Past Events



Italian through Science and Technology

Apr 29, 2016 at -

If you teach Italian and you love science and technology, or you teach science and technology and love Italian, join us Friday April 29, 12-4pm, to discover how you can use science and technology in…



Vittorini Award Ceremony

Apr 27, 2016 at -

The annual celebration of undergraduate excellence in Italian. The winners of this year's Vittorini Prize will be honored in a brief cerimony, and students in Italian will present samples of their work. The event is…



Being as Picture: The Tableau Vivant in Italy, 1963–1973

Apr 22, 2016 at

A lecture by Anna Mecugni, Philadelphia Museum of Art.



Ut pictura poesis or Much Ado about Boccaccio’s Impact on Italian Art History

Apr 21, 2016 at

A lecture by Franziska Meier, University of Göttingen.



Le Città delle Donne: Flânerie and Female Authorship in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Apr 15, 2016 at

A lecture by Laura Di Bianco, CUNY Graduate Center. Stefania Benini, Philadelphia University, respondent.



Umberto Eco: Open Texts and Open Lives

Apr 4, 2016 at

The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania celebrated the life and career of Italian writer, semiotician, philosopher, Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) with a special event 4…



MS Codex 319: Tracing the Footprints of Benedetto Martinozzi

Mar 30, 2016 at

A lecture by Vanessa Di Maggio, recipient of a 2015 Salvatori Research Award.



Dante 750: A Cinematic Celebration

Mar 27, 2016 at

Join us at International House Philadelphia for a cinematic celebration of the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri featuring two amazing films L' Inferno (Dante's Inferno, 1911) and …



Annotating Dante: Tassoni and Speroni

Mar 23, 2016 at

A letcure by Peter Lesnik, recipient of a 2015 Salvatori Research Award.



Making Poetry out of Industrial Alienation

Feb 29, 2016 at

Eleonora Lima, University of Wisconsin - Madison, will discuss " Making Poetry out of Industrial Alienation. Troubled Narrators in Paolo Volponi's Memoriale and Michelangelo Antonioni's Deserto rosso…