Pasolini: Retro-Reading and Investigating Under-Studied Texts, One Day Symposium at Rome Center

Please join the University of Arkansas in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's birth with this second symposium hosted at the U of A Rome Center located at the historical Palazzo Taverna (Via di Monte Giordano 36). The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5. 

The event is free and open to the public. We only ask that you register ahead of time.

Below you will find a copy of the symposium's program. Please share the event widely.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Ryan Calabretta-Sajder.

Schedule

9-9:15 a.m. — Coffee and Pastries

9:15 a.m. — Welcoming Remarks

• Francesco Bedeschi, director, U of A Rome Center
• Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, associate professor and section head, Italian, U of A

9:30-10:30 a.m. — Session 1: Othering Pasolini

• Ilaria Labbate, University of Malta, "Pier Paolo Pasolini e il 'reincanto' del mondo occidentale"
• Elisabetta D'Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology, "Africa and Blackness in Pasolini's Cinema"

10:30-11:45 a.m. — Session 2: Pasolini: From Adaptation to Visual Culture(s)

• Domenico Palumbo, Sant'Anna Institute (Sorrento), "Pasolini e la parola: dal 'teatro di parola' all Medea, 'cinema di parola'
• Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of A, "Challenging the Confines of the Tenebrose in Pasolini: From Mamma Roma (1962) to Medea (1969)
• Consuelo Lollobrigida, U of A Rome Center, "Il rapporto tra Pier Paolo e Maria Callas"

11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. — Lunch on your own

1-2 p.m. — Session 3: Pasolini Across Time

• Annalisa Guzzardi, CUNY/Graduate Center, "The Shaping of the Intellectual's Voice: Contini, Gramsci, and Auerbach in Pasolini's La divina mimesis"
• Fabio Benincasa, Duquesne University, Rome, "Reale, eccesso e perversione nel Pasolini post sessantottesco"

2-3 p.m. — Session 5: Pasolini and the Filmic Lens

• Alessandro Brunazzo, CET (Florence) Vanderbilt University, "Guest/Ghost: Pasolini, Ha Gil-jong, and the Theorem of Hospitality"
• Francesco Rosetti, Independent Scholar, "Da Porcile a Salò attraverso il Medioevo: L'ultimo Pasolini tra mistica amorosa e mistica della distruzione

3-3:15 p.m. — Coffee Break

3:15-4:30 p.m. — Session 5: Pasolini, Rome, and the Arts

• Stefano Antonelli, independent scholar, "Sistema Operativo PPP"
• Nicola Verlato, artist, "Fra Arte e Potere in Pasolini"
• Laura D'Angelo, U of A Rome Center, "Visual Poetry and Urban Regeneration: Pasolini's Rome"

4:30-5 p.m. — Roundtable on Teaching Pasolini Today

Moderator: Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of A

Participants:

• Fabio Benincasa, Duquesne University, Rome
• Fabrizio Fucile, Centro Linguistico Dante Aligheri Roma
• Domenico Palumbo, Sant'Anna Institute