Monday 9 March, 21pm: we talk about climate change, possible migrations and new economic and social inequalities, artificial intelligence and surveillance, exploitation and uselessness, but also about new resistances thanks to the latest novel by Bruno Arpaia The world without winter just out of Guanda ten years after its release Something, out there always focused on the consequences of climate change.
«It's not dystopia, I'm talking about things that are already happening", specifies the author when he tries to define his novel, jokingly calling himself a "transgender writer". "Narrative is fundamental", dismisses the issue like this, the writer who is also a journalist, a Hispanist and a translator (friend of Sepulveda, editor of García Márquez's Meridiano) who cites Don Quixote and Javier Cercas, but also Amitav Ghosh and Matteo Meschiari of Geographies in collapseYou can try to frame The world without winter in the genre of "speculative fiction," different from science fiction. Starting from current knowledge, Arpaia tries to imagine the fate that awaits us, a world turned upside down, in which, however, we try to counteract and correct what is wrong. In this sense, it is a "political novel» which starts from an “augmented realism” which, quoting Fabio Deotto, «does not pride itself on predicting the future, but rather on making visible that part of the present that traditional realism is unable to frame in its complexity».
They will talk to Arpaia Mario Martina, Rector of the Higher University School IUSS and Coordinator of the National Doctorate in Sustainable Development and Climate Change and the Alumna of the Collegio Nuovo Maria Clara Corda, graduated from the University of Pavia in Physics and graduated from IUSS with a thesis on climate change: she is currently a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin.
The initiative is included, subject to confirmation by the individual interested College member of the CCUM, in the recognized training activities and is accredited as part of the IUSS extra-class training activity.
