Elisa Dossena, Lecturer of Italian, will demonstrate, through specific examples of teaching strategies, how students can acquire, strengthen, and consolidate their ability to understand and produce in the target language, increasing at the same time their cultural and intercultural competence. Sequenze, by Elisa Dossena and Silvia Dupont, is an intermediate-advanced level textbook that teaches Italian […]

The Department of French and Italian presents a screening of the documentary, BlaxploItalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema (2016), followed by a Q&A with director and activist, Fred Kuwornu. Film is in Italian with English subtitles. #DIVERSITY-IN-MEDIA-MATTERS is a transnational dialogue format lead by filmmaker-activist Fred Kuwornu based on the screening of his […]

The Department of French and Italian presents, Visual Philosophy, Pirandello and the Languages of the Image. Featuring Pietro Frassica (Princeton University) Andrea Malaguti (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Lisa Sarti (BMCC, The City University of New York) and Michael Subialka (University of California, Davis). Location Pyne 205

The Program in Italian Studies presents Ara Merjian, professor of Italian and Art History at NYU, is going to explore Pasolini's engagement with performance art in the 70s and beyond, offering us a glimpse of his forthcoming book "Heretical Aesthetics: Pier Paolo Pasolini against the Avant-Garde”. A gay, Catholic, communist master of Italian poetry and […]