sabato 16 aprile 2022

Forthcoming CanaDiana events

 

Richard Greene Reading and Lecturing Tour (coordinated by Laura Forconi in Siena, and by Laura Failli in Viareggio and Forte dei Marmi)

Tuesday May 3, at 6 pm, Richard Greene (University of Toronto) in conversation with Carla Comellini (University of Bologna) and Fabrizio Ghilardi (University of Pisa) about his biography of Graham Greene Russian Roulette, Palermo, Sellerio, 2020, at Area Verde Camollia 85 – Polo Civile del Tribunale di Siena, Via Camollia 85, Siena.

The day before the conference, May 2, the author will be present at Area Verde Camollia to introduce the film based on Graham Greene’s novel, Our Man in Havana, at 8.30 pm.

 

Thursday May 5 at 12 pm, Richard Greene will give a talk to students of IIS Galilei - Artiglio, Viareggio on "How an English Author Became a Spy".

Thursday May 5 at 6 pm, Richard Greene will talk about "Graham Greene: Our Man in The World" at Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi.


 

Antanas Sileika, Canadian Lithuanian writer and scholar, will talk about his book Buying on Time rendered by the group of CanaDiana translators into the Italian version Tempus Fugit, edited by Moira Mini and Arianna Giorgi - on May 15 at Museo Etrusco, Murlo, and on May 17 at Area Verde Camollia, 5’30 pm.

 

Diane Pacitti, English writer and CanaDiana member, will read from her book Between Two Countries translated by Laura Ferri into Tra due Paesi, Isernia, Cosmo Iannone, 2020 – at a date and place to be confirmed, after her participation in the AAIS Conference in Bologna (May 29 –June 1).

 

Fabrizio Ghilardi - L’ “americanizzazione” ambigua

 

Fabrizio Ghilardi, President of CanaDiana, has published the latest of the books that reflect also a vision of Canada within his area of research as Professor of International Relations at the Universities of Brindisi and Pisa.

 


L’ “americanizzazione” ambigua, Pisa, ETS 2021

The americanization of the world following the growing power of the United States has resulted into the adoption of a model commonly defined as ‘the American way of life.’ Those who adopt such a stereotype are unaware of their quite superficial approach to a complex situation. Practising a comfortable anti-Americanism too many fail to recognize and fight the causes of a dangerous and chaotic drift towards disaster which has already been threatening the world for some time and which can only be avoided by understanding and opposing the current processes of globalization.

Giancarlo Carli - Defence from Invertebrates to Mammals: Focus on Tonic Immobility

 

Giancarlo Carli, Professor of Physiology at the University of Siena has recently published:

 


Defence from Invertebrates to Mammals: Focus on Tonic Immobility. Progress in Brain Research. Amsterdam. Elsevier Company, 2022, 348 pp.

The book, written in collaboration with Professor Francesca Farabollini contains 13 chapters which, drawing on all evidence available, provide an accurate update of the subject matter along with new hypotheses and interpretations. A special focus is on the research Professor Carli has carried out with Louis Lefebvre, McGill University professor and distinguished expert in animal behaviour, as well as novelist and painter, and frequent guest speaker of the past Siena-Toronto Centre at the University of Siena.