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Sep 24, 2020 at -

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Multimedia concert "Island of Peoples" (Fisher-Bennett Hall) [POSTPONED]

Apr 27, 2020 at -

Island of Peoples is a multimedia concert based on stories of immigrants coming to the United States and draws inspiration and material from the stories of the Ellis Island Oral Histories, a project of the Ellis…



Jürgen Müller on Caravaggio (Art History) [POSTPONED]

Apr 1, 2020 at -

Jürgen Müller (Technische Universität Dresden) on Caravaggio's "Boy Bitten by a Lizard" (co-sponsored with History of Art, thanks to Shira Brisman)



Carlo Ginzburg’s two-week residency (Italian/Kislak) [POSTPONED]

Mar 31, 2020 at -

We're thrilled to announce that distinguished historian Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) has accepted the joint invitation of the Center for Italian…



2020 FIGS Conference (Houston Hall) [cancelled]

Mar 21, 2020 at -

The French Italian Graduate Society is a student-run organization that represents graduate students in French and Italian. This year…



Anna Corrias on Renaissance Philosophy (Kislak)

Anna Corrias
Mar 4, 2020 at -

In co-sponsorship with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Anna Corrias (Toronto), a SIMS Visiting Research Fellow, will deliver a talk entitled "Riddles and Puzzles": Pythagoras in the Italian…



Maddalena Signorini, SIMS Fellow (Kislak), on Petrarch

Feb 27, 2020 at -

Maddalena Signorini is the second SIMS-Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies. The fellowship is sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies, the Italian Studies section of…



Ayana Smith on 18th-Century Italian Opera (Music Building)

Feb 18, 2020 at -

The Center for Italian Studies and the Italian Studies Unit, in collaboration with the Department of Music…



Lawrence Principe on Medieval Alchemy (Van Pelt, Class of 55, 2nd floor)

Feb 13, 2020 at -

We're delighted to host Prof. Lawrence Principe, Drew Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Premodern Europe at Johns Hopkins University, for a talk co-sponsored by the…



Roger Chartier on Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier (Van Pelt, floor 6, Lea Libr.)

Roger Chartier (Penn/Collège de France)
Feb 6, 2020 at

Please join us on Thursday, February 6, at 5:30 for the talk of Prof. Roger Chartier entitled "'Per dir forse una nova parola.' Sixteenth-Century Translations of sprezzatura."

The talk takes place in…