05.11.2021

IL PIETRISCO PROSE: ‘Perform/Ability: Theatre and the Health Humanities’, 17th November 6pm GMT

17 November 2021, 6pm (GMT)

Facets of the

Health Humanities

with

Enrico Totola and Mick Greer

Introduced by: Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato

‘Perform/Ability: Theatre and the Health Humanities’

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Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81648581091?pwd=aGo5cndCQmpCUWN1djdweVlxZHVDdz09

Meeting ID: 816 4858 1091
For passcode email: prose@pietrisco.net

Deadline for enrolment: 1 pm on November 17, 2021

01.11.2021

IL PIETRISCO POETRY: Poetry Reading by Laura Corraducci and Massimiliano Bardotti

24 NOVEMBER 2021, 9pm Italian time

IL PIETRISCO Poetry

in dialogue with

Rossella M. Riccobono

Poets

MASSIMILIANO BARDOTTI

AND

LAURA CORRADUCCI

will be reading from their latest poetry collections, respectively: ‘La terra e la radice’ and ‘Il passo dell’obbedienza’.

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Il Pietrisco Zoom ID: 876 4069 6896

Email poetry@pietrisco.net to receive the password to access the event.

19.10.2021

FACETS OF THE HEALTH HUMANITIES: ‘Narrative and the novel: from form to function’

20 October 2021, 6pm (GMT)

Facets of the

Health Humanities

with

Isabel Fernandes

Chair: Chiara Battisti

I will start by a very brief approach to what is narrative, its diversity, complexity and pervasiveness in our lives. I will then concentrate on one form of narrative discourse: the novel. I will address its main features and its difference from the other literary genres, following Mikhail Bakhtin’s theorization. [Read More…]

19.09.2021

FACETS OF THE HEALTH HUMANITIES

Teresa Casal (University of Lisbon)
“Imagining Myself Out of Myself”: Uses of Fiction and Memoir in Health Humanities”
Chaired by Rossella M. Riccobono
September 29, 2021 

This fifth lecture of the Facets of the Health Humanities series, hosted by “Il Pietrisco” Prose, will see Teresa Casal explore the medium of Memoir and the practice of Health Humanities.
This talk hopes to contribute to a closer appreciation of how memoir and fiction represent experiences of illness and grief and how readers engage with them. [Read More…]

16.06.2021

IL PIETRISCO PROSE: Facets of the Health Humanities

30 June

Facets of the

Health Humanities

with

Cecilia Beecher Martins

Chair: Rossella M. Riccobono

‘Film and the Health Humanities’

This fourth lecture of the Facets of the Health Humanities series, hosted by “Il Pietrisco” Prose, will see Cecilia Beecher Martins explores the fact that medical practices and dilemmas appear to have been represented in cinema since its inception. Thus surprisingly, or not, the centenary of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) was celebrated by perhaps as many articles in medical journals as film reviews. [Read More…]