Graziella Parati, the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature and Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College, will visit the U of A to give the lecture "Urban Space and Migrant Lives in Italy" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 12. 

Her presentation will focus on two Italian cities: Milan and Rome, and on the impact of affect on the change that migrants have brought to Italian urban space. The lecture is free and open to the pubilc and will be held in Giffels Auditorium at Old Main.

Parati will also primarly focus on the works of Amara Lakhous and Igiaba Scego and how they offer a tangible example of how a city and its map can be re-made by "others." 

This lecture is sponsored by the Italian Program in the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures in collaboration with the Honors College and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Please contact Ryan Calabretta-Sajder at calabret@uark.edu for more information.