In collaboration with the McGill University, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Italian Studies, the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal presents: Re-examining the Long “1950s”: The (Un)Making of the Contemporary Italian Cultural Identity 10.
The objective of the project is to lay the foundation for a reinterpretation of the “long 1950s” as a key phase in the elaboration of the cultural erasures, marginalizations and distortions which constitute the unacknowledged but fundamental underside of contemporary Italian identity. Bringing this underside to light has ethical and political, as well as cultural implications: a deeper and more complex understanding of post-WW II Italy is an essential step in developing a fresh insight into some long-standing and frustrating impasses in contemporary Italian society with respect to issues of class, gender, religious and political ideology, etc.
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Re-examining the Long “1950s”: The (Un)Making of the Contemporary Italian Cultural Identity 10 : “Non c’è nessun dopoguerra” by Maurizio Vito, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, The University of Oklahoma
Thursday March 30 2017 at 5:00 pm
McGill University, Wendy Patrick Room, Wilson Hall, 3506 University Street
Maurizio Vito holds a degree in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Verona, a Master in Italian Literature at the University of Pittsburgh and then a PhD at the University of California Berkeley in Italian Studies. He was Professor and Visiting Lecturer at several universities including: University of Oklahoma, University of Arizona, University of California and the Wesleyan University. Throughout his career he has published several articles and Reviews, as well as books: Italian collective narratives. The author-function in the XXI century, and Earth and Sea: Metaphors and Politics in Conflict, Arachne Publisher, Rome, 2012 and is currently working on a translation project entitled “New Italian Epic., Literature, oblique look, back to the future.”
His research field ranges from contemporary Italian literature, the epic and the Renaissance studies. Maurizio Vito is currently professor of Italian language at the University of Oklahoma.
For more info: https://thelongfifties.wordpress.com/
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