Upcoming Events Calendar
Preliminary Spring Calendar of Events, March 2012
All are invited. Free and Open to the Public
***Announcement***
Center for Italian Studies Annual Essay Contest for Secondary School Students on Italian and Italian American Topics.
2012 Theme: Exploring the Culture of Italian Americana through the Reading and Writing of a Report on a Publication (fiction or non-fiction) by an Italian American author. Call (631-632-7444) for guidelines and additional details for participating in this essay contest. Please click this link for more information about the essay contest.
March
7, Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (formerly scheduled for March 8th)
Lecture (Teleconference format) Kristin Phillips-Court, University of Wisconsin. Topic: Aesthetics of Love in the Italian Renaissance. (Topic to be confirmed) Part of the special lecture series that is programmed within the Departmentof European Languages, Literatures and Cultures course: Lessons in Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition. (See information insert re: this series below.) Location: Humanities Building, Room 2045.
15, Thursday, 5:30 p.m.
Presentation by Professor Lori Repetti (Linguistics, Stony Brook University). Topic: The Languages of Italy. Presenter's, Abstract: " Italy is a linguistically diverse country. At a national level, many languages (minority languages immigrant languages, "dialects") are spoken, in addition to standard Italian. At an individual level, most Italians are bi-or multi-lingual. This talk will focus on the state of Italian dialects in Italy, today. It is well known that when Italy was first united 150 years ago, only about 3.5% of the neo-Italians actually spoke Italian. Today, everyone speaks Italian to varying degrees of fluency. What happened over the intervening 150 years is nothing short of a linguistic miracle. What, for all intents and purposes, was not a very vital language, is now the native language of tens of millions of Italians. However, looking at it from the opposite side, we see that the increase in use of Italian comes at the expense of the dialects. A recent survey by ISTAT (2006) reports that only about 16% of Italians speak dialect in the home, and the percentage is even lower in other social settings. How did we get from a situation where approximately 96.5% of the population only spoke a dialect, to a situation where a mere 16% use it at home? Where did the dialects go? And should we care?"Location: Stony Brook University's Frank Melville Memorial Library, E4340.
23, Friday, 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Twenty-eighth Annual Secondary School Poetry Contest: Recitation of Italian Poems. Sponsored by LI Chapter, American Association of Teachers of Italian in collaboration with Stony Brook University's Center for Italian Studies. Recitations by students of Italian from participating local secondary schools followed by award ceremonies. Please note Location: SUNY College at Old Westbury. Call 631-632-7444 for additional information.
28, Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (Formerly scheduled for March 27th)
Lecture (teleconference format): Olaf Müller, Universitat Jena. Topic: Casti's Theories of Love. Part of the speciallecture series that is programmed within the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures course: Lessons in Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition. See information insert re: this series below. Location: Humanities Building, Room 2045.
29, Thursday, 5:20 p.m.
Lecture by Anthony G. Costantini, (California State University/Northridge) on the Italian thinker, "Ugo Spirito: Between Fascism and Communism." Location: Stony Brook University's Frank Melville Memorial Library, E4340.
April
11, Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. (Formerly April 10th)
Lecture: Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University. Topic: The Rules of Love or Love Rules? CommonMisconceptions in Lorenzo Da Ponte's "Così fan tutte." Part of the special lecture series that is programmed within the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures course: Lessons in Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition. See information insert re: this series below. Location: Humanities Building, Room 2045
FYI and with regrets: We are sorry to inform you that, owing to unexpected technical difficulties being experienced by the performing group, the announced AcquAria Folk Group Event scheduled to be offered at the Center for Italian Studies April 12, 2012 has had to be cancelled. We will try to reschedule them next year.
19, Thursday, 2:20 p.m.
Lecture: Professor Marcella Bencivenni (CUNY/Hostos CC). Topic: Perspectives on Italian American Radicalism.Location: Stony Brook University's Frank Melville Memorial Library, E4340.
24, Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture (Teleconference format): Gabriella Romani. Seton Hall University. Topic: The Idea of Love in the Ottocento. This event is part of the special lecture series that is programmed within the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures course: Lessons in Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition. (See information insert re: this series below.) Location: Frank Melville Memorial Library, E4340.
29, Sunday, 2:30 p.m.
Presentation on the almost lost old world trade of "Custom Bespoke Tailoring" by Sebastiano Montella, who began learning this trade when he was eight years old in his home town of Visciano, near Naples, Italy; and currently has his tailoring business in Bellport, Long Island. . His son, Fabio, (Stony Brook graduate, 2010) will help him document the history of his father's 50 year experience in this trade both in Italy and this country with commentary and presentation of a short video entitled "Tailor Made." Location: Stony Brook University's Frank Melville Memorial Library, E4340.
FYI: Open to the public:
Special Lecture Series hosted in the Center for Italian Studies
Programmed within the Department of European Languages, Spring, 2012 course,
Italian 571:(Professor Gazzola)
Lessons on Love from the Italian Lyric Tradition:
Exploration of psychological interiority, emotional torment, sexual desire, seduction,
adultery and social, cultural, political expressions and regulations of the love experience.
Thursday, 16 February,4:00 pm:
Simone Marchesi, Princeton University:"Licet corporaliter sit dispersa: Political Erotico of the Sicilian Court"
Thursday, 23 February, 4:00 pm,:
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University: "The Phenomenology of Love in Andreas Capellanus"
Wednesday, 7 March, 5:30 pm:
Kristin Phillips-Court, University of Wisconsin: "The Idea of Love in the Renaissance" (teleconference)
Wednesday, 28 March, 5:30 pm:
Olaf Müller, Universitat Jena: "Casti's Theories of Love" (teleconference; title TBC)
Wednesday, 11 April, 5:30 pm:
Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University: "The Rules of Love, or, Love Rules? Common Misconceptions in Lorenzo Da Ponte's Così fan tutte"
Tuesday, 24 April, 4:00 pm:
Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University: "The Idea of Love in the Ottocento" (teleconference)
