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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, March 10, 2022 4:00 pm to 5:00 
 pm \n Online via Zoom - see event description for further information \n\n
 Speakers \nMarco Malvestio \n\nDescription: \nPlants are a constant presen
 ce in our lives (indeed, they make the survival of the human species poss
 ible), and yet our knowledge and awareness of them are limited. Plants ar
 e alive in ways that escape our common understanding of what life actually
  is: their structure, their ways of feeding, and their reproduction are 
 so distant from our own that we often fail to perceive them as living bein
 gs. This presentation will explore the vegetal uncanny in contemporary Ita
 lian science fiction and film in terms of plant horror (Keetley and Tenga 
 2016), ranging from Mario Bava’s Caltiki, il mostro immortale (1959), o
 ne of the very first science-fiction movies produced in Italy, to literar
 y works such as Giorgio Scerbanenco’s L’anaconda (1967) and Gilda Musa’s G
 iungla domestica (1975). I will ultimately show how dread associated with 
 non-human agency lies at the core of contemporary Italian representations 
 of the vegetal world.This research has received funding from the European 
 Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skl
 odowska-Curie grant agreement No 890656.Marco Malvestio is EU Marie Skłodo
 wska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padua and the Universi
 ty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His project “EcoSF – The Ecology of I
 talian Science Fiction” explores the presence of ecological issues in Ital
 ian science fiction. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Uni
 versity of Padua, and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departm
 ent of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2021, he publishe
 d The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction 
 (Peter Lang), based on his doctoral thesis, as well as Raccontare la fin
 e del mondo: Fantascienza e Antropocene (nottetempo).To attend this lectur
 e, please register at this link.  You will receive a confirmation email o
 ne day before the event containing information about joining the lecture.A
 ll times stated in Eastern time. \n\nContact Information: \n Department of
  Italian Studies italian.studies@utoronto.ca Department of Italian Studies
  \n\nSponsors \nEmilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies - University of Tor
 onto \n\nCategories \n Goggio Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and Friends
 CommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsGraduating StudentsPro
 spective Graduate StudentsProspective Undergraduate StudentsUndergraduate 
 Students
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SUMMARY:Domestic Jungles and Murderous Megaflora: Plant Horror in Italian S
 cience Fiction and Film
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 -and-murderous-megaflora-plant-horror-italian-science-fiction-and-film
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