On Wednesday, 17 January, recordings began for the first episode of Inclusioni, a podcast channel launched by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona, in collaboration with Fuori Aula Network. The podcast will serve as a platform for the department’s research, featuring interviews and short segments, with a focus on the digital world and the promotion of diversity.
The first episode, set to release in April, will be titled “The Screen Challenge”. Adriaan Van der Weel from Leiden University in the Netherlands, a professor of Book Studies and co-author of the Ljubljana Manifesto on the importance of higher-level reading, will engage in a conversation with Massimo Salgaro, a professor of German literature from the department.
Van der Weel’s research, which centres on the relationship between reading and digital technologies—particularly the differences between reading on printed paper versus screens—will be the main topic of discussion in the debut episode of the podcast.