News and Events
SPRING 2012
Monday, March 26 2012, 4.00 p.m.
Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi
Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies
Harvard University
The Accademia Pontaniana: a Model of a Humanist Network
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall, 3rd Floor
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The 7th Annual Yale Festival of Italian Cinema
New Films with a Regional Accent
MARCH 29- APRIL 1, 2012
WHITNEY HUMANITIES CENTER AUDITORIUM, 53 WALL STREET
FOR FILM TITLES AND REGISTRATION - CLICK HERE
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Mini Spring Seminar (In Italian)
Monday April 2, 2012, 1-3 p.m. and Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 1-3 p.m.
Daniela Bini, University of Texas, Austin
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
La rappresentazione della donna nella cultura siciliana (The Representation of woman in Sicilian Culture).
Texts to be covered in seminar
Sessions will be held in the Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
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Friday, April 13, 2012, 4.00 p.m.
Alessandro Polcri, Fordham University
Associate Professor
"1472-1484: Luigi Pulci's Damnatio"
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall, 3rd Floor
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 5.30 p.m.
Renato Camurri, University of Verona
Associate Professor of Late Modern and Contemporary History
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
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Friday, April 27, 2012, 3.00 p.m.
Ellen Rosand, Yale University
George A. Saden Professor Music
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street, 3rd floor
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 5.30 p.m.
Christian Uva, l'Universita di Roma Tre
Ricercatore
"I misteri d’Italia nel cinema: Strategie narrative e trame estetiche tra documento e finzione"
Romance Languages Lounge
82-90 Wall Street, 3rd floor
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February 3, 2012 at 2.00 p.m.
Daniel Leisawitz, Wesleyan University
"The Renaissance Reimagined: Early Modern Italy Through the Lens of Italian Cinema."
William L Harkness (WLH), Room 202
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February 10, 2012 at 3.00 p.m.
Joost Keizer, History of Art Department
"Notes on Fifteenth-Century Realism."
Romance Languages Lounge, 3rd Floor
82-90 Wall Street
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MARCH 1-2, 2012
GIAMBATTISTA VICO: EDUCATION, LAW AND POLITICS
Graduate Student Conference Poster
http://vicosymposium2012.commons.yale.edu/
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!
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PAST EVENTS
Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 7.00 p.m. RLL, 82-90 WALL ST, 3rd Floor
The Italian Language and Literature Department and The Italian Cultural Institute of New York present
Director Davide Ferrario's screening of Dopo Mezzanotte w/English subtitles
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 2.00 p.m. 212 YORK STREET, ROOM 106
Meet the Director after his Lecture (lecture will be in Italian)
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Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 12.00 p.m.
Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University
Romance Languages Lounge, 3rd floor, 82-90 Wall Street
Professor Muir will discuss his essay: “The Eye of the Procession: Ritual Ways of Seeing in the Renaissance,” in Ceremonial Culture in the Pre-Modern World, ed. Nicholas Howe (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), pp. 129-153.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 7.00 p.m. RLL, 82-90 WALL ST, 3rd Floor
The Italian Language and Literature Department & The Italian Cultural Institute of New York present
Director Saverio Costanzo's screening of La solitudine dei numeri primi
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 2.00 p.m. 212 YORK STREET, ROOM 106
Meet the Director after his Lecture (Lecture will be in Italian)
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Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 5.00 p.m.
The presenter of the Annual Dante Lecture is Professor Domenico Pietropaolo from the University of Toronto. His talk is titled Dante and the Medieval Translators.
Lecture will take place WLH 116--William L Harkness
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Monday, October 31, 2011 at 1.00 p.m.
Dr. Amira Meir
Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies
"Medieval Italian Jewry: The Ketubah of a Provençal Jew from Alghero, Sardinia"
Romance Language Lounge, 3rd floor, 82-90 Wall Street
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Friday, November 4th, 2011 -- 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Aeschylus' Persians today. An event in the Cultures of the Classical Series
Speaker/Performer: Stratos Constantinidis (Ohio State) and Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia); Samuel Lasman (Theater Studies, Yale)Description: ‘Aeschylus’ Persians Today’
A staged reading of Stratos Constantinidis’ new translation of Aeschylus’ Persians, directed by Sam Lasman (Yale) with an introductory talk by Elizabeth Scharffenberger on ‘The Play of Adaptation’
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art (LORIA), Lecture Hall 1, LORIA 250
190 York St., New Haven, CT 06511 (Location is wheelchair accessible)
Open To: Yale Community Only
Sponsor(s): Sponsored by the Classics Department and the Italian Department at Yale
Contact Information:
Christina Kraus or Emily Greenwood
christina.kraus@yale.edu, emily.greenwood@yale.edu
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