Una conversazione in Italiano con gli autori
SIMONE SARASSO & JADEL ANDREETTO
a COLLINS CINEMA
WELLESLEY COLLEGE
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13TH
2.00-4.30
Introduzione: David Ward, Italian Studies, Wellesley College
Simone Sarasso, “Solve et coagula: Il futuro della letteratura italiana per come lo vedo io”
Jadel Andreetto, “La curva sinusoidale della narrativa italiana”
Sarasso & Andreetto, lettura di brani da nuove opere
Sarasso is author of Turkemar (Effequ, 2007), Confine di Stato (Marsilio, 2007), Settanta (Marsilio, 2009), as well as a graphic novel entitled United We Stand (Marsilio, 2009), J.A.S.T (Just another spy story) (Marislio, 2010), written with Lorenza Ghinelli and Daniele Rudoni, and Slittamenti progressivi della Rai (effequ, 2010). In addition, along with Daniele Rudoni, Sarasso has written the story for a TV police series Il cacciatore, which Canale5 will air in 2011.
Carlo Lucarelli has recently hailed Sarasso as “Il nuovo maestro italiano del noir.”
Andreetto is part of the Kai Zen writing collective that has published Spauracchi and La Potenza di Eymerich (both Bachilega Editore, 2005), La strategia dell’Ariete (Mondadori, 2007), and the forthcoming Delta Blues (Verdenero, 2010).
The web sites associated with the collective’s work are:
www.lastrategiadellariete.org/
www.kaizenlab.it
and
www.romanzototale.it
Showing posts with label Conferences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conferences. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
"Italy 150: A Different Interpretation" (Cambridge, September 26, 2010)
Professor Spense Di Scala will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italian unity with a talk entitled "Italy 150: A Different Interpretation."
The talk will take place at the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge,
and is sponsored by La Federazione delle Associazioni Abruzzesi USA, in cooperation with
the Consolato Generale d'Italia in Boston and the Dante Alighieri Society
Sunday, Setember 26 at 3
Dante Alighieri Society, 41 Holland Street, Cambridge, MA
For more information please contact Romagnoli1@rcn.com
The talk will take place at the Dante Alighieri Society in Cambridge,
and is sponsored by La Federazione delle Associazioni Abruzzesi USA, in cooperation with
the Consolato Generale d'Italia in Boston and the Dante Alighieri Society
Sunday, Setember 26 at 3
Dante Alighieri Society, 41 Holland Street, Cambridge, MA
For more information please contact Romagnoli1@rcn.com
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Lauro de Bosis Italian Colloquium, Spring 2010
Lauro de Bosis Italian Colloquium, Spring 2010
Harvard University
Wednesday 4-6pm. Boylston 403
1/27 L. Pertile: Presentazione del programma
2/3 Francesco Erspamer. “Come si scrive una recensione”
2/10 Stanislao Pugliese. Bitter Spring. A life of Ignazio Silone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009, 426 pp. (amazon $ 20.79)
2/17 Peter Bondanella. A History of Italian Cinema. Continuum, $29.95 (amazon 19.77)
2/24 Jane Tylus. Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others University of Chicago Press, $45.00 (amazon $35.96)
3/3 Francesco Erspamer. La creazione del passato, Sellerio 2009
3/10 Chiara Cappelletto. Neuroestetica. L’arte del cervello. Laterza, euro 12.00
3/24 Maggi, Armando. The Resurrection of the Body. Pier Paolo Pasolini, from Saint Paul to Sade. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 2009.
3/31 Emanuela Mora. Fare moda. Esperienze di produzione e consumo, Bruno Mondadori, euro 17.00
4/7 William Wallace. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times. Cambridge - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
4/14 Jon Snyder. Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. University of California Press, $45.00 (amazon $40.46)
4/21 Horodowich, Elizabeth. Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice. Pp. xii, 245. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
TBD A Brief History of Venice. Constable & Robinson, 2009
Harvard University
Wednesday 4-6pm. Boylston 403
1/27 L. Pertile: Presentazione del programma
2/3 Francesco Erspamer. “Come si scrive una recensione”
2/10 Stanislao Pugliese. Bitter Spring. A life of Ignazio Silone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009, 426 pp. (amazon $ 20.79)
2/17 Peter Bondanella. A History of Italian Cinema. Continuum, $29.95 (amazon 19.77)
2/24 Jane Tylus. Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others University of Chicago Press, $45.00 (amazon $35.96)
3/3 Francesco Erspamer. La creazione del passato, Sellerio 2009
3/10 Chiara Cappelletto. Neuroestetica. L’arte del cervello. Laterza, euro 12.00
3/24 Maggi, Armando. The Resurrection of the Body. Pier Paolo Pasolini, from Saint Paul to Sade. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 2009.
