Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
2 5 aprile 2025

Programme

Reservation for Incroci di civiltà 2025 are available

Booking for each event will close at 3.00 pm the previous day

Opening Ceremony

Wednesday April 2

- 5.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Institutional Greetings

  • Premio Cesare De Michelis
  • Premio giovani Incroci - Albero d'Oro
  • Premio Incroci - Musei Civici di Venezia

to follow

Hanif Kureishi online (Great Britain)

The conversation will be in Italian and in English

Reservations for the event are closed, as the maximum number of participants has been reached. However, we advise you to show up 15 minutes before the start of the event. Often not all those who book show up, so it is likely that there are still places available.

 Thursday April 3

- 10.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Sappho’s daughters: women’s multiple identity

Selby Wynn Schwartz (United States)

The conversation will be in English

Book the conversation with Selby Wynn Schwartz [ITA]

- 12.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

The free voices of Afghani women

Zainab Entezar (Afghanistan)

The conversation will be in Dari-Farsi

to follow

Screening of the docufilm Shot the voice of freedom by Zainab Entezar

Book the conversation with Entezar [ITA]

- 3.00 pm

‌‌Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza - Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

Books make civilization

Juergen Boos (Germany)

The conversation will be in English

Reservations for the event scheduled are now closed because we have reached the maximum number of participants. Please register to the waiting list at the link below.

Waiting list conversation with Boos [ITA]

-  5.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Publishing: the pillar of democracy

Luiz Schwarcz (Brasil)

The conversation will be in English

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- 7.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Politics, technology, and dictatorship in the contemporary world

Asma Mhalla (Tunisia - France)

Alexander Baunov (Russia)

The conversation will be in English

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Friday April 4

- 9.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Poets at Incroci: The free word

Rodolfo Häsler (Cuba)

José María Micó (Spain)

Nouri Al-Jarrah (Siria)

to follow

Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia)

Alan Whitehorn (Canada - Armenia)

Book the conversation with the poets [ITA]

- 3.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Books for loving

Manuel Vilas (Spain)

The conversation will be in Spanish

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- 5.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Narrating at the borders

Esther Kinsky (Germany)

Federica Manzon (Italy)

The conversation will be in English

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- 7.00 pm

Hotel Aquarius Venice

Geography – Culture: Introduction to the magazine “Mappe” (Touring Club Italiano)

Franco Farinelli (Italy)

The conversation will be in Italian

Reservations for the event scheduled are now closed because we have reached the maximum number of participants. Please register to the waiting list at the link below.

Waiting List conversation with Farinelli [ITA]

- 7.30 pm

Fondaco dei Tedeschi - DFS

Plural Africa

Fatin Abbas (Sudan - United States)

Elgas (France - Senegal)

The conversation will be in English

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Saturday April 5

- 10.00 am

Fondazione Querini Stampalia

The Balkans and the agonies of History

Igor Štiks (Croatia)

The conversation will be in Croatian

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- 12.00 pm

Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Laplands enchantments and sufferance

Petra Rautiainen (Finland)

The conversation will be in English

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- 3.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Writing into the stone and harshness of World

Pierre Adrian (France)

The conversation will be in Italian

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- 5.00 pm 

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

On the run: looking up at war and violence

Mathias Énard (France)

The conversation will be in Italian

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- 7.00 pm 

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

The World that he has made: Daniele Del Giudice

Roberto Ferrucci (Italy)

Tiziano Scarpa (Italy)

The conversation will be in Italian

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- 9.00 pm 

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Of fathers and ghosts

Enrico Fink (Italy)

Ottavia Piccolo (Italy)

The conversation will be in Italian

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