Events

The Italian Studies Program at Muhlenberg College organizes various speakers, events and engagements throughout the academic year. See below for examples of previous events hosted by Italian Studies.

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November 21, 2024

A conversation on Italian contemporary art with Sofia Cacciapaglia.

"Una conversazione con Sofia Cacciapaglia"

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November 6, 2023

An evening with one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Italian letters and socitey:

"In Conversation with Dacia Maraini"

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October 16, 2023

80th Anniversary Commemoration of the Arrest and Deportation of the Jews of Rome

“16 ottobre 1943 – 2023: A Public Reading & Discussion of G. Debenedetti's Work of Literary Testimony”

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 March 8, 2022

Research presentation by Italian Studies Minors, Simone Kacal '23 and Tony Brach '23:

“Gender Inequality in Italy and the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic”

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November 9, 2021

Public Lecture by Dora and Sofia Piperno, creators of Talled di Seta:

“The Silk Tallit: A Story of Jewish-Italian Rediscovery & Entrepreneurship”

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February 20, 2020

Public Lecture by Dr. Giuseppe Gazzola, Associate Professor of Italian at SUNY-Stony Brook:

“The Reinvention of Marco Polo, or Cultural Politics of Italian Colonialism”

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April 10, 2018

Public Lecture by Dr. Millicent Marcus, Professor of Italian at Yale University:

“Return of the Repressed: Italian Film and Holocaust Memory” 

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September 14, 2017

Lecture and Performance by Rav Alberto Funaro, Cantor of the Spanish Synagogue of Rome:

“Singing the Sacred Text: Exploring the Italian and Sephardic Melodies of the Jewish Roman Tradition” 

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April 2017

Film Series at the Civic Theatre of Allentown:

“Italian Film Festival: Five New Films” 

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February 11, 2016

Public Lecture by Dr. Francesco Casetti, Professor of Film Studies at Yale University:

“The Space of Cinema: The Place of Film in the Age of Ubiquitous Screens”