News and Events
Fall 2006 Archives
Happenings
Dante Alighieri Society Lecture Series
William Pitt Union Dining Room A
All lectures take place at 2pm
Lecture: Sunday, September 10, 2006
Dr. Douglas Cooper, Carnegie Mellon University
"Esquilino, Esquilino! Creating a mural for the University of Rome with the citizens of Esquilino".
Lecture: Sunday, October 8, 2006
Prof. Rina Ferrarelli, an Italian -American Poetess:
"An Italian Diptych: Two Poets from Southern Italy."
Lecture: Prof. Dennis Looney, U of Pittsburgh
"Mt. Etna; the University of Pittsburgh's Trip to the Top in 2006" Sun., Nov. 12, 2006, 2 pm
Dining Room A, William Pitt Union
Nicholas C. Tucci Lecture
Catherine Sama, University of Rhode Island (Providence)
"'On Canvas and on the Page': Women Shaping Culture in 18th-Century Venice".
Lecture: The talk will deal with women artits/writers networking in Venice, and more specifically the lives, work and connections between and among Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757), Luisa Bergalli Gozzi (1703-79), Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96).
Friday, October 13, 2006
5:30, CL 144
Alliance Française Lecture
French author, Philippe Claudel, author of "Les Ames Grises"
September 19, 2006
6pm, location to be announced
French and Italian Reading Group
Jean Baudrillard, Power Inferno
Wednesday, December 6, 12-1pm,
CL 1325
Text available in CL 1328
Daniel Javitch, New York University
"The Repudiation and the Allure of Chivalric Romance in Sixteenth-Century Poetics"
Monday, November 20, 2006
3pm, CL 501
Sal Patitucci, Radio Italia
Sponsored by the Italian Club
Tuesday, November 14, 8:30pm, CL 232
African Novels and the Politics of Form
Conference co-sponsored by the Dept of French and Italian
Dept. affiliates presenting: Roberta Hatcher, Raji Vallury, Giuseppina Mecchia
October 26-28, 2006
http://www.english.pitt.edu/events/africannovels
French and Italian Open House flyer (pdf)
The Department of French and Italian welcomes all faculty and students to a market style open house.
Sample authentic French and Italian foods and obtain information on majors and minors in French and Italian, Study Abroad, Internships and Career Opportunities.
WPU Kurtzman Room
October 19, 2006
5-7 p.m.
Roma Libera
a musical drama about the liberation of Rome, June 4, 1944
Sunday, October 15, 3pm Synod Hall Tickets $20 donation
Fall Reception
Reception at the home of Dennis Looney
Saturday, October 14, 2006
4-7pm
Graduate News
Faculty-Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, December 1, 3-5pm, CL 213
Reception to follow in CL 1325
Recitando s'impara
Final recital: Italian Theatrical Workshop
Wednesday, December 6, 4:30pm, CL G24
STEP Seminar
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
4:45pm, CL 1325
Creating a Teaching Portfolio
Professor Brett Wells and Alison Halasz, PhD candidate
Undergraduate News
Italian Club Festa di Natale
Friday, December 8, 6-8pm, CL 1228