'Unfamiliar Lexicon' Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg

This two-day conference will feature presentations by the most prominent Italian scholar on Natalia Ginzburg, Domenico Scarpa, as well as a lecture by Alessia Ricciardi of Northwestern University. The conference begins on October 20 at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, 500 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450, where Domenico Scarpa will give a talk entitled, 'Someone Who Keeps Silent. Homage to Natalia Ginzburg's Voice.' On the next day the program will take place at the University of Chicago, Social Sciences Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St., Room 401, with a second lecture by Domenico Scarpa entitled, 'A Comma in Her Blood. Natalia Ginzburg and Jewishness,' with a response by Prof. Na'ama Rokem of the University of Chicago. Prof. Alessia Ricciardi will present the final lecture, 'The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: Natalia Ginzburg's Poetics of the Everyday,' with a response by Prof. Armando Maggi of the University of Chicago. A reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.