Past Events

Spring 2011-12

Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2012
Graduate Student Conference

"Alla scuola delle muse: The Sister Arts in Italian Thought and Culture"

Fall 2011-12

Monday, September 19, 2011
Open House
209 Scheide Caldwell House, 4:30 p.m.

Monday, October 17, 2011 Lecture
"The Nature of 'Arte': Cavalcanti and Giotto between Dante and Boccaccio"

Albert R. Ascoli, Professor of Italian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
209 Scheide Caldwell House, 4:30 p.m.
*Reception to follow

Fall 2010-2011

October 26, 2010 Lecture

Wormholes and Time Machines on the Site of Virgil's Rome

Denis Feeney, Professor of Classics

President’s Lecture Series

Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 4:30 p.m.

Friend 101

Spring 2009-2010

April 26, 2010

Dale Kent, Professor of History, University of California Riverside

Faber Lecture: ‘La cara e buona imagine paterna di voi’: Ideals of Patriarchs and Patrons that shaped Renaissance Florence

Co-sponsored by The Council of the Humanities

Fields of Interest: early modern European history with an emphasis on the Renaissance period.

Spring 2008-2009

January 9 and 10, 2009

Conference - "Performing Homer: From Epic to Opera" and Opera - Monteverdi, The Return of Ulysses

Spring 2007-2008

February 18, 2008

Nora Stoppino, Assistant Professor, Italian Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Traveling Amazons: Women Warriors, Giants, and Queens in Italian Epic and Exploration

March 29, 2008

SECOND ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

Keynote Speaker: Dennis Romano, Professor of History and Fine Arts, Syracuse University and Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington D.C

Art, Politics, and the Venetian Territorial State: The Building Projects of Doge Francesco Foscari, 1423-1457