MapsBordersTerritories #11: On drawing lines, making cuts, and other (philosophical) adventures
Andrea Borghini in conversation with Achille Varzi. From a philosophical perspective, the big question regarding boundaries concerns their source. Do they reflect the “objective” structure of reality or do they simply register demarcations determined by human needs and decisions? In this conversation we focus on concrete examples that arise in the humble daily environments of […]
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Book Launch “Elena Ferrante as World Literature”
“Elena Ferrante” is the pen name, gendered female, of an Italian writer whose biographical identity remains unknown. Ferrante’s cycle of four novels known in Italy as My Brilliant Friend (L’amica geniale) and in the Anglophone world as The Neapolitan Novels became a global sensation and a bestseller in English translation. Hillary Clinton and Salman Rushdie […]
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Postponed: MapsBordersTerritories #7: Stories between, across and without borders: Igiaba Scego’s ‘La linea del colore’
With Igiaba Scego How does art bring together two African descendant women in Rome between the late nineteenth century and present-day? How do five characters with shared roots in Italy, Somalia, and Argentina experience the trauma of fascism and work towards healing? Igiaba Scego addresses this and more in La Linea del Colore and Oltre Babilonia. […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #10: On mapping languages and fighting racisms
with Andrea Moro. What happens when prejudices are applied to apparently neutral sciences, such as – for instance – linguistics? Can notions such as “language”, “nation”, “culture” become a potentially falsifying factor in a process whereby differences are seen as obstacles and limits? Are we sure Babel is a condemnation and not, instead and surprisingly […]
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European Book Club – Sandro Veronesi
EUNIC Ireland is delighted to launch the European Book Club, a series of monthly discussions on a bestselling novel in English translation. The European Book Club will be held the first Thursday of the month at 6pm with a live discussion with the author of the selected novel. The first session will begin on Thursday […]
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European Book Club
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Dublino is delighted to join EUNIC Ireland in a series of monthly discussions on a bestselling novel in English translation. The European Book Club is held the first Thursday of the month at 6pm with a live discussion with the author of the selected novel. The Ireland cluster […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #9: Sindrome Italia: images, voices, experiences from the hidden world of immigration in today’s Italy
with Tiziana Francesca Vaccaro. Maps, Borders, and Territories; but also identities, cultures, stories. What do we become today after experiencing migration? Where does life go, afterward? When Tiziana Francesca Vaccaro meets Vasilica, Maria and Stella, she also meets the so-called “Sindrome Italia” (or Italian Syndrome: a “series of mental illnesses leading to disability”, first theorized by […]
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The Long Live Life! Concert – 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Long Live Life! Concert, produced on the occasion of 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Fondazione Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria and by INTERGEA, is conceived as a tribute to the memory of those men and women – from whatever nationality, culture and social background – who lost their lives and were deprived of […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #8: Maps of Paradise: A Visual History of Heaven on Earth
With Alessandro Scafi Where is Nowhere? Scholars and mapmakers from the Middle Ages to Modernity rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. The history of how the unmappable has been mapped is also a mirror of the universal dream […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #6: Envisioning borders: thinking across border spaces with and through comics
What is there in (and beyond) a map? What do we talk about when we talk of borders? How do we define territories? Google maps and maps of wonderlands. Cartography and strategies of war. Mapping ideologies and pandemics, continents, countries and counties, languages and races. Never ending fights over borders and identities. Maps of perceptions […]
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