Fall 2012 Program
OCTOBER 4, 2012 - Penn Music Department Colloquium with Mauro Calcagno, "Spectral Poetics: The Wooster Group’s Production of Cavalli’s La Didone" - in English
OCTOBER 11, 2012 - Lecture by Riccardo Viale on his new book, Methodological Cognitivism: Vol 1. Mind, Rationality and Society - in English
OCTOBER 15, 2012 - Lecture by Emilio Gentile, "The March on Rome: How Antifascists Understood the Origins of Totalitarianism (and coined the word)" - in Italian and English
OCTOBER 24, 2012 - XII Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo, "Italy: its Regions and its Future" - in Italian and English
NOVEMBER 1-2, 2012 - Detective Montalbano - Film screening and conversation with Italian director, Slberto Sironi - in Italian and English
NOVEMBER 5, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Kara Gaston, "Translation and Poetry in Prose Boethius Volgarizzamenti" - in English
NOVEMBER 15, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Daira Nocera, "Digging in Rome: Excavations at the Villa of Emperor Maxentius" - in English
NOVEMBER 20, 2012 - Lecture by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto - "Between Nature and Artifice: The Construction of Experience in Early Modern Italian Gardens" - in English
NOVEMBER 28, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Chelsea Pomponio - "The Legendary Origins of Florence in Medieval Political Propaganda: Fesula delenda est!" - in English
NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 2, 2012 - A free admission Italian Film Festival: New Authors of Italian Cinema - in Italian and English