Istituto Di Cultura - Dublino

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...

Book Launch: Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film: Boundaries and Identity (Palgrave 2020) Moderated by Michael Cronin in conversation with the editor, Enrica Maria Ferrara. Readings by Tiziano Scarpa.In English with readings in Italian Over the past two centuries human identity has undeniably changed, renegotiating...

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 Itali...

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 obstacl...

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 ...