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Spring 2013
April
Monday, APRIL 22,2013 @ 6pm - Frank P. Bowman Lecture by Lauren Jenny, "L'Instant Photographique," Cherpack Seminar Room (French Event)
Friday, APRIL 19, 2013 - Lecture by Alejandro Mejías-López, "The Postcolonial Atlantic and the Making of Modern Hispanic Literatures," Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish and Portuguese Event)
Thursday, APRIL 18, 2013 @ 5:30pm - "The Cuban Blogasphere," Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish and Portuguese Event)
Tuesday, APRIL 9, 2013 @ 12noon- "Nicolas Guillen and Cuban Culture," Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish and Portuguese Event)
Wednesday-Friday, 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. " The Languages of Italy in the United States between Tradition and Innovation"
Tuesday, APRIL 9, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - Lecture by Professor Edward Hughes, "Some Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation: From Rancière to 20th-Century French Literature," Cherpack Seminar Room (French Event)
March
Wednesday, MARCH 13, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - Salvatori Lecture by Norman Rusin, "Love, Smoke, and Memory: Italo Svevo's Diario per la fidanzata"- in English, Cherpack Seminar Room (Italian Event)
Friday-Saturday, MARCH 22-23, 2013 - International conference - in Italian and English, "The Monk, the Priest, the Nun"
Tuesday, MARCH 26, 2013 @ 5:30 pm - 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, Cherpack Seminar Room (Italian Event)
Friday, MARCH 29, 2013 @ 4:30 - Lecture by Sergio R. Franco, "Pliegues del yo: los autoretratos de Severo Sarduy," Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish and Portuguese Event)
February
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 5 @ 6:00 pm - Salvatori Lecture by Claudia Consolati, "Fellini's Foolish Pebble: La strada, Gelsomina, and Franciscan Holy Folly" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room (Italian Event)
Wednesday, FEBRUARY 6 @ 5:30 pm - Lecture by Eva Del Soldato, "The Professor, the Heretic, and Aristotle: Translating Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Italy" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room (Italian Event)
Friday, FEBRUARY 8 @ 5:00 pm - Lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray - "In The Ruins of Hegemony," Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library, 2nd floor (Spanish Event)
Saturday, FEBRUARY 16 @ 10am to 6pm - Conference - "Thinking with Cervantes: Exemplarity and the Potential to be Otherwise," Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library (Spanish Event)
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 19 @ 5:30 pm - Lecture by Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Late Renaissance Italy" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room (Italian Event)
Friday, FEBRUARY 22 at 4:30 pm - Lecture by Brian Martin - "Lumber Jacques: Logging and Literature from the French Novel to Queer Culture," Cafe '58, Irvine Auditorium (French Event)
Friday, FEBRUARY 22, 2013 - Lecture by James Coleman, "Volto umano, volto divino: Quattrocento Humanism and the Transformation of Dante" - in English, Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium (Italian Event)
Wednesday-Friday, FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 1, 2013 - Colloquium Résurgence/Oubli - Resurgence/Oblivion, Max Kade Center, 329-A, 3401 Walnut St. (French Event)
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Fall 2012
November
Monday, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 @ 4:00 pm - Lecture by Prof. Manuel Castiñeiras - "Cleric or Layman: Literacy, Learning, and the Biography of Painters in Twelfth-Century Catalonia and Tuscany," Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish Event)
Monday, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - Salvatori Lecture by Kara Gaston, "Translation and Poetry in Prose Boethius Volgarizzamenti" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room, (Italian Event)
Wednesday, NOVEMBER 7 @ 5:00 pm - Lecture by Carlos Villanueva, " El Camino de Santiago: Imágenes y Música, " Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish Event)
Thursday, NOVEMBER 8 @ 5:00 - Lecture by Carlos Villanueva, "Pilgrims' Songs: Music and Images on the Way of St. James (El Camino de Santiago)," Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish Event)
Thursday, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - Salvatori Lecture by Daira Nocera, "Digging in Rome: Excavations at the Villa of Emperor Maxentius" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room, (Italian Event)
Tuesday, NOVEMBER 20, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - Lecture by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto - "Between Nature and Artifice: The Construction of Experience in Early Modern Italian Gardens" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room (Italian Event)
Wednesday, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - Salvatori Lecture by Chelsea Pomponio - "The Legendary Origins of Florence in Medieval Political Propaganda: Fesula delenda est!" - in English, Cherpack Seminar Room, (Italian Event)
Wednesday, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 - Salvatori Lecture by Chelsea Pomponio - "The Legendary Origins of Florence in Medieval Political Propaganda: Fesula delenda est!" - in English, (Italian Event)
Friday, NOVEMBER 30, 2012 - Lecture by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski - "Women's Roles in Colonial Fantasies of the 14th-Century France," Cherpack Seminar Room (French Event)
October
Thursday, OCTOBER 4, 2012 @ 5:00 pm– Lecture by Juan José Mendoza, ”scanner, jackers, spam: Escrituras Past: Las Nuevas Literaturas de América Latina,” Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish Event)
Thursday, OCTOBER 11, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - Lecture by Riccardo Viale on his new book, "Methodological Cognitivism: Vol 1. Mind, Rationality and Society" - in English, Café 58, Irvine Auditorium (Italian Event)
Monday, OCTOBER 15, 2012 @ 6:00 pm - Lecture by Emilio Gentile, "The March on Rome: How Antifascists Understood the Origins of Totalitarianism (and coined the word)" - in Italian and English. Café 58, Irvine Auditorium (Italian Event)
Thursday, OCTOBER 18, 2012 @ 5:00 pm – Lecture by Alain Pagès – "Comment définir le naturalisme?," Cherpack Seminar Room (French Event)
Friday, OCTOBER 19, 2012 @ 4:30 pm – Lecture by Juan Pablo Dabove, “Pancho Villa en primera persona,” Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish Event)
Wednesday, OCTOBER 24, 2012 @ 4:00 pm – Lecture by Patrick Née, "Poésie, médecine et chirurgie: Lorand Gaspar et les sources antiques de la médecine," Cherpack Seminar Room (French Event)
Thursday, OCTOBER 25, 2012 @ 5:30 pm - A film by Víctor Erice, "El sol del membrillo (Dream of Light)," Annenberg 111 (Spanish Event)
September
Spring 2012
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)
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 17, 2012 - Vittorini Award Ceremony - in Italian and English. (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 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 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)
MARCH 30, 2012 - International conference,"Reading and Translating Leopardi" - in Italian and English. (Italian event)
MARCH 29, 2012 - Lecture by Steven Milner and Gur Zak, "Humanist Ethics, Petrarch to Machiavelli"- in English. (Italian 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 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 2, 2012 - Lecture by Amador Fernández-Savater, "Política del cualquiera." Cherpack Seminar Room (Spanish event)
MARCH 1, 2012 - Lecture by Alison Cornish, "Dante and Volgarizzamento" - 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)
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)
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 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 11, 2012 - Symposium "Architectures of the Text: An Inquiry into the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" - in English (Italian event)
FEBRUARY 9, 2012 - Lecture by Chiara Basso, "Italia-America: Misunderstandings and Stereotypes through Media" - in English (Italian event)
JANUARY 26, 2012 - Lecture by Luca Badini Confalonieri, "I Promessi sposi illustrati tra filologia e critica"- in Italian (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 24, 2012 - Remembrance Day with Eugenio Calabi, "A Tribute to Italian-Jewish Journalist Tullia Calabi Zevi" - in 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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Saturday, March 19, 2011, Sessions from 10-5; Keynote Address at 3:45 |
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Graduate Students; Keynote Address by David Wills (SUNY-Albany) with a response by Jean-Michel Rabaté (UPenn) |
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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. |
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Un workshop con el escritor español Rafael Chirbes |
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. |
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. |
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. |
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