Book Presentation of "Reading Primo Levi: Essays in Dialogue with Nicholas Patruno"

Round Table and Book Presentation of “Reading Primo Levi: Essays in Dialogue with Nicholas Patruno” (NeMLA Italian Studies, 2024), featuring co-editors Roberta Ricci and Chiara Benetollo, and authors Luca Zipoli, Simona Wright, Peter Kurtz, and L. Scott Lerner. This collection points toward a profusion of pathways into and through Primo Levi’s writings by opening perspectives that are both historical and theoretical, archival and actual, textual and cinematographic.

Speakers (in order of appearance):
1. Roberta Ricci (Bryn Mawr College)
2. Simona Wright (The College of New Jersey)
3. Chiara Benetollo (The Petey Greene Program)
4. Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College)
5. Peter Kurtz (CUNY Graduate Center)
6. L. Scott Lerner (Franklyn and Marshall College)

Students (in order of appearance):
1. Lucy Corrie-Tannen HC '26
2. Eleanor Taylor BMC '25
3. Evangeline Welch BMC '25
4. Emily Short BMC '25
5. Lillian Belzer BMC '25

The event is hosted by the Department of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College
Monday, December 2, 2024 • 4:30 pm
Carpenter Library B21

The event is co-sponsored by the President’s Office, the Provost's Office, Comparative Literature, Praxis, MECANA, and the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund.

Abstract:
This volume of essays “in dialogue” with Bryn Mawr Professor Emeritus Nicholas Patruno represents the continuation and expansion of a successful symposium held at Bryn Mawr College on April 22, 2022—a gathering of scholars, students, and alumnae who honored the legacy of Patruno (1941-2020), by continuing to investigate one of the main subjects of his research, Primo Levi. Yet, the volume does not merely represent a record of the proceedings of the essays presented in 2022, but a double blinded peer reviewed collection of essays that stands on its own. Because of the success of the 2022 event, Ricci and Benetollo decided to move forward with a peer reviewed monographic issue of NeMLA Italian Studies, opening it up to authors whose scholarly expertise on Primo Levi enriched the volume with a variety of thematic and historical cross-references, with the intent to offer a collection on Primo Levi that best represents, with diverse contributions, a line of continuity that leads back to the critical analysis of the twentieth century as a privileged space for the elaboration on post-World War II in Italy. This gaze, always oriented by a literary-historical perspective of those years, guides the depth and range of the essays, shedding further light on Primo Levi's work and continuing to investigate its adaptations across media.

More info:
https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/festschrift-primo-levi-essays-dialogue-nicholas-patruno

Book in open-access:
https://www.nemla.org/publications/journals/nis/issues/xlv/NIS_XLV_2024_Primo_Levi.pdf

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