Books on Water and Environmental Humanities with Sabina Rizzardi and Shaul Bassi
Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century
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Available on Ocean Archive, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes and Google Podcast.
In this fifth episode of our podcast series Nowtilus. Stories from an urban lagoon in the 21st century we will tell you about ideas, books and literature, and how they meet in Venice, generating interesting and innovative realities. We will do this with Sabina Rizzardi, co-owner of Libreria Marco Polo and Shaul Bassi, professor of English literature and director of the International Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca' Foscari University. Sabina Rizzardi will tell us about fascinating readings that she has selected for us, to get to know Venice and the secrets of the sea. Together with Shaul Bassi we will discover how literature, culture, and more specifically the university itself, can contribute to strengthening a collective environmental awareness to deal with the current climate emergency.
Episode available on Ocean Archive, SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes and Google Podcast.
Music: Chateau Rouge by Christian Fennesz, taken from the album "Venice" (2004), and extracts from Venezia piange (2015) by Giovanni Dinello.
SABINA RIZZARDI – LIBRERIA MARCO POLO
Sabina Rizzardi is co-owner, together with Flavio Biz and Claudio Moretti, of Librearia Marco Polo, an independent bookshop in Venice with two locations, one in Campo Santa Margherita and the other in Giudecca. In both bookstores it is possible to find an assortment of books of independent publishers with a wide range of illustrated books, for children and adults.
SHAUL BASSI
Shaul Bassi is an associate professor of English literature at Ca’Foscari University. Graduated in Venice and a PhD in English in Pisa and Florence, he also studied in the universities of Berkeley and Liverpool. He was an English researcher at Ca' Foscari University from 2000 to 2007. His research interests and publications are divided between Shakespeare, literature and postcolonial theory, with a focus on Indian, African and Jewish studies. He also taught at Wake Forest University in Venice, Venice International University, Harvard-Ca' Foscari Summer school and was Visiting Professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He is the founder of the literature festival Incroci di Civiltà and he is currently director of The International Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Ca' Foscari University, Venice.
