Sicily: Language, Art, and Culture

Sicily: Language, Art, and
Culture
University of Pennsylvania
11-12 February 2016
Thursday 11 February
Class of ’78 Pavilion, Kislak Center – Van Pelt Library, 6th floor
9:00 Coffee, registration, and welcoming remarks
9:30 What Makes a Sicilian? – Gaetano Cipolla, St. John’s University
10:00 Versions and Visions of Sicily in Italian/American Fiction and Fact – Fred Gardaphe, CUNY
10:30 “Heart of My Race”: Sicily in Sicilian-American Literature – Chiara Mazzucchelli, University of Central
Florida
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Session I: Sicily Then and Now
A Sicilian’s Journey – William V. Fioravanti
A Sicilian adaptation of Aeschylus’ Suppliants: the Greek roots of Sicily’s identity – Alessandra
Migliara, CUNY
Tradizioni popolari e sapienza gastronomica di un antico borgo di Sicilia – Aurelia Bartholini
12:15 Lunch on one’s own
2:00 Session II: Verismi
Why I Translate Luigi Capuana – Santi Buscemi, Middlesex County College
Il feuilleton di Luigi Natoli tra storia, mistero e leggenda – Paola Bernardini, University of Toronto
2:45 Session III: Sicilian Women
Fuitina: Love, Sex and Rape in Modern Italy 1945 to Present – Antonella Vitale, CUNY
La donna disabile come costruzione sociale: un’analisi di Respiro, un film di Emanuele Crialese –
Gina Mangravite, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 Tea break
3:45 Maternity and Sexuality: Pirandello's Constant Sicilian Obsessions – Daniela Bini, University of Texas
4:15 Session IV: Stagnation and Renewal
‘Because we are gods’: How a literary topos may contribute to social and political stagnation –
Salvatore Campisi, University of Manchester
Sicilia, terra di approdo, transito e partenza – Angela Zagarella, Portland State University
Music-making as cultural resistance: Pork-barrel politics, bureaucratic barriers, and the challenges of
autoproduzione in Sicily – George De Stefano, Journalist and Author
5:15 Break
5:30 Sicilian music with Allison Scola and Villa Palagonia: The Folk Music of Sicily and the Diaspora: Where
North, South, East, West, and Humanity Collide
6:30 dinner on one’s own
Friday 12 February
Class of ’78 Pavilion, Kislak Center – Van Pelt Library, 6th floor
9:00 Coffee and registration
9:15 Session V: Constructing Sicily
Sicily -- Through Its Architecture – Tony Junker, Ueland Junker McCauley Nicholson, Architects and
Designers
Excommunicated: art patronage in Sicily during the later Crusades – Kristen Streahle, Kunsthistorisches
Institut in Florenz-Max Planck Institut
The elephant in the room: Mafia and Sicily - The case of don Pino Puglisi – Alberto Gelmi, CUNY
10:15 coffee break
10:30 Session VI: Sciascia’s Sicily
The representation of Palermo in Sciascia’s Porte aperte (1987) and Bufalino’s Diceria dell’untore
(1981) – Silvia Bergamini, University of Leeds
Sicilitude and the Giallo: the Case of Sciascia and Savatteri – Angelo Castagnino, University of Denver
A Siculo-Arab Literary History: Leonardo Sciascia and Ibn Hamdis – Salvatore Pappalardo, Towson
University
Whose Sicily, Whose Nation?: Leonardo Sciascia and Sebastiano Vassalli – Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia
University
11:45 Storie e racconti del mediterraneo: l'emigrazione siciliana in Tunisia XIX e XX secolo – Alfonso
Campisi, Université de la Manouba
12:15 Lunch on one’s own (and screening of Manuel Giliberti’s Bastava una notte... – 402 Claudia Cohen
Hall)
2:00 Out of Place: The Migrating Subject in/of Contemporary Sicilian Theater – Lina Insana, University of
Pittsburgh
2:30 Session VII: Il Gattopardo and its legacy
Dust and Sicily’s Voluptuous Immobility: Il Gattopardo – Lucio Privitello, Stockton University
Gattopardo e Guerra e pace a confronto: analogie a diverse latitudini – Elisa Pianges, Centro di Lingua e
Cultura Italiana Babilonia – Taormina
From the Margins with Joy: Goliarda Sapienza’s L’arte della gioia – Stefania Porcelli, CUNY
3:30 Session VIII: Natural and Cultural Environment
«Gli alberi perduti» Images of nature in the poetry of Salvatore Quasimodo – Alessandro Zammataro,
CUNY
L’uomo nel cinema di Vittorio De Seta – Elisa Ruggiero, Indipendent Scholar
Valori sociosimbolici e musicali nei canti dei carrettieri del territorio palermitano – Rob Schultz,
University of Kentucky
4:30 Tea break
4:45 Orlando and Rinaldo, two beloved heroes of Sicilian folk culture – Pietro Frassica, Princeton University
5:15 Why and How to Teach Sicilian Language and Culture: A Round Table – Presenters: Lillyrose
Veneziano Broccia, Allison Scola, Frank Pellicone – Moderator: Gaetano Cipolla
6:15 Closing remarks
8:00 Conference dinner – for speakers and invited guests only