The Society for Pirandello Studies
Convegno internazionale
Pirandello and Translation: Transfer, Transformation and the Transcultural
in collaboration with Glasgow’s ‘Writing in Transfer’ research cluster
Saturday 13 October 2018
Gilmorehill Hall, cinema room (University of Glasgow, UK)
Programma
10 a.m. John C. Barnes (UCD): Welcome
10.05 a.m. Susan Bassnett (Glasgow and Warwick): Opening remarks
Introduced by Eanna O’Ceallachain (Glasgow)
10.30 a.m. Joseph Farrell (Strathclyde): Pirandello in His Own Right: Is Translation Possible or Desirable?
10.50 a.m. Eanna O’Ceallachain (Glasgow): Sanguineti’s Sei personaggi.com: A Travesty of an Intralingual Translation
11.10 a.m. Malcolm Yates Knight (Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre): Mask Relativism and Theatres of the Mirror
Chair: Davide Messina (Edinburgh)
11.40 p.m. Coffee
12.00 p.m. Marta Fumi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore): Pirandello, Goethe and the Translation of Roman Elegies: a New Focus on Style
12.20 p.m. Matthew Mild (Keele): The Pragmatography of Transcultural Interfaith Neuromodernity Luigi’s Alletto and Virginia’s Walsh as Neuromodernist Memosubalterns
12.40 p.m. Michael Subialka (California): Translating Life: Contemporary Performances of Pirandello in the UK
Chair: Elisa Segnini (Glasgow)
1.10 p.m. Lunch
2.20 p.m. Caitríona Cassidy (Glasgow): Pirandello and French Public Theatre: Two productions of Vestire gli ignudi
2.40 p.m. Magdalena Kampert (Glasgow): Theatre Self-translation and Cultural renegotiation: the Case of Luigi Pirandello
3.00 p.m. Zsuzsanna Balázs (NUI Galway): Resistant Bodies: Androgynous Spectacle in Modern European Drama and Pirandello
Chair: Elwira Grossman (Glasgow)
3.30 p.m. Coffee
3.40 p.m. Book presentation: Enza De Francisci, A ‘New’ Woman in Verga and Pirandello (Oxford: Legenda, 2018). In conversation with Katharine Mitchell (Strathclyde)
4.00 p.m. Film screening: Dreaming (Or Is It?) produced by Simon Image and directed by Doug Rollins
4.30 p.m. Enza De Francisci (Glasgow): Closing