A two-day conference conceived by Ara H. Merjian and Gerhard Wolf on the 40th anniversary of Pasolini's death.

In collaboration with the NYU Provost Global Research Initiatives, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, PASOLINI 1975-2015, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut.

Program:

9:00

Moderator: Rhiannon Noel Welch

Introduction: Stefano Albertini, Director, Casa Italiana

9:15 Gian Maria Annovi, Pasolini’s Voice: Notes Toward a Vocal Performativity

10:00 Luca Caminati, Filed Notes for a Revolution: Pasolini’s Palestine

10:45 Roundtable and workshop (closed to public)

12:00 Roberto Chiesi, L’acqua delle origini e altri suoni: la storia di Yunan come variante di Edipo ne Il fiore delle Mille e una notte

1:00 Lunch

Moderator: Alessandro Giardino

2:30 Toni Hildebrandt, Allegory, Montage, and Sound in Pasolini’s La Sequenza del fiore di carta

3:45 Vega Tescari, Echoes: The Poetics of Resonance in Pasolini’s Work

4:30 Coffee

Moderator: Joseph Perna

4:45 Brian DeGrazia, Foetus sacer: Pasolini’s politics of birth

5:30 Gerhard Wolf, Conclusions

6:15 Final discussion

7:00 Aperitivo

In English.

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