Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Italian Studies Colloquium
Romano Prodi
Prof. at Large Brown University
April 11, 2012 - Salomon 202 - 5:30pm
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 @ 5pm
Faunce House - Petteruti Lounge
Wednesday, November 2, 2011@5:30pm
Smith-Buonanno 106
Presentation and Book Signing
MAMMA MIA! Berlusconi's Italy Explained for Posterity and Friends Abroad
With a gimlet-eyed look at Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi’s life that will make American politicos shake their heads in bewilderment and ask, “How does he get away with it?” In MAMMA MIA! Berlusconi's Italy Explained for Posterity and Friends Abroad, Beppe Severgnini eloquently weaves together Italian culture, rich in history and long-held beliefs, with reasons why Italians tolerate Berlusconi’s machismo ways, sensational sexcapades, and power politics. Berlusconi’s reign in Italy is worthy of the most dramatic of operas, which is why, at 75, his entertainment value is at an all time high, and this alone keeps Italians going back to the ballot box.
Sponsored by Italian Studies Tabak Fund and Brown University Bookstore.
Lecture
The Department of Italian Studies presents:
Dario Biocca
Department of History, University of Perugia, Italy
Chemical Weapons Into Prayers to God:
The Espelkamp Story
Thursday, September 22, 2011
@ 6:30PM in Barrus and Holley, Room 190
Dario Biocca teaches European history at the University of Perugia and is coordinator of the School of Journalism at Perugia. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught at various institutions in the US and Italy. Biocca is the author of Ignazio Silone, La Doppia Vita di un Italiano; L'Informatore. Silone, i Comunisti e la Polizia (with Mauro Canali); A Matter of Passion. Selected Letters of Bernard Berenson and Clotilde Marghieri. His new book on Antonio Gramsci is forthcoming.
Sponsored by the generosity of the Department of Italian Studies Tabac Fund, Department of History, the Department of German Studies, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities.