Dominique Fortier sketches Emily Dickinson’s life from the point of view of the places where the poet lived. As we go on reading, the book offers enough insights to understand that those places are also the spaces of her inner reality. An inner reality that is itself a city. And even when they tell us the story of her as a “recluse”, writing poetry, in the sole space of her room, Emily Dickinson opens a window within herself and what she finds is boundless, just as boundless is the gaze she uses to look out of her window in a continuous exchange between “the space in and space out.”
The event brings us into the dialogue about cities, those inside us, seen as our inner spaces, and those outside, that are the places we interact with.
We will ask how far the urban centers in which we live are built to include the multitude of human inner spaces that we label as citizens, and whether certain urban characteristics have ever prompted us, at times, to confine ourselves in digital spaces instead.
We will conclude by asking: is an urban dimension that looks at the citizen as an “inner space” desirable wherever possible?
Speakers
Editorial director of Alter Ego edizioni founded in 2012 in Viterbo by Danilo Bultrini and Luca Verduchi. Independent publishing house specializing in the publication of Italian and foreign fiction. In 2021 it inaugurated a series dedicated to popular essays related to the popular sphere. Alter Ego’s books are about today’s men and women: complicated, unpredictable, full of a million facets and tremendously fragile. Special attention is paid to the theme of “doubles.” This is a research that the publishing house carries out using various literary genres: from the educational novel to the psychological novel, passing through dystopian and mainstream literature (series Mirrors), and finally to the detective story and thriller (series Spectres). Within Crossroads, out-of-series works are housed. With the Pop Corner series, inaugurated in 2021, the publishing house offers pop nonfiction popular works: a new way to tell about contemporary man observing him from another point of view and with tools different from fiction. The topics covered are literature, music, cinema, art, and everything that falls under the sphere of the popular.
Giovanni Caudo
Full professor at the University of Roma Tre. He conducts research on the contemporary urban condition studied through the forms of living, the new housing question and the reuse of heritage. To these themes he has dedicated research on specific aspects, both nationally (Post-metropolitan territories as emerging forms: the challenges of sustainability, habitability and governability; Housing Italy, Italian Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice) and internationally, Open Heritage (Horizon 2020). Themes and research interests: Urban regeneration, heritage and adaptive reuse, city-territory, post-metropolis, urban and rural,housing, public city and equipment endowment, rehousing.
D. Ruggiero Lo Sardo
Researcher at Sony CSL – Rome. With a background in Physics, he began his career dealing with complex systems, resilience of the commons, cognitive science of language. His various explorations led him to study an increasingly topical issue together with the Infosphere team at Sony CSL – Rome: the information ecosystem.
Elisabetta Marino
Full professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Some fields of interest: English Romanticism (with particular reference to the figure of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley), travel literature, literature of the Indian diaspora, Italian literature of America.
Manuela Cherubini, Event Moderator.
Director, actress and translator. Since 1994 she has been investigating the relationship between Art and Science by collaborating with CRM (Centro Ricerche Musicali). Since 2000, she has curated the organization and dramatization of the international conferences Music and Science and Art and Science, conceived by Michelangelo Lupone and Laura Bianchini, hosted by the Goethe Institut in Rome. From 2020 to 2022 he curated the Dialogues between Art and Science for the City of Rome together with Elisa Casseri and Giorgina Pi.