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Literature therapy with paintings: the depths of a disturbing psychic novel. Conversation about the book of Anna Banti Artemisia

Guests: Lilla Csákvári literature therapist, Dóra Ocsovai founder of the Labyrinth Publisher, Éva Vígh literary historian; moderator: Kinga Dávid Organizer: SZTE NKI, SZTE BTK Italian Department of Language and Literature

Lili Csákvári (1988, Budapest), Hungarian and Italian teacher, literature therapist, student of the Doctoral School of Literature and Culture Sciences of SZTE. Her main research areas are contemporary Italian female literature, female trauma literature, their use in bibliotherapy sessions, and the literary theories and cognitive poetic aspects of bibliotherapy. He published his research results so far in Italian, Hungarian and English, as well as he was a lecturer at several international conferences. He worked with Bible therapy groups both at home and in Italy.

Dóra Ocsova Literature and Designer, his passion is art and psychology. He founded the Labyrinth Publisher in 2021. The micro label deals with cross-sections of art, psychology and fiction. His motto is: "We publish books that show the way in the labyrinth of our souls."

Éva Vígh is the emeritus of the Italian Literature Professor at the Italian Department of the University of Szeged. His research area is the history of old Italian literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, especially with regard to court literature, the history of physiognomy, and the physiognomical analysis of character in arts and literature. His books, books and journals, his studies were published in Italian, Hungarian and English. He is also a Hungarian translator of many authors of old Italian literature. Founder of Animalia Research Centre SZTE Antiquities and Renaissance: Head of Source and Reception Research Centre and Vice-President of Giovan Battista Della Porta International Research Centre (Naplely-Sorrento). Recent books on animal symbolism: Animal symbolism in the Middle and New Italian Literature (2018), Animal symbol library (ed. 2019).

Kinga Dávid is assistant professor of the Italian Department of Language and Literature of the University of Szeged, literary historian, head of the Doctoral Program of Italian Literature and Culture. His main research area is modern and contemporary Italian literature, especially Luigi Pirandello's oeuvre and some other outstanding careers of authorship (Svevo, Pavese, Carlo Levi and others), as well as Italian female literature, with special attention to 20th century and contemporary female authors.