The Italian Cultural Institute, within the framework of the Italian Days conceived with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQàM) and in collaboration with the Institut d’études internationales de Montréal (UQàM), with the UNESCO Chair d’étude des fondements philosophiques de la justice et de la société démocratique (UQàM), the Fondation Aubin, the Gramsci Foundation of Rome and the Alberto Cardosi Cultural Association, is pleased to present the Round Table dedicated to the theme “Actualité philosophique et politique de Gramsci”.
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 2:30pm – 4:30 pm
Bibliothèque Centrale, Hubert-Aquim Pavilion (UQAM)
University of Quebec in Montreal, room A-M205
400, Sainte-Catherine East St., Montréal
The Round Table is dedicated to the political and philosophical thought of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), a very present experience in an era in which the dialectic of socio-economic contrasts appears animated and vital. Thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute, scholars Rino Caputo (“tor Vergata” university of Rome), Gian Mario Cazzaniga (University of Pisa) and Francesco Giasi (Gramsci Foundation of Rome) will participate at the Round Table.
Lazzaro Rino Caputo is “Docens Turris Virgatae” and full professor of Italian Literature. Prof. Caputo currently teaches Italian Literature at the Master of Literature, Philology and Linguistics (Department of “Literary, Philosophy and History of Art” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”). He has published essays and volumes on Dante, Petrarca, Giannone, Manzoni and on Italian romanticism, on Pirandello and contemporary Italian and North American literary criticism. Professor Caputo is an ordinary member of Arcadia, of the Dante Society of America and of the National Centre for Leopardian Studies. In the past he was also professor of Literary Narration at the National Film School of Rome-Cinecittà, Linguistics, Italian Linguistics at the Superior School of Journalism of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and of Didactics of Italian Literature in preparatory courses for high school teachers. From November 2007 to July 2012 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and since October 2010 he chaired the National Conference of Rectors of the Faculty of Humanities of the Italian University. For four years (November 2013 – November 2017) he was Vice Rector of Culture at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. In addition, Dr. Caputo is President of the Centro Studi Ars Nova Italiana of Literature and Music of the fourteenth century in Certaldo since July 2012. In 2018 he received the International Pirandello Prize thanks to his long and distinguished scientific and dissemination activities in the opera world the Sicilian writer, 1934 Nobel Prize.
Gian Mario Cazzaniga was born in Turin on April 20, 1942. After attending the Massimo D’Azeglio high school in Turin, Cazzaniga enrolled in the Faculty of Letters and later in the Normale di Pisa. Currently retired, Cazzaniga was professor of the Moral Philosophy Course at the University of Pisa. He is also the organizer of twelve international conferences, from which he has published Les Actes and two conventions between the University of Pisa and the University of Québec in Montréal, whose Canadian promoter was Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, president of UNESCO at the Department of Philosophy of UQAM and at the University of Havana. Professor Cazzaniga is also the author of 160 scientific publications and a visiting lecturer at about twenty universities located between Europe and America. Recent bibliographic publications: Cazzaniga G.M.-Zarka Ch.Y. eds., Penser la souveraineté à l’époque moderne et contemporaine (Pisa-Paris, 2001); Boulad-Ayoub J.-Cazzaniga G.M., Traces de l’autre. Mythes de l’antiquité et Peuples du Livre dans la construction des nations méditerranéennes (Pisa-Paris, 2004); Cazzaniga G.M. ed., Storia d’Italia Einaudi, Annali 21: Freemasonry (2006), Annali 25: Esotericism (2010); Cazzaniga G.M., La catena d’unione. Contributi per una storia della massoneria (Pisa, 2016).
Francesco Giasi is director of the Gramsci Foundation and member of the Scientific Committee of the National Edition of the writings of Antonio Gramsci. He has dedicated numerous studies to Gramsci in magazines and volumes.