In conjunction with the performances of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” the Program in Italian Studies will present an afternoon symposium on the opera on, Saturday, January 13, 2018 from 1:00-6:00PM, including a round table featuring the production team, presentations on the opera and its context by the graduate students in Professor Wendy Heller’s graduate seminar Music 515: […]

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 […]

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

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 […]