News and Events
Spring 2008 Archives
Conferences
Discourses of 'Jewishness': A Symposium on Jewish Identity and Representation website>>
Sun & Mon, Mar 30-31 2008, Posvar Hall
Featuring author Dara Horn and scholars from the U of Pittsburgh and across the US
Interzone EU: Crossroads of Migration
Fri and Sat, Feb 22-23, 9am-8pm
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Citizenship in the 21st Century: An International Colloquium
March 17-18, 2008
Featuring Keynote Speaker:
Étienne Balibar
Université de Paris X - Nanterre
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Faculty/Graduate Seminar: Limits and Liminal Figures
Friday, March 28th, 2008 2:30 pm
Cathedral of Learning 144
Speakers Include:
Dr. Roberta Hatcher - "Limits of Childhood/Childhood as Limit in Narratives of Political Violence"
Charles-Louis Morand-Metivier - "Albert Camus and Algeria: Geography and Identity"
Eléonore Bertrand: "Pavloff's 'Matin Brun': A Revolutionary and Resistant Piece of Writing Against Totalitarian Movements"
Lectures
Larry Schehr, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Immor(t)ality in Proust"
Wed, Feb 27 2008, 5-6:30pm, CL 337
Larry Schehr is a professor of French, Comparative Literature and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He has published extensively on 19th and 20th Century French literature, Gay Studies and postmodern theory. His most recent books include: French Gay Modernism (University of Illinois Press, 2004); Figures of Alterity: French Narrative and its Others (Stanford University Press, 2003); Rendering French Realism (Stanford University Press, 1997). He has edited numerous volumes and journal issues devoted to eroticism, gender studies and representations of food in French literature and culture.
François Rigolot, Princeton U
"Rabelais and the Renaissance Interpretation of Dreams"
Mon, Mar 17 2008, 4pm, CL 501
Reception to follow Prof. Rigolot's talk
Patrizia Lombardo, University of Geneva
Thursday, April 3rd
5:00pm
Location: Cathedral of Learning 149
"The Aesthetic Value of the Sublime"
Allegro Dance Co. hosted by the Italian Club
Saturday, February 2, 2008
7:00–10:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
The Italian Club will be hosting the Allegro Dance Company, who will be in to perform authentic Italian dances. They will begin the evening with instruction of the dances with active participation from the audience, who can then dance along with the performance. More information TBA.
Dante Alighieri Society Presents: Napoli e d'intorni
Sunday, February 10th
2:30 p.m.
Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union
Featuring guest speaker and vocalist Antonio Lordi
Italian music was born in Naples. Music came to Naples from other countries and cultures and was quickly absorbed by the Neapolitans who elaborated on it and created new sounds. Antonio Lordi will perform a selection of Italian music with guitar and voice.
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Co-sponsored by the Italian Club.
News
BPhil Thesis Defense: Rose E. Gardner (French), "Trio Relationships: Desire, Identity, and Power in Beauvoir's L'invitee and Truffaut's Jules et Jim" (Thesis Advisor: Todd Reeser)
Tues, Apr 15 2008, 9am, CL 3504
Events
French & Italian Graduate Breakfast
Sun Apr 27, 2008, 9:30-11:30am
William Pitt Union, Assembly Room
French & Italian majors; Pi Delta Phi & Gamma Kappa Alpha inductees; MA & PhD candidates will be recognized at a breakfast immediately preceding the University convocation ceremony. Convocation speakers: Andrew Mrotek (French & Political Science) and Gina Mazzotta (Italian and Communication).
Italian Club End of Year Banquet
Sat, Apr 12 2008, 6–11pm
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Crystal Room
Italian Club Bread and Cheese Night
Tues, Mar 25 2008, 7pm, CL 1228
The Italian Club will host its bread and cheese night again this semester, due to enormous popular demand flyer>>