{"id":3792,"date":"2024-03-25T14:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/news\/dal_consolato\/2024\/03\/figso-italian-studies-speaker-series-talk-with-claudia-durastanti\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:55:29","slug":"figso-italian-studies-speaker-series-talk-with-claudia-durastanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2024\/03\/figso-italian-studies-speaker-series-talk-with-claudia-durastanti\/","title":{"rendered":"FIGSO Italian Studies Speaker Series Talk with Claudia Durastanti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ev-label\">Date:<\/span>\u00a0Friday April 12, 2024<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ev-label\">Time:<\/span>\u00a03:00 PM\u00a0&#8211; 5:00 PM<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ev-label\">Location:<\/span>\u00a0Joynes Reading Room CRD 007<\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Strangers I Know<\/em>: Book Talk and Signing with Claudia Durastanti, organized by the French and Italian Graduate Student Organization.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please join us for a conversation with award-winning author, translator, and journalist Claudia Durastanti and Assistant Professor of Italian Studies Dr. Rebecca Falkoff as they discuss Durastanti&#8217;s\u00a0latest\u00a0work and authorial practice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a CODA (child of death adult), raised both in Brooklyn and the southern Italian region of Basilicata, Durastanti explores conceptions of lineage, migration, disability, and language in her 2019 novel\u00a0<em>La straniera<\/em>, translated into English as\u00a0<em>Strangers I Know (<\/em>2020). She currently resides in Rome and is soon to publish her next book.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reception to follow.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sponsored by:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Department of French and Italian<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Il Consolato Generale d&#8217;Italia Houston<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Plan II Honors Program<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Center for European Studies<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Michener Center for Writers<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The College of Liberal Arts: funding support provided by Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Department of Rhetoric and Writing<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Department of Anthropology<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Department of Linguistics<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Department of English<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/conshouston.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Claudia-Durastanti-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Strangers I Know<\/em>: Book Talk and Signing with Claudia Durastanti<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Date:\u00a0Friday April 12, 2024 Time:\u00a03:00 PM\u00a0&#8211; 5:00 PM Location:\u00a0Joynes Reading Room CRD 007 Strangers I Know: Book Talk and Signing with Claudia Durastanti, organized by the French and Italian Graduate Student Organization. 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