Past Events



CTL Workshop: Inclusive and Equitable Teaching

Dr. Jamiella N. Brooks, Director of Student Equity & Inclusion Initiatives, Penn Law, and Michelle Johnson, Associate Director of Inclusive and Equitable Teaching, Center for Teaching and Learning
Oct 17, 2023 at -

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies department and so may be most useful to students in related fields. Counts toward the CTL Teaching…



CTL Workshop: Writing a Diversity Statement

Rossella Di Rosa
Oct 16, 2023 at -

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Penn in Florence Info Session

Learn more about the program
Oct 5, 2023 at -

Learn more about the program -- People who have been there Have some pizza with us!



The Merry Go Round of Blackness in Italy

A talk by Justin Randolph Thompson
Oct 4, 2023 at -



CTL Workshop: LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity in the Classroom

Javier Samper Vendrell
Sep 22, 2023 at -

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Michael F. Moore | Translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel ‘I promessi sposi,’ in conversation with Nicole Ferrari (UPenn)

Apr 19, 2023 at

Nicole Ferrari will be interviewing Michael F. Moore, translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi. Moore will be discussing his translation, entitled The Betrothed, a Seventeenth-Century Milanese Story…



William of Auvergne’s Universe: the Man and the Nature

Steven Marrone (Tufts), Riccardo Saccenti (Bergamo), Antonella Sannino (L’Orientale-Naples)
Mar 30, 2023 at -

On the occasion of the publication of Antonella Sannino’s Reading William of Auvergne (Florence: Sismel, 2022), this panel discusses the philosophy and contributions of the French theologian William…



Dante vs Dante: Material Traditions of the Lyric and the Construction of Poetic Authority

Laura Banella (University of Notre Dame)
Mar 16, 2023 at -

Dr. Laura Banella is the 2022-2023 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies.



Majors and More Dinner Mar. 14

Mar 14, 2023 at

The Majors and More program is a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College Houses. Grab-and-go dinner will be catered by Du Bois College House, and Francophone, Italian, and Germanic…