Events of the Italy Network

On October 18, Italicum students took part in the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, where Italy was this year's guest country! They attended a reading by the Abruzzese writer Donatella Di Pietrantonio, whose book "L'Età fragile" (in German "Die zerbrechliche Zeit") was published by Verlag Kunstmann. They also had the opportunity to talk to the translator Klaudia Ruschkowski, thanks to the collaboration with the Römerweg publishing house. An unforgettable experience, organized by Jacopo Romei and Julia Leitherer!

We live in times in which gender-equitable speech is a political issue and so-called masculinists use the internet for their anti-feminist fantasies. The tenth Italy Day at the University of Kassel takes a historical perspective and examines discourses on violence and gender in Italy from the Renaissance to the present day.

The lectures examine historical, literary and artistic representations of physical and psychological violence and gender roles and attributions. They range from competitions in the Renaissance to portraits of victims and perpetrators in painting and the literary examination of crime reporting in 19th and 20th century verismo to current films about female murders.

Program:

14:00: Welcome/introduction

14:15: Christian Jaser (University of Kassel): Violence, gender, horses - the Italian pali races of the Renaissance

15:00: Jacopo Romei (University of Kassel): Un domani non c'è per tuttә: riflessioni sul femminicidio nell' Italia contemporanea

15:45: Break

16:15: Rudolf Behrens (Ruhr University Bochum): The silent crime. Sexual violence in Italian veristic narration (Verga, Capuana, D'Annunzio)

17:00: Tanja Steinfelser D'Agostino and Martina Sitt (University of Kassel): Beatrice Cenci - a life between victim scenarios and regulatory power

17:45: Closing remarks/farewell

With regard to Jacopo Romei's lecture, I would like to draw your attention to the Romance Studies film evening, which will be showing C'é ancora domani on June 19 (the evening before the Italy Day) at 6 p.m. in Kurt-Wolters-Str. 5 in room -1029. Here is a small teaser:

C'éancora d omani is Paola Cortellesi's first film, set in Rome in the late 1940s. It revolves around Delia, wife and mother, who is caught between tradition and personal freedom. Her husband Ivano often displays authoritarian traits, while Delia takes care of her tyrannical father-in-law. Delia's only consolation is her friendship with Marisa. The family plans the engagement of their daughter Marcella to Giulio, but a mysterious letter encourages Delia to strive for a better future. The award-winning film was released in cinemas in spring 2024 and is already an audience favorite and a huge success in Italy and internationally.