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Within the framework of PRIN 2022 Folklore and oral traditions in the Greek culture. From the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMed) is proposing two seminars in Rome on 18 April at the Drugstore Museum and on 19 April at the Besso Foundation in Rome with the cuntist Gaspare Balsamo, author, actor and professional cuntist, considered one of the leading experts in the art of the Sicilian cunto. The seminars will close with a round table attended by scholars of Greek orality and epic traditions.

Telling stories:
the homeric epos and the sicilian cunto

19 April 2024
09:30-13:30

Besso Foundation
Largo di Torre Argentina, 11
00186 Rome

On the second day organised in Rome with cuntist Gaspare Balsamo. Participants include Riccardo Palmisciano, Principal Invertigator of the PRIN 2022 project and Associate Professor at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’; Laura Lulli, Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of L’Aquila; Manuela Giordano, Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Siena; Massimo Giuseppetti, Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Roma Tre and Livio Sbardella, Full Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of L’Aquila.

The theme of the day will be the comparison with the Sicilian cunto, an example of a still living practice of traditional storytelling, through which it is possible to try to understand, by analogy, the workings of other ‘traditional tales’, including the epos of Greek culture in the archaic and classical periods: performance modes, characteristics of the language of art, apprenticeship and poetic discipline, storytelling techniques, relationship with the audience, organisation of poetic matter, configuration of a traditional ‘memory’, tension between innovation and preservation.

PROGRAM

Riccardo Palmisciano
University of Naples “L’Orientale”
Principal Investigator of PRIN 2022
Presentation of a project and an experience

Gaspare Balsamo
Author, actor and cuntist
The experience of a cuntist

COFFEE BREAK 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

ROUND TABLE
with Gaspare Balsamo

PARTICIPANTS

Manuela Giordano
University of Siena

Massimo Giuseppetti
University of Roma Tre

Livio Sbardella
University of L’Aquila

CHAIR AND CO-ORDINATOR

Laura Lulli
University of L’Aquila

CONCLUSIONS

Andrea Ercolani
CNR-ISMed
A concluding balance

ORGANISERS
Marco Besso Foundation – Rome
CNR-ISMed

SPONSORS
University of L’Aquila, Department of Human Sciences (DSU – UnivAQ)
University of Naples L’Orientale, Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean (DAAM – UniOr)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Andrea Ercolani (CNR-ISMed), Manuela Giordano (University of Siena), Laura Lulli (University of L’Aquila), Riccardo Palmisciano (University of Naples “L’Orientale”), Alessandra Piergrossi (CNR-ISPC), Livio Sbardella (University of L’Aquila)

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The seminar and round table are open to the public, subject to availability of places, with compulsory booking on: https://fmbe.it/49

INFO AND CONTACTS
andrea.ercolani@ismed.cnr.it
segreteria@fondazionemarcobesso.net

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