María José Vega and Donatella Gagliardi will be the focus of a meeting-dialogue scheduled for Wednesday, December 4 at 17.30:6 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes in Naples, located in Via Chiatamone XNUMXG. The event, open to the public until seats are filled, will focus on how censorship has been represented through various exhibitions.
Speaker Profiles
María José Vega is a leading academic in the field of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her academic work focuses on the theory of censorship and dissent, examining the influence of confessionalization on sixteenth-century literature. Donatella Gagliardi, for her part, is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Naples L'Orientale and studies mainly literary censorship during the Siglo de Oro and political satire in the seventeenth century between Italy and Spain.
Exhibitions on censorship
Vega heads the seminar “Estudios sobre el Renacimiento,” which has produced two significant exhibitions as part of an international research project. The exhibitions, “Malos libros” at the Biblioteca Nacional de España and “Libros prohibidos” at the Universidad de Salamanca, analyze the issue of censored texts in the early modern period, proposing different approaches enriched by historical contexts.
Discussion topics
The December 4 debate will address key issues such as identifying books that were once considered subversive and how the concept of writing and reading has transformed under the influence of censorship. The meeting aims to investigate the extent to which print was seen as an intellectual battlefield, offering answers to these complex historical questions and stimulating further reflection.
Article published on 3 December 2024 - 11:37
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The meeting next Wednesday seems very interesting, but I don't know if I can go. Censorship is a topic that always makes me think, especially in the historical context of literature.
I am also curious to know how the topic of censorship will be treated in the books of the past. I hope there will be a lot of useful information to deepen this topic.