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Black Lives Matter Italy, with Fred Kudjo Kuwornu
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“Black Lives Matter Italy and The Legacy of Colonialism,” multimedia lecture by Fred Kudjo Kuwornu (filmmaker, activist, educator, producer). For the Zoom link, please contact Dr. Rossella di Rosa (Undergraduate Chair, Italian Studies) at dirosa@sas.upenn.edu
Date: 28 January 2021A semester with Carlo Ginzburg (event 1)
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The Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts welcome distinguished historian
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
for a series of online lectures and conversations.
Registration and more information will be available in the following weeks at
Date: 23 February 2021A semester with Carlo Ginzburg (event 2)
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The Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts welcome distinguished historian
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Date: 2 March 2021
A semester with Carlo Ginzburg (event 3)
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The Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts welcome distinguished historian
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
for a series of online lectures and conversations. All events are at noon.
Date: 16 March 2021A semester with Carlo Ginzburg (event 4)
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The Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts welcome distinguished historian
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
for a series of online lectures and conversations. All events are at noon.
Date: 6 April 2021Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley) on 18th-century Philadelphia
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Prof. Diego Pirillo (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Republic of Letters in 18th-century Philadelphia.”
Part of the Workshop in the History of Material Texts. For the Zoom link please sign up for the listserv of the Workshop at https://pennmaterialtexts.org/about/
Date: 12 April 2021A semester with Carlo Ginzburg (event 5)
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Join us for the last event in the series sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies Section of the Department of Romance Languages, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Date: 13 April 2021Laura Benedetti (Georgetown Univ.) on Venice and Cairo in the Renaissance
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Prof. Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University):
"Mediterranean Diplomacy in the Early Sixteenth Century: Domenico Trevisan’s Journey from Venice to Cairo."
The Zoom link will be posted closer to the meeting.
Date: 27 April 2021Recent Events
Multimedia concert "Island of Peoples" (Fisher-Bennett Hall) [POSTPONED]
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Island of Peoples is a multimedia concert based on stories of immigrants coming to the United States and draws inspiration and material from the stories of the Ellis Island Oral Histories, a project of the Ellis Island Museum, that preserves and collect interviews of US immigrants who went through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1954. The concert includes original material obtained directly from actual immigrant interviews.
Date: 27 April 2020