Andrea Bagnato is joined by poet and translator Jennifer Scappettone for a reading and conversation. Drawing from their respective research and writing, Bagnato and Scappettone discuss the long-term markings that fascism, internal colonialism, and modernization have left on the physical environment, and how different narrative forms can help us make sense of ecological change.
In Terra Infecta, Andrea Bagnato traces a political ecology of the Italian landscape. The book uses the lens of health and illness to explore how the modern quest for sanitation shaped Italy's urban and rural landscapes through architecture, demolition, and displacement. The result of a decade of research and fieldwork supported in part by a grant from the Graham Foundation, Terra Infecta recounts histories of dispossession and resistance in Naples, Venice, Milan, and Matera.
Tuesday 7 April
18:00
Graham Foundation
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
USA
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