3/31 Emanuela Mora. Fare moda. Esperienze di produzione e consumo, Bruno Mondadori, euro 17.00
4/7 William Wallace. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times. Cambridge - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
4/14 Jon Snyder. Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe. University of California Press, $45.00 (amazon $40.46)
4/21 Horodowich, Elizabeth. Language and Statecraft in Early Modern Venice. Pp. xii, 245. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
TBD A Brief History of Venice. Constable & Robinson, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
2nd Cultural Heritage On Line Conference (Florence, 12/15-16/09)
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali and The Library of Congress are delighted to present the Conference
CULTURAL HERITAGE on line
Empowering users: an active role for user communities
15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy
"This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes."
CULTURAL HERITAGE on line
Empowering users: an active role for user communities
15-16 December 2009, Florence, Italy
"This conference aims to explore, analyze, and evaluate the state of the art and future trends in user communities and cultural contents on the web from an international perspective, and bring together academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners, providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination of the selected themes."
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Pianeta Galileo 2009
Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux [Piazza e Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze]:
Nov. 4, 2009 - Sala dell’Altana
Il progresso scientifico: cumulativo o non cumulativo? Confronto sulle modalità del progresso storico della scienza
Mauro Dorato, Università di Roma Tre
Giancarlo Ghirardi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Paolo Parrini, Università di Firenze
Introduction and Chair: Alberto Peruzzi, Università di Firenze
Nov. 10, 2009 - Sala Ferri
Galileo nella coscienza nazionale: miti e frustrazioni nell’opinione pubblica italiana dal 1945 a oggi
Paolo Rossi, Accademia dei Lincei
Maurizio Torrini, Università di Napoli
Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, Università L`Orientale, Napoli
Chair: Alberto Peruzzi, Università di Firenze
Massimo Bucciantini, Università di Siena
Andrea Battistini, Università di Bologna
Antonella Testa, Università Statale di Milano
Gianfilippo Parenti, SISSA, Trieste
Chair: Maurizio Bossi, Centro Romantico del Gabinetto Vieusseux
Nov. 17, 2009 - Sala dell’Altana
Galileo in China. International Conference
Miao Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guido Samarani, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia
Ilaria Morali, Università Gregoriana di Roma
Iwo Amelung, Universitat Frankfurt
Baichun Zhang , Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matteo Gerlini, Università di Firenze
Roberto Peruzzi, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia
Chair: Guido Samarani, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia
Nov. 4, 2009 - Sala dell’Altana
Il progresso scientifico: cumulativo o non cumulativo? Confronto sulle modalità del progresso storico della scienza
Mauro Dorato, Università di Roma Tre
Giancarlo Ghirardi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Paolo Parrini, Università di Firenze
Introduction and Chair: Alberto Peruzzi, Università di Firenze
Nov. 10, 2009 - Sala Ferri
Galileo nella coscienza nazionale: miti e frustrazioni nell’opinione pubblica italiana dal 1945 a oggi
Paolo Rossi, Accademia dei Lincei
Maurizio Torrini, Università di Napoli
Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, Università L`Orientale, Napoli
Chair: Alberto Peruzzi, Università di Firenze
Massimo Bucciantini, Università di Siena
Andrea Battistini, Università di Bologna
Antonella Testa, Università Statale di Milano
Gianfilippo Parenti, SISSA, Trieste
Chair: Maurizio Bossi, Centro Romantico del Gabinetto Vieusseux
Nov. 17, 2009 - Sala dell’Altana
Galileo in China. International Conference
Miao Tian, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guido Samarani, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia
Ilaria Morali, Università Gregoriana di Roma
Iwo Amelung, Universitat Frankfurt
Baichun Zhang , Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matteo Gerlini, Università di Firenze
Roberto Peruzzi, Università Cà Foscari, Venezia
Chair: Guido Samarani, Università Cà Foscari di Venezia
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Symposium: Marinetti and Ungaretti: Futurisms and Avant-Gardes (University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 9-10)
Marinetti and Ungaretti: Futurisms and Avant-Gardes
Symposium
October 9-10, 2009
French House and Pyle Center
Program
Friday, October 9
French House
3pm
Opening Remarks
Magdalena Hauner, Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science
Professor Anne Vila, Chair of the Department of French and Italian
Ernesto Livorni, Organizer
3:30-5:30pm
Chair: Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Paolo Valesio (Columbia University), “F. T. Marinetti and Extreme Literature”
Laura Wittman (Stanford University), ““Cuore-proiettile:” from Mafarka to World-War-One”
Matteo Gilebbi (Duke University), “L’“inesauribile segreto” del nulla in Poesie disperse e Altre poesie ritrovate di Giuseppe Ungaretti”
Respondent: Steven Winspur (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
5:30-6:30pm Reception
Saturday, October 10
335 Pyle Center
10am-noon
Chair: Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Cinzia Sartini Blum (University of Iowa), “Futurist Metamorphoses: Reading Marinetti’s
Manifestos in the Light of the Fantastic”
John Welle (University of Notre Dame), “The Alcove of Celebrity: Marinetti and the
Question of Commercial Literature”
Daniele Fioretti (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Il canto dell’esule: esilio e
nomadismo ne L’Allegria di Giuseppe Ungaretti”
Respondent: Michael Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Noon-2pm
Lunch (French House)
3-5pm
Chair: Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Mario Moroni (Binghamton University), “Nomadismo e confini nella poesia di Giuseppe
Ungaretti”
Enrico Cesaretti (University of Virginia), “Materiali sessuali: osservazioni sulla
narrativa erotico-sociale di F.T. Marinetti”
Lodovica Guidarelli (Colby College), “Il Puer Aeternus in Mafarka il Futurista”
Respondent: Marcelo Pellegrini (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
5-6pm
Reading of Marinetti’s and Ungaretti’s texts
For further information see under “Upcoming Events” at: http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/ .
Symposium
October 9-10, 2009
French House and Pyle Center
Program
Friday, October 9
French House
3pm
Opening Remarks
Magdalena Hauner, Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science
Professor Anne Vila, Chair of the Department of French and Italian
Ernesto Livorni, Organizer
3:30-5:30pm
Chair: Ernesto Livorni (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Paolo Valesio (Columbia University), “F. T. Marinetti and Extreme Literature”
Laura Wittman (Stanford University), ““Cuore-proiettile:” from Mafarka to World-War-One”
Matteo Gilebbi (Duke University), “L’“inesauribile segreto” del nulla in Poesie disperse e Altre poesie ritrovate di Giuseppe Ungaretti”
Respondent: Steven Winspur (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
5:30-6:30pm Reception
Saturday, October 10
335 Pyle Center
10am-noon
Chair: Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Cinzia Sartini Blum (University of Iowa), “Futurist Metamorphoses: Reading Marinetti’s
Manifestos in the Light of the Fantastic”
John Welle (University of Notre Dame), “The Alcove of Celebrity: Marinetti and the
Question of Commercial Literature”
Daniele Fioretti (University of Wisconsin – Madison), “Il canto dell’esule: esilio e
nomadismo ne L’Allegria di Giuseppe Ungaretti”
Respondent: Michael Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Noon-2pm
Lunch (French House)
3-5pm
Chair: Patrick Rumble (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Mario Moroni (Binghamton University), “Nomadismo e confini nella poesia di Giuseppe
Ungaretti”
Enrico Cesaretti (University of Virginia), “Materiali sessuali: osservazioni sulla
narrativa erotico-sociale di F.T. Marinetti”
Lodovica Guidarelli (Colby College), “Il Puer Aeternus in Mafarka il Futurista”
Respondent: Marcelo Pellegrini (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
5-6pm
Reading of Marinetti’s and Ungaretti’s texts
For further information see under “Upcoming Events” at: http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/ .
Friday, July 24, 2009
"Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies" (Milan, Aug. 25, 2009)
"On 25 August 2009 the IFLA Professional Committee, together with the Italian Government will organise a special one day conference on the topic of digital collections and users under the title: Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies. This one day conference is being planned in connection to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Milan and will be held in the Università degli studi di Milano, Aula Magna in Milano, Italy.
