02.12.2021

il Pietrisco PROSE: ‘Disability and Children’s Literature’

15 December 2021, 6pm (GMT)

Facets of the Health Humanities

with

Elzaemira Festa e Manuela Salvi

in dialogue with

Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato

‘Disability and Children’s Literature’

This eighth lecture of the Facets of the Health Humanities series, hosted by Il Pietrisco Prose, will see Enzaemira Festa and Manuela Salvi introduced by Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato.

Enzaemira Festa and Manuela Salvi are both well-known Italian children’s literature writers. In this webinar, they will talk about their experience of writing and relating to diversity and inclusion, and, in particular, about their fictional representation of disability/illness/mental health. [Read More…]

05.11.2021

IL PIETRISCO PROSE: ‘Perform/Ability: Theatre and the Health Humanities’, 17th November 6pm GMT

17 November 2021, 6pm (GMT)

Facets of the

Health Humanities

with

Enrico Totola and Mick Greer

Introduced by: Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato

‘Perform/Ability: Theatre and the Health Humanities’

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Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81648581091?pwd=aGo5cndCQmpCUWN1djdweVlxZHVDdz09

Meeting ID: 816 4858 1091
For passcode email: prose@pietrisco.net

Deadline for enrolment: 1 pm on November 17, 2021

01.11.2021

IL PIETRISCO POETRY: Poetry Reading by Laura Corraducci and Massimiliano Bardotti

24 NOVEMBER 2021, 9pm Italian time

IL PIETRISCO Poetry

in dialogue with

Rossella M. Riccobono

Poets

MASSIMILIANO BARDOTTI

AND

LAURA CORRADUCCI

will be reading from their latest poetry collections, respectively: ‘La terra e la radice’ and ‘Il passo dell’obbedienza’.

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Il Pietrisco Zoom ID: 876 4069 6896

Email poetry@pietrisco.net to receive the password to access the event.

19.10.2021

FACETS OF THE HEALTH HUMANITIES: ‘Narrative and the novel: from form to function’

20 October 2021, 6pm (GMT)

Facets of the

Health Humanities

with

Isabel Fernandes

Chair: Chiara Battisti

I will start by a very brief approach to what is narrative, its diversity, complexity and pervasiveness in our lives. I will then concentrate on one form of narrative discourse: the novel. I will address its main features and its difference from the other literary genres, following Mikhail Bakhtin’s theorization. [Read More…]

19.09.2021

FACETS OF THE HEALTH HUMANITIES

Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon)
“Imagining Myself Out of Myself”: Uses of Fiction and Memoir in Health Humanities”
Chaired by Rossella M. Riccobono
September 29, 2021 

This fifth lecture of the Facets of the Health Humanities series, hosted by “Il Pietrisco” Prose, will see Teresa Casal explore the medium of Memoir and the practice of Health Humanities.
This talk hopes to contribute to a closer appreciation of how memoir and fiction represent experiences of illness and grief and how readers engage with them. [Read More…]