Past Events



Umberto Eco: Open Texts and Open Lives

Apr 4, 2016 at

The Center for Italian Studies at the University of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵsylvania celebrated the life and career of Italian writer, semiotician, philosopher, Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) with a special event 4…



MS Codex 319: Tracing the Footprints of Benedetto Martinozzi

Mar 30, 2016 at

A lecture by Vanessa Di Maggio, recipient of a 2015 Salvatori Research Award.

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Dante 750: A Cinematic Celebration

Mar 27, 2016 at

Join us at International House Philadelphia for a cinematic celebration of the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri featuring two amazing films L' InfernoÌý(Dante's Inferno, 1911) and …



Annotating Dante: Tassoni and Speroni

Mar 23, 2016 at

A letcure by Peter Lesnik, recipient of a 2015 Salvatori Research Award.

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Making Poetry out of Industrial Alienation

Feb 29, 2016 at

Eleonora Lima, University of Wisconsin - Madison, will discuss " Making Poetry out of Industrial Alienation. Troubled Narrators in Paolo Volponi's Memoriale and Michelangelo Antonioni's Deserto rosso…



Othering Machines: Alienation, Apocalyptic Anxiety and Colonial Violence in the Italian Cinema of the 1960s

Feb 25, 2016 at

Valentina Fulginiti, Cornell University, will discuss "Othering Machines: Alienation, Apocalyptic Anxiety and Colonial Violence in the Italian Cinema of the 1960s".

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The Figure of the Katechon in Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo

Feb 24, 2016 at

Daniele Fioretti, Miami University, will discuss "A Dissonant Perspective in Italian Political Cinema. The Figure of the Katechon in Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo."

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Sicily: Language, Art, and Culture

Feb 11, 2016 - Feb 12, 2016 at -

The Center for Italian Studies at the University of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵsylvania will host an important international conference to celebrate "Sicily: Language, Art, and Culture", 11-12 February 2016.…



A Chapter of Early Italian Humanism in Philadelphia Manuscripts

Feb 10, 2016 at

New date Feb. 10! ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ’s Department of Italian Studies and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies are delighted to invite you to a seminar by the 2015-16 SIMS…



The Ghetto

Feb 7, 2016 at

The creation of the Venetian ghetto 500 years ago will be commemorated by the University of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵsylvania's Program in Jewish Studies, the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, the Department of Music, the…