The conference consists of a very interesting programme focused on digital collections and users and wants to trigger a discussion to understand challenges and to promote strategies for digital collections and services, responding to active user expectations. The conference programme is developed around three sessions: The digital library user experience –current user research; Towards a digital collection – engaging researchers and Strategies for institutions – responding to the digital challenge."
The conference consists of a very interesting programme focused on digital collections and users and wants to trigger a discussion to understand challenges and to promote strategies for digital collections and services, responding to active user expectations. The conference programme is developed around three sessions: The digital library user experience –current user research; Towards a digital collection – engaging researchers and Strategies for institutions – responding to the digital challenge."
"Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage" (Milan, 8/23/09-8/27/09)
The World Library and Information Congress 2009, 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, will take place in the Fiera Milano Convention Centre (MIC), Milan, Italy, from August 23 to August 27, 2009
* Programme
* Programme
Monday, March 23, 2009
CFP: Metamorphosing Dante
Call for Papers: Metamorphosing Dante
ICI-Berlin, 24-26 September 2009
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford/Berlin), Fabio Camilletti (Berlin), Fabian Lampart (Freiburg)
"After almost seven centuries, Dante persists and even seems to haunt the present. Dante has been used, rewritten, and metamorphosed through manifold media and cultural productions; the image itself of Dante has provided many paradigms for being (or performing the role of) a poet, indiscriminately shifting from the civic to the love poet, from the language experimenter to the engaged poet-philosopher, or from the bard of a ‘sublime’ Inferno to that of heavenly rarefaction. This conference will investigate what so many authors, artists and thinkers from such different artistic, political, geographical, and cultural backgrounds have found in Dante in the 20th and 21st centuries. Certainly, Dante’s work can provide multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters and stories, thereby allowing a wide range of possibilities to be evoked and re-activated. However, after the somewhat a-critical, sometimes Kitsch tribute paid to Dante during the Romantic period – excesses against which the scholarly tradition of Dante studies intentionally constituted itself – Dante’s oeuvre has become a more challenging and interrogative presence. It has become a floating, sometimes subterranean, certainly complex influence, and each re-appropriation also inquires, somehow moving forward with a backwards gaze, into its own Weltanschauung, including such crucial elements as subjectivity, language, politics, desire, and utopia.
The hypothesis that this conference seeks to pursue is that the 20th and 21st centuries have found in Dante a field of tension, in which they can mirror, explore, and question the tensions of their own realities. Situated itself on critical points of tension (sermo humilis/sublimis, lyric/epic, life/afterlife, human/divine, present/future…), Dante’s aspiration towards totality remains a daunting presence in the age of fragmentation. After the ‘death of the Author’, Dante’s work seduces precisely as the site of a powerful production of authorship: in its own critical engagement with biblical and classical works, it gives birth to the author in a modern sense by appropriating their authority and charging it with a strongly subjective dimension imbued with experience, memory, and desire. The conference invites scholars and artists coming from different disciplines and cultures to explore what the 20th and 21st centuries have looked for in Dante’s works, and the ways in which they have engaged with them through rewritings, dialogues, and transposition in order to reflect upon their own tensions.
Metamorphosing Dante is conceived within the frame of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry’s core project Tension/Spannung, whose aim is to explore the manifold role of tension from a pluridisciplinary approach through the interactions of artists and scholars from different backgrounds. This conference aims to investigate Dante’s tensions with the same openness in inquiry, focusing on their adaptability to all possible metamorphoses undergone by Dante in the 20th and 21st centuries."
ICI-Berlin, 24-26 September 2009
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford/Berlin), Fabio Camilletti (Berlin), Fabian Lampart (Freiburg)
"After almost seven centuries, Dante persists and even seems to haunt the present. Dante has been used, rewritten, and metamorphosed through manifold media and cultural productions; the image itself of Dante has provided many paradigms for being (or performing the role of) a poet, indiscriminately shifting from the civic to the love poet, from the language experimenter to the engaged poet-philosopher, or from the bard of a ‘sublime’ Inferno to that of heavenly rarefaction. This conference will investigate what so many authors, artists and thinkers from such different artistic, political, geographical, and cultural backgrounds have found in Dante in the 20th and 21st centuries. Certainly, Dante’s work can provide multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters and stories, thereby allowing a wide range of possibilities to be evoked and re-activated. However, after the somewhat a-critical, sometimes Kitsch tribute paid to Dante during the Romantic period – excesses against which the scholarly tradition of Dante studies intentionally constituted itself – Dante’s oeuvre has become a more challenging and interrogative presence. It has become a floating, sometimes subterranean, certainly complex influence, and each re-appropriation also inquires, somehow moving forward with a backwards gaze, into its own Weltanschauung, including such crucial elements as subjectivity, language, politics, desire, and utopia.
