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Past Events
"E
Lasciaremi divertire" Inauguration of the Rosa Trillo-Clough
Archive of Italian Futurism, December 5, 2003
Gioia
Timpanelli on Storytelling, November 25, 2003 36th American Italian Historical Association, November 6-8,
2003
4th
Italian Cultural Studies Conference November 7- 9, 2002
Global
Diasporas & The United States Exile,
Migration, Race, and Ethnicity November 7- 9, 2002
The Mr.
and Mrs. John Whitney Payson Distinguished Lecture in Italian
Studies
Nicholas Patruno, Bryn Mawr College
"Primo Levi: The Holocaust Survivor and his Poetry"
April 1, 2002
Italian/American
Cultural Identities A Symposium October
22, 2001; October was officially proclaimed Italian Heritage
month. Edward Villella,
co-founding artistic director of the Miami City Ballet; Currently
Dorothy F. Schmidt Artist-in-Residence at Florida Atlantic University;
Rita Ciresi, winner of the Flannery O'Conner Award
for Short Fiction for her book Mother Rocket(1993); Fred
L. Gardaphe,
professor and coordinator of Italian American Studies,
State University of New York, Stony Brook; Christian K.
Messenger,
professor of American literature and cultural studies,
University of Illinois Chicago.
* The Annual Connie De Marco Distinguished Lecture Series in
Italian Studies has been an ongoing Italian program tradition
since November 1993. The lecture series drew the following speakers:
Remo
Ceserani, University of Bologna
Now that Europe is in the Making, How to Make the Europeans:The
Italian Contribution
Theodore
J. Cachey Jr., Notre Dame University, Latin vs.
Italian: The Linguistic Crisis of the Italian Renaissance; Giuseppe
Mazzotta, Yale University, Italian Literature
and Exile (2000); Albert Russell Ascoli, The
University of California at Berkeley Writing Reading
from Dante to Tasso
(1999); Pier Massimo Forni, The Johns Hopkins University
The Function of the Plague in Boccaccio's ‘Decameron' (1998); Millicent
Marcus, The University of Pennsylvania
From ‘Bicycle Thief' to ‘Icicle Thief': Travels
in Hyporeality (1997); Christopher Kleinhenz, The
University of Wisconsin at Madison Text and Image in Dante's ‘Divine
Comedy': The Visual Traditions of ‘Inferno' VII. (1996);
Elissa Weaver, The University of Chicago Culture in
the Convents of Renaissance Italy (1995); Robert F. Durling,
The University of California at Santa Cruz Dante's ‘Inferno':
Christ in Hell (1993).
Italian
Cultural Heritage Month (October 2000) Mini-series
of Italian and Italian American Film
A lecture co-sponsored by and in cooperation with the Program
in Judaic Studies (2000)
Guest: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
Topic: The Jews of the Italian Renaissance
Mini-Festival
of Italian Films, in conjunction with the International Film
Series; introductions by Prof. Millicent Marcus (1997)
Presenza/Assenza, a lecture and poetry reading by Giosè
Rimanelli, poet, novelist and Professor Emeritus at SUNY Stonybrook
(1997)
lecture, Vico's ‘New Science.' The Question of
Method by Maurizio Godorecci, The University of Alabama
at Tuscaloosa (1996)
classical guitar concert, An Evening with Roberto Porroni,
in conjunction with the Department of Music and the Italian Consulate
in Miami (1993)
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