Events

March 22, 2023 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
FRIT Faculty Meeting View >
March 22, 2023 - 5:00pm
Lecture, "' Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?': A Feminist Take on Beauty and the Beast"

Dr. Jennifer Tamas is an Associate Professor of French at Rutgers University. She earned her Licence, Maîtrise, and Doctorat at Université Paris IV Sorbonne and holds a PhD from Stanford... View >

March 23, 2023 - 1:15pm to 2:30pm
CANCELLED: Tucci-Cornetti Lecture: Susan Gaylard, "Female bodies, grotesque frames, and the 16th-century costume book"

 

Abstract:

This talk is part of a larger project that interrogates the mid-16th-... View >

March 24, 2023 - 7:00pm
THE INVISIBLE WITNESS • IL TESTIMONE INVISIBILE

(Director, S. Mordini, Drama, 2018, 102 min.) ♦ Opening Night Sponsor: Film and Media Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
Adriano, a rich industrialist, is charged with murder at an... View >

March 25, 2023 - 7:00pm
DON’T STOP ME NOW • MA COSA CI DICE IL CERVELLO

(Director, Ricardo Milani, Comedy, 2019, 98 min.) ♦ Film Sponsor: Dante Alighieri Society of Pittsburgh
Giovanna maintains a low-profile as an accountant and in her home life, where she is... View >

March 29, 2023 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Lecture by Daniela Fargione, Fulbright Fellow in Italian

"We and 'The Unloved Others': Stories of Extinction"

We are living at the cusp of extinction, an impending event marked by a baffling paradox: while it has mass-death proportions, it... View >

March 30, 2023 - 7:00pm
THE PASSION OF ANNA MAGNANI • LA PASSIONE DI ANNA MAGNANI

Director, Enrico Cerasuolo, Documentary, 2019, 60 min.)
An intimate portrait of the great Italian actress Anna Magnani, a symbol of neorealism and an icon of the world’s film industry. In... View >

March 31, 2023 - 7:00pm
PARADISE • PARADISE—UNA VITA NUOVA

(Director, Davide Del Degan, Comedy, 2019, 83 min.) ♦ Film Sponsor: David Salgarolo, Ameriprise Financial
After having witnessed an organized crime murder in Sicily, Calogero is placed in... View >

April 1, 2023 - 7:00pm
THE CHAMPION • IL CAMPIONE

(Director, Leonardo D'Agostini, Comedy/Drama, 2019, 105 min.)
Christian is a star soccer player. Valerio, lonely and shy, is the professor who is assigned to help Christian pass his high... View >

April 5, 2023 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
IPC Meeting View >
April 13, 2023 - 7:00pm
ASPROMONTE, LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN • ASPROMONTE, LA TERRA DEGLI ULTIMI

(Director, Mimmo Calopresti, Drama, 2019, 97 min.) ♦ Film Sponsor: Heinz History Center
In 1951, no road connects a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte with other towns. In... View >

April 14, 2023 - 7:00pm
TOMORROW’S A NEW DAY • DOMANI È UN ALTRO GIORNO

(Director, Simone Spada, Drama/Comedy, 2019, 100 min.)
Tommaso returns to Rome to help his friend Giuliano who is ill and worried about the future of his dearest companion, Pato, a wide-eyed... View >

April 15, 2023 - 7:00pm
L’IMMENSITÀ

(Director, Emanuele Crialese, Drama, 2022, 94 min.) ♦ Film Sponsor: iloveitalianmovies.com
Rome, 1970s. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment with their three children. Their... View >

April 26, 2023 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
FRIT Faculty Meeting View >
April 29, 2023 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
FRIT Graduation Ceremony

Join us as we celebration the graduation of French and Italian majors and graduate students!

 

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