Italo Calvino, la terre et le cosmos. Dialogues entre science et littérature

These two exchanges will explore how the writer Italo Calvino moves beyond a human perspective to give voice to animal, plant, and mineral forms of “intelligence.” By attending to the "languages" and silences of nature, Calvino offers a radically anti-anthropocentric vision of culture and of the world ("mondo non-scritto"). A dialogue between the humanities and the sciences will highlight continuities between the living, the inanimate, and the imaginary. Ethologists, botanists, astrophysicists, and scholars of Italian literature will synthesize their approaches in order to renew an understanding of Calvino’s contributions.