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“Pasolini 100”: A Transcultural Irish Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini – the seminar

On this second day dedicated to the celebration of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 100th birth anniversary, Irish writers and scholars of Pasolini based in Ireland, such as Barry McCrea e William Wall, will give their contribution.

The focus will be on Pasolini’s poetry, in Italian and Friulian, along with his travel notes and film production of the 1960s and 1970s. From his adoption of local languages to his exploration of developing countries and his creation of visionary films that appealed to global audiences, Pasolini’s work was profoundly transcultural and transnational.

At 4pm the film “Teorema” (1968) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini will be screened (in Italian with English subtitles).

Talks in English. Readings in English, Friulian and Italian.

 

Pasolini 100: A Transcultural Irish Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin and the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin are delighted to invite you to a two-day event on the occasion of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 100th anniversary.

The event is organised by Dr. Enrica Maria Ferrara, Dr. Niall D. Kennedy, and Dr. Krzysztof Rowiński, lecturers at Trinity College Dublin, and by Marco Gioacchini, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute. It is supported by the Association Notre Italie and the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was an Italian film director, poet, novelist, playwright, and political commentator. He is known worldwide for his stylistically ground-breaking films and so-called “Cinema of Poetry”. He was brutally murdered in 1975. His death remains an unsolved mystery.

Talks in English. Readings in English, Friulian and Italian. Films in Italian with English subtitles.

PROGRAMME

Thursday 3 November, Italian Cultural Institute

17:30 to 17:45pm – Launch of the Event by Head of Italian Department at Trinity College Dublin, Dr. Igor Candido.

Greetings by Trinity College Dublin organisers Dr. Enrica Maria Ferrara, Dr. Niall D. Kennedy, Dr. Krzysztof Rowiński, and Marco Gioacchini, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute,

17.45pm to 20:00 pm – Screening of the film Il Decameron (1971) directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini with an introduction to the film by Dr. Igor Candido

Wine reception

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Friday 4 November, Global Room, Trinity College Dublin (Watts Building, first floor)

10:30-11:00 – Opening of Proceedings with greetings from the organisers, the Director of the IIC and representatives of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies

11:00-12:00 – William Wall (Irish writer) on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Le ceneri di Gramsci followed by a reading of his translation and Q&A

12:00 to 12:15 – Coffee break

12:15 to 13:15 – Prof. Barry McCrea (University of Notre Dame), Pasolini’s Languages of Longing, followed by a poetry reading and Q&A

13:15 to 14:15 Lunch – Screening of Video-interview with Stefania Glockner Graziano (Association Notre Italie) and Italian writer Dacia Maraini, friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini – in French with English subtitles

14:15 to 15:45 – Pasolini Research Today

Krzysztof Rówiński (TCD) – From the “banditi di Cutro” to the “altre figure” of Mumbai: Pasolini’s perspectivism, 1959-1962

Niall D. Kennedy (TCD) – Free Indirect Discourse in Film Theory and Beyond in Gilles Deleuze and Pier Paolo Pasolini

Enrica Maria Ferrara (TCD) – Looking for the “Tradosphere”: bridging the Human-Animal Divide in Pasolini’s Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s

16:00 to 17:30 – Screening of Teorema directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1968)

17:30 to 17:45 – Closing Remarks

18:00 – Wine Reception

 

BIO

Enrica Maria Ferrara is a scholar in Italian at Trinity College Dublin, a translator and writer. She has translated texts by Simona Baldelli, Italo Calvino, Baltasar Porcel, Domenico Starnone, among others. A recent translated volume is Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples (Viella, 2018), edited by Cecere et al. Recent authored and edited volumes include Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento: Vittorini, Calvino, Pasolini (Firenze University Press, 2014); Staged Narratives / Narrative Stages (Franco Cesati, 2017, edited with Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin), Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Niall D. Kennedy is a scholar in Modern French Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, particularly interested in the philosophy of literature, film, and the arts. He completed his PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London. His research to date has focused on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as on the work of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, and Jean-Luc Nancy. A second research strand is on French and Francophone cinema, and in particular the cinema of Francophone Africa.

Barry McCrea is a novelist and scholar of comparative literature. He is the author of three books, Languages of the Night (Yale University Press, 2015) winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s René Wellek prize 2016, In the Company of Strangers (Columbia University Press, 2011, Heyman prize for scholarship in the humanities), and a pluri-awarded novel, The First Verse (Brandon 2005), also published in Spanish and German. Before joining the University of Notre Dame, where his now Keogh Family Chair of Irish Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, he taught at Yale University, where he was appointed full professor of comparative literature in 2012.

Krzysztof Rowiński is Thomas Brown Assistant Professor in Polish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is a comparatist with research interests in Polish, US American, and Italian modern and contemporary prose, performance theory, and memory studies. His research explores literary and filmic reactions to modernity with a focus on the concept of failure. He is working on a book project titled Never-lasting Effects: Reclaiming Failure in Mid-Century Writing, a study of non-redemptive yet generative failure in the works of John Williams, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Bruno Jasieński. He has published on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s early cinema and the ethics of watching in Susan Sontag’s work.

William Wall is the author of four novels, including This is the Country (Sceptre), longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; four collections of poetry; and three volumes of short stories. He was the first European winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature in the USA. He has won many other awards including: the Premio Lerici Pea and Premio Città di Conza in Italy; the Virginia Faulkner Award in the USA; The Doolin Prize for poetry, The Sean O’Faoláin Prize for short fiction, several Writer’s Week prizes and The Patrick Kavanagh Award in Ireland. His work has been translated into many languages and he translates from Italian. He holds a PhD in Creative writing from UCC and is Cork’s first poet laureate. His most recent published work are the poetry collection Smugglers in the Underground Hug Trade (Doire Press, 2021) and the novel La ballata del letto vuoto (Nutrimenti, 2022, trans. Stefano Tettamenti).

Igor Candido is Assistant Professor/ Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He holds two doctoral degrees in Italian literature, a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University (2011) and a Dr.Phil. from the University of Turin, Italy (2009). In 2013-2014 he was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to conduct research at Freie Universität Berlin. He has lectured and taught in Italy, the US, Germany, Ireland and written on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Poliziano, Emerson, and Longfellow. He has provided the critical edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s translation of Dante’s Vita nuova (Aragno editore, 2012) as well as a monograph on Boccaccio as reader and imitator of Apuleius of Madauros (Boccaccio umanista. Studi su Boccaccio e Apuleio, Longo editore, 2014). He has just finished editing a volume titled Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Unity of Knowledge in the Pre-modern World (Walter De Gruyter, 2018) and is currently working on a new commented edition of Petrarch’s The Life of Solitude (Toronto University Press, under contract). He is also editing a special issue of Digital Philology (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019-20). His new research project is tentatively titled The Prehistory of the Novel. Studies in the Origins and Silent Transmission of Western Narrative Fiction. He is one of the editors of: Lettere italiane, Griseldaonline, and Archivio Novellistico Italiano; he collaborates with Italian and American journals such as “L’Indice dei libri del mese” and “Modern Language Notes”.

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  • Organized by: Trinity College Dublin
  • In collaboration with: IIC Dublino