Online Symposium on Pinocchio - University of Cambridge

Join us for an online symposium on Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio with international scholars.

The symposium is sponsored by the Cambridge-Intesa Sanpaolo Fund with the support of the Italian Section of the University of Cambridge, Murray Edwards College, the Cambridge Research Network for Fairy-Tale Studies, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi, the Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities in New York and the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University.

This online event, organised by Elena Sottilotta (Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge) and Pablo a Marca (Brown University), is part of a series of international initiatives aimed at celebrating Pinocchio’s legacy in contemporary culture.

Online Symposium Programme

Pinocchio’s Strings: Critical and Creative Encounters

University of Cambridge, 12 December 2024

13:45 – 14:00 Institutional Welcome: Robert Gordon (University of Cambridge)

Opening Remarks: Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge) and Pablo a Marca (Brown University)

14:00 – 15:00 Keynote Lecture: Daniela Marcheschi (CEG – Universidade Aberta Lisboa)

Carlo Collodi e Le Avventure di Pinocchio tra “luoghi” reali e immaginari

15:15 – 16:30 Panel 1: Literary and Technological Transformations

• Nicoletta Peluffo (New York University)

La fiaba in Pinocchio: continuità, discontinuità e ribaltamenti

• Luca Sarti (Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)

Pinocchio nell’era del web 2.0: fra riscritture e traduzioni

• Edmondo Grassi (Università Telematica San Raffaele, Roma)

Of Wood and of Circuits: Imagination as a Symbol of Technological Transformation

• Ana Ilievska (University of Bonn)

“My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?” Technology, Divine Absence, and the Object-Voice in Collodi’s Pinocchio

16:45 – 18:15 Panel 2: Transcultural Adaptations and Translations

• Gioia Panzarella (University of Warwick)

Character or Author? Representations of Truth and Fictionality in Serial Television

• Sahajmeet (Independent Scholar)

Guillermo del Toro’s Political and Artistic Reimagining of Collodi’s Pinocchio: A Study in Form and Context

• Tuğçe Alkış (Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey)

The Strings of Childhood: Holding us Back or Pushing us Forward

• Andrea Pagani (Monash University) and Xu Zhenqi (Monash University)

From Tortellino di Bologna to Wonton: Food and Cultural Identity in the Chinese Translation of Le Avventure di Pinocchio

18:30 – 20:00 Panel 3: Rewritings and Reflections

• Emanuele Rubinacci (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Processo alla (in)giustizia: Pinocchio e lo sguardo obliquo, tra Palazzeschi e Kafka

• Marianna Scamardella (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

La coscienza morale del Pinocchio di Luigi Compagnone: Una satira per il Nuovo Millennio

• Luca Vincenzo Calcagno (Università degli Studi di Torino)

Le avventure di Pinocchio come «libro della paternità» nell'opera di Nico Orengo

• Chiara Tavella (Università degli Studi di Torino)

Pinocchio (mal)visto e rivisto: intorno a tre riscritture dei personaggi collodiani

• Lorenzo Resio (Università degli Studi di Torino)

«Immagini di morte e […] diffuso senso di colpa»: Pinocchio e i monelli di Michele Mari

20:00 – 20:15 Closing remarks: Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge) and Pablo a Marca (Brown University)