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Program in Italian Studies Symposium-Spring 2012

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

Friday, March 30 and Saturday, March 31, 2012

138 Lewis Library
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Program in Italian Studies Symposium-Spring 2011

Across the Borders of Desire: Italy as a Land of Departure and Destination

March 31 - April 1, 2011
Program

Our keynote speakers are Dr. Federica Mazzara (University College of London) and Professor Julio Monterio Martins (University of Pisa).

Audio of the Keynote speakers:

Federica Mazzara

Julio Monteiro Martins
Julio Monteiro Martins 1
Julio Monteiro Martins 2


Renaissance Studies and Italian Studies 2010 Graduate Conference

Saturday - Sunday, April 24-25, 2010

Our conference's keynote speaker will be Dale Kent, Professor of History, University of California-Riverside.


2008 GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM

SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2008~Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219

PROGRAM OF EVENTS

10 a.m. 
 Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:30-12:30
     Panel 1: Transforming the Text: From the Page to the Stage
 
            Elizabeth Melly, “E più e men che l’arte”: Dante’s Pygmalion Narrative in Purgatorio   X” Department of English
 
            Renée Raphael, “Teaching Copernicanism in Counter-Reformation Italy: 1633-1700”   History of Science
 
            Micaela Baranello, Music
(Baroque) Opera as (Post Modern) Drama: Or, Giulio Cesare our Contemporary”

Lunch 12:30-2:00 PM  
 
2:00-4:00
     Panel 2: At the Cross Roads: Citation, Sound, and Spectacle from Greece to Rome
 
            Jamie Greenberg, Music
“And Her Voice Rang Out in Tears”: Hecuba and Cassandra’s Moral Influence in La Didone
 
            Scott Francis, French and Italian
“Friendship, Autobiography and Citation in Petrarch and Montaigne” 
                                           
            Chen Liu, Art & Archaeology
 “La dolce vita: The Renewed Marvels of Rome"

4:30 p.m. Keynote Address

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

Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow