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 .