Following the Circolo Letterario presentation on Thursday, January 18, join us for a relaxed and informal Book Club discussion of the works of Goliarda Sapienza. This session will take place on Sunday, February 15th and is open to readers of L’arte della gioia (available in Italian or English) and/or L’università di Rebibbia (available in Italian).
This Book Club offers a unique opportunity to dive deeper into Sapienza’s life and writing ahead of the 17th Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis / St. Paul, where her story is brought to the screen in Fuori (Mario Martone). Participants can reflect on her themes of freedom, identity, and personal courage before seeing them interpreted in this spectacular film.
Discussions will take place in English and/or Italian, depending on the group. The discussion will be led by Pieranna Garavaso, professor emerita at the University of Minnesota Morris.
Pieranna Garavaso is native Italian and came to the US to earn a PhD in Philosophy (at the U of Nebraska Lincoln). She taught Philosophy at the University of Minnesota Morris for 34 years. She was awarded the UMN Morris Alumni Association Teaching Award (2003), the Horace T. Morse Alumni Association Undergraduate Teaching Award (2004) and the UMN Morris Faculty Research Award (2017). Her areas of research include History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics, and Feminist Philosophies. She has published articles in Italian and English and authored, co-authored or edited several books; the last collection she has edited is the Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism (2018). As Emerita/retired she plans to devote more time to reading and discussing Italian literature.
In 2021, ICC was appointed Presidio Letterario of the Società Dante Alighieri (DA), one of the most important Italian institutions for the promotion and appreciation of Italian language and culture since 1889. ICC is now part of a network of cultural centers in Italy and abroad promoting events and initiatives related to Italian literature. Since 2009 DA has officially been part of the jury of Premio Strega, the most prestigious Italian literary award.
