Month: September 2024

On Monday, September 30 at 4.30 PM in the Co-Working classroom, the presentation “Narrating inclusion through Opera: the “Arena for All” Project” will be held. The event will feature Elena di Giovanni (Universiy of Macerata), Eles Belfontali (Anffass Verona) and her daughter Stefania Paiola, in conversation with Manuel Boschiero (University of Verona)..

The presentation – inaugurating the Festivabìlia Coming Soon calendar – will illustrate an innovative project about inclusion in the performing arts realized by the Arena di Verona Foundation with the support of Müller Italia and the scientific coordination of Professor Elena Di Giovanni, assisted by Professor Francesca Raffi from the University of Macerata.

Starting from the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival (2023), “Arena for Everyone” has made 10 opera performances fully accessible each year, thanks to various dedicated accessibility tools, including inclusive trailers, audio descriptions of performances, and subtitles for deaf individuals.

“Festivabìlia Coming soon” will begin on Monday, September 30 at 4.30 PM in the Co-Working classroom. This new series anticipates “Festivabìlia: the Theatre of Potential Abilities 2024”, a theatre festival launched last year to showcase performances focused on inclusion and accessibility. The “Coming soon” series offers events dedicated to the presentation of important projects, organizations, and the protagonists of inclusion:

• Monday, September 30 at 4.30 PM in the Co-Working classroom (Foreign Languages and Literatures building, mezzanine first floor)
  Narrating inclusion through Opera: the “Arena for All” Project
• Friday, October 11 at 4.30 PM in the Co-Working classroom (Foreign Languages and Literatures building, mezzanine first floor)
  Screening of “Come, Come Closer”
• Monday, October 21 at 4.30 PM in the Co-Working classroom (Foreign Languages and Literatures building, mezzanine first floor)
  FOLLOW FOSSY: Accessible Tours Between Museum Education and Inclusion.

All events are free, open to the public and for the larger community of the University of Verona.

The international conference “Emotions in Children’s and Youth Literature” will take place from September 19 to 21, organized by Professor Simone Rebora in collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Freie Universität Berlin.

Emotional engagement is of fundamental importance when children learn to read, tell, and share stories. Surprisingly, this crucial dimension of cultural literacy has received little attention in literary studies, psychology, and digital humanities. The conference Emotions in Children’s and Youth Literature, which will be held entirely in English, will present the first results of the CHYLSA project (Children’s and Youth Literature Sentiment Analysis, based at the University of Mainz and Freie Universität Berlin) and explore potential synergies with the “Inclusive Humanities” Excellence Project at the University of Verona.

Info and full program available here.

The fifth episode of Inclusioni, the podcast channel of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in collaboration with Fuori Aula Network, is now available online on major platforms. This all-female episode focuses on Carmen de Burgos, a writer and journalist who tirelessly fought for women’s rights in early 20th-century Spain, to the point of being placed on the list of prohibited authors by the Franco regime.

The hosts are Prof. Antonella Gallo, a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Verona who has been studying Carmen de Burgos for several years, and Prof. Anna Altarriba Cabré, a Linguistic Expert Collaborator at our university and president of the Italo-Spanish Cultural Association of Verona. The conversation and excerpts we will hear focus on the novel “La rampa” or “The Inclined Plane” (Le Lettere Publishing House, Florence), which was released in bookstores on March 1, 2024, and translated into Italian by Prof. Gallo.

“The Inclined Plane” captures the condition of women in early 20th-century Spain and Carmen de Burgos’ long political activism for women’s emancipation. It is also a powerful work of protest against gender inequality and a valuable testament to the author’s tenacious fight for a spiritual renaissance in Spain.

Happy listening!