Event Details
Wed, March 19, 2025
18:00 – 19:30
VILLA LA PIETRA
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Firenze
The theme of this year’s World Storytelling Day, ‘Deep Water’, provides a rich context for imagining ‘watery’ landscapes and linking ancient and modern stories through different channels of transmission.
Panalists: Elena Asciutti, Joy Fraser Cooper, Scott Palmer, Nicoletta Peluffo.
Featured Biographies
Elena Asciutti
RADIOCAVOLO..ORG/DIFFUSIONE FIABA
Elena Asciutti, External Relations Coordinator at the European University Institute, holds a Ph.D. in Politics, Human Rights, and Sustainability. Trained as storyteller at Le Théâtre de la Parole in Brussels, she created and hosts Diffusione Fiaba, a multilingual radio show on the community web radio RadioCavolo.org. Through the show, Elena celebrates oral traditions and storytelling as a tool for cultural exchange, social cohesion, and inclusion, featuring storytellers from around the world-
Joy Fraser Cooper
NYU Florence Student
Joy Fraser Cooper is an NYU Junior majoring in Global Liberal Studies and Italian Studies. She has been studying in Florence since last semester, when she researched Florence’s sea-related statues and grottos. Her whole life Joy has been drawn to the sea and its creatures, particularly mermaids. Joy has had a mermaid tail since she was eight, which started her love for mermaids.
Scott Palmer
LECTURER AND SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR DIGITAL LEARNING & INNOVATION, NYU FLORENCE
Scott Palmer, Lecturer and Senior Coordinator for Digital Learning & Innovation, received his PhD in English from Tufts University in 2006. His areas of specialization include: nineteenth-century transatlantic literature of migration, travel, tourism; early nineteenth-century visual culture (photography, lithography, cartography); race and cultural studies. He teaches courses for Liberal Studies and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Nicoletta Peluffo
LECTURER AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, NYU FLORENCE
Nicoletta Peluffo, lecturer and Assistant Director for Academics, received her Ph.D. in Literature and Media: Narrativity and Language from IULM university in Milan, with a final dissertation focused on The Adventures of Pinocchio and transmediality. She earned her second level master degree in language teaching from Ca’ Foscari university in Venice and her Ditals certificate from Università per Stranieri in Siena. Her area of interest and research includes comparative literature of XIX and XX centuries, seriality, adaptations and remediations. She teaches courses for the College of Arts and Science and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.