CALL FOR PAPERS:
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE CONFERENCE
Deadline: Sept. 1st 2024
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”
Click Here to RSVP for the Reception (Due March 18th)
Tickets are free. Please call (631) 632-7444 or email ctritalianstudies@stonybrook.edu to reserve your spot!
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.
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 link: https://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
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.
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.
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
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