Past Events



Anna Corrias on Renaissance Philosophy (Kislak)

Anna Corrias
Mar 4, 2020 at -

In co-sponsorship with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Anna Corrias (Toronto), a SIMS Visiting Research Fellow, will deliver a talk entitled "Riddles and Puzzles": Pythagoras in the Italian…



Maddalena Signorini, SIMS Fellow (Kislak), on Petrarch

Feb 27, 2020 at -

Maddalena Signorini is the second SIMS-Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies. The fellowship is sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies section of…



Ayana Smith on 18th-Century Italian Opera (Music Building)

Feb 18, 2020 at -

The Center for Italian Studies and the Italian Studies Unit, in collaboration with the 

Feb 13, 2020 at -

We're delighted to host Prof. Lawrence Principe, Drew Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe at Johns Hopkins University, for a talk co-sponsored by the…



Roger Chartier on Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier (Van Pelt, floor 6, Lea Libr.)

Roger Chartier (ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ/Collège de France)
Feb 6, 2020 at

Please join us on Thursday, February 6, at 5:30 for the talk of Prof. Roger Chartier entitled "'Per dir forse una nova parola.' Sixteenth-Century Translations of sprezzatura."

The talk takes place in…



Millicent Marcus, on Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza. A talk in honor of Robert Cargni (Fisher Bennett 401)

Millicent Marcus (Yale)
Dec 3, 2019 at

The Romance Languages Department, in co-sponsorship with Cinema Studies and the Wolf Humanities Center, is delighted to announce a talk by professor Millicent Marcus (Yale), in honor of Robert Cargni and his…



Laura Protano-Biggs on the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Music Building 101)

Prof. Laura Protano-Biggs
Nov 26, 2019 at -

We are excited to host a talk by Prof. , who teaches at the Peabody Institute (Johns Hopkins…



Taije Silverman and Marina Johnston on Pascoli in Translation (ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ Book Center)

Nov 21, 2019 at -

We're very pleased to co-sponsor an event taking place at the beloved ! Esteemed colleagues Dr. Marina Della Putta Johnston…



Federica Francesconi on Books and Censorship in 17th-cent. Jewish Culture (Cherpack)

Nov 7, 2019 at -

Federica Francesconi (SUNY, Albany), who is currently a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, will deliver a talk entitled "Books and Readers in the Early-Modern Italian Jewish Home." The talk is…



Hans Cools (Brueghel Visiting Professor at ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ) on Italians in Early Modern Amsterdam (Cherpack)

Oct 24, 2019 at -

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Hans Cools as Visiting Brueghel Professor at ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ for 2019-’20 from the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (Belgium)! Prof. Cools, who was a researcher at the European University…