddalena Bonelli
11:50 Homer’s Sirens, or Homer in Byzantium — Paolo Cesaretti
12:10 G. B. Vico, “The Discovery of the True Homer” — Oreste Trabucco
12:30 Poetic readings from contemporary Greece — curated by Sofia Amighetti and Miriam Ghezzi
12:40 Conclusions: Journeys, commandments, stars — the twentieth-century Greek Odysseus — Filippomaria Pontani
13:15 Poetic readings from contemporary Greece — curated by Sofia Amighetti and Miriam Ghezzi
Information:
paolo.cesaretti@unibg.it — cecilia.nobili@unibg.it
Under the patronage of:
Hellenic Republic — Honorary Consulate General of Greece in Milan
AICC
Società Filellenica Italiana
Società Filellenica Lombarda
