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“Recent Pirandello Scholarship in the US” Panel – Calandra Italian American Institute, March 11 at 6 pm

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Unfortunately, due in part to the coronavirus outbreak, the event has been postponed. We’ll let you know of a future date when it becomes available.

 

Through a presentation of two recent books by Giuseppe Faustini, Professor of Italian at Skidmore College, the panel will discuss the state of affairs of recent scholarship in the United States. Professor Faustini’s two books are: Luigi Pirandello, studi e ricerche (Metauro Edizioni, 2017) and Un amore primaverile. Inediti di Luigi Pirandello e Jenny (Pagliai Editori, 2019). Professors Stefano Boselli (CUNY) and Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander (Nazareth College) will join Professor Faustini. Moderated by Anthony Julian Tamburri.

Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY 10036 @ 6 pm

 

 

PSA Conference – Global Legacies: Pirandello across Centuries and Media – 16 September 2017

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The Pirandello Society of America presents its one-day conference

“Global Legacies – Pirandello across Centuries and Media”

Saturday 16 September 2017, 8:00 am – 6:30 pm

Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Ave, New York City

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Luigi Pirandello’s birth, this one-day conference sponsored by the Pirandello Society of America seeks a broad spectrum of contributions that evaluate and illuminate Pirandello’s legacies on world theatre, literature, cinema, and other media over a period of more than a hundred years. We encourage contributions that are interdisciplinary and engage with a variety of theoretical models when looking at Pirandello’s work and its multifaceted resonance.

English is the official language of the Conference.

Keynote Speaker: Pietro Frassica, Princeton University

Attendance is free and open to the public.

The full program for the conference is available. Click here to read.

For further information about The Pirandello Society of America please visit our website at: http://pirandellosociety.org/ and Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pirandellosocietyofamerica/

The Pirandello Society of America is pleased to be featured among a series of international conferences being held across the globe in honor of Pirandello’s 150th anniversary: Pirandello International 2017, Pirandello in a Globalized World. From Agrigento to Rome, Johannesburg to Munich, these events demonstrate the world-spanning reach of Pirandello’s influence today. More information and the full calendar for the international conference series can be found online: http://pirandello.eu/international2017/

The Giants of the Mountain by Luigi Pirandello – Reading at Theaterlab

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On October 15, 2013 the Pirandello Society of America sponsored a reading of Pirandello’s The Giants of the Mountain, a “myth” between fable and reality that Pirandello continued to imagine, write, and rework from 1929 to 1934, but eventually left unfinished despite encouraging contracts with American impresarios. Yet, in its present form, the play vibrates with the powerful contradictions of sublime Art torn between the inner necessity to reach out to spectators who may not understand it and the temptation to abandon the world altogether. It was, in the playwright’s opinion, the culmination of his artistic endeavors.

The reading was directed by Stebos (Stefano Boselli) in collaboration with Theatreplots (see link for pictures of the event).
Within the series “NOT Made in Italy – Displacement as Creativity” at Theaterlab, it was part of the celebrations for the Year of Italian Culture in the United States.

For the evening’s program in pdf, click here.

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The Pirandello Society of America Sessions at the MLA in Los Angeles – January 2011

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Pirandello Society Panels

at the MLA in Los Angeles

(6-9 January 2011)

1. Crossing Genres in Word and Image: Grotesque Narratives in Pirandello and His Contemporaries.

Presiding:  Stefano Giannini – Syracuse University

Thursday, 06 January – 5:15-6:30 p.m., 306A, LA Convention Center

“The Paradigms of Paradox and Sarcasm in the Pirandellian Grotesque”

Lisa Sarti – Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

“Four Authors in Search of a Character. C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s satire between Pirandello and Swift”

Stefano Giannini – Syracuse University

“‘Di carne, oh!’: Grotesque Fantasies and the Artistic Ideal in D’Annunzio’s Il piacere and Pirandello’s Diana e la Tuda“

Alani Hicks-Bartlett – Univ. of California, Berkeley

“De-centered Lives, Interrupted Stories: Pirandello’s Narrative Structures as Grotesque, Arabesque, and Caprice”

Michael Subialka, Univ. of Chicago

MLA Los Angeles Convention 2011

2. Masks, Marionettes, Puppets in Modern Italian Culture

Presiding:  Daniela Bini – U. of Texas, Austin

Saturday, 08 January – 12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., 306A, LA Convention Center

“Clothes (Don’t) Make the (Wo)Man: Costume as Mask and Identity in Enrico IV and Nostra Dea”

Stefano Boselli – Gettysburg College

“Puppets and Marionettes on the Italian Screen: A Taxonomy of Genealogies”

Federico Pacchioni –  Indiana Univ

“Pulcinella in Paris”

Daniela Bini – U. of Texas, Austin

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