Who Gets to the Top? Alpinism, Body Politics, and the Construction of the Italian National State

A talk and Q&A with Chiara Benetollo, Director of Program Development

The Petey Greene Project

 

Chiara Benetollo is the Director of Program Developmentat the Petey Greene Program, one of the largest providersof education in carceral spaces in the country. In this role,she oversees the national expansion of the organizationand is leading the development of an educational justicethink/do tank. Her scholarly work explores thesimultaneous creation of model bodies and nationalidentities through rhetoric and narrative, with a focus onthe Italian and Russian political and literary traditions.

 

Co-Sponsored By: European Studies Council at the Yale MacMillan Center; and Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration