The conference schedule can be downloaded here.
DAY 1 – Friday, October 25, 2024
Brown Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room, 194 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02906
8:00 – 8:45: Registration & Coffee
8:45: Welcome Remarks: Pablo a Marca (Brown University) & Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)
9:00 – 10:15: Panel 1 – Literary (Dis)Continuities. Chair: Samuele Capanna (Brown University)
• Alessandro Canazza (“La Sapienza” University of Rome): Pinocchio e Giannettino: due piccoli eroi eponimi a confronto
• Carmine Di Biase (Jacksonville State University): The First Sequel to Pinocchio: Carlo Collodi’s Pipì o lo scimmiottino color di rosa
• Salvatore Taibi (Rutgers University): A Wooden Boy and a Lesson in Free Market Economics: How Pinocchio Becomes an Entrepreneur
10:15 – 10:45: Coffee Break
10:45 – 12.00: Keynote 1: Laura Tosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Pinocchio, Food and the Nation(s)
Chair: Pablo a Marca (Brown University)
12:00 – 1:30: Lunch
1:30 – 2:45: Panel 2 – Pinocchio on Stage. Chair: Irene Fiducia (Brown University)
• Gianni Cicali (Georgetown University): Pinocchio “the Communist” and the Federal Theatre Project
• Nancy Canepa (Dartmouth College): The Last Mask: Carmelo Bene’s Pinocchio and the End of (an) Illusion
• Paola Ponti (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan): “Un ragazzo come tutti gli altri”? Sul Pinocchio nero di Marco Baliani
2:45 – 4:00: Panel 3 – Visual Imagination and Transnational Afterlives. Chair: Julia Okołowicz-Szumowska (University of Warsaw)
• Valentina Rovere (Palacký University, Olomouc): Chirping here and there: the Talking Cricket between Carlo Lorenzini, Walt Disney and Charles Dickens
• Giuliana Bendelli (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan): The Irish Adventures of Pinocchio, from James Joyce to Patrick McCabe
4:30 – 5:00: Coffee Break
5:00 – 6:00: Keynote 3: Luca Viganò (King’s College London) & Massimo Riva (Brown University)
Pinocchio, As If
Chair: Pablo a Marca (Brown University)
6:00 – 7:00: Refreshments / Drinks Reception
DAY 2 – Saturday, October 26, 2024
Urban Environmental Laboratory 106, 135 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906
9:00 – 10:45: Panel 4 – International Reception and Translation. Chair: Carmine Di Biase (Jacksonville State University)
• Richard Wunderlich (The College of St. Rose): The New Pinocchio Catalogue of English Renditions Now Being Digitized
• Katarzyna Biernacka-Licznar (University of Wroclaw): Cent’anni, Pinocchio! La ricezione dell’opera di Carlo Collodi in Polonia dal 1912 al 2024
• Lorena Lazarić & Rita Scotti Jurić (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula): Divergenze traduttive tra prototesto e metatesto: regionalismi, arcaismi ed elementi retorici
• Kulveer Kaur (Punjabi University, Patiala): Puppets and Punjabi Folktales: Translating Pinocchio into a Cultural Narrative
10:45 – 11:00: Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15: Keynote 2: Anna Kraczyna, translator of The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Pinocchio in the 21st Century. Beyond Lies: The True Essence of Pinocchio’s Adventures
Chair: Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)
12:15 – 1:30: Lunch
1:30 – 2:45: Panel 5 – Ideology, Politics and Propaganda. Chair: Alessandro Canazza (“La Sapienza” University of Rome)
• Arianna De Gasperis (“La Sapienza” University of Rome): Il soldato di legno: Pinocchiate tra propaganda patriottica e furore bellicista (1917-1925)
• Anita Rescia (Stony Brook University): Pinocchio: Puppet of Propaganda
• Mary Galbraith (San Diego State University): Walt Disney (1940) and Guillermo del Toro (2022): Two Contrasting Film Adaptations of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio
2:45 – 4:00: Panel 6 – (Post)Human Identities. Chair: Elettra Solignani (Brown University)
• Alessandro Cabiati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice): “I am not Pinocchio any more”: Pinocchio as Metaphor in Narratives of Childhood Autism
• Julia Okołowicz-Szumowska (University of Warsaw): Pinocchio-Becoming-Animal: Remarks on Fictional Wanderings of Carlo Collodi’s Puppet
• Danilo Petrassi (University of Macerata): Pinocchio nell’era dell’intelligenza artificiale: da burattino di legno a individuo quasi “umano”
4:00 – 4:30: Coffee Break
4:30 – 5:30: Artistic performance with Alessandro Sanna, author of Pinocchio: The Origin Story. Chair: Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)
5:30: Closing Remarks: Pablo a Marca (Brown University) & Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)
7:00 – 9:00: Dinner at Red Stripe, 465 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906