Homage to Sciascia: a presentation and talk

September 21, 2022

06:00 PM – 07:00 PM

Standard Admission: Free

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Francesco Izzo is the founder of the nonprofit association Good friends of Leonardo Sciascia (www.amicisciascia.it), born in 1993 with the goal to foster the studying, exploration and discussions on the author Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989). Right after a 13-yr collaboration with the Milan-centered publishing household La Vita Felice (resulting in the publication of 25 volumes devoted to Sciascia scientific tests), he led the Association to have interaction in a fruitful partnership with a single of Italy’s oldest and most applicable publishers, Leo S. Olschki (Florence). In 2011 he launched both equally the guide series «Sciascia Scrittore Europeo» and the 1st worldwide scholarly journal on Sciascia scientific tests, «Todomodo», of which he is co-Editor-in-chief. From the early nineties he is the editor of the graphic art portfolio collection «Homage to Sciascia» (28 portfolios now released) and of the minimal-version catalogs of «Premio Leonardo Sciascia newbie d’estampes» (10 catalogs printed in collaboration with the publishing house Il Girasole, Valverde). He also edited 3 publications: 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 current he is the Director of Functions of the Nationwide Committee for the Centenary of the Delivery of Leonardo Sciascia (CNCS).

Valerio Cappozzo is an Associate Professor of Fashionable Languages at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses primarily on medieval and modern-day poetry. He has extensively released scholarly posts, edited books, and guide chapters in these two fields. His monograph, titled The Medieval Desire Dictionary. The Somniale Danielis in Literary Manuscripts (Leo. S. Olschki Editore, Florence 2018), offers an version of the widely circulated aspiration handbook from the ninth century to 1550. He is also a co-author with Jacques Dalarun and Sean Discipline of A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Everyday living of Clare of Rimini, which is now in press for College of Pennsylvania Push. He has also edited volumes on Giorgio Bassani, on the Italian Risorgimento and on Carlo Michelstaedter, Storia e storiografia di Carlo Michelstaedter (University of Mississippi, 2017). He is the President of the Associazione Amici di Leonardo Sciascia, the vice-President of the American Boccaccio Affiliation 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 College. Prof. Fiore received her B.A. in Italy (College of Trieste) and her Ph.D. in the Literature Office at the University of California, San Diego (2002). The recipient of numerous fellowships, she has been Checking out Assistant Professor at Harvard College (2007), NYU (2008), and Rutgers University (2009). Among 2011 and 2017 she has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for European and Mediterranean Scientific tests at NYU. As of Fall 2017, she is member of the Seminar in Present day Italian Research at Columbia College. Fiore is the author of Pre-Occupied Areas: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies (Fordham College Press, May 2017). Fiore’s essays on challenges of Italian migrations, space, and id have appeared in Italian, English, and Spanish equally in journals (Annali d’Italianistica, Diaspora, Bollettino d’italianistica, Zibaldone, El hilo de la fábula) and edited publications such as the MLA volume Training Italian American Literature, Film, and Well known Tradition (2010) The Cultures of Italian Migration: Numerous Trajectories and Discrete Views (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2011) Postcolonial Italy: Complicated National Homogeneity (Palgrave, 2012 – in Italian translation, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2014).

David Leopold is an creator and curator who has arranged exhibitions for establishments about the place together with the Library of Congress, the New York Community Library for the Doing Arts, the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, the James A. Michener Art Museum, and the Area Museum in Chicago. Internationally, he has curated reveals for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and Berlin. He began to manage the David Levine Archive at the artist’s ask for in 2005 and continues to preserve it for the Levine family. He edited David Levine’s American Presidents (Fantagraphics) in 2008 and is at the moment doing the job on a retrospective of Levine’s get the job done in collaboration with Harry Katz, former curator of Prints and Pictures at the Library of Congress. Leopold structured the archive of Al Hirschfeld’s get the job done for the artist and is now the Innovative Director for the Al Hirschfeld Basis, exactly where 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 Write-up referred to as it an “instant vintage.” Amazon detailed it as a single of the “Top 100 Textbooks of 2015.” His other guides incorporate To Stir, Tell, and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth (Camino Guides 2012), Irving Berlin’s Show Small business: Broadway-Hollywood-The usa, (Harry N. Abrams, 2005) Hirschfeld’s Hollywood (Abrams, 2001). He has also authored monographs on underappreciated artists for a variety of museums. His articles or blog posts have appeared in The New York Times, The Intercontinental Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette, and Pennsylvania Heritage. In September 2016, Leopold received the Joseph and Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creative imagination at Lincoln Center in New York.