Liberty Meets Italian Grace (Part one)
Conversations around the timeless work of Grazia Deledda
November 30, 6:30PM
NYU – Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò
24 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011
A two-day conference dedicated to the work and legacy of Grazia Deledda, the first and only Italian woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1926). A collaboration between Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New York, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò @NYU and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, celebrating the 150th birthday of Grazia Deledda.
With the support of the Consulate General of Italy in New York.
This is a hybrid meeting.
Free Admission | Registration required for the in-person event
PROGRAM
(This event is in English)
- Institutional greetings and introduction by Anthony Muroni, journalist and writer, Artistic Director of the Institutional Committee Deledda 150-anniversary, and NYU Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini
- Sardegna, land of myth and space of absolute existence. Grazia’s World between conflicting codes and concrete universals.
Dino Manca, Professor of Linguistics and Italian Philology, Department of Humanistic and Social Science – University of Sassari - Grazia Deledda in America: the myth reborn. From memory of the past to the challenge of a new book.
Angela Guiso, Essayist, Literary Critic, Columnist - Ivy
Excerpt read by Delissa Reynolds - Translating Deledda.
Martha Witt, Author, Professor of creative writing at William Paterson University.
Mary Ann Witt, Professor Emerita North Carolina State University
- Around the dinner table with Grazia
Excerpt read by Delissa Reynolds
- Knowledge, Crisis, Resolution: Grazia Deledda, a well-rounded learning experience.
Simonetta Milli Konewko, Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Program Department of Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Q&A moderated by NYU Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini