Conference Recording: Six Characters in Search of an Author Is One Hundred Years Old!

26 May 2021, ICI London

To mark the centenary of Luigi Pirandello's ground-breaking play, ICI London and the editors of the special edition, ‘Six Characters as World Literature’ in PSA, the journal of the Pirandello Society of America, organized a conference celebrating the formation, impact, and legacy of this monumental play.

Chair: Katia Pizzi (Director of Italian Cultural Institute, London)

Welcome: Raffaele Trombetta (Italian Ambassador to the UK) [tbc]

Speakers:

Enza De Francisci, Why Six Characters Matters Today (University of Glasgow)

Michael Subialka, Six Characters in Search of an American Stage (University of California, Davis)

Lisa Sarti, Performing Yourself: Pirandello on Screening Six Characters (The Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York).

Daniela Bini, The Missing Episode in the Taviani Brothers’ Tu ridi (University of Texas, Austin)

Patricia Gaborik, Six Characters: Pirandello on the Right Way to Make a Play (Università della Calabria).

Performance:

Marco Gambino, in The Son’s Side (The True Story of Six Characters), by Paolo Puppa, translated by Enza De Francisci, Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka, in PSA (Vol. 33, 2020).

Pirandello ON AIR 8: Tom Gunning and Michael Syrimis on Pirandello and Film

14 May 2021

Conversation on Pirandello and cinema with Prof. Tom Gunning (The University of Chicago) and Prof. Michael Syrimis (Tulane University).

Moderator: Ana Ilievska (The University of Chicago)

Pirandello ON AIR 7: Pirandello poeta and Friends

7th meeting of our Pirandello ON AIR initiative on 30 April 2021, in collaboration with Ensemble, an independent publishing house based in Rome. Readings and discussion (in Italian) of Pirandello's Mal giocondo (Roma: Ensemble, 2015) with young poets and translators from Italy.

Introductory notes:

Prof. Giuseppe Faustini (Skidmore College)

Matteo Chiavarone (Edizioni Ensemble)

Guest poets/translators:

Gaia Bertoneri (Torino/Coimbra)

Pietro Cagni (Catania)

Erica Donzella (Catania)

Riccardo Frolloni (Bologna)

Moderator: Ana Ilievska (UChicago)

Pirandello ON AIR 6: Pirandello Director - Directing Pirandello with Stefano Boselli (CUNY) and Patricia Gaborik (University of Calabria)

2 April 2021

A conversation between Ana Ilievska (UChicago), Stefano Boselli (CUNY), and Patricia Gaborik (University of Calabria) about Pirandello's theatre company Teatro d'Arte, its connections to Mussolini and Fascism, and the reception and performance of Pirandello's plays in Argentina.

Pirandello ON AIR 5: Pirandello e la visualità con Carlo Di Lieto, Lisa Sarti, e Michael Subialka

19 March 2021

Ana Ilievska (UChicago) in conversation with Carlo Di Lieto (Napoli), Lisa Sarti (CUNY), and Michael Subialka (UC Davis) about their recent publication Scrittura d'immagini: Pirandello e la visualità tra arte, filosofia e psicanalisi (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2021).

Pirandello ON AIR 3: Daniela Bini

19 February 2021

A conversation with Prof. Daniela Bini (UT Austin) on Pirandello’s women.

Moderator: Ana Ilievska (The University of Chicago)

Pirandello ON AIR 2: Luca Cottini

5 February 2021

Conversation with Prof. Luca Cottini (Villanova University) on his book The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 (2018), and the works of Pirandello in the context of Italian industrialization and modernity.

Moderator: Ana Ilievska (The University of Chicago)

Pirandello ON AIR 1: Meet the PSA

22 January 2021

First meeting of the Pirandello ON AIR series of interviews organized by the Pirandello Society of America.

A conversation with Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni (CUNY, co-president), Stefano Boselli (CUNY, Theatre and Performance Outreach Officer), Michael Subialka (UC Davis, co-president, co-editor of the PSA Journal), Lisa Sarti (CUNY, co-editor of the PSA Journal), and Enza De Francisci (University of Glasgow, UK Society for Pirandello Studies).

Moderator: Ana Ilievska (University of Chicago)