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Spring 2013 Program
JANUARY 29, 2013 - A colloquium with Goeffrey Brock and Jonathan Galassi, "Reading and Translating Contemporary Italian Poetry" - in Italian and English - This is an official event of "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States"
FEBRUARY 5, 2013 - Salvatori Lecture by Claudia Consolati, "Fellini's Foolish Pebble: La strada, Gelsomina, and Franciscan Holy Folly" - in English
FEBRUARY 6, 2013 - Lecture by Eva Del Soldato, "The Professor, the Heretic, and Aristotle: Translating Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Italy" - in English
FEBRUARY 7, 2013 - "Ancient Manuscripts" workshop by Eva Del Soldato - Van Pelt Library, Rm. 402 - 5:30-6:30pm
FEBRUARY 19, 2013 - Lecture by Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Late Renaissance Italy" - in English
FEBRUARY 20, 2013 - "Ancient Manuscripts" workshop by Eugenio Refini - Van Pelt Library, Meyerson Conference Rm, 2nd floor - 5:30-6:30pm
FEBRUARY 21, 2013 - "Ancient Manuscripts" workshop by James Coleman- Van Pelt Library, Meyerson Conference Rm, 2nd floor - 4:00-5:00pm
FEBRUARY 22, 2013 - Lecture by James Coleman, "Volto umano, volto divino: Quattrocento Humanism and the Transformation of Dante" - in English
MARCH 13, 2013 - Salvatori Lecture by Norman Rusin, "Love, Smoke, and Memory: Italo Svevo's Diario per la fidanzata"- in English
MARCH 22-23, 2013 - International conference - in Italian and English
MARCH 26, 2013 - Lecture by Rino Modonutti, "'L'ossa del corpo senza carne': Memory and Ruins of Ancient Rome in Early Renaissance Italy from Petrarch to Raphael" - in English
MARCH 27, 2013 - "Ancient Manuscripts" workshop by Rino Modonutti - Van Pelt Library, Meyerson Conference Rm, 2nd floor - 5:30-6:30pm
APRIL 3-5, 2013 - International conference - in Italian and English - This is an official event of "2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States"
Fall 2012 Program
OCTOBER 4, 2012 - Penn Music Department Colloquium with Mauro Calcagno, "Spectral Poetics: The Wooster Group’s Production of Cavalli’s La Didone" - in English
OCTOBER 11, 2012 - Lecture by Riccardo Viale on his new book, Methodological Cognitivism: Vol 1. Mind, Rationality and Society - in English
OCTOBER 15, 2012 - Lecture by Emilio Gentile, "The March on Rome: How Antifascists Understood
the Origins of Totalitarianism (and coined the word)" - in Italian and English
OCTOBER 24, 2012 - XII Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo, "Italy: its Regions and its Future" - in Italian and English
NOVEMBER 1-2, 2012 - Detective Montalbano - Film screening and conversation with Italian director, Slberto Sironi - in Italian and English
NOVEMBER 5, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Kara Gaston, "Translation and Poetry in Prose Boethius Volgarizzamenti" - in English
NOVEMBER 15, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Daira Nocera, "Digging in Rome: Excavations at the Villa of Emperor Maxentius" - in English
NOVEMBER 20, 2012 - Lecture by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto - "Between Nature and Artifice: The Construction of Experience in Early Modern Italian Gardens" - in English
NOVEMBER 28, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Chelsea Pomponio - "The Legendary Origins of Florence in Medieval Political Propaganda: Fesula delenda est!" - in English
NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 2, 2012 - A free admission Italian Film Festival: New Authors of Italian Cinema - in Italian and English
Spring 2012 Program
JANUARY 24, 2012 - Remembrance Day with Eugenio Calabi, "A Tribute to Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia Calabi Zevi" - in English
JANUARY 26, 2012 - Lecture by Luca Badini Confalonieri, "I Promessi sposi illustrati tra filologia e critica"- in Italian
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 - Lecture by Chiara Basso, "Italia-America: Misunderstandings and Stereotypes through Media" - in English
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
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
MARCH 1, 2012 - Lecture by Alison Cornish, "Dante and Volgarizzamento" - in English
MARCH 16, 2012 - Screening of "Italy: Love it or Leave it", a documentary by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi - in Italian and English
MARCH 29, 2012 - A colloquium with Steven Milner and Gur Zak,"Humanist Ethics, Petrarch to Machiavelli"- in English
MARCH 30, 2012 - International conference - in Italian and English
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
APRIL 10, 2012 - Lecture by Carlo Vecce, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Comparison of the Arts" - in English
APRIL 12, 2012 - Lecture by Daniela Bini, "Carlo Michelstaedter Today: The Burden of Truth and the Proliferation of Rhetoric" - in English
APRIL 17, 2012 - Vittorini Award Ceremony - in Italian and English
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
Fall 2011 Program
OCTOBER 3, 2011 - A conversation with Gian Antonio Stella on his new book
"Licenziare i padreterni"- in Italian and English
OCTOBER 4, 2011 - Presentation by Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
"Taranta"- in Italian and English
OCTOBER 19, 2011 - Lecture by Moreno Bernasconi
"Switzerland: a Safe-Haven for Italian Risorgimento's Founding Fathers"- in English
OCTOBER 20, 2011 - Lecture by Joseph Luzzi
"Political Economy Italian Style: National Identity and an Enlightenment Science"- in English
OCTOBER 24, 2011 - XI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo
"Food, Culture and Italian Identity" - in Italian and English
NOVEMBER 2, 2011 - Salvatori lecture: From Rome to Romanic
by Ann Kuttner, "Passing Through the Arch of Constantine", and Jamie Sanecki, "Art and the Commune: Thoughts on Sculpture and Architecture in Lucca, 1100-1300" - in English
NOVEMBER 17, 2011 - Salvatori lecture: Pier Paolo Vergerio e Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara: From Education to Translation
by Michele Rossi, "The Education of the Prince at the Carrarese Court: De ingenuis moribus 1400-1402", and Elisa Modolo, "Giovanni Andrea Dell'Anguillara’s unfaithful beauty. Translation and Innovation Bridging Renaissance and Baroque" - in English
DECEMBER 1-4, 2011 - A free admission Italian Film Festival: New Authors of Italian Cinema - Click on individual dates for full program: December 1 - December 2 - December 3 - December 4
DECEMBER 1-9, 2011 - A free admission exhibit of satirical prints: Matite tricolori / Tricolor Pencils. Satire on 150 years of Italian History - Opening reception DECEMBER 1
Spring 2011 Program
JANUARY 24, 2011 - Lecture by Antonio Merlo
"The Ruling Class: Business and Politics in Italy"- in English
FEBRUARY 8, 2011 - Lecture by Emerson Avery
"Important Enough to Ignore: Sicily's Age of Imperial Inattention (1st-7th Cent. CE)" - in English
FEBRUARY 15, 2011 - Lecture by Anne Lutun
"“…a seguire per ordine i misterij...”: Galeazzo Alessi’s Reform of the Sacro Monte at Varallo"- in English
FEBRUARY 25, 2011 - International Conference:
MARCH 1, 2011 - Lecture by Alessandra Mirra
"Giacomo Leopardi between Literature and Politics"- in English
MARCH 29, 2011 - Lecture by Jane Tylus
"Marvelous Writing: Textuality and Visual Culture in Late Medieval Siena"- in English
APRIL 12, 2011 - Lecture by Paolo Di Leo
"De Chirico and the Reappearance of the Gods"- in English
APRIL 15-16, 2011 - International Conference:
Fall 2010 Program
OCTOBER 4, 2010 - Lecture by Marco Cereocchi
"Petrarch and Music: Earthly Emotions through Words and Sounds"- in English
OCTOBER 20, 2010 - X Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo
"Una lingua per amica: l'italiano nostro e degli altri"- in Italian
OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 4, 2010 - A Tribute to Pierpaolo Pasolini :
OCTOBER 26, 2010 - Viewing of Pierpaolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma - in Italian with English subtitles
OCTOBER 27, 2010 - "Poesia in forma di rosa: a Reading of Pasolini's Poetry" - in Italian and English
OCTOBER 28, 2010 - Viewing of Pierpaolo Pasolini's La ricotta - in Italian with English subtitles
OCTOBER 29, 2010 - "Italian Words, American Music: The New Production of International Opera Theater" - a presentation of Decameron, premiering at the Prince Music Theater November 13 - in English
NOVEMBER 2, 2010 - A conversation with Michelangelo Pistoletto and Christine Poggi - in English and Italian
NOVEMBER 3, 2010 - Viewing of Pierpaolo Pasolini's Uccellacci uccellini - in Italian with English subtitles
NOVEMBER 4, 2010 - Viewing of Pierpaolo Pasolini's Decameron - in Italian with English subtitles
NOVEMBER 8, 2010 - Lecture by Larry Scanlon
"It Lives!: Boccaccio, Chaucer and the Birth of the Author" - in English
NOVEMBER 18, 2010 - Lecture by Lauren Jennings
"Senza vestimenta: The Literary Transmission of Trecento Songs" - in English
Spring 2010 Program
APRIL 26, 2010 - "Vittorini Prize Ceremony"
APRIL 22, 2010 - "Dis/Fare Mondi: Italian Artists at the Venice Biennale" a Colloquium with Christine Poggi and Ruth Erickson - in English
APRIL 21, 2010 - "Italic Lessons/ Lezioni italiche" a discussion with Piero Bassetti, Niccolò D'Aquino, and Maddalena Tirabassi - in English
APRIL 8, 2010 - Lecture by Stefano Tomassini
"Adone, un fiore in rivolta" - in Italian
APRIL 5, 2010 - "Love Lessons: A Reading in Memory of Alda Merini" by Susan Stewart - in English
MARCH 30, 2010 - Lecture by Luciana Fellin
"The Question of Language in the Italian American Experience" - in English
MARCH 22, 2010 - Dante on Xbox - Plenary Speaker Jay Clayton "Pwning Satan, or, How the Game Industry Came to Love Literature" - in English
MARCH 15, 2010 - Lecture by Lucio Angelo Privitello
"The Voluptuous Immobility of Sicilian Temporality: Il Gattopardo" - in English
MARCH 1, 2010 - Lecture by Victoria Kirkham
"Blasetti, 1860: A New Master of Nationalist Art" - in English
FEBRUARY 26, 2010 - Lecture by Marilynn Desmond
"Trojan Itineraries: The Fall of Troy and the Francophone Court of Robert of Anjou, King of Naples" - in English
FEBRUARY 15, 2010 - Lecture by Seth Bernard
"Lifting and Labor in Republican Rome" - in English
FEBRUARY 3, 2010 - Screening of Inside Buffalo and conversation with director Fred Kuwornu - in English
JANUARY 27, 2010 - Lecture by Christian Jurlando
"Before Oriental Despotism: Perceptions of Ottoman Power in Early Modern Italian Political Thought" - in English
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
Access to website here
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"
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
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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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