Past Events



MAKA: Screening and Discussion

The screening of the movie will be followed by a conversation with Elia Moutamid (film director) and Simone Brioni (screenplayer, Stony Brook)
Oct 26, 2023 at -

Maka offers a poignant exploration of displacement, identity, and belonging by presenting Geneviève Makaping’s life in Italy and perilous migration journey. By sharing Makaping’s experience as the first Black news…



CTL Workshop: Inclusive and Equitable Teaching

Dr. Jamiella N. Brooks, Director of Student Equity & Inclusion Initiatives, ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ Law, and Michelle Johnson, Associate Director of Inclusive and Equitable Teaching, Center for Teaching and Learning
Oct 17, 2023 at -

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CTL Teaching…



CTL Workshop: Writing a Diversity Statement

Rossella Di Rosa
Oct 16, 2023 at -



ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ in Florence Info Session

Learn more about the program
Oct 5, 2023 at -

Learn more about the program -- People who have been there Have some pizza with us!



The Merry Go Round of Blackness in Italy

A talk by Justin Randolph Thompson
Oct 4, 2023 at -



CTL Workshop: LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity in the Classroom

Javier Samper Vendrell
Sep 22, 2023 at -



Michael F. Moore | Translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel ‘I promessi sposi,’ in conversation with Nicole Ferrari (UÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ)

Apr 19, 2023 at

Nicole Ferrari will be interviewing Michael F. Moore, translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi. Moore will be discussing his translation, entitled The Betrothed, a Seventeenth-Century Milanese Story…



William of Auvergne’s Universe: the Man and the Nature

Steven Marrone (Tufts), Riccardo Saccenti (Bergamo), Antonella Sannino (L’Orientale-Naples)
Mar 30, 2023 at -

On the occasion of the publication of Antonella Sannino’s Reading William of Auvergne (Florence: Sismel, 2022), this panel discusses the philosophy and contributions of the French theologian William…



Dante vs Dante: Material Traditions of the Lyric and the Construction of Poetic Authority

Laura Banella (University of Notre Dame)
Mar 16, 2023 at -

Dr. Laura Banella is the 2022-2023 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies.