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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

A Reading and Conversation with Translators C. Francis Fisher and Kathleen Heil, moderated by Prof. Éric Trudel
Olin Humanities, Room 202  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
C. Francis Fisher is the translator of Joyce Mansour’s In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems (World Poetry, 2024); Kathleen Heil is the translator of Meret Oppenheim’s The Loveliest Vowel Empties (World Poetry, 2022). Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) and Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) were arguably two of the most important female surrealist figures of the 20th century. Fisher and Heil will be in conversation about their translations on Tuesday, October 1.

About the translators:

C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator who received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She has been supported by scholarships from Breadloaf
Writers Conference, Brooklyn Poets, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, appeared with World Poetry May ’24.

Kathleen Heil is an artist whose practice encompasses dance/performance and the writing and translating of poetry and prose. She is the author of the poetry collection You Can Have It All, forthcoming with Moist Books November 2024, and the translator of The Loveliest Vowel Empties, Meret Oppenheim’s collected poems (World Poetry, 2023). Her literary translations appear in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. Originally from New Orleans, she lives and works in Berlin.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

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Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

Ann Goldstein, translator
Jenny McPhee, NYU
Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College
Mark Polizzotti, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Campus Center, Weis Cinema  5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
What happens when translation falters and languages cannot be reconciled? What is irremediably “foreign” in a foreign language, culture, literature and art? How to transform this challenge into a creative resource? 
We ask these probing questions to four of the most prominent literary translators of today, to learn from their experiences and struggles, as well as their successes.

Ann Goldstein is a translator from the Italian language, best known for her celebrated translations of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet. Former editor of The New Yorker, her many translations include works from Alba de Cespedes, Elsa Morante, Giacomo Leopardi, Jhumpa Lahiri. She also edited the three-volume publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi (2015).
 
Jenny McPhee teaches in the Master’s in Translation and Interpreting program at NYU and in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton. Author of several novels, her translations from the Italian include works by the authors Anna Banti, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, Curzio Malaparte, and Pope John Paul II.

Daniel Mendelsohn is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College. An internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator, his notable works include An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006). His translation of Homer’s Odyssey will be published next year.
 
Mark Polizzotti is a publisher and editor-in-chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has translated more than 50 books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras and André Breton, and written 11 books, the latest of which is Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (2018). 

Moderated by Marina van Zuylen (Bard) and Franco Baldasso (Bard).

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Please join us on Friday, May 19 at 3:30 pm in RKC 103 for the presentation of the latest issue of Sui Generis, Bard’s student-run journal dedicated to literary translation. Please come to celebrate the hard work of the journal’s editorial board and the many translators who contributed to a robust and diverse issue of the journal. In addition to readings of work in many languages and in English translation, there will be light refreshments. All are welcome!

Karen Raizen, Bard College
Campus Center, Weis Cinema  1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Jokes don't translate easily. Wordplay, dark humor, and even memes often fall flat when translated to other languages, since they hinge on specific linguistic and cultural features. In this workshop, we will explore the challenges surrounding jokes in translation. We will also tell jokes, and attempt to translate them. No prior knowledge of any particular language is required. Laughing is optional.

Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966
Olin Humanities, Room 102  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5

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Come celebrate Valentine’s Day with mamma!

Listen or even perform literature in different languages.
Olin Language Center, Room 203 (Tutoring Seminar)  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
If you're interested in poetry and languages this is your event! Come and listen to your peers.

If you want to participate write to [email protected]. Please send the original text and an English translation. Any type of written art is accepted. Original works and translations are welcome too!

Food and drinks are provided.

Jane Tylus, Yale University
Olin Humanities, Room 102  5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Jane Tylus (Yale) discusses her recent translation of Dacia Maraini's novel In Praise of Disobedience: Clare of Assisi.

Jane Tylus specializes in late medieval and early modern European literature, religion, and culture, with secondary interests in 19th–20th century fiction. Her work has focused on the recovery and interrogation of lost and marginalized voices—historical personages, dialects and “parole pellegrine,” minor genres such as pastoral, secondary characters in plays, poems, and epics.  She has also been active in the practice and theory of translation. Her current book project explores the ritual of departure in early modernity, especially how writers and artists sent their works into the world.

