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 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
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