Giuseppe Laterza, heir to one of Italy's oldest and most prestigious publishing houses, will be a guest at LAC to talk about books, current events, readers and to ask himself, along with the audience and Luca Pascoletti who will interview him, many questions.
What role do books play in our world?
Who are today's book readers?
How do old and new media, bookstores, libraries and schools, reading groups, festivals promote reading?
In a publishing house, what is the relationship between profit goals and cultural mission?
How do we defend bibliodiversity in the time of Amazon and social? And how does the function of publishers and bookstores change?
How can we interpret the poor long-term investment in education, research and culture of our ruling classes?
Tuesday 21 October
Hall
Giuseppe Laterza, born in Bari in 1957, is the heir to one of Italy's oldest and most prestigious publishing houses. After studying economics, he chose to continue the work begun by his grandfather Giovanni in 1901, when the Laterza publishing house was born in Bari. Guided from the beginning by the idea of offering the public books "di roba grave," as Benedetto Croce called them, Laterza built a catalog of history, philosophy, politics and great classics. Today, under Giuseppe's presidency, the publisher is not only a brand of publishing quality, but also a laboratory of ideas and initiatives that take culture out of books, into the public squares, festivals and civil debate.
