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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear All, You are warmly invited to attend the concluding seminar in the series “History and Democracy” organised by Dr Andrea Mammone at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Monday, 18 June 2018 at 7 pm. The seminar is entitled “Does culture still matter?” and will be conducted by Dr Mammone in dialogue with academics Arianna Bove and Stefano Jossa and writer Marco Mancassola. For further details and bookings: https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/it/gli_eventi/calendario/2018/06/history-and-democracy-10-does-culture.html 2018-06-18 History and Democracy #10: Does culture still matter? With Arianna Bove (Queen Mary), Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway) and Marco Mancassola (writer and FILL) Chaired by Andrea Mammone (Royal Holloway) Following our successful event on education and democracy, this final seminar focuses on another overlooked, yet rather hot, issue: what role is culture playing, or can eventually play, in the age of demagogues, populism and anger? In a sense, it is evident how television, trolls and "hate speech" seem to set up the public/political agenda, while hashtags are replacing real reflections and commentaries. How can we react to this? Our panel, featuring scholars, activists and writers, will look at the various dimensions of contemporary cultural activism and production - from novels to public engagement - and the ways intellectuals can contribute to improve the society we live in. This event will be held in English. Arianna Bove is a political theorists at Queen Mary and translator of philosophy and politics from Italian and French into English. Recent translations include: Elettra Stimilli, The Debt of the Living. Asceticism and Capitalism; Maurizio Lazzarato, Experimental Politics. Work, Welfare, and Creativity in the Neoliberal Age; Antonio Negri, Factory of Strategy; Michel Foucault, Introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View; Franco Berardi, Precarious Rhapsody. Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation. Stefano Jossa is Reader in Italian at Royal Holloway University of London. He specialises in the Italian Renaissance and the Italian national identity expressed through literature. He has published extensively on both topics, including his forthcoming volume dedicated to the beauty of Italian language (with Einaudi). He held Visiting Professorships at the Polytechnic of Zurich, the University of Parma, and the University of Roma Tre and was a Fellow at Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies. He has given lectures at various Universities worldwide. He is a regular contributor to the cultural pages of the Italian daily newspaper "il manifesto" with reviews of art exhibitions in London and has written for La Repubblica. Marco Mancassola is an Italian novelist based in London. His book Non saremo confusi per sempre has just been re-published in Italy after inspiring Sicilian Ghost Story, the feature film that opened the International Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival last year, soon to be released in the UK. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Internazionale, International New York Times. Along with a group of other London-based Italian authors, and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, he is the founder of the Festival of Italian Literature in London (Fill). As a teacher he has started Londra Scrive, a small creative writing school in London. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies