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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 2007 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, the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the continued support of: The America-Italy Society of Philadelphia, The Associazione Caterina de' Medici, The Associazione Cavalieri d'Italia, The Book Club Italiano di Philadelphia, 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
Cavalier Society of Philadelphia
Order Sons of Italy in America, Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute - Washington
present
La Primavera Italiana – Spring 2008
JANUARY 28, 2008 - Film
Don Camillo e l’onorevole Peppone (1955)
JANUARY 31, 2008
The Emergence of Modernity and the Discovery of America, a lecture by Giuseppe Mazzotta
FEBRUARY 4, 2008 - Film
I soliti ignoti (1958)
FEBRUARY 11, 2008 - Film
La grande guerra (1959)
FEBRUARY 18, 2008 - Film
Divorzio all’italiana (1961)
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Made in Italy/Made in Emilia-Romagna, a lecture by Giovanna Franci
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
The Etruscans in the Vatican Museum: a glance into the art and culture of ancient Italy during the first millenium BC
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Dante around Chaucer, a lecture by Nick Havely
FEBRUARY 25, 2008 - Film
Il sorpasso (1962)
FEBRUARY 27, 2008
‘There’s the Rub’: Searching for Sexual Remedies in the New World, a lecture by Valeria Finucci
MARCH 3, 2008 - Film
Sedotta e abbandonata (1964)
MARCH 17, 2008 - Film
C’eravamo tanto amati (1974)
MARCH 24, 2008 - Film
Ladri di saponette (1989)
MARCH 26, 2008
The Will to Authorship: Virgil Crowns Dante, a lecture by Albert Ascoli
MARCH 31, 2008 - Film
Mediterraneo (1991)
APRIL 3, 2008
"Beyond Beyond".
Who’s Afraid of Poetry?
a round table discussion about poetry.
APRIL 7, 2008 - Film
Caro diario (1993)
APRIL 14, 2008 - Film
La vita è bella (1997)
APRIL 18, 2008 - Concert
Accordion Concert with maestro Alessandro Gazza
APRIL 19, 2008 - Concert
Accordion Concert with maestro Alessandro Gazza (Philadelphia venue)
APRIL 21, 2008 - Film
Pane e tulipani (2000)
APRIL 25-27, 2008 - International Conference
Why Italian Switzerland?
Swiss Identity and Italian Identity
APRIL 29, 2008 - A Celebration of Undergratuate Research in Italian
The 2008 Vittorini Prizes for undergraduate distinction in Italian
JANUARY 28, 2008 - Film
Don Camillo e l’onorevole Peppone (1955)
JANUARY 31, 2008
The Emergence of Modernity and the Discovery of America, a lecture by Giuseppe Mazzotta
FEBRUARY 4, 2008 - Film
I soliti ignoti (1958)
FEBRUARY 11, 2008 - Film
La grande guerra (1959)
FEBRUARY 18, 2008 - Film
Divorzio all’italiana (1961)
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Made in Italy/Made in Emilia-Romagna, a lecture by Giovanna Franci
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
The Etruscans in the Vatican Museum: a glance into the art and culture of ancient Italy during the first millenium BC
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Dante around Chaucer, a lecture by Nick Havely
FEBRUARY 25, 2008 - Film
Il sorpasso (1962)
FEBRUARY 27, 2008
‘There’s the Rub’: Searching for Sexual Remedies in the New World, a lecture by Valeria Finucci
MARCH 3, 2008 - Film
Sedotta e abbandonata (1964)
MARCH 17, 2008 - Film
C’eravamo tanto amati (1974)
MARCH 24, 2008 - Film
Ladri di saponette (1989)
MARCH 26, 2008
The Will to Authorship: Virgil Crowns Dante, a lecture by Albert Ascoli
MARCH 31, 2008 - Film
Mediterraneo (1991)
APRIL 3, 2008
"Beyond Beyond".
Who’s Afraid of Poetry?
a round table discussion about poetry.
APRIL 7, 2008 - Film
Caro diario (1993)
APRIL 14, 2008 - Film
La vita è bella (1997)
APRIL 18, 2008 - Concert
Accordion Concert with maestro Alessandro Gazza
APRIL 19, 2008 - Concert
Accordion Concert with maestro Alessandro Gazza (Philadelphia venue)
APRIL 21, 2008 - Film
Pane e tulipani (2000)
APRIL 25-27, 2008 - International Conference
Why Italian Switzerland?
Swiss Identity and Italian Identity
APRIL 29, 2008 - A Celebration of Undergratuate Research in Italian
The 2008 Vittorini Prizes for undergraduate distinction in Italian
September 20, 2007
The Jews in Fascist Italy: A Reappraisal
Paolo Bernardini, Boston University and Università dell’Insubria.
October 3, 2007 - Presentation
One Man Show. Compagnia teatrale Angelo Musco.
October 24, 2007 - Film
My name is Tanino, C. Virzi’
October 31, 2007 - Film
La Strada. Federico Fellini, Italy 1954.
November 3, 2007 - Classical guitar concert.
Alessio Nebiolo
November 8, 2007
Maria della Guardia (1585 - 1645): an English Amazon in Rome.
David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania.
November 9, 2007
Concert. Quartetto di Venezia.
November 14, 2007 - Film
Big Night, Campbell Scott-Stanley Tucci, USA 1996
November 30, 2007
Coccia Conference. Inventing History:Italian Literature between Philology and Theory. In celebration of the centenary of Nobel Laureate Giosue Carducci (1835-1907)
December 1, 2007
Coccia Conference. Inventing History: Italian Literature between Philology and Theory. In celebration of the centenary of Nobel Laureate Giosue Carducci (1835-1907)
December 5, 2007 - Film
Il Mondo Nuovo, E.Crialese, Italy 2005..
December 8, 2007 - Film Exposition
Identity at Large: The Italian-American Community in Pictures: People and Places
May 12, 2007 - Teaching Workshop
Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di Italiano come lingua straniera
April 28, 2007 - Teaching Workshop
Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di Italiano come lingua straniera
April 24, 2007 - A Celebration of Undergratuate Research in Italian
The 2007 Vittorini Prizes for undergraduate distinction in Italian
April 20, 2007 - Book Reading
Non ti muovere (Margaret Mazzantini)
April 14, 2007 - Teaching Workshop
Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di Italiano come lingua straniera
April 12, 2007 - Concert
Miriam Meghnagi, Mediterranean Dialogues
April 12, 2007 - Concert
Duo Alterno, Songs and Other Tales From Italy
April 11, 2007 - Film
Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips)
March 31, 2007 - Teaching Workshop
Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di Italiano come lingua straniera
March 31, 2007 - Symposium
Identity at Large: Women preserving and interpreting Italian heritage into the 21st century
March 28, 2007 - Film
C'eravamo tanto amati (We Loved Each Other So Much)
March 16, 2007 - Talk
Fractured Eternities: Living with History in Modern Rome
March 14, 2007 - Film
Divorzio all'italiana (Divorce, Italian Style)
February 24, 2007 - Teaching Workshop
Corso di aggiornamento per docenti di Italiano come lingua straniera
February 23, 2007 - Book Reading
Giro di vento (Andrea de Carlo)
February 22, 2007 - Talk
Anita Angelone, Gendered Mobility in Films of the Economic Boom: Zurlini's 'Girl with a Suitcase'
February 21, 2007 - Film
L'amore in citta (Love in the City)
February 15, 2007 - Talk
Stefano Giannini, Art and Ideology: Luchino Visconti's 'La terra trema' as a Palimpsest
February 8, 2007 - Talk
Stefania Benini, Pier Paolo Pasolini's subversive hagiographies: a reading of 'Teorema'
February 7, 2007 - Film
Roma citta aperta (Open City)
February 1, 2007 - Talk
Victoria Surliuga, Giulietta Masina's Journey from Innocence to Experience: Federico Fellini and the Jungian Perspective
January 31, 2007 - Talk
Teodolinda Barolini, Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture: Notes on Medieval Italian Studies
January 25, 2007 - Talk
Maurizio Pagano, Philosophy and Religion in Italy: From Croce and Gentile to the Present
December 2, 2006
The Third Annual Joseph and Elda Coccia Centennial Celebration Conference: Traces and Symbols in Italian Neorealism
November 27 - December 1, 2006
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Eight Edition
November 15, 2006
Career Opportunities in the Language Profession, a talk by Marica P. Angelides
November 13, 2006
The 2006 Italian Language in the World Award Ceremony, Seventh Edition
19-24 September 2006
AISLLI 2006
XIX Congresso AISLLI - Associazione Internazionale di Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana, Trieste (Italy)
April 25, 2006
The 2006 Vittorini Award Ceremony
April 6, 2006
Pinocchio's Screen Incarnations: An 'All-American' Real Boy?, a lecture by Rebecca West
March 29 - April 2, 2006
Carlo Gozzi's Turandot
March 20, 2006
A taste of Opera: Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart, libretto by L. Da Ponte, a lecture by Anna Frè
February 16, 2006
Essentially Theatrical': Representation and Reality in Rossini's Italian Operas, a lecture by Emanuele Senici
February 6, 2006
Commedia dell'Arte: Technique and Performance, a workshop with Antonio Fava
January 31, 2006
A Jewish Princess in Fascist Italy, a lecture by Victoria de Grazia
December 5-10, 2005
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Seventh Edition
November 30, 2005
Fra Girolamo Savonarola and His Women Followers, a lecture by Tamar Herzig
October 19, 2005
Word and Image in Leonardo's Manuscripts, a lecture by Carlo Vecce
September 16, 2005
New Penguin Dante: Translating the Commedia for the Twenty-First Century, a lecture by Robin Kirkpatrick
April 26, 2005
The 2005 Vittorini Award Ceremony
April 21, 2005
The 2005 Jerre Mangione Lecture Series: "The Hyphenated Life", a lecture by Diana Cavallo
April 21, 2005
Italian Play Production Class: ANTIGONI (Antigones)
April 1-2, 2005
The Second Annual Joseph and Elda Coccia Centennial Celebration Conference: Confrontations: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Sala del Maggior Consiglio
March 28-29, 2005
Snapshots of Modern Italy: A new-wave of documentary filmmaking
March 18, April 7, 2005
Italian Studies Colloquium, Spring 2005
February 16 , 2005
Cinema, Philosophy, and Dance: The Case of Fellini's "Saraghina"
December 2 , 2004
Spencer Williams and Dante: An African American Filmmaker at the Gates of Hell
November 17-21, 2004
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Sixth Edition
November 3, 2004
Sciascia's Detective Story: Variations of a Theme
October 13, November 11, 2004
Italian Studies Colloquium, Fall 2004
April 27, 2004
The 2004 Vittorini Award Ceremony
April 16-17, 2004
The First Annual Joseph and Elda Coccia Centennial Celebration Conference: The Complete Petrarch: A Life's Work (1304-1374)
February 9, March 22, and April 8, 2004
Italian Studies Colloquium, Spring 2004
November 17-23, 2003
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Fifth Edition
October 22, November 13, and December 5, 2003
Italian Studies Colloquium, Fall 2003
October 17 and 18, 2003
Italian-American Week
September 18, 2003
Laura e Francesco: un amore ricambiato.
Una riscrittura al femminile del Canzoniere di Petrarca
April 30, 2003
Authors of Italian Cinema: Giuseppe Tornatore
April 29, 2003
The 2003 Vittorini Awards Ceremony
April 25-26, 2003
Two Evenings with Pirandello
April 11, 2003
Sofronia e Armida: ripetizioni e differenze nella Gerusalemme liberata
April 7, 2003
Witches and Witchcraft: Perspectives Between History and Fiction
February 8, 2003
Juggling Family and Career: Italian, Italian-American, and American Women Speak Out
February 6, 2003
Luoghi comuni e pseudo-verità nella poesia di Luciano Erba
November 20 - 24, 2002
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Fourth Edition
November 6 - December 11, 2002
Italian Studies Colloquium, Fall 2002
October 17, 2002
Presentazione del Libro
May 2 - 5, 2002
Italian Roots, American Soil: Generations of Immigrants to the Philadelphia Area, a conference
February - April, 2002
Italian Studies Colloquium, Spring 2002
November 28 - December 2, 2001
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Third Edition
October - December, 2001
Italian Studies Colloquium, Fall 2001
April 19 - 22, 2001
2001 Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies
November 15 - 18, 2000
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, Second Edition
April 7 - 8, 2000
Authors of Italian Cinema: Francesco Rosi
March 3 - 5, 2000
Strong Voices, Weak History?
December 1 - 4, 1999
New Authors of Italian Cinema: An Italian Film Festival, First Edition
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