Unless otherwise noted, all events are held in the Cowell Conference Room
 
Thursday           
7:30-10 pm - Film Screening: Arabian Nights
Introduction: Peter Limbrick, UCSC           
Location: Studio C, Communications Building
 
Friday           
8:30-9:00 - Coffee  
                     
9:00-9:30 - Opening Remarks
David Yager, Dean of the Arts
Mark Franko, Director of the Center for Visual and Performance Studies
 
9:30-11:30 - Panel: Corporeal Poetics
Tyrus Miller, UCSC
     “Transhumanize and Organize: Pasolini's Crossing of Philology and Biopolitics”
Armando Maggi, U. Chicago
     “Norman O. Brown's Love's Body and Pasolini's Calderón”
Colleen Ryan-Scheutz, Indiana U.
     “Pasolini’s Final Word(s): From the Divina Mimesis to Petrolio and Salo”
Moderator: Deanna Shemek, UCSC
 
11:30-1:00 - Lunch                       
 
1:00-3:00 - Panel: Visualizing the Body           
Gian Maria Annovi, Columbia
     “Pasolini’s Cinematographic Body”
Mark Franko, UCSC
     “Notes on Pasolini and the ‘Language’ of Dance”
Silvestra Mariniello, U. Montreal
     “Myth and the Pace of Life.  Pasolini’s Poetics of History”
Moderator: Ted Warburton, UCSC
 
3:00-3:30 - Break                       
 
3:30-5:30 - Panel: Political Kinesthetics           
Staisey Divorski, UCLA
     “The Heretical Absence of the Word: Pasolini’s Teorema”
Evan Calder Williams, UCSC
     “A Vital Desperation: On Rage and Communist Pessimism”
Wlad Godzich, UCSC
     “Body, Narrative, and Politics”
Moderator: Karen Bassi, UCSC
 
5:30-7:30 - Reception & Film Screening: Notes on an African Orestes
Introduction: Peter Limbrick, UCSC                       
Location: Studio C, Communications Building
 
Saturday        
10:00-10:30 - Coffee           
           
10:30-1:00 - Panel: Postcolonial Figurations
David Pendleton, Harvard
     “Pasolini on the Beach: Semiosis, Erotics and the Politics of the Image”
Derek Duncan, U. Bristol
     “Graceless: Pasolini’s Postcolonial Body”
Giovanna Trento, French Center for Ethiopian Studies
     “Il corpo popolare according to Pier Paolo Pasolini: body, sexuality, subalternity,
     reality, resistance, agency and death”           
Luca Caminati, Concodria
     “Notes on Pasolini’s Third World”
Moderator: Peter Limbrick, UCSC