Homage to Sciascia: a presentation and talk

September 21, 2022

06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

Typical Admission: Free

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Francesco Izzo is the founder of the nonprofit affiliation Friends of Leonardo Sciascia (www.amicisciascia.it), born in 1993 with the purpose to foster the reading through, investigation and discussions on the author Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989). Soon after a 13-yr collaboration with the Milan-primarily based publishing residence La Vita Felice (resulting in the publication of 25 volumes devoted to Sciascia experiments), he led the Affiliation to interact in a fruitful partnership with 1 of Italy’s oldest and most pertinent publishers, Leo S. Olschki (Florence). In 2011 he launched both of those the reserve series «Sciascia Scrittore Europeo» and the first intercontinental scholarly journal on Sciascia experiments, «Todomodo», of which he is co-Editor-in-chief. From the early nineties he is the editor of the graphic art portfolio selection «Homage to Sciascia» (28 portfolios previously released) and of the limited-edition catalogs of «Premio Leonardo Sciascia amateur d’estampes» (10 catalogs revealed in collaboration with the publishing residence Il Girasole, Valverde). He also edited a few guides: Il diritto al caso (Palermo, Sellerio 1992) E Sciascia che ne dice? (Firenze, Olschki 2019) Cento anni di Sciascia in sei parole (Firenze, Olschki 2021). At existing he is the Director of Operations of the Nationwide Committee for the Centenary of the Delivery of Leonardo Sciascia (CNCS).

Valerio Cappozzo is an Associate Professor of Modern day Languages at the University of Mississippi. His exploration focuses mostly on medieval and modern day poetry. He has thoroughly posted scholarly posts, edited guides, and ebook chapters in these two fields. His monograph, titled The Medieval Dream Dictionary. The Somniale Danielis in Literary Manuscripts (Leo. S. Olschki Editore, Florence 2018), offers an edition of the commonly circulated desire guide from the ninth century to 1550. He is also a co-creator with Jacques Dalarun and Sean Discipline of A Feminine Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Daily life of Clare of Rimini, which is now in push for College of Pennsylvania Press. He has also edited volumes on Giorgio Bassani, on the Italian Risorgimento and on Carlo Michelstaedter, Storia e storiografia di Carlo Michelstaedter (College of Mississippi, 2017). He is the President of the Associazione Amici di Leonardo Sciascia, the vice-President of the American Boccaccio Association and co-Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal «Annali d’Italianistica».

Teresa Fiore is the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Scientific studies at Montclair Point out University. Prof. Fiore received her B.A. in Italy (College of Trieste) and her Ph.D. in the Literature Department at the College of California, San Diego (2002). The recipient of a number of fellowships, she has been Traveling to Assistant Professor at Harvard College (2007), NYU (2008), and Rutgers University (2009). Concerning 2011 and 2017 she has been a Browsing Fellow at the Heart for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU. As of Slide 2017, she is member of the Seminar in Modern day Italian Research at Columbia College. Fiore is the author of Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham University Press, May well 2017). Fiore’s essays on problems of Italian migrations, place, and id have appeared in Italian, English, and Spanish the two in journals (Annali d’Italianistica, Diaspora, Bollettino d’italianistica, Zibaldone, El hilo de la fábula) and edited publications these kinds of as the MLA volume Training Italian American Literature, Movie, and Well-liked Lifestyle (2010) The Cultures of Italian Migration: Assorted Trajectories and Discrete Views (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2011) Postcolonial Italy: Tough Countrywide Homogeneity (Palgrave, 2012 – in Italian translation, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2014).

David Leopold is an creator and curator who has structured exhibitions for establishments all-around the region such as the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Doing Arts, the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, the James A. Michener Artwork Museum, and the Area Museum in Chicago. Internationally, he has curated shows for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and Berlin. He commenced to organize the David Levine Archive at the artist’s ask for in 2005 and proceeds to manage it for the Levine family. He edited David Levine’s American Presidents (Fantagraphics) in 2008 and is at the moment functioning on a retrospective of Levine’s work in collaboration with Harry Katz, former curator of Prints and Images at the Library of Congress. Leopold structured the archive of Al Hirschfeld’s operate for the artist and is now the Artistic Director for the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, wherever he co-hosts The Hirschfeld Century Podcast. His e book, The Hirschfeld Century: A Portrait of the Artist and His Age, released by Alfred A. Knopf in 2015 has gained common acclaim. The Washington Post termed it an “instant common.” Amazon detailed it as a person of the “Top 100 Textbooks of 2015.” His other publications include To Stir, Inform, and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth (Camino Books 2012), Irving Berlin’s Clearly show Organization: Broadway-Hollywood-The usa, (Harry N. Abrams, 2005) Hirschfeld’s Hollywood (Abrams, 2001). He has also authored monographs on underappreciated artists for many museums. His articles have appeared in The New York Moments, The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Pittsburgh Article-Gazette, and Pennsylvania Heritage. In September 2016, Leopold received the Joseph and Joan Cullman Award for Incredible Creativity at Lincoln Center in New York.