Thursday, April 9, 6:30 PM
The Will to Learn. bell hooks and Education as a Political Act
Maria Nadotti
in conversation with
Anna Chiara Cimoli and Ale Blue Santambrogio
Within the landscape of contemporary critical thought, few voices have woven together the themes of education, identity, and social transformation as powerfully as bell hooks—writer, intellectual, and activist—who devoted her life to rethinking the very foundations of knowledge and its institutions. Her work is shaped at the intersection of race, gender, and class, recognizing how these dimensions overlap and reinforce one another in producing both oppression and resistance.
For the third event in the Pedagogy of Hope Public Program, writer, journalist, and translator Maria Nadotti—among the first scholars to introduce bell hooks’ writings to a wider Italian audience in the 1990s—will explore some key concepts from her work.
In conversation with Anna Chiara Cimoli, lecturer in contemporary art history and expert in participatory practices, and Ale Blue Santambrogio, educator and trainer, the discussion will revisit bell hooks’ ideas, focusing on education as a practice of freedom and on marginality as a decentered perspective from which to develop and imagine cultures of resistance.
The event is promoted in collaboration with the University of Bergamo – Department of Letters, Philosophy, and Communications
Venue:
University of Bergamo
Room 1 / Via Pignolo, 123 Bergamo
Booking required: biglietteria@gamec.it