Italian Studies Colloquium Spring 2012
The Italian Studies Colloquium is a forum for an exchange of ideas and work of the community of Italian scholars at Brown and invited outside scholars. Graduate students present their work in progress, and engage the work of faculty and visitors. They are expected to come prepared with informed questions on the topic presented. Presentations in both Italian and English. For further information please contact: Mona Delgado, Dept. Coordinator, Italian Studies – Brown University(401) 863-1561 or italian_studies@brown.edu
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 –Speaker: Rebecca Molholt, Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture, Brown University- "Image, Medium and Motion: Roman Floor Mosaics"
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 – Speaker: Liise Lehtsalu, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University - "Changing Perceptions of Women's Religious Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Bologna"
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 – Speaker: Elena Daniele, PhD Candidate in Italian Studies, Brown University - “First Reports of American Cannibalism in Italian Renaissance Letters.”
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 – Speaker: Arielle Saiber, Associate Professor of Italianin the
Department of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College - "Divine but not Golden: Luca Pacioli and the Renaissance Mathematics of Lettering."
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 – Speaker: Roberto Esposito - Italian philosopher - "Community, Immunity, Biopolitics."
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 – Speaker:Romano Prodi- professor at Large, Brown University- "Italy in the Storm"
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 –Speaker: Filomena Fantarella, PhD Candidate in Italian Studies, Brown University - “Salvemini and Socialism."
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - Speaker: Lianca Carlesi, PhD Candidate in Italian Studies, Brown University - “The1964 Preface to Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno: New Historicism Ante Litteram?”
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Italian Studies Colloquium Fall 2011
Wednesday,December 7, 2011 – Monica Facchini, PhD Candidate in Italian Studies, Brown University - "Death, Mourning and Technical Sacredness in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Early Films", Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 – Prof. Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University, "Blurred Images: The Anti-Politics of Indro Montanelli. "Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 –Dietrich Neumann, Professor of History of Art and Architecture - “A skyscraper for Mussolini: Mario Palanti and urban planning for Rome in the 1920s”
Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 –Wednesday, November 2, 2011 –Beppe Severgnini, Journalist Corriere della Sera, Italy. Presenting his new book “Mamma Mia! Berlusconi’s Italy Explained for posterity and Friends Abroad”, Smith-Buonanno 106, 5:30-7pm. Sponsored by Italian Studies TABAKfund and the Brown Bookstore.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 –Giacomo Manzoli from the University of Bologna, Italy, Visiting Professor in Italian Studies, Brown University, - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 –Erica Moretti, PhD Candidate in Italian Studies, Brown University“Maria Montessori’s White Cross: Rescue Efforts on Behalf of World War One’s Orphaned and Emotionally Distressed Children”, - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2011: Dario Biocca, (Professor of European historyat the University of Perugia, Italy and he is also the coordinator of the School of Journalism at Perugia), "Le ceneri della rivoluzione: la cremazione di Antonio Gramsci", - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Italian Studies Colloquium 2010-11
The Italian Studies Colloquium is a forum for an exchange of ideas and work of the community of Italian scholars at Brown and invited outside scholars. Graduate students present their work in progress, and engage the work of faculty and visitors. They are expected to come prepared with informed questions on the topic presented. Presentations in both Italian and English.
Wednesday, March 9: Michela Ronzani (Doctoral student, Italian Studies), “Party, love, and authority in Verdi's Traviata” - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, March 23: Anna Aresi (Doctoral student, Italian Studies), “Osip Mandel’štam Reader and Critic of Dante” - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Wednesday, April 6: Amanda Minervini, (Doctoral student, Italian Studies), "From the Cavalry to the Calvary: Indexing St. Francis of Assisi's Stigmata" - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Thursday-Saturday, April 14-16:
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International Symposia
“Mediating the Risorgimento / Risorgimento mediato”
“150 Years of Italian Unity” (Watson Institute)
Wednesday, April 20: Alessandra Franco (Doctoral student, Italian Studies), “The Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa:A Model of Counter Reformation Charity” - Seminar room 102, 190 Hope StrPast Colloquiua
Spring 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011, 4-6:30pm,
Location: The Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University,
Pembroke Hall, Room 202, 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI.
The Italian Studies Department at Brown University and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, in collaboration with the Comitato per il Centenario Bobbio of Turin,Italy present:
"Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004): Ethics and Democracy. A Seminar."
Norberto Bobbio (1909 - 2004) was Italy's leading legal and political philosopher of the post-WWII era. His life and work were conditioned by the vicissitudes of Italy’s democracy in the 20th century: the experience of fascism, the ideological divisions of the cold war and the transformation of Italian society during the 1960 and the 1970.