  A Conversation with Professor Franco Baldasso
Chapel of the Holy Innocents  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This discussion of Giorgio Agamben, an influential and controversial voice in today's philosophical debates, will address his main contributions to political theory. It will also explore how his methodology draws inspiration from the unlikely encounter between the arcane and the contemporary, beginning with one of his most pressing concerns: the significance of the sacred in our modern secularized world.


Download: agamben-flier-3.pdf

Yemane Demissie (filmmaker, NYU)
Olin Humanities, Room 102  6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Quantum Leapers, filmmaker Yemane Demissie’s forthcoming multimedia project, focuses on the buoyant and tumultuous experiences of Ethiopians during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Drawing from narratives of more than 500 interviews and thousands of images unearthed from the interviewees’ collections and dozens of international archives, the project considers how the 1935-1941 Italo-Ethiopian War and Occupation compelled the country to reevaluate its age-old traditions in the face of war, fascism and modernity.
 
At this lecture, Yemane will present stories revolving around the airplane—long an emblem of modernity—to explore the interlinked lives of four individuals who confront, embrace or glide with the sudden and immense changes brought about by war, occupation, and liberation.
 
Yemane Demissie teaches narrative and documentary filmmaking in the Department of Film & TV at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Please note: Due to copyright reasons, the presentations (in particular, the images) cannot be filmed. Photographs of the images/slides also cannot be taken by audience members during the presentation.

For more info, please contact Franco Baldasso: [email protected]

 

Daphné Budasz (European University Institute, Florence) and Markus Wurzer (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale)
Online Event  3:10 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Zoom link: https://osun-eu.zoom.us/j/92405899221

Although Italy's colonial empire had been small and short-lived, today numerous material traces - street names, monuments, buildings etc. - can be found in Italian public spaces. By marking physical locations on a digital map, the project Postcolonial Italy aims at making historical knowledge available to a large audience to stimulate a public debate on Italy's silenced colonial past. Material traces are not only geographically captured, but also - and this is crucial - historically contextualized. The map intends to recall the manifold connections between Italian public spaces and the colonial and fascist past, which often remains absent from collective memory.

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Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Peace is the goal for every country, community, and, hey, family. (See, we're funny here at BGIA.) In general, peace is the absence of war and violence. Through its work on the Global Peace Index and the Positive Peace Framework, the Institute for Economics and Peace takes peace and peace building further. It focuses on strengths not deficits and individual action on creating and sustaining positive societies.

Join us on Thursday, November 18 at 12pm for an hour long Positive Peace Workshop. In this workshop, participants will learn how to better think about actions and approaches to creating peaceful societies. It will focus on policy, strategy, and implementation. If you're interested in conflict resolution, policymaking, and peace building, don't miss this virtual event. RSVP required. 

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Moderated by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross
Online Event  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
To receive the Zoom invitation for this event, please email [email protected]. Invitations will be sent out on the morning of the event.

Global modernism exists only in translation. Its condition of possibility is the circulation of texts through time and space, across languages and in languages that are not the texts’ own. Historically speaking, the texts we think of as modernist are, almost without exception, the products of lively eras of translation in an expanded sense that reaches beyond the strict remit of textual translation between languages. In order to have global modernism, then, there must be translation and, necessarily, its distortions. Global modernism, by foregrounding this established problematic of translation in the context of an awareness of the unevenness of global exchange, highlights the centrality of language politics to modernist literary creation. 

The study of global modernism, too, relies on active and continuous translation efforts. Contemporary translators, many of them themselves practicing poets or writers, are increasingly making available modernisms from around the world. In doing so, they underscore the extent to which modernists so often regarded translation as a primary creative act rather than secondary or derivative one. 

This roundtable and reading features the work of four scholars and translators of modernist poetry who contributed original translations to the anthology Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020) and whose efforts shine illuminating cross-lights on the modernist labour of translation. As several of our participants are also practicing multilingual poets, the event will offer an occasion to listen to and reflect on the contemporary legacies of modernist poetics.

This conversation, held under the shared auspices of the Literature Program at Bard College and Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics, is the second in a three-part series exploring global modernism, in celebration of the anthology. It was preceded by a roundtable on “Editing Global Modernism,” held on October 23, and will be followed by a workshop on pedagogy and global modernism on Friday, December 4, 1:30–4:30pm EST.

Speakers
Emily Drumsta is an assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University, where she works on modern Arabic and Francophone literatures. Her translation, Revolt Against the Sun: A Bilingual Reader of Nazik al-Mala'ika's Poetry was awarded a PEN/Heim Grant in 2018 and is forthcoming with Saqi Books in January 2021. She is a cofounder of Tahrir Documents, an online archive of newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, and other ephemera collected in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Her translations have been published in McSweeney's, Asymptote, Jadaliyya, Circumference, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Emily contributed translations of Nazik al-Mala’ika’s critical writing to the anthology’s section on Modernism in the Arab World.

Klara Du Plessis is a second-year, FRQSC-funded PhD student in English literature at Concordia University, focusing on contemporary, Canadian poetry and the curation of literary events. As part of her dissertation preparation, she is pursuing a practical, experimental research creation component called Deep Curation, which approaches the organization of literary events as directed by the curator and places poets’ work in deliberate dialogue with each another, heightening the curator’s agency toward the poetic product; to date, she has curated eight such poetry readings, most recently with Sawako Nakayasu, Lee Ann Brown, and Fanny Howe at Boston University, in January 2020. Klara is also deeply involved with SpokenWeb, acting both as a researcher and as the student representative of its governing board; SpokenWeb is a SSHRC-funded, multi-institutional research project, founded at Concordia, that digitizes and archives poetry readings from the past seventy years in North America. Parallel to her scholarly activities, Klara is a poet and critic, active in both the Canadian and South African literary scenes. Her writing is informed by a multilingual poetics grounded in a fluently bilingual identity in English and Afrikaans, and a curiosity about languages generally. Her debut multilingual collection of essay-like long poems, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award for a book of poetry published by a woman in Canada, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a debut collection. Her second English collection, Hell Light Flesh, was published by Palimpsest Press in September 2020, and her first Afrikaans book, ver taal, is currently under consideration for publication in South Africa. Her chapbook, Wax Lyrical, was shortlisted for the 2016 bpNichol Chapbook Award, and she has appeared at festivals, readings, residencies, and conferences in Canada, South Africa, the United States, and elsewhere.
 
Ariel Resnikoff is the author of Unnatural Bird Migrator (Operating System, 2020) and the chapbooks Ten-Four: Poems, Translations, Variations (Operating System, 2015), with Jerome Rothenberg, and Between Shades (Materialist Press, 2014). His writing has been translated into Russian, French, Spanish, German, and Hebrew, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Golden Handcuffs Review, Full Stop Quarterly, Protocols, The Wolf Magazine for Poetry, Schreibheft, Zeitschrift für Literatur and Boundary2. With Stephen Ross, he is at work on the first critical bilingual edition of Mikhl Likht’s modernist Yiddish long poem, Processions, and with Lilach Lachman and Gabriel Levin, he is translating into English the collected writings of the translingual Hebrew poet Avot Yeshurun. Ariel is a reviews editor at Jacket2 and a founding editor of the journal and print-archive Supplement, copublished by the Materialist Press, Kelly Writers House, and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught courses on multilingual diasporic literatures at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (UPenn) and at BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. In 2019, he completed his PhD in comparative literature and literary theory at the University of Pennsylvania, and and he is currently a Fulbright Postdoctoral US Scholar. Ariel lives on Alameda Island in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner, the artist and designer Riv Weinstock, and their baby, Zamir Shalom.

Sho Sugita writes and translates poetry in Matsumoto, Japan. His translation of Hirato Renkichi’s Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) is the first book of Japanese Futurist poetry to appear in English. He is currently working on translating Japanese Dada/anarchist poetry by Hagiwara Kyojiro.

Moderators
Alys Moody is assistant professor of literature at Bard College. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism (OUP, 2018) and is currently working on a second book, provisionally entitled The Literature of World Hunger: Poverty, Global Modernism, and the Emergence of a World Literary System. She is one of the general editors of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), and section editor or coeditor of the sections on modernism in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, the Arab world, Japan, and the South Pacific.

Stephen J. Ross is assistant professor of English at Concordia University. He is the author of Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP, 2017). He is one of the general editors of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), and was section editor or coeditor of the sections on modernism in the Caribbean, the Arab world, and greater China.
 

Prof. Ara Merjian, New York University
Respondent: Evan Calder Williams, CCS Bard
Olin Humanities, Room 102  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Emerging from relative obscurity, the young sculptor Renato Bertelli (1900–1974) made his mark with one of the most widely disseminated portraits from Fascism’s 20-year rule. The Continuous Profile of Mussolini (1933) renders its subject in the round, such that the Duce’s visage appears redoubled from nearly any angle. Patenting the design almost immediately, Bertelli set about mass-producing it in a range of sizes and materials—a reproducibility that resulted in a striking assortment of owners throughout the 20th century, from Mussolini’s son-in-law to the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The talk discusses Bertelli’s sculpture both as an allegory of Fascism’s self-styled “permanent revolution” and as a synthesis of the regime’s cultural paradoxes embodied in the Duce.  

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by Paolo Valesio, with Translator Todd Portnowitz
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Italian poet and scholar Paolo Valesio and his translator Todd Portnowitz read from their recent publication, Midnight in Spoleto (Fomite, 2018), and discuss the intricacies of the translation process.

PAOLO VALESIO is the author, among several other works, of twenty books of poetry and is the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor Emeritus in Italian Literature at Columbia University. He was the founder, and coordinator for ten years, of the “Yale Poetry Group” at Yale University, and the founder and director of the journal Yale Italian Poetry (YIP), whose successor is the Italian Poetry Review (IPR) a “plurilingual journal of creativity and criticism” based in New York and in Florence, Italy—of which Valesio is the editor in chief; he is also the President of the “Centro Studi Sara Valesio” in Bologna.

TODD PORTNOWITZ is the translator of Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio (Fomite, 2018) and of Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini, forthcoming in October from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is a recipient of the Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. An assistant editor with Alfred A. Knopf, he is a co-founder of the Italian poetry journal Formavera and of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them.    

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Film screening and roundtable discussion
Campus Center, Weis Cinema  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
If Only I Were That Warrior (2015) is a feature documentary film focusing on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini's imperial ambitions. The stories of three characters, filmed in present-day Ethiopia, Italy, and the United States, take the audience on a journey through the living memories and the tangible remains of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia—a journey that crosses generations and continents to today, where this often overlooked legacy still ties the fates of two nations and their people. 

The film screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, Valerio Ciriaci and Isaak Liptzin, and Bard faculty member Dinaw Mengestu.

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Jenny McPhee, New York University
Stephen Twilley, Public Books

*Please note start time changed to 7:00 p.m.*
Olin Humanities, Room 102  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Pioneering autofiction with his WWII novels Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949), Italian writer Curzio Malaparte is one of most controversial authors of the 20th Century. Malaparte was a protagonist of interwar Europe, from his tumultuous relations with Mussolini and the fascist regime to the cosmopolitan dalliances with French and Russian intelligentsia. He narrated these experiences in the two memoirs The Kremlin Ball and Diary of a Stranger in Paris, for the first time translated into English respectively by Jenny McPhee and Stephen Twilley and now published by NYRB Classics. The two translators will discuss their experience with Malaparte's texts and their relationship with this fascinating yet problematic author.
 

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A conference on the theory and practice of translation, organised by Bard's Translation and Translatability Initiative.
Bard College Campus  9:00 am – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

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James Marcus
Editor in Chief, Harper’s Magazine
Olin Humanities, Room 203  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This panel will be a conversation about translating and reading in translation. What are the kinds of technical problems that come up when approaching texts in translation? How can translators and readers move past these problems? What is the role of an editor in dealing with translation? The panel will use James Marcus’s recent review essay on the translations of Primo Levi as a starting point, in order to then engage more broadly with questions of translation. Bard’s Peter Filkins and Susan H. Gillespie will hold the discussion.

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a lecture by
Prof. Anna Maria Mariani (University of Chicago)

respondent
Prof. Francine Prose (Bard College)
 
Olin Humanities, Room 102  5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This talk asks what became of Primo Levi’s testimonial function after his death. The first part investigates the literary objects (novels and comic books) produced in the wake of Levi’s death, when fictionalized representations of him multiplied through different media. As a means of comparison, the question will be explored by taking into account a series of fictