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