The hypothesis that this conference seeks to pursue is that the 20th and 21st centuries have found in Dante a field of tension, in which they can mirror, explore, and question the tensions of their own realities. Situated itself on critical points of tension (sermo humilis/sublimis, lyric/epic, life/afterlife, human/divine, present/future…), Dante’s aspiration towards totality remains a daunting presence in the age of fragmentation. After the ‘death of the Author’, Dante’s work seduces precisely as the site of a powerful production of authorship: in its own critical engagement with biblical and classical works, it gives birth to the author in a modern sense by appropriating their authority and charging it with a strongly subjective dimension imbued with experience, memory, and desire. The conference invites scholars and artists coming from different disciplines and cultures to explore what the 20th and 21st centuries have looked for in Dante’s works, and the ways in which they have engaged with them through rewritings, dialogues, and transposition in order to reflect upon their own tensions.
Metamorphosing Dante is conceived within the frame of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry’s core project Tension/Spannung, whose aim is to explore the manifold role of tension from a pluridisciplinary approach through the interactions of artists and scholars from different backgrounds. This conference aims to investigate Dante’s tensions with the same openness in inquiry, focusing on their adaptability to all possible metamorphoses undergone by Dante in the 20th and 21st centuries."
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Symposium: Dante's Pluringualism (Berlin, April 2-4)
AUTHORITY, VULGARIZATION, SUBJECTIVITY
Symposium: Dante's Pluringualism: Authority, Vulgarization, Subjectivity
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, April 2-4, 2009
Organizers: Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati, Jürgen Trabant
"Already in 1929 Erich Auerbach highlighted the innovative character of Dante's oeuvre which, in contrast with its traditional interpretation as the culmination and summa of a medieval Weltanschauung, he associated with a modern representation of the human being in its individuality and historical reality. This conference gathers scholars from different disciplines (literary studies, history, linguistics, philosophy, queer theory, theatre) to discuss the role that language plays for Dante. In particular, the question with which this conference engages is to what extent Dante’s linguistic theory and praxis, which can be understood in terms of a strenuous defense of the vernacular language, in tension with the prestige of Latin, both informs and reflects a new constellation of authority, knowledge and identity, which is imbued with a significant element of subjectivity and opens up towards modernity. The conference will also include a dialogue with Giorgio Pressburger on his recent Nel regno oscuro and a performance based on Dante and Pasolini."
Participants: Albert Russell Ascoli (Berkeley), Zygmunt Baranski (Cambridge), Emma Bond (Oxford), Gary Cestaro (Chicago), Sara Fortuna (Berlin), Stefano Gensini (Roma), Carlo Ginzburg (Pisa), Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford, Berlin), Agnese Grieco (Berlin), Ruedi Imbach (Paris), Giulio Lepschy (Cambridge), Laura Lepschy (London, Cambridge), Bettina Lindorfer (Berlin), Elena Lombardi (Bristol), Franco Lo Piparo (Palermo), Lino Pertile (Harvard), Giorgio Pressburger (Trieste), Irène Rosier-Catach (Paris), Francesca Southerden (Oxford), Mirko Tavoni (Pisa), Jürgen Trabant (Berlin, Bremen).
Symposium: Dante's Pluringualism: Authority, Vulgarization, Subjectivity
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, April 2-4, 2009
Organizers: Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati, Jürgen Trabant
"Already in 1929 Erich Auerbach highlighted the innovative character of Dante's oeuvre which, in contrast with its traditional interpretation as the culmination and summa of a medieval Weltanschauung, he associated with a modern representation of the human being in its individuality and historical reality. This conference gathers scholars from different disciplines (literary studies, history, linguistics, philosophy, queer theory, theatre) to discuss the role that language plays for Dante. In particular, the question with which this conference engages is to what extent Dante’s linguistic theory and praxis, which can be understood in terms of a strenuous defense of the vernacular language, in tension with the prestige of Latin, both informs and reflects a new constellation of authority, knowledge and identity, which is imbued with a significant element of subjectivity and opens up towards modernity. The conference will also include a dialogue with Giorgio Pressburger on his recent Nel regno oscuro and a performance based on Dante and Pasolini."
