Past Events



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

Mar 4, 2015 at

A lecture by Anna Corrias, Princeton University



Italian Through Music: A Pedagogical Seminar

Feb 27, 2015 at -

Do you teach Italian? Do you love music? Join us Friday February 27, 12-4pm, to discover how you can use music in your Italian classroom.



Italian Madrigals on Tablet: The Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE)

Feb 25, 2015 at

The Music Department, the Center for Italian Studies, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, present the digital edition of the secular music of Luca Marenzio (1553-1559), one of…



Marina Spada: Poetry that Look at Me

Feb 19, 2015 at

Italian filmaker Marina Spada will discuss women in Italian cinema and her own work starting form her 2009 documentary, Poesia che mi guardi [Poetry that Look at Me], on poet Antonia Pozzi. The event is…



Mario Luzi 1914-2014: the Man and the Verbum

Feb 13, 2015 - Feb 14, 2015 (All Day)

The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the centennial of the birth of Italian poet Mario Luzi (1914-2005) with an international conference that…



Opera Workshop: Gramophones, Sound Recording, and the New Languages of Music

Luca Cottini
Jan 30, 2015 at

Luca Cottini, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University will present a chapter from a book-in-progress that explores the social and cultural reception of gramophones and sound…



Early Women in Science

Jan 28, 2015 at

A lecture by Meredith K. Ray, University of Delaware, to present her forthcoming book Daughters of Alchemy (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History).



Pound e Cavalcanti

Jan 23, 2015 at

A lecture by Luca Badini Confalonieri, Università di Torino, on Ezra Pound and Guido Cavalcanti, whose poems he translated in Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti (1912) - in Italian. 



New Authors of Italian Cinema

Dec 4, 2014 - Dec 7, 2014 at -

Join us at the International House of Philadelphia for the 2014 edition of New Authors of Italian Cinema. The festival is curated by Nicola Gentilli and organized in collaboration with the Cinema…



Pirandello’s Intermedial Legacy in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Tu ridi

Dec 3, 2014 (All Day)

To be rescheduled! A lecture by Michael Edwards on Pirandello's cinematic bequest,"Pirandello’s Intermedial Legacy in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Tu ridi".