Topic: Pirandellian Moods: Narrative, Film, Theatre into the Twenty-first Century.

Arthur Livingston, an early Pirandello translator and scholar, identified in Pirandello's works a "complex mood," a "mysterious symbolism made up of terror, and rebellion, and pity, and human kindness." For contemporary critics, directors, performers, spectators and writers: how do Pirandellian extremes cross over or interlace; how does the complex mood of Pirandello’s work resonate in the 21st century?

250 word abstracts by March 14 to jana_okeefe_bazzoni@baruch.cuny.edu