Participants: Albert Russell Ascoli (Berkeley), Zygmunt Baranski (Cambridge), Emma Bond (Oxford), Gary Cestaro (Chicago), Sara Fortuna (Berlin), Stefano Gensini (Roma), Carlo Ginzburg (Pisa), Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford, Berlin), Agnese Grieco (Berlin), Ruedi Imbach (Paris), Giulio Lepschy (Cambridge), Laura Lepschy (London, Cambridge), Bettina Lindorfer (Berlin), Elena Lombardi (Bristol), Franco Lo Piparo (Palermo), Lino Pertile (Harvard), Giorgio Pressburger (Trieste), Irène Rosier-Catach (Paris), Francesca Southerden (Oxford), Mirko Tavoni (Pisa), Jürgen Trabant (Berlin, Bremen).
Friday, November 7, 2008
Honoring Great Italian Thinkers and Reformers (BU - Nov. 18, 2008)
The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at BU and The Consulate General of Boston organize the event
Honoring Great Italian Thinkers and Reformers
Nov. 18, 2008 5:30 PM
711 Commonwealth Avenue - Mugar Memorial Library Building - First Floor - Howard Gotlieb Memorial Gallery
- Panel discussion: Max Ascoli: antifascist, intellectual, journalist
- Exhibition opening of The Indelible Italian Spirit: Profiles of Max Ascoli, Danilo Dolci, Oriana Fallaci and Niccolo' Tucci
* link Max Ascoli
* link Danilo Dolci
* link Oriana Fallaci
* link Niccolo' Tucci
Honoring Great Italian Thinkers and Reformers
Nov. 18, 2008 5:30 PM
711 Commonwealth Avenue - Mugar Memorial Library Building - First Floor - Howard Gotlieb Memorial Gallery
- Panel discussion: Max Ascoli: antifascist, intellectual, journalist
- Exhibition opening of The Indelible Italian Spirit: Profiles of Max Ascoli, Danilo Dolci, Oriana Fallaci and Niccolo' Tucci
* link Max Ascoli
* link Danilo Dolci
* link Oriana Fallaci
* link Niccolo' Tucci
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The Triumph of Marriage: A Symposium on Renaissance Cassoni (Boston, Nov.7)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
280 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
Information 617 566 1401
Box Office 617 278 5156
Lectures and Reception: Friday, November 7 @ 6:30 pm
Symposium: Saturday, November 8 @ 10 am-5 pm
Tickets: $15 General Public; $10 Members, Seniors; FREE Students
This exhibition symposium considers issues surrounding Renaissance cassoni, marriage, and the motif of triumph. Revived and transformed in the Renaissance, images of ancient military triumph offered a model for public celebration with parade floats and processions. Triumph was also a poetic motif used as allegory in works such as Petrarch’s famous poem, The Triumphs, which itself became a popular subject in art celebrating marriage. The speakers will approach Renaissance marriage and triumphal imagery from a variety of disciplines, including history, art history, and literature. Chaired by exhibition curator Cristelle Baskins of Tufts University.
Keynote Lectures and Reception (Friday)
Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University
"The Triumph of Cassoni”
Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney
"No Imperial Majesty: Frederick III in Florence and Rome”
Symposium Speakers (Saturday)
Lilian Armstrong, Wellesley College
“Triumphs and Love in North Italian Renaissance Books”
Roberta Bartoli, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence
“Sacred Feasts and Social Rituals: Images of Banquets in ‘Cassone’ and ‘Spalliera’ Painting”
Caroline Campbell, Courtauld Gallery
“The Transformation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on Florentine Cassoni”
Philine Helas, Biblioteca Hertziana
“The Triumph of Alfonso d’Aragona in Naples 1443: From Living Images to Pictorial Representations”
Philip Jacks, George Washington University
“La Giostra in Piazza: Courtly Pageantry on Florentine Cassoni”
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College
“Beauty, Fertility, Piety, and Duty: Marriage Chests and Their Contents in Renaissance Florence”
Sharon Strocchia, Emory University
“A Marriage Made in Heaven: Ritual Unions of Bishops and Abbesses in Renaissance Italy”
280 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
Information 617 566 1401
Box Office 617 278 5156
Lectures and Reception: Friday, November 7 @ 6:30 pm
Symposium: Saturday, November 8 @ 10 am-5 pm
Tickets: $15 General Public; $10 Members, Seniors; FREE Students
This exhibition symposium considers issues surrounding Renaissance cassoni, marriage, and the motif of triumph. Revived and transformed in the Renaissance, images of ancient military triumph offered a model for public celebration with parade floats and processions. Triumph was also a poetic motif used as allegory in works such as Petrarch’s famous poem, The Triumphs, which itself became a popular subject in art celebrating marriage. The speakers will approach Renaissance marriage and triumphal imagery from a variety of disciplines, including history, art history, and literature. Chaired by exhibition curator Cristelle Baskins of Tufts University.
Keynote Lectures and Reception (Friday)
Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University
"The Triumph of Cassoni”
Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney
"No Imperial Majesty: Frederick III in Florence and Rome”
Symposium Speakers (Saturday)
Lilian Armstrong, Wellesley College
“Triumphs and Love in North Italian Renaissance Books”
Roberta Bartoli, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence
“Sacred Feasts and Social Rituals: Images of Banquets in ‘Cassone’ and ‘Spalliera’ Painting”
Caroline Campbell, Courtauld Gallery
“The Transformation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on Florentine Cassoni”
Philine Helas, Biblioteca Hertziana
“The Triumph of Alfonso d’Aragona in Naples 1443: From Living Images to Pictorial Representations”
Philip Jacks, George Washington University
“La Giostra in Piazza: Courtly Pageantry on Florentine Cassoni”
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College
“Beauty, Fertility, Piety, and Duty: Marriage Chests and Their Contents in Renaissance Florence”
Sharon Strocchia, Emory University
“A Marriage Made in Heaven: Ritual Unions of Bishops and Abbesses in Renaissance Italy”
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Omaggio allo Scrittore Ignazio Silone (Assis, 19-21 agosto)
"30 Anos da Morte de Ignazio Silone: O Homem, O Escritor e O Intelectual," an international conference at the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Assis, Brazil, has been organized to pay homage to the writer. Speakers include Brunello De Cusatis, Maurizio Babini, Doris Natia Cavallari, Patricia Peterle, Tania Regina de Luca, and Maria Glória Cusimano Mazzi. For more information, contact Patricia Peterie at Univesidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo.
Video on Ignazio Silone
Video on Ignazio Silone
Monday, February 11, 2008
Benvenuti a Italian eCenter
Il blog 'Italian eCenter' e' un progetto innovativo, creato dalla professoressa Laurie Shepard a Boston College.
Il blog si propone come un portale attraverso cui segnalare film, libri, mostre, concerti e altri eventi, cosi' come opportunita' di studio e di lavoro.
I destinatari ideali del blog sono italofili, studenti, professori e non specialisti, amanti dell'opera, del cinema, della storia e della lingua italiana, cosi' come turisti stranieri e italiani.
Il blog includera' eventi locali e internazionali, che abbiano rilevanza per la cultura italiana.
Abbiamo deciso di scrivere i post in inglese, ma prevediamo che molti link saranno in italiano o in inglese, con o senza traduzioni o sottotitoli. Come sempre accade in rete, il visitatore segue poi un percorso autonomo.
Il blog si propone come un portale attraverso cui segnalare film, libri, mostre, concerti e altri eventi, cosi' come opportunita' di studio e di lavoro.
I destinatari ideali del blog sono italofili, studenti, professori e non specialisti, amanti dell'opera, del cinema, della storia e della lingua italiana, cosi' come turisti stranieri e italiani.
Il blog includera' eventi locali e internazionali, che abbiano rilevanza per la cultura italiana.
Abbiamo deciso di scrivere i post in inglese, ma prevediamo che molti link saranno in italiano o in inglese, con o senza traduzioni o sottotitoli. Come sempre accade in rete, il visitatore segue poi un percorso autonomo.
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