Italian Studies Colloquium 2010-11
Wednesdays, 5:30PM in room 102 of 190 Hope Street (if not otherwise specified)
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.
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
20 October, 2010 - Stephen Marth (Doctoral candidate, Brown U.): title TBA
27 October 2010 - Romano Prodi (Professor at Large, Brown U.): “The Future of (Italian) Democracy” -
3 November. Michele Ciliberto (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa), presentation of Biblioteca laica. Il pensiero libero dell'Italia moderna (Laterza 2008), 190 Hope St., room 102
17 November. “Norberto Bobbio: Ethics and Democracy” Participants and titles TBC, Barus and Holley, Room 190
1 December. 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.
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.