Calvino Lecture: 'Reading the Anthropocene With Italo Calvino'
Join the Italian Program in celebrating Italo Calvino's 100th anniversary! Serenella Iovino of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill will lecture on "Reading the Anthropocene with Italo Calvino" at 6 p.m. CT Wednesday, Nov. 1, via Zoom. The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here.
About the talk: Can literature help us interpret the world? And how do the stories told by writers mesh with the dynamics of this planet? Iovino, professor of Italian and environmental humanities, suggests possible answers to this question, interweaving the works of Italo Calvino, a multifaceted author sensitive to environmental crises, with the complex and topical concept of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch of the human, characterized by the imprint of our presence and great climatic and social upheavals.
Questions? Email professor Calabretta-Sajder at calabret@uark.edu.
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Contacts
Ryan Calabretta Sajder, Associate Professor
World Languages, Literatures & Cultures
479-575-2951,
calabret@uark.edu
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