Vera Gheno
sociolinguist and professor University of Florence
A sociolinguist and translator from Hungarian, she collaborated with the Accademia della Crusca for 20 years. After 18 years working on a contract basis at various universities, she held the position of fixed-term researcher (Type A) at the University of Florence from late 2021 to the end of August 2026. Since June 2, 2026, she has been an Honorary Enterprise Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her publications include “Femminili singolari. Il femminismo è nelle parole” (2021, effequ), “Grammamanti. Immaginare futuri con le parole” (2024, Einaudi), and “Nessunə è normale” (2025, UTET). “Genere” (Laterza, September 11, 2026) and “La lingua libera” (effequ, October 23, 2026) are her eighteenth and nineteenth monographs. She hosts the podcast “Amare Parole” for Il Post. Her work focuses primarily on digital communication, gender issues, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Talks
Sat. 26 September
at 16:30 - 17:45
16:30 - 17:45
Saturday 26 September
Teatro Miela
Piazza Luigi Amedeo Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, 34132, Trieste, TS
Piazza Luigi Amedeo Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, 34132, Trieste, TS
TRIESTE
What is knowledge? It is a web of understanding across space and time, usually reaching across disciplines; it takes effort and builds up in layers; it cannot be improvised, but has to be constructed; and it is always a network: nobody knows anything alone, but draws on what others know in order to move forward, often by applying existing knowledge in new fields – all of this in a culture that, for the sake of simplicity, tends to favour whatever is clearly understandable and neatly filed under a single subject. Knowledge is hybrid by vocation. A talk with musical interludes and short interviews.
Location: Teatro Miela - Piazza Luigi Amedeo Duca degli Abruzzi, 3, 34132, Trieste
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