Leonardo Sciascia: vent’anni dopo - International Conference - 23-24 October, 2009

International Conference

Leonardo Sciascia: vent’anni dopo

University College Cork, Ireland

23-24 October, 2009

Keynote Speakers:   

Vincenzo Consolo (Writer)

Prof. Claude Ambroise (Université Stendhal Grenoble III)

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the death of Leonardo Sciascia, the Department of Italian, University College Cork is hosting an international interdisciplinary conference dedicated to Sciascia’s works and legacy. The conference brings together international scholars of Sciascia, twentieth-century narrative and Film Studies in order to open new directions in the study of Sciascia’s texts.

Topics include:

• Sciascia’s legacy in contemporary Italian and European narrative
• key developments in studies on Sciascia;
• Sciascia and genre;
• Sciascia and cinema;
• Sciascia and the postmodern historical novel;
• Sciascia and impegno;
• Sciascia and Sicily;
• Sciascia as public intellectual;
• Sciascia and the twenty-first century.