In collaboration with the General Consulate of Italy in Melbourne, on the occasion of 8 March, a reflection on the intellectual, social and political position of women and men, on sexism, authoritarianism, violence and its opposite.
Daniela Brogi, Maria Nadotti, Francesca Rigotti and Isabella Pasqualetto converse starting from a small feminist alphabet of terms that are at the centre of the public and private discourse on women and the feminine.
The event will be held on the 8th of March 2022 from 6:30 Ppm, Melbourne time (8:30 am Italian time) and will be accessible via the following link: Reflections on a feminist alphabet using the password: IWD2022
MARIA NADOTTI: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Maria Nadotti Journalist, essayist, editorial consultant and translator, writes about theater, cinema, art and culture for Italian and foreign newspapers; she collaborates with the weekly Internazionale and writes for the online cultural magazine Doppiozero. She is the author of Silenzio = Morte: Gli USA nel tempo dell’AIDS (Anabasi, 1994); Cassandra non abita più qui (La Tartaruga, 1996); Sesso & Genere (il Saggiatore, 1996 e Mimesis, 2022); Scrivere al buio (La Tartaruga, 1998 e Tamu, 2020); Prove d’ascolto (Edizioni dell’asino, 2011); Trasporti e traslochi. Raccontare John Berger (Doppiozero, 2014); Necrologhi. Pamphlet sull’arte di consumare (il Saggiatore, 2015); and co-author of Nata due volte (il Saggiatore, 1995).
Maria Nadotti conceived and edited various books including: Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy (Routledge, 1988); Immagini allo schermo: La spettatrice e il cinema (Rosenberg&Sellier, 1991); Elogio del margine: Razza, sesso e mercato culturale (Feltrinelli, 1998 e Tamu, 2020); Il cinico non è adatto a questo mestiere: Conversazioni sul buon giornalismo (Edizioni e/o, 2000); Modi di vedere (Bollati Boringhieri, 2004); Dieci in paura (Edizioni Epoché, 2010); La speranza, nel frattempo. Una conversazione tra Arundhati Roy, John Berger e Maria Nadotti (Casagrande, 2010); Riga 32 – John Berger (Marcos y Marcos, 2012). She is the Italian curator and translator of John Berger’s work, she is the author of two documentary medium-length films: Elogio della constanza (2006) and Sotto tregua Gaza (2009).
FRANCESCA RIGOTTI: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Francesca Rigotti Francesca Rigotti, philosopher and essayist, was a lecturer at the universities of Göttingen, Princeton and Zurich and from 1996 to 2021 at USI in Lugano.
She studied metaphorical and symbolic procedures in philosophical and political thought and in everyday life and collaborate with various Italian and Swiss media. Among her most loved books, among the more than thirty published (some translated into thirteen languages): Il filo del pensiero, 2002 e 2021; Buio, 2020; De senectute (2018); Onestà (2014); with Duccio Demetrio, Senza figli. Una condizione umana (2012); Filosofia delle piccole cose, 2004; L’onore degli onesti, 1998; Il potere e le sue metafore, 1991.
She was awarded the “Standout Woman Award International” Edition 2016 and the Centenary Foundation Award (2020).
ISABELLA PASQUALETTO: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Isabella Pasqualetto lives in Turin. You read, write on Doppiozero, and collaborate with Einaudi and Marsilio.
DANIELA BROGI: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Siena.
Among her books: Giovani. Vita e scrittura tra fascismo e dopoguerra (2012), Altri Orizzonti. Interventi sul cinema contemporaneo (2015), La donna visibile. Il cinema di Stefania Sandrelli (2016), Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni, Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo (2018). He has written essays, articles, film reviews and comments on Verga, Aleramo, Tozzi, Svevo, Pirandello, Bilenchi, Pavese, Cassola, Pasolini, Calvino, Dos Passos, Cain, the narrative of the Resistance, Munro, neorealist cinema, Antonietta De Lillo , Igiaba Scego, Paolo Sorrentino, Jhumpa Lahiri.
For many years she has also been involved in multiculturalism and women’s writing.