Past Events



Tutto parla di te: Difficult Maternity and Cinema

Apr 15, 2015 at

A lecture by Stefania Benini, Lauro De Bosis Fellow - Harvard University, on Alina Marazzi and women, mothers and daughters, in Italian cinema. The lecture will be held in Italian.



Opera Workshop: From "musica reservata" to Early Opera: Memoria, Pronunciatio and the Art of Singing from Memory

Apr 10, 2015 at

Stefano Lorenzetti, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, will discuss the development of the rhetorical elements of opera in the early seventeenth century.



Gender, Power, Translation: Cartographies of Early Italian Opera in Europe’s East

Apr 2, 2015 at

The lecture by Katharina Piechocki, Harvard University, is CANCELLED. It will be rescheduled for the fall.



Past and Future under a Fascist Obelisk: Aurelio Amatucci’s Codex fori Mussolini

Mar 30, 2015 at

A lecture by Bettina Reitz Joose on Aurelio Amatucci's Codex fori Mussolini, University of Pennsylvania. New time and place, now March 30 in Van Pelt, Class of '55!



Religious Identity in Venice from the Renaissance to Contemporary Cinema

Mar 26, 2015 at

A seminar with Andrew Berns, "'Pro magna parte laboratores sive cultivatores agrorum et vinearum': Jews in the Venetian Stato da Mar", and Nicola Di Nino,



Il giovane favoloso: Leopardi on Screen

Mar 23, 2015 at

U.S. premiere of Il giovane favolosoAlessandra Mirra, University of Pennsylvania, will introduce the film with a short presentation of its subject, Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi



Opera Workshop: Opera Buffa and the Pursuit of Happiness

Mar 20, 2015 at

Elise Bonner, Princeton University, will discuss Haydn's opera based on Carlo Goldoni's libretto, Il mondo della luna, and its characters' pursuit of happiness. 



Hippocratic, Aristotelian, and Vitruvian Winds in Sixteenth-century Italy

Mar 19, 2015 at

A lecture by Craig Martin, Oakland University.



Opera Workshop: Operetta Canon Formation and the Journey to Prestige

Mar 6, 2015 at

Micaela Baranello, Swarthmore College, will discuss the operetta canon and examine the genre’s journey from the commercial theaters of nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna to the small group of works we find in…



’Animae rationalis simulacrum’: Plotinian Influences in Ficino’s Account of the Imaginary Soul.

Mar 4, 2015 at

A lecture by Anna Corrias, Princeton University