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Lecture by Dr. Céline Dauverd

Tuesday, February 27 at 1pm
The slave market in Algiers

Céline Dauverd, PhD, Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder and 2023-24 Fellow of The Italian Academy, Columbia University

Date: Tuesday, February 27

Time: 1:00 – 2:30 PM

Location: Center for Italian Studies, E-4340, Frank Melville Library, Stony Brook University

Title: "Paolino Bianchi and Diego Diáz: Narrative of Christian Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Tunis and Algiers”


Mary Jo Bona Symposium

1-4 PM Friday, April 19th, 2024

Click Here to RSVP for the Reception (Due March 18th)

Mary Jo Bona Symposium Flyer

 

 


ORIGINAL PLAY Premiere

April 24 at 7 pm

Poster advertising the new Anthony DiFranco play Woman through the Window

Tickets are free. Please call (631) 632-7444 or email ctritalianstudies@stonybrook.edu to reserve your spot!

 


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News & Announcements

D'amato Chair to speak at Yale Symposium

Friday, March 1, 2024

On March 1, 2024, Dr. Loredana Polezzi, Alfonse D'Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, will speak at Yale University for the First Annual Rossini Symposium, "Italians in New Haven and Beyond." Her paper is entitled "Affect and the Diasporic Memory: Narrating the Italian American Experience." The event, organized by Yale's Department of Italian Studies, is free and open to the public. For further information, please visit: https://italian.yale.edu/event/first-annual-rossini-symposium.

Rossini Symposium Poster with program details


"24 Italian art Songs and Arias"

6 PM Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Concert at historic All Souls Church (61 Main Street, Stony Brook)

 

Heidi Schneider Photo

 

The evening will feature Stony Brook University doctoral student and soprano Heidi Schneider singing selections from the coveted collection of “24 Italian Art Songs and Arias.” The recital will also feature a new and exciting work by local composer, Kyle Krause. The new work surrounds lush poetry written about Italian opera star Adelina Patti.

All Souls Church collects food each week to help feed the hungry at the St Cuthbert’s food pantry. “Lend a hand, bring a can.”

For more information, contact Dan Kerr at 631-655-7798


AAIS Giornata di studio
Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies
Friday, March 29th

12:00-5:00 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 linkhttps://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

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


English Language Assistantship in Italy

3 month English language assistantship available at a school in northern Italy (near Brescia), for the period March 1 – May 31, 2024.

Duties: Teaching English mainly to children ages 9-14 (Scuola elementare or Scuola media, in the morning), and to adults (on some afternoons), for a total 240 hours over approximately three months, with an average of 22 hours per week.

Pay: Euros 800 per month

Additional benefits: Full board accommodation with a local family

Candidates MUST be between 21 and 27 years of age, native English speakers with some competence in linguistics.

Deadline: February 10, 2024

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE CONFERENCE

Deadline: Sept. 1st 2024