Past Events



La Scomparsa: The Disappearance of Italy

Blaise Tobia
Nov 19, 2014 at

"The Italy my father had experienced was already long gone by the first time I arrived there, and that was not a surprise to me. But, in the twenty-five years that I’ve directly observed Italy in numerous visits, the…



The Power of Affections: An International Conference

Nov 12, 2014 - Nov 14, 2014 (All Day)

The Power of Affections: Poetry, Music, and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Italian Opera Librettos

Philadelphia, 13-14 November 2014

 

An international conference organized by the Center for…



John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes

Nov 6, 2014 at

Thursday November 6 at 6pm, Hermann Haller will present his critical edition of John Florio's Italian-English dictionary, A Worlde of Wordes, in the wonderful setting of the Henry Charles Lea Library.



Torneranno i prati

Nov 4, 2014 at

To commemorate the 100th anniversay of World War I, the Center for Italian Studies and the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with 



The Voice of Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto and Alain Elkann
Nov 3, 2014 at

Michelangelo Pistoletto returns to Penn with Italian journalist and Visiting Professor…



The Orlando Furioso in 16th and 17th Century Pictorial Cycles

Oct 30, 2014 at

October 30 at 5:30 in the Meyerson Conference Center - 223 Van Pelt Library, at 5:30pm, Federica Caneparo will present her new book, "Di molte figure adornato". L'Orlando Furioso nei cicli…



Italian Books, Authors, and Readers in the Digital Era

Oct 22, 2014 at

Join us Wednesday 22 October, 4:30pm to celebrate the 14th World Week of the Italian Language, under the High Patronage of the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. This year's theme is "Writing…



Italian Contributions to Knowledge

Oct 18, 2014 at

Italian history seems animated by the desire to cross the borders of the peninsula and to establish Italianness within a global horizon, bringing it face to face with other societies and different local…



My Two Italies

Joseph Luzzi
Oct 14, 2014 at

Joseph Luzzi, professor of Italian at Bard College, will present his book My Two Italies, which tells the story of his family's immigration from Italy and presents an insider's look at the…



Salvatori Lecture

Ariel Genadt
Oct 7, 2014 at

Join us October 7 at 6pm in the Cherpack Seminar Room - 543 Williams Hall for "Culture, Climate, and Techniques in the Architecture of Renzo Piano", a Salvatori lecture by Ariel Genadt