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Spring 2012 (scroll down for latest events)

JANUARY 24, 2012 - Remembrance Day with Eugenio Calabi, "A Tribute to Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia Calabi Zevi" - in English (Italian event)

JANUARY 26, 2012 @ noon - "The Ear of The Voice of The Eye - About Music Text Films, " A lecture by Yannis Kyriakides. Cherpack Seminar Room. (Spanish event)

JANUARY 26, 2012 - Lecture by Luca Badini Confalonieri, "I Promessi sposi illustrati tra filologia e critica"- in Italian (Italian event)

FEBRUARY 9, 2012 - Lecture by Chiara Basso, "Italia-America: Misunderstandings and Stereotypes through Media" - in English (Italian event)

FEBRUARY 11, 2012 - Symposium "Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" - in English (Italian event)

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 (Italian event)

FEBRUARY 23, 2012 @ 4:30 - Lecture by Sharon Kinoshita ( University of California, Santa Cruz):  "How to Do Things in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Case for Medieval Mediterranean Literature." Cherpack Seminar Room. (French event)

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 (Italian event)

MARCH 1, 2012 @ 4:00 - Lecture by Nicholas Paige ( University of California, Berkeley): speaking on his latest book, Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel (UPenn Press, 2011) [FSS talk]. Cherpack Seminar Room. (French event)

MARCH 1, 2012 - Lecture by Alison Cornish, "Dante and Volgarizzamento" - in English. (Italian event)

MARCH 2, 2012 - Lecture by Amador Fernández-Savater, "Política del cualquiera." Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish event)

MARCH 20, 2012 - Lecture by David Laderman ( College of San Mateo): "Traffic in Souls: The Perils and Promises of Mobility in La Promesse" (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1996), [Cinema Studies lecture, co-sponsored by French]. Location tba. (French event)

MARCH 23, 2012 - Lecture by Reina María Rodríguez, "Cuban Poetry after 1989" (“Poesía cubana después de ‘89” ), Cherpack Seminar room (Spanish/Portuguese event)

MARCH 29, 2012 - Lecture by Steven Milner and Gur Zak, "Humanist Ethics, Petrarch to Machiavelli"- in English. (Italian event)

MARCH 30, 2012 - International conference,"Reading and Translating Leopardi" - in Italian and English. (Italian event)

APRIL 5, 2012 @ 4:30 - Lecture by Philippe Bonnefis (Université de Lille-3, Emory University): "Grandeur du petit (Ponge)" [Frank P. Bowman Lecture]. Cherpack Seminar Room. (French event)

APRIL 10, 2012@ 5:00 - Lecture by Carlo Vecce, "Leonardo da Vinci and the Comparison of the Arts" - in English. Cherpack Seminar room. (Italian Event)

APRIL 12, 2012 @ 6:00- Lecture by Lou Charnon-Deutsch, "‘Going Global’ Figures of Ill Repute in the 19th Century Conspiracy Novel." Cherpack Seminar room. (Spanish/Portuguese event).

APRIL 17, 2012 - Vittorini Award Ceremony - in Italian and English. (Italian event)

APRIL 19, 2012 @ 4:00 - Lecture by Marcus Keller ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Renaissance studies, title tba [FSS talk]. Cherpack Seminar Room. (French event)

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. (Italian event)

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Fall 2011 (scroll down for latest events)

Monday, September 19 at 4:00 p.m.
"Diagrams of Memory: The Invention of the Libro de Alexandre"

A lecture by Simone Pinet
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted the Spanish Department


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Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 12:00 noon
Escribir sobre los otros. Narrativas del narco en Colombia y Mexico
(Presentación sera en Español)
A lecture by Gabriela Polit
3401 Walnut Street-330A
Hosted by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program
and the Spanish Department

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Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
"De l'inquiétude à l'hésitation, variations sur
l'habitation poétique moderne."

A lecture by Dominique Rincé
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted by the French Department

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Wednesday, October 19 at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
"Switzerland: a Safe-Haven for Italian Risorgimento's Founding Fathers"
A lecture by Moreno Bernasconi
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted by The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
The Consulate General of Switzerland in New York


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Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
"Political Economy Italian Style: Renaissance Roots
of an Enlightenment Science"

A lecture by Joseph Luzzi
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted by theCenter for Italian Studies, Department of Romance Languages and The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia

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Monday, October 24, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.
"Food, Culture and Italian Identity" - in Italian and English
XI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo
Room 402 Claudia Cohen Hall


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October 27-29, 2011
37th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association Colloquium
Philadelphia, PA

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
"From Rome to Romanic"

a Salvatori lecture by Ann Kuttner & Jamie Sanecki
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted by The Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
and the Center for Italian Studies

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Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
“Poesía e Historia: La actualidad de un viejo debate”
A lecture by José Luis Pardo
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted by the Spanish Department

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Friday, November 11 at 3:00 p.m.
"Nuevas prácticas de la cultura en España"
A lecture by Juan Carlos Marset
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
Hosted by the Spanish Department

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Friday, November 18, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

"Cuba Today: a Transition to What?"
A lecture by Rafael Hernández
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall

Hosted by the Spanish Department


Spring 2011

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Monday, January 24, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Antonio Merlo
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Anibal Gonzalez
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Emerson Avery
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Anne Lutun
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Alessandra Mirra
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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“Written in Blood”: The GRA Graduate Student Conference 2011
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Saturday, March 19, 2011, Sessions from 10-5; Keynote Address at 3:45
Who:
Graduate Students; Keynote Address by David Wills (SUNY-Albany) with a response by Jean-Michel Rabaté (UPenn)
Where:
The Wharton School, Jon M. Huntsman Hall (3730 Walnut Street; You must bring your Penn ID if you have one)
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
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Lecture by Ricardo Piglia
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Jane Tylus
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
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Un  workshop  con el escritor español Rafael Chirbes
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Françoise Gaillard Lecture
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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Justin Leidwanger
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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Fall 2010

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Marco Cereocchi
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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Speaker Lourdes Alvarez
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
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Speaker David Murphy
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
Where:
Terrace, Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
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Breton's Wall, Carrington's Kitchen: Surrealism's Archival Knowledge
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
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Speaker Jonathan Eburne
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Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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French Cultural Studies
   
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
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Reinaldo Laddaga
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516 Williams Hall
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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Lecture by Lauren Jennings
Where:
Cherpack Seminar Room, 543 Williams Hall
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