From Iran to Ukraine, passing through the Balkans: the beginning of May is marked by geopolitics and literature for the Scienza al NUoVO format, which offers three appointments between Thursday 2nd and Wednesday 8th May. It starts on Thursday 2 May at 6pm with «Lolita, Teheran and us: interview with Luciano Manicardi», a meeting organized by the 1000 Miglia association. Maura Anfossi, Simone Arciuolo and Lorenzo Dutto will dialogue with Luciano Manicardi, former prior of the monastic community of Bose and biblical scholar attentive to anthropology, psychoanalysis and literature. Among his latest works are «The passion for the human» (2023) and «Fragility» (2020). The theme of the meeting, which will start from the current events, more than thirty years after the release of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” by Azar Nafisi, will be the injustices and abuses that women still have to face today in many parts of the world. world.
On Saturday 4 May at 5pm with Gianni Galleri we will embark on a football but not only journey to the Balkans. In «Balkan Football Club» (Bottega Errante Edizioni, 2024) Galleri contains ten years of travels in the Balkans, describing the football of the countries from Trieste to the shores of the Black Sea, from Serbia to Croatia, passing through Slovenia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania. Ball – kicked and saved – but also a series of places forgotten by today’s tourism routes and which only a traveler can afford to rediscover. Galleri, already the author of several reportages, has collaborated with many Italian sports newspapers and sites. He has made podcasts and documentaries on typhoid in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Wednesday 8 May at 7pm Simone Bellezza, professor of contemporary history at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Eastern Piedmont, and Andrea Braschayko, freelance journalist who collaborates with various Italian sites and newspapers, will discuss the topic «Ukraine from nationalism nineteenth century to the war of independence against Russia”. Along the lines of Simone Bellezza’s latest book (“Ukrainian identity. History of the national movement from 1800 to today”, Laterza 2024), Bellezza and Braschayko will outline the evolution of the Ukrainian national movement from its origins, linked to Mazzinian thought, up to the present day our. Among the topics that the two will discuss are the revolution of 1917, the radicalization of the national movement in the 1930s, the pogroms and relations with the Jewish community, but also the construction of a civic and democratic identity in post-Soviet Ukraine, which has its roots in nineteenth-century socialist thought. A focus on relations with Russia is inevitable to clarify the causes of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in 2014 and then tragically exploded in 2022.
Entrance to the «Scienza al NUoVO» meetings, which on the model of the Anglo-Saxon format «Pint of Science» provide a presentation of the theme and a constant horizontal discussion with the public during which there will also be the possibility of drinking and eating, It is free.
Information on the website www.nuovocuneo.it.
