The sixth edition of the “Pasolini School”, organized by the Pasolini Study Center of Casarsa della Delizia, is scheduled for 11 to 14 September 2024. The long-awaited annual event will be dedicated to the theme of Pasolini and otherness and will include ethnographic meetings, travel, and anthropological comparisons.
The lessons will focus in particular on literary production, writings on popular poetry, the novel, travel stories and film production, especially documentaries.
The teachers called to participate in the school days will be required to develop in their lessons both the poetic, political and existential connections that Pasolini had with the popular classes (the farmers, Friulians, the Roman burghers, the social groups of the third world countries ), and the ways and forms through which this relationship with otherness has been cultivated under the influence of demological, ethnographic and anthropological studies.
And they will also be an opportunity to offer the students of the school the tools to analyze the expressive forms linked to Pasolini’s discovery of the other than oneself, such as dialects, dialects, stylistic devices and narrative forms (regression, indirect speech free, story for notes
The Pasolini School summarizes one of the objectives of Casa Colussi: to actively involve (and encourage growth) in the activity of the Center itself Italian and foreign scholars in the name of Pier Paolo Pasolini and in recent years it has also made possible the birth of a scientific and human who studies a key author of the 20th century to understand contemporary transformations and current contradictions, with the aim of radiating knowledge, in the name of knowledge that travels, that is transmitted.
The organization of the school is managed by the Pasolini Study Center of Casarsa and makes use of the affiliation to the Équipe Littérature et Culture Italiennes (Elci) of the Sorbonne Université and the University of Calabria – Department of Humanistic Studies, as well as the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the Municipality of Casarsa della Delizia and the Friuli Foundation, which has offered its particular support since the first edition by virtue of the educational purpose that this project of the Casarsa Study Center pursues.
The lessons are aimed at students, graduates or doctoral students of any nationality, as long as they demonstrate a good knowledge of the Italian language. The study activity will be divided into six sessions and will include an educational workshop organized by graduates/undergraduates, doctoral students and research doctors who intend to share their study experience with younger participants. To participate in the school’s lessons it is necessary to submit your application by 30 June 2023 by sending the request to: [email protected] (full details on the website www.centrostudipierpaolopasolinicasarsa.it).
The Pasolini School is directed by teachers Paolo Desogus of the Sorbonne Université Paris and Lisa Gasparotto of the University of Milan-Bicocca. As always, the group of Italian and international experts who will participate as teachers in the authoritative masterclass will be of the highest academic profile.
Among the Italian and international specialists there will be Marco Antonio Bazzocchi (University of Bologna), Silvia De Laude (Ferrobedò cultural space, Milan), Stefano Casi (theatre critic, Bologna), Marco Gatto (University of Calabria), Raoul Kirchmayr (University of Trieste), Davide Luglio (Sorbonne Université), Gian Luca Picconi (University of Genoa), Ricciarda Ricordi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Giovanna Trento (anthropologist and essayist), Caterina Verbaro (University of Rome – Lumsa).
