Parma – The University of Parma, with the Language Unit of the Department of Humanistic, Cultural and Cultural Disciplines – DUSIC, joins FrankenReads, an international celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley promoted by the Keats-Shelley Association of America for Halloween 2018. The DUSIC Language Unit organised two ad hoc events in Parma on October 29th and 31st. The first, set for today at 16.30 in the Miazzi Hall of the Plexus of Languages (viale San Michele, 9), is the seminar FrankenWorld: global contemporaneity of monstrosity, which will explore Mary’s “monstrous progeny” Shelley between the twentieth and the twenty-first century through novels, cinema, and graphic novels. The second one, on Wednesday, October 31st at 6.00 pm at the Biblioteca dei Paolotti del Plesso D’Azeglio (via Massimo D’Azeglio, 85), will be read in Italian and English by “Frankenstein”, with the voices of Gioia Angeletti, Paolo Briganti, Maria Elena Capitani, Chiara Rolli, Diego Saglia, Carlo Varotti: a beautiful prelude to the Halloween night with the words of Mary Shelley. (BIG ITALY / Red)
