{"id":2450,"date":"2023-03-04T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:29:47","slug":"the-universal-language-of-italian-puppets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2023\/03\/04\/the-universal-language-of-italian-puppets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Pacchioni&#8217;s Work Illuminates and Promotes the Universal Language of Italian Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-26-at-2.52.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1997\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-26-at-2.52.11-PM-663x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>Palgrave Macmillan recently published an English translation of Dr. Pacchioni&#8217;s study <em>The Image of the Puppet in Italian Theater, Literature, and Film<\/em>. During the past two weeks, Dr. Pacchioni was invited to speak about the popular Italian puppet theater and its artistic and cultural influence in scholarly and cultural venues.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pacchioni spoke about puppetry&#8217;s significance in the search for an Italian global identity at the virtual international panel <strong>Italy by Design, organized by the University of Edinburgh, Scottland,<\/strong> which gathered leading Italian Studies scholars worldwide. He also spoke about the transmedial history and potential of Italian puppetry at the annual conference of the <strong>California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies<\/strong> hosted by the Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at California State University-Long Beach. Finally, Dr. Pacchioni spoke about the broader puppetry tradition underpinning the figure of Pinocchio at the <strong>Italian American Museum of Los Angeles<\/strong>, which currently hosts the exhibit A Real Boy: The Many Lives of Pinocchio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palgrave Macmillan recently published an English translation of Dr. Pacchioni&#8217;s study The Image of the Puppet in Italian Theater, Literature, and Film. During the past two weeks, Dr. Pacchioni was invited to speak about the popular Italian puppet theater and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2023\/03\/04\/the-universal-language-of-italian-puppets-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-events","category-faculty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}