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in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia

 

NEW: XX AISLLI Conference. 3-6 December, 2009

Languages, Cultures, Identities of Italy in the World

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Fall 2009 Program

OCTOBER 21, 2009 - IX Settimana della Lingua Italiana
"L'italiano tra arte scienza e tecnologia"

OCTOBER 28, 2009 - Lecture by Amanda Reiterman
"Discovering the Pantheon's Lost Original Exterior"

NOVEMBER 2, 2009 - Poetry reading by Davide Rondoni, Taije Silverman, Eleanor Wilner, Gregory Pell (translator), presented by Stefania Benini
"The Reinventing Muse: a Dialogue between Poetry and Translation"

NOVEMBER 9, 2009 - Lecture by Lorenzo Valterza
"Dante and the Love of Courtly Justice"

NOVEMBER 12, 2009 - A conversation with Marco Tullio Giordana

NOVEMBER 17, 2009 - Lecture by Andrew Berns
"'Perché sia chiamata santa:'
Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Hebrew Language"

DECEMBER 3-6, 2009 - XX AISLLI Conference

Languages, Cultures, Identities of Italy in the World

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Spring 2009 Program

FEBRUARY 5, 2009 - Film Series @ Gregory House
La Commedia all'Italiana - I soliti ignoti (1958)

FEBRUARY 12, 2009 - Lecture by Gabriella Romani
"Postal Culture: Epistolary Narratives in Post-Unification Italy"

FEBRUARY 17, 2009 - Lecture by Ann Rosalind Jones
"The World in Woodcuts: Cesare Vecellio's Habiti antichi et moderni"

FEBRUARY 19, 2009 - Film Series @ Gregory House
La Commedia all'Italiana - Divorzio all'italiana (1961)

FEBRUARY 24, 2009 - Research Seminar Series: Andrew Berns
"Holy Embryology in Late Renaissance Italy
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MARCH 2, 2009 - Research Seminar Series: Juliet Nusbaum
"You Can Never Go Home Again: Myth and Identity Loss in Cesare Pavese's La luna e i falò"

MARCH 5, 2009 - Film Series @ Gregory House
La Commedia all'Italiana - Sedotta e abbandonata (1964)

MARCH 19, 2009 - Film Series @ Gregory House
La Commedia all'Italiana - Amici miei (1975)

MARCH 21, 2009 - Correspondences
Graduate Romanic Association Conference

MARCH 24, 2009 - Lecture by Michele Monserrati
"Positivism and aesthetic streams in the correspondence between Benedetto Croce and Guido Mazzoni"

APRIL 2, 2009 - Film Series @ Gregory House
La Commedia all'Italiana - L'armata Brancaleone (1966)

APRIL 16, 2009 - Film Series @ Gregory House
La Commedia all'Italiana - Mafioso (1962)

APRIL 27, 2009 - Vittorini Awards Ceremony
Houston Hall

APRIL 29, 2009 - Film Series @ International House
Directors in Focus - Franco Piavoli

 

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)

 

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.

 

 

 

 


 

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