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Center for Italian Studies Events
Primavera Italiana
Before politicians did it, writers and poets crafted the idea of an Italian nation. Literature has consistently held a central place in the history of Italy. But along with literature, other forms of culture have also nurtured and shaped the Italian identity: the arts, music, gastronomy, fashion, treatises on etiquette, the various forms of faith and devotion, industrial design, and cinema.
The 2008 edition of Primavera Italiana seeks to begin the exploration of the multiple facets of the Italian culture. The very word Primavera suggests the beginning of a road destined to go forward, crossing the whole of Italian history in all the richness of its voices and its colors. This vision inspires a program featuring not only lectures, but also book readings, concerts, film screenings, and a day dedicated to the poetry and paintings of women artists who have made Italy the source of their inspiration.
This establishment of the Primavera Italiana is the result of a collaboration between the Consul General of Italy and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, with the support of: the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, the Associazione Caterina de' Medici, the Casa Italiana and the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. All of these institutions are linked by their common enthusiasm for the Culture of Italy, and all of them desire to display it in all of its vitality, in its perennial youth, and in its capacity to recall the past to invent the future.
Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Casa Italiana, University of Pennsylvania
with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute - Washington
present the
Fall 2008 Program
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 - Film Series@Gregory House
Ossessione (1943)
OCTOBER 2, 2008 - Film Series@Gregory House
Senso (1954)
OCTOBER 16, 2008 - Film Series@Gregory House
La Morte a Venezia (1971)
OCTOBER 20, 2008 - L'Italiano in Piazza
Meeting of the Italian Departments for the VIII Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo - Eighth Annual Week of the Italian Language in the World
OCTOBER 22, 2008 – Presentation by Giovanni Pampiglione
La Maschera e lo specchio
OCTOBER 28, 2008 - Lecture by Patrizio Ceccagnoli
The Winged Victory of Samothrace as a Locomotive: Marinetti and d'Annunzio, the Odd Couple in Fiume
OCTOBER 28, 2008 - Poetry Reading@Robin's Bookstore
Moonstone Poetry Series presents Allison Wittenberg and Lillyrose Veneziano Broccia
OCTOBER 30, 2008 – Jazz Concert
Da Monteverdi al free: liberta e invenzione melodica nel nuovo jazz italiano
OCTOBER 30, 2008 - Film Series@Gregory House
Le Notti Bianche (1957)
NOVEMBER 5, 2008 - Lecture by Sebastiano Maffettone
The Weakness of Italian Political Culture
NOVEMBER 13, 2008 - Research Seminar Series
Gaspara Stampa's Rime: Images in Perspective
NOVEMBER 13, 2008 - Film Series@Gregory House
Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (1974)
NOVEMBER 14, 2008 - A Showcase of Italian Short Films
Serata del Cortometraggio Italiano
NOVEMBER 21-22, 2008 - Coccia Conference
Futurism: Rupture and Tradition
NOVEMBER 27, 2008 - Film Series@Gregory House
Il Gattopardo (1963)
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