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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Ciao Stefano, ma che bella cosa! Non ne sapevo nulla! Vivo e lavoro a St Andrews quest'anno, e mi piacerebbe molto venire giu' per questo evento. In caso, avresti qualche consiglio su dove dormire? Un abbraccio, e spero a presto! Silvia italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies > Il 13 settembre 2017 alle 20.36 "Jossa, Stefano" <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto: > > Dear List Members, > > I am pleased to announce that a Festival of Italian Literature in London / Festival Italiano di Letteratura a Londra (FILL) will take place at the Coronet Theatre Notting Hill on October 21 and 22, 2017. > > Two days of events, over 30 speakers, authors and thinkers from different backgrounds, established writers and younger radical ones. Italian, British, and international voices will be discussing literature and topics such as migration, politics, Italy, the present and future of London, and how Brexit is already affecting novels and poems. > > Envisioned by the London-based Italian literary community and sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, the festival took form in the turmoil of the postreferendum. It was then that a group of Italian authors, journalists, and academics living in London started to meet and felt the impulse to react with a new ambitious cultural event. The Culture Institute embraced the project and became its co-organiser. > > For its part, the Turin International Book Fair spotted the festival’s innovative potential and decided to become a partner, building an ideal London-Turin bridge. > > > > During the FILL, the audience will be able to attend panel discussions and readings, meet the authors, and enjoy DJ sets as well as other side events. Brexit will be by no means the sole topic, but it will give to the festival an inevitable, underlying political tension. Instead of following the format of a classic foreign-literature festival, with a selected display of Italian authors introduced to the London audience, the organisers have opted for a more fluid format, bringing together Italian and non-Italian voices, blending meet-the-author events with panel discussions centred on contemporary themes. > > > > The programme includes “Citizens of Nowhere?” (titled after Theresa May’s notorious statement), with Strega Prize winner Melania Mazzucco and American author Lauren Elkin. Lampedusa-based doctor Pietro Bartolo will launch the English edition of his book about his experience with migrants, with co-author Lidia Tilotta and Clare Longrigg from The Guardian. Iain Sinclair (“The last London”) will be in conversation with Olivia Laing (“The lonely city”) and with Tate Modern’s senior curator Andrea Lissoni. Author Christian Raimo and Jonathan Hopkin from the London School of Economics will get into “Italian politics for dummies”, while a debate on the cultural industry and feminism in the 2010s will gather a group of panelists including Sara Taylor and Granta editor Ka Bradley. > > A professional panel of British publishers and editors will discuss the new wave of “post- Ferrante” Italian literature in the UK market. Giancarlo De Cataldo, co-author of bestseller “Suburra”, will join the festival to celebrate the worldwide launch of the Netflix series based on his book. Cartoonist Zerocalcare, hugely popular in Italy, will meet the London audience for the first time. > > And again, a poetry collaborative performance commissioned by the festival with some of the most interesting voices of the new Italian and British scene; bestselling children and YA author Pierdomenico Baccalario with a bitter-sweet reading on children and Brexit; music journalists Valerio Mattioli and Rob Young from The Wire on the secret history of Italian (and British) music. > Nearly all events will be in English or in Italian with English translation. > > ALL WELCOME! > > Programme and tickets: http://fill.org.uk/events/ http://fill.org.uk/events/ > > > > > > Dr Stefano Jossa > > Reader in Italian > > > > Italian PRA Officer > > > Royal Holloway University of London > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX > United Kingdom > > http://tinyurl.com/StefanoJossa http://tinyurl.com/StefanoJossa > > > > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] mailto:[log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] mailto:[log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] mailto:[log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] mailto:[log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies > ------------------------------------------- Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey. 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