Please see below details of this year's Society for Pirandello Studies annual general conference in Oxford on 15th October on violence and aggression. 

This year we will feature two performances and a cut episode from the Taviani brothers’ film Tu ridi (1998), containing a scene about the Roman premiere of Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore.

Free for students, and free entry for all after 3pm.

Best wishes,

Enza De Francisci

Violence and Aggression in Pirandello 

Saturday 15 October 2016 

Christ Church, University of Oxford, Blue Boar Theatre and Exhibition Space

9 a.m. The Society for Pirandello Studies AGM 

10 a.m. John C. Barnes (UCD): Opening Remarks 

10.15 a.m. Round-table discussion: Violence and Aggression in Modern Theatre, with Ursula Fanning (UCD), Bart Van den Bossche (Leuven), Enza De Francisci (UCL), and Simon Image (Producer) 

11 a.m. Coffee break 

11.30 a.m. Michael Subialka (California): Suicide as Compassion – Pirandello’s Pessimism in an Age of Violence 

Response: Valeria Taddei 

Luciano Parisi (Exeter): ‘Alla zappa’: A Re-Reading 

Response: Alberica Bazzoni 

12.45 p.m. Lunch break 

2 p.m. Matthew Reza (Oxford): Violence against Reason and the Body in Luigi Pirandello’s Fantastic Fiction 

Response: Julia Hartley 

Matthew Mild (SAS, University of London): The Neurogame of Memory Reinvestment Transgressing Gender-Ethnic Aggression in Game and Mustang 

Response: Roberto Bonci 

3.15 p.m. Coffee Break 

3.45 p.m. Performance of Il giuoco delle parti directed by Valeria Taddei (Oxford) 

Performance of L’uomo dal fiore in bocca directed by Manuel Bau Discussion with directors and actors 

5 p.m. Screening of ‘La figlia'

Cut episode from the Taviani brothers’ film Tu ridi (1998), containing a scene about the Roman premiere of Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore

Introduced by Guido Bonsaver (Oxford)

6pm Wine reception

Free for Students Free entry for all from 3 p.m. Members £17; Non-Members £20; Concessions £10