Past Events



The Winter Guest. Love, Death, and Beauty in Dante’s Rime petrose

Sep 17, 2015 at

A lecture by Francesco Bausi in celebration of the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth.

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Opera Workshop: Early Twentieth-Century Opera and the New Cinematic Medium

May 1, 2015 at

Christin Thomas, Yale University, will discuss the response of the early twentieth-century opratic world to the rise of the new cinematic medium.



Philadelphia: The World War I Years

Apr 23, 2015 at

A book presentation and lecture by Peter John Williams. Read on or visit  for a preview.

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Vittorini Prize and Italian Showcase

Apr 21, 2015 at

A celebration of Italian Undergraduate Excellence in lasting tribute to Professor Domenico Vittorini organized in collaboration with the America Italy Society of Philadelphia and the Consulate General of Italy in…



Mind and imagination: Brain Driven Bounded Creativity

Apr 17, 2015 at

A seminar by Riccardo Viale, Professor of Methodology of Social Science at the Università di Milano - Bicocca, on "Brain Driven Bounded Creativity", bridging the humanities and neuroscience. A discussion on what the…



Tutto parla di te: Difficult Maternity and Cinema

Apr 15, 2015 at

A lecture by Stefania Benini, Lauro De Bosis Fellow - Harvard University, on Alina Marazzi and women, mothers and daughters, in Italian cinema. The lecture will be held in Italian.

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Opera Workshop: From "musica reservata" to Early Opera: Memoria, Pronunciatio and the Art of Singing from Memory

Apr 10, 2015 at

Stefano Lorenzetti, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, will discuss the development of the rhetorical elements of opera in the early seventeenth century.



Gender, Power, Translation: Cartographies of Early Italian Opera in Europe’s East

Apr 2, 2015 at

The lecture by Katharina Piechocki, Harvard University, is CANCELLED. It will be rescheduled for the fall.



Past and Future under a Fascist Obelisk: Aurelio Amatucci’s Codex fori Mussolini

Mar 30, 2015 at

A lecture by Bettina Reitz Joose on Aurelio Amatucci's Codex fori Mussolini, University of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵsylvania. New time and place, now March 30 in Van Pelt, Class of '55!



Religious Identity in Venice from the Renaissance to Contemporary Cinema

Mar 26, 2015 at

A seminar with Andrew Berns, "'Pro magna parte laboratores sive cultivatores agrorum et vinearum': Jews in the Venetian Stato da Mar", and Nicola Di Nino,…