Symposium: Pinocchio's Adventures:
Marionettes, Automata and Mechanized Life in
Literature and the Visual Arts

Massimo Ciavolella
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the Department of Italian Studies, University of California-Los Angeles
"Pinocchio's Adventures: Marionettes, Automata"

Paolo Fabbri
Professor of Semiotics at the U. of Bologna (DAMS)
"Pinocchio, Android and Cyborg"

Real Boy (2003). Video Projection, 8 min.
Directed by Douglas Rosenberg
Assistant Professor in the Dance Program

Friday, March 14
2:30 p.m.
254 Van Hise Hall

Sponsored by The Center for European Studies 
Hosted by Patrick Rumble (UW-Madison Department of French and Italian) and cosponsored by the Department of French and Italian.