Thirty years ago, on 2nd November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy's foremost postwar intellectual was murdered in the outskirts of Rome. Pasolini was a protean figure, a poet, filmmaker, novelist, journalist, playwright and even a painter whose work never failed to challenge and subvert established genres, making its appreciation a complex task. This bilingual conference seeks to commemorate and celebrate Pasolini's legacy by bringing together scholars and practitioners of different generations and nationalities to examine his oeuvre's changing impact over the three decades since his death.

Conference delegates will also be invited to attend a performance of Pasolini's play Orgy (Orgia), which will be given its English Language Premiere at the Corpus Christi College Playroom, 1st-5th November at 9.30 pm, in a new translation by Laurence Hooper.
 

Programme

Friday 4 November 2005
13.30-14.00  Registration
14.00-14.15  Introduction by Laurence Hooper (University of Cambridge) and Emanuela Patti (University of Birmingham)
14.15-16.00  Session One: Performing Pasolini, now and then
Speaking the language of reality in Pasolini's Teatro di Parola
Laurence Hooper (University of Cambridge)
Calderon di P.P. Pasolini tra Teatro e Cinema. Breve storia delle messe in scena teatrali e del film di Miklos Jancso e di quello di Giorgio Pressburger. 
Il padre selvaggio messa in scena di un film scritto e mai girato da Pier Paolo Pasolini - Giorgio Pressburger (film director) - Stendali
Cecilia Mangini (film director)
16.00-16.15  Introduction to Comizi d'amore by Cecilia Mangini
16.15-18.30  Film Showing Comizi d'amore by Pasolini (1964) and Comizi d'amore '80 seconda puntata by Del Fra e Mangini
19.00  Reception at Corpus Christi
19.30  Conference Dinner at Corpus Christi

Saturday 5 November 2005
9.30-11.00  Session Two: Politics and Society I 
A Tobruk: Marking the spots of national excess
Derek Duncan (University of Bristol)
Da Bologna a Roma: Le generazioni di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Mirko Grasso (critic)
Pasolini's deconstruction of the Italian Catholic identity, in La ricotta and Salò
Erminia Passannanti (UCL)
11.00-11.30  Coffee
11.30-13.00  Session Three: Politics and Society II
Pasolini reazionario?
Antonio Tricomi (Università della Calabria)

Liberation hurts: Masochism, death-drive and anti-capitalism according to Pasolin
Fabio Vighi (University of Cardiff)
A conversation with Goffredo Fofi
13.00-14.00  Buffet Lunch
14.00-15.30  Session Four: Petrolio and after
"Like a diluted reel of film in my brain": A reading of Petrolio in the light of Norman O. Brown's Love's Body and Geza Roheim's Magic and Schizophrenia
Armando Maggi (University of Chicago)
"Come se ti stesse parlando, qui e ora": Recent Film, Theatre, and Writing in Dialogue with Pasolini
Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin)

Mimesis e allegoria in Petrolio
Emanuela Patti (University of Birmingham)

21.30  Performance of Orgy at the Corpus Christi Playroom

Please contact events@crassh.cam.ac.uk with any enquiries about the administration of this event.
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/