On April 16-17, 2018, the Center for Italian Studies and the Italian Studies Section of the Romance Languages Department will host "Strategies of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Europe."
Lodovica Braida (Università Statale di Milano) for the Seminar on the History of Material Texts, in collaboration with the Center for Italian Studies. Title: “'Dangerous Books.' Italian Epistolary Collections in…
David A. Lines (University of Warwick) will present a paper entitled "Renaissance Humanism and Universities: The Case of Bologna", based on his forthcoming book Reshaping Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and…
Prof. Gur Zak, who heads the Department of General and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present a talk entitled: "Umana cosa è aver compassion: Compassion and Literary…
We are very pleased to announce a symposium in honor of Prof. Christine Poggi, a distinguished art historian who, until last spring, served in the Italian Studies faculty and on the Advisory Board of the Center for…
What happened? Why did it happen? How will this impact the E.U.? The refugee crisis? Italy overall? Join us for this post-mortem on the Italian election at the World Forum of the…
We welcome Jonathan Combs-Schilling (Ohio State University) who will speak about on Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen. His talk is entitled: "Playing the Professor: The Questio, the Eclogues, and Dante’s Late…