: 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 – 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 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 – Alberto Gelmi, CUNY

10:15 coffee break

10:30 Session VI: Sciascia’s Sicily

The representation of 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 –

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 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