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Giving Day Logo: March 27, 2024

Stony Brook University’s Giving Day is March 27, please consider contributing to the Center for Italian Studies.

Your generous support will allow us to continue our mission, expand our initiatives with local students and teachers, develop new and exciting programs, and make a meaningful impact in our community. Thank you for considering a contribution today!

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Upcoming Events

Whitman on Walls!

Monday, March 25 at 1 PM
Performance by Compagnia de’ Colombari

Walt Whitman's renowned poem, "Song of Myself," is a celebration of freedom, inclusion, and democracy. Drawing on this iconic work, Compagnia de’ Colombari created a series of short films, which will be screened at SBU. Students, faculty, and local poets will also read work written in dialogue with Whitman's text. Founding Director Karin Coonrod and Compagnia staff will be present.

Open to the SBU campus community. RSVP is required. Call (631) 632-7444 or email ctritalianstudies@stonybrook.edu.

WoW! Poster


NASTI lecture series
Dr. Oronzo brunetti, “Representing the Italian South: Rural Architecture and Photography in the 1920s/1930s"

Thursday, April 11, 5:30 – 7 PM
The Center for Italian Studies, E-4340

Dr. Oronzo Brunetti (University of Naples Federico II) will present on Carl Hubacher's photographs of Puglia, specifically the trulli: dry stone houses with cone-shaped roofs. Architect and professional photographer, Hubacher was one of the leading exponents of the Swiss Werkbund. From 1924 to 1933, he visited Puglia several times and took hundreds of photos that constitute a precious document on the local landscape and rural architecture in the inter-war period.


Tromba lecture series
“Saving Italy's brown Bears: Rethinking Wilderness in Europe”

Thursday, April 18, 4 – 6 PM
The Center for Italian Studies, E-4340

This program, presented with Professor Roger Thompson (SBU), will feature three prominent figures in the Brown Bear conservation movement discussing the current state of the Apennine bear, the so-called “Italian Grizzly.” To RSVP, please call (631) 632-7444 or email ctritalianstudies@stonybrook.edu.

Saving Italy's Brown Bears Flyer

 


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News & Announcements

Our Spring 2024 NewsLetter is here!

We are excited to announce the return of our biannual newsletter! Please note that the Inauguration of the Center's Parati Library on Migration Studies, originally scheduled for April 25, has been postponed until Fall 2024.

Click here to read

 

Dante: Inferno to Paradise

PBS is currently featuring DANTE: Inferno to Paradise, a two-part, four-hour documentary film that explores the life, work, and legacy of the renowned Florentine poet. The first part delves into the historical context of medieval Florence from 1216 up to Dante’s birth in 1265. It covers the dramatic details of Dante’s childhood, education, early literary and political career, leading up to his exile in 1302, and his decision to write The Divine Comedy

 

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Mary Jo Bona Featured on Italics, Television for the Italian American Experience

In honor of Women's History Month, Mary Jo Bona, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, was recently featured on CUNY TV's Italics, Television for the Italian American Experience where she discussed Italian American literature and its history. 

Watch here:

https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/italics/


AAIS Giornata di studio
"Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies"

Friday, March 29th, 12-5 PM EST

Please join us for the first installment of the AAIS 2024 Executive Council Conference Series. The first of the two-part series is a virtual discussion on Friday, March 29 of the Forum Italicum special issue “Critical Issues in Transnational Italian Studies” published in August 2023. The second panel of the ECCS will take place in Sorrento at AAIS 2024.

Registration link:

 https://aais.italianstudies.net/site_event_detail.cfm?pk_association_event=29956

Free access to the essays here: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/foia/57/2

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Opportunities

Study Abroad Info Session for SBU STUDENTS

Wed., April 17, 2024, 1–2 PM 

Wang Lecture Room 201

International Academic Programs invites you to explore the opportunities for you to earn academic credits through studying abroad! To RSVP, click here.


Call for Papers

The Cultural Secretariat of the International Italo-Latin American Organisation (IILA), opens the call for papers for the 6th issue of the journal Quaderni Culturali IILA - 2024 with the theme "Cultural Relations between Fascist Italy and Latin America from the 1920s to the 1940s." Articles of no more than 5,000 to 7,000 words shall be submitted by June 1, 2024. The languages accepted are Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and English.

For further details, refer to https://journals.fupress.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CALL-FOR-PAPERS_QUADERNI-CULTURALI-6.pdf


EXHIBITION on RENAISSANCE FASHION & TEXTILES

February 7 – May 19, 2024
Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Remaking the Renaissance poster

Remaking the Renaissance offers a fresh take on this iconic period of textile and fashion history, transforming the way we think about and see the cloth and clothing of the early modern period. Looking at key textile innovations in the era c.1400-1700, Remaking the Renaissance suggests that objects and their histories can be restored and recreated through conservation and research. 

For further information, please visit: https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/remaking-the-renaissance.


online Conference

"Exploring Rome through Drawing in the 16th Century"

From March 6-8, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institute for Art History, in Rome presents "Gernsheim Study Days: Exploring Rome through Drawing in the 16th Century." There is no registration required and panels will be live streamed at https://vimeo.com/event/4038117. For further inforation and a program of talks, visit: Gernsheim Study Days Program Description.


Scholarship Opportunity

The National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW) scholarship program is open to female-identifying undergraduate or graduate students, currently enrolled at an accredited US college or university.

For additional eligibility requirements and application details, please visit: https://www.noiaw.org/scholarships/

Deadline: March 18, 2024


 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE CONFERENCE

Deadline: Sept. 1st 2024