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lecture, panel & screening > Leonardo Sciascia 1921 – 2021

LEONARDO SCIASCIA
1921 -2021
An online lecture, panel and film screening on celebration of the centenary of the great Sicilian author.

LECTURE
Doing Sciascia Justice: His Legacy on the Judicial Novel
December 6 | 2 pm PST
Online – Zoom

Angelo Castagnino (University of Denver) will analyze Sciascia’s idea of justice in some of his most important novels and link him to some of today’s novelists who could be considered his heirs.

Organized by The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at California State University Long Beach in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles.

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PANEL
America as Metaphor: Leonardo’s Sciascia’s Future Legacy
December 9 | 11 am PST
Online – Zoom

with Eloisa Morra (Toronto University) and Giulia Pellizzato (Harvard University), moderated by Valerio Cappozzo (University of Mississippi).

REGISTER HERE for the webinar.

Part of the Sciascia Lectures in the World promoted by the National Committee for the Centenary of Sciascia, and by the Amici di Leonardo Sciascia Association, in collaboration with the Università per Stranieri di Perugia and the Institute for the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Event organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes in Los Angeles and Washington.

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FILM
MAFIA (Il giorno della civetta, Italy/France, 1968, 108 min)
December 17-19
Online

Virtual screening of the film adaptation of Sciascia’s crime novel of the same name. Directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb and Serge Reggiani.
Following a murder in a small Sicilian town, the new chief of the Carabinieri must fight corrupt officials, the frightened silence of witnesses and the local Mafia boss in order to solve the case.

In Italian with English subtitles. Introduction by Valerio Cappozzo.

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Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes in San Francisco and Washington DC.

 

  • Organized by: IIC San Francisco
  • In collaboration with: IIC Los Angeles, IIC Washington