On October 26, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented the paper, “The Balcony, The Pope, and The Screens: Jean Genet’s Unsettling Perspectives on the Society of the Spectacle,for the “Drama and Society I” session at the PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) Conference “Shifting Perspectives” in Portland, Oregon. In his plays The Balcony, The Pope, and The Screens Genet critiques the “society of the spectacle” (Guy Debord), i.e., the degradation of authentic social connections in favor of relations between images. The paper detailed Genet’s demonstration of how society employs simulacra as tools of power and how to potentially escape them.