January 24, 2012 - Remembrance Day with Eugenio Calabi, "A Tribute to Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia Calabi Zevi" - in English (PDF poster)
January 26, 2012 - Lecture by Luca Badini Confalonieri, "I Promessi sposi illustrati tra filologia e critica"- in Italian (PDF poster)
February 9, 2012 - Lecture by Chiara Basso, "Italia-America: Misunderstandings and Stereotypes through Media" - in English (PDF poster)
February 11, 2012 - Symposium "Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" - in English
February 20, 2012 - Undergraduate Competition Award Ceremony, "Food, Culture, and Italian Identity" - with a lecture by Pietro Frassica, Futurist Cookery and Optimism at the Dining Table" - in Italian and English (PDF poster)
February 23, 2012 - Lecture by Laura Wittman,
"Personal Mythology, Mass Mourning, and Catholic Modernism during World War One: d’Annunzio, Ungaretti, and Marinetti"- in English
(PDF poster)
March 1, 2012 - Lecture by Alison Cornish, "Dante and Volgarizzamento" - in English (PDF poster)
March 16, 2012 - Screening of "Italy: Love it or Leave it", a documentary by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi - in Italian and English (PDF poster)
March 29, 2012 - A colloquium with Steven Milner and Gur Zak,"Humanist Ethics, Petrarch to Machiavelli"- in English (PDF poster)
March 30, 2012 - International conference - in Italian and English
Reading and Translating Leopardi
(PDF poster)
This event, co-sponsored with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, will be attended by His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy in the United States. It will be hosted at the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia. Please click on title for the full program.
April 5, 2012 - Lecture by Federico Rampini, "Europe Between Market Pressure, German Rigour, and Technocracy" - in English (PDF poster)
April 10, 2012 - Lecture by Carlo Vecce, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Comparison of the Arts" - in English (PDF poster)
April 12, 2012 - Lecture by Daniela Bini, "Carlo Michelstaedter Today: The Burden of Truth and the Proliferation of Rhetoric" - in English (PDF poster)
April 17, 2012 - Vittorini Award Ceremony - in Italian and English (PDF poster)
April 19, 2012 - Screening of "The Peasant and the Priest", a new documentary by Esther Podemski, followed by a conversation with the director - in Italian and English (PDF poster)