Am I really home? A Journey Through the Literary Voices of Italian Scottish Women
Through storytelling poetry and prose, four widely published Italian Scottish women writers will describe their diverse journeys of navigating, rooting and belonging.
About Am I really home? A Journey Through the Literary Voices of Italian Scottish Women
| 25th November 2025 | |
| 5:30pm - 7:30pm | |
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Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo 20-22 East London Street, Edinburgh New Town EH7 4BQ |
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Through storytelling poetry and prose, four widely published Italian Scottish women writers will describe their diverse journeys of navigating, rooting and belonging.
This performance is inspired by the innovative research by Professor Manuela D’Amore of Catania University, highlighting what is distinctive about Scottish Italian literature within the context of the wider Italian diaspora.
Professor Manuela D’Amore, author of Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identities and Hybridity (London, Palgrave MacMillan;2023)
Hilda De Felice, creator of two plays, Loving The Enemy, and The Badly-behaved Poets’ Society;an after-life encounter between Rabbie Burns and the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli.
Dr. Anne Pia, poet, essayist, food writer. Her work includes award winning Language of My Choosing (Luath Press;2017);Keeping Away the Spiders (Luath Press; 2020); Magnaccioni: My Food My Italy (Luath Press;2023); and The Sweetness of Demons (Vagabond Voices;2021);translations responses to Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
Ann-Marie di Mambro, playwright and television screenwriter; author of Tally’s Blood (Hodder Gibson;2014) an option on the SQA English curriculum, and Brothers of Thunder (Nick Hern Books;2015).
Cavaliere Mary Contini OBE, Director Valvona & Crolla; one of Scotland’s best-known Italian cooks; author, broadcaster and journalist. Her books include Dear Francesca (Ebury Press;2003), Dear Olivia (Canongate Books;2006) Dear Alfonso (Birlinn;2017) and Valvona & Crolla, A Year at an Italian Table (Ebury Press;2009)
Chair: Dr Cecilia Brioni is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. Her research focuses on representations of bodies, style, age, and gender in 20th- and 21st-century Italian popular culture. Her publications have examined the emergence of a mainstream youth culture in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, literary representations of 1990s subcultural youth in Bologna and contemporary self-representations of Italian youth on YouTube. Her current research explores the transnational circulation of European popular cultures in the 1990s, and particularly the cultural connections between Italy and Ireland.
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