Da Mark Epstein, dell’Università di Princeton, riceviamo la segnalazione di un interessante convegno che, il 22 e 23 ottobre 2015, sarà dedicato alla visione pasoliniana dell’Africa e ai suoi riflessi nella filmografia e nell’elaborazione teorica. Il simposio, organizzato a Providence dal Dipartimento di Studi Italiani della Brown University, in collaborazione con vari partner accademici, prevede una retrospettiva di film e un collage di conferenze e approfondimenti, anche a corredo della mostra di fotografie di Roberto Villa scattate sul set de Il fiore delle Mille e una notte.
Qui di seguito l’informazione (in inglese) sul progetto, che si colloca tra le iniziative internazionali per il quarantennale della morte di Pasolini.
The Italian Studies Department at Brown University (in collaboration with the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the program of Middle East Studies, and the Department of Modern Culture and Media) presents a two-day symposium designed to foster interdisciplinary dialogue around the legacy of Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), on the fortieth anniversary of his death. The symposium will focus in particular on Pasolini’s vision of the Mediterranean and African worlds and its resonance across the fields of film studies and critical theory.
The symposium will take place on October 22 and 23, 2015 at Brown University (Pembroke Hall, 305 – 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI 02912) and will be accompanied by a special exhibit of Roberto Villa’s photographs on the set of Pasolini’s Il Fiore de Le Mille e una Notte (1974), courtesy of the Fondo Roberto Villa at the Cineteca of Bologna. It will include screenings of selected films by and about Pasolini.
Program
Thursday, October 22
5:00 PM Welcoming remarks (the organizers)
5:15 PM Pasolini’s Rage
Chair: M. Riva (Brown)
Roberto Chiesi (Pier Paolo Pasolini Center and Archive, Cineteca di Bologna, Italy), “A World that Kills. Pasolini’s Rage, the African Utopia and the Tragedy of Lumumba”
7:30 PM screening of La Rabbia [Rage, 1963] and Sopralluoghi in Palestina [Location Hunting in Palestine, 1964] by P. P. Pasolini
Friday, October 23
9:30 AM Pasolini’s Souths
Chair, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown)
Giovanna Trento (University of Cape Town, S.A), “Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Centrality of ‘Africas’ and the Construction of the Pan-South”
discussants: Ramsay McGlazer, Nicola Perugini (Brown)
11:00 AM Pasolini’s Revolution(s)
Chair, Philip Rosen (Brown)
Luca Caminati (Concordia University, Montreal, CA), “Notes for a Revolution”
Shelleen Greene (University of Wisconsin, Milwakee, WI), “The Body and the Scene of Desire: the African Subject in Pasolini’s Cinema”
discussants: Antonella Sisto, M. Riva (Brown)
1 PM Special screening of “I am Searching For Someone To Look With Me. PasoliniGordimer 2015”
(Screenplay and idea by Gianguido Palumbo, directed by Corrado Bertoni)
2:30 PM Pasolini’s Orients
Chair, Beshara Doumani (Brown)
Roberto Villa (Photographer, Milan) “On the Set (and Environs) of Pasolini’s Arabian Nights, 1974″
discussants: Antonella Sisto, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown)
Chair, Nicola Perugini (Brown)
4:00 PM Screening and discussion of “Pasolini Pa* Palestine,” by Ayreen Anastas (Artist-Activist, Brooklyn, NY)
7:30 PM Screening of Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte (Arabian Nights, 1974) and Le mura di Sana’a(The Walls of Sana’a, 1971) by P. P. Pasolini
[idea]Info[/idea]
Italian_Studies@brown.edu
phone (401) 863-1561
Massimo Riva
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Italian Studies
Director, Virtual Humanities Lab
PO Box 1942
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912-1942
Tel. +1.401.863.1561/3984
https://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Massimo_Riva
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl_new/
