Dear all, please see below the details of this year’s Society for Pirandello Studies conference which takes place on Saturday 18 October at the Italian Cultural Institute from 10.00-17.00 (free entrance from 14.30). Best wishes, Enza De Francisci

 

 

Annual Conference and AGM

 

Pirandello and Conflict:
One Hundred Years from Sarajevo

The Society for Pirandello Studies
Saturday 18 October 2014
AGM and Annual Conference will be held at the
Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1

 

Programme

 
10.00 a.m.             Annual General Meeting

 

10.30 a.m.             John C. Barnes (University College Dublin)
                                 President’s Opening Remarks

 

10.45 a.m.             Alberto Godioli (University of Edinburgh)
                                 Conflict and Regression in Pirandello’s Short Stories

 

11.05 a.m.             Michael Subialka (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
                                War Crisis: German Culture, Identity, and Pirandello’s (Philosophical) Response to Conflict

   

11.25 a.m.             Matthew Mild (Bangor University)
                                The Torch of Choice: Beyond Military and Everyday Violence in Demian and The Graft 

 

11.45 a.m.             Discussion

 

12.00 a.m.             Coffee Break

 

12.20 p.m.             Enza De Francisci (University College London)
                                 Pirandello’s War of Words

 

12.40 p.m.             Gabriella Caponi-Doherty (University College Cork)
                                All’armi, all’armi: representations of conflict in the theatre of Pirandello and D’Annunzio.
 

1.00 p.m.               Ilaria Gidoro (St Andrew’s University)
                                The Conflict between Man and Society through Madness in Dostoevsky’s The Double and Pirandello’s                                 Uno, nessuno e centomila

 

1.20 p.m.               Discussion

 

1.30 p.m.               Lunch

 

2.30 p.m.               Julie Dashwood (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge)
                                 Pirandello: The Theatre of War

 

3.00 pm                 Break

 

3.20 p.m.               Cap and Bells by Luigi Pirandello (Oxford)
                                Lary Graham (Director)
                                Simon Image (Producer)
                                Rhiannon Kelly (Lead Actress)

 

4.00 pm                 Treatment for Six Characters, an unrealised film by Luigi Pirandello (London)
                                Anne-Marie Creamer (Director and Producer)

 

4.40 p.m                Closing remarks
 

  
  
Registration Form

If you wish to attend this event, please indicate by completing the following details and returning them to the address below.

 

Title:
Name:
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Cost:            Members                Non-Members                   Concessions 
                       £17 stg                   £20 stg                                 £10 stg

 

                                                Students: Free Entry

 
Cheques should be made payable to Society for Pirandello Studies.
Please return this form with your remittance to:
 
Dr Enza De Francisci
Department of Italian,
School of European Languages, Culture and Society
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
 
You can also register by e-mail and pay on the day. Alternatively, write to: [log in to unmask]