Sandra Milo: A Feminine Model Beyond Feminist Struggle

Scandalously innocent model of femininity and distant from any feminist struggle, Sandra Milo is the latest protagonist of the workshops and screening days scheduled on Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 April 2024 as part of the Divagrafie project, at the Conference Room of the Humanities Area Library of the University of Naples Federico II and in the spaces of the Academy Astra. The project, curated by Anna Masecchia (head of the Federico II unit of the DAMA project) with the co-curation of Armando Andria (Ladoc) and the collaboration of Ludovico Brancaccio, Mirella Soprano, and Antonietta Tarantino, is an initiative of the Miur-Prin 2017 project "DAMA_Drawing a Map of Italian Actresses in Writing", promoted by the Department of Humanities Studies of the University of Naples Federico II in collaboration with the University of Sassari, the University of Catania, Ladoc, BRAU, Coinor, and with the patronage of CUC-Consulta Universitaria del Cinema. The programming will begin on Wednesday, April 3 at 10:15 am, at the Conference Room, Humanities Area Library, University of Naples Federico II (BRAU), with institutional greetings, and at 10:30 am, the workshop 'The Body and the Soul': an Italian diva among divas. Speakers will include Lucia Cardone (University of Sassari), Fabrizio Croce (critic and essayist), Cristina Jandelli (University of Florence), Anna Masecchia (University of Naples Federico II), Angela Bianca Saponari (University of Bari Aldo Moro). During the workshop, the video essay 'Between Performance and Writing: Sandra Milo', curated by Mirella Soprano, will be presented. At 7:00 pm, the Academy Astra - University of Naples Federico II will host Divagrafie. For a mapping of Italian actresses who write: Sandra Milo, with the intervention of Antonella Di Nocera (film producer of Parallelo 41 Produzioni). Space for readings with excerpts from 'Dear Federico' by Sandra Milo, curated by Valentina Curatoli at 7:15 pm, followed, at 8:00 pm, by the screening of 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini. The screening will be preceded by a toast to the first edition of Divagrafie, which will be attended by the Rector of Federico II Matteo Lorito. Double screening on Thursday, April 4, for the last day of programming, which will start at 6:00 pm with Classe tous risques (Risky Business) by Claude Sautet, followed, at 8:30 pm, by La Visita by Antonio Pietrangeli. Info on www.ladoc.it/portfolio/divagrafie/, all events are free entry.