Tokyo – “Memory and Mediterranean origins in the culture of Leonardo Sciascia” is the title of the conference that Professor Francesca Maria Corrao will hold at the Umberto Agnelli Auditorium of the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 21st at 18:00. The conference highlights Sciascia’s interest in Mediterranean culture and his desire to contribute to the general recovery of the memory of Arab presence in Sicily. It also recalls the novel “Il Consiglio d’Egitto” (The Council of Egypt) and the story dedicated to Giufà in the collection “Il mare colore del vino” (The Wine Colored Sea). In the first work, Sciascia’s careful research activities emerge while in the latter, the reader discovers his interest in Sicilian and Mediterranean popular culture thanks to primary testimonies. (9Colonne) The conference is in Italian with Japanese interpretation. Corrao is a full Professor of Arabic Language and Culture, Islam Politics & Societies and Mediterranean Studies at the Department of Political Science at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. Her fields of research are history, culture, and politics of the Arab countries and the Mediterranean area. She is the author of numerous monographs and essays on the Arab world. (9colonne)