Speakers: Massimo L. Salvadori (Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Turin), "Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism Between Ethics and Politics"; Nadia Urbinati (Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University), “Against Cold War Ideology: Bobbio’s Dialogue With the Communists.”
Discussants: Charles Larmore, W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professor in the Humanities at Brown University; Steven Lukes, Professor of Sociology at New York University.
Moderators: Massimo Riva (Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University) and Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University).
For additional information and RSVP, please contact the Italian Studies department at Brown University: Italian_Studies@brown.edu; (401) 863.1561.
Wednesday, February 9:
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Sergio Parussa (Associate Professor of Italian, Wellesley College), “Freedom and Testimony: Writing and Judaism in 20th-century Italy”- Seminar room 102, 190 Hope Street, 5:30-7:00PM
Fall 2010
22 September, 2010 - Marcello Simonetta
“Renaissance Assassins: Blood, Lies and Videogames,” Ann Mary Brown Memorial. Marcello Simonetta is the author of The Montefeltro Conspiracy. A Renaissance Mystery Decoded, (Random House, 2008) - Talk held at the ANNMARY BROWN MEMORIAL, 21 Brown Street
6 October, 2010 - Wendy Roworth and Catherine M. Sama, University of Rhode Island: presentation of Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour, edited by Paula Findlen, W. Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama, Stanford 2009. Talk held at the ANNMARY BROWN MEMORIAL, 21 Brown Street
Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 –“The Future of (Italian) Democracy” –A Conversation with Romano Prodi, (Professor at Large, Brown U.) The Joukowsky Forum – Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
27 October, 2010 - Stephen Marth:
"When il nulla was tutto. Palazzeschi’s Man of Smoke and the Ethereal Aesthetics of Modernity" (Doctoral candidate, Brown U.)
1 December, 2010 - Ernesto Galli della Loggia, "What we should have known about Italian history but were afraid to say". 5:30PMin Barus and Holley, Room 190. Sponsored by Graduate International Colloquia Grant.
Wednesday, 8 December, 2010 – David Ward (Wellesley College): “Piero Gobetti, Reader of Vittorio Alfieri” – Vittorio Alfieri was one of Piero Gobetti’s earliest and most important precursor figures. Gobetti wrote his dissertation on Alfieri, later publishing it with his own Piero Gobetti Editore publishing house. Throughout the remaining relatively few years of his life, Gobetti made ample reference in his writings to Alfieri. Beginning with some remarks on the hostile reception his dissertation met, not least from his supervisor, the paper will seek to explain why Gobetti was drawn to Alfieri; how Alfieri’s thought (and especially the role he assigns writing) underpins Gobetti’s elaboration of the role of the committed intellectual; and why Gobetti gave such central importance to Alfieri’s text La virtù sconosciuta. In the light of Gobetti’s debt to Alfieri, the paper will conclude with some remarks about the often cantankerous but always intellectually honest relationship Gobetti had with Giuseppe Prezzolini. 5:30pm - 190 Hope Street, Room 102.
Italian Studies Colloquium Spring 2010
5:30PM in room 102 of 190 Hope Street
February 8, 2010 - Marjan Schwegman
(University of Maastricht, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences):
An Amazon for Garibaldi: The Woman Warrior and the Making of the Hero of Two Worlds.
March 1, 2010 - Mauro Resmini
(Doctoral student, Italian Studies):
The Gaze, Sideways: Pietro Germi's Atypical Authorship in the Sixties.
March 15, 2010 - Karina Mascorro
(Doctoral student, Italian Studies):
Media and Migration in Italy.
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM w. Romano Prodi
April 5, 2010 – 5:30PM in the Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street – 1st floor.
Italy and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. An open forum (or round table discussion) with Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, the Italian Consul General in Boston, Liborio Stellino, and Brown faculty and students.
This open forum will address the question of multiple and often conflicting identities - local, national, regional and continental - within the Mediterranean basin and along its rim. Within such multiple identities, what may be the advantages of using the Mediterranean as a focus of analysis, whether such analysis be economic, social, cultural or geo-political? What place does or should Italy have within this region? More specifically, how can we assess the Italian contribution to the progress of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, formerly known as the Barcelona Process (launched in 1995 and re-launched in 2008 as the Union for the Mediterranean, at the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean) in the crucial areas of political and security dialogue, economic and financial partnership, and in particular in the area of social, cultural and human partnership?
April 12, 2010 – Erica Moretti
(Doctoral student, Italian Studies):
Italian Lessons: Maria Montessori and Early Childhood Education in a Transnational Perspective.
April 19, 2010 - Nicole Gercke
(Doctoral student, Italian Studies):
What's in a name? La coscienza di Zeno and Freud.
May 3, 2010 - Monica Facchini
(Doctoral student, Italian Studies):
Rituals of Revolt in Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers.