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Intellectuals, too, take vacations, and they generally don’t look askance to venues off the beaten track. This is what Margherita Ganeri and Vito Teti, two professors at the University of Calabria, must have thought when they began considering the idea of organizing an itinerant retreat in one of the lesser trodden areas of the region in which they teach. And so it was that in mid-May 2019 a group of about twenty authors, artists, academics, mostly women, from the USA, Canada, Australia, Ghana and Italy, gathered in the small village of Morano for a two-week-long stretch of study, discussion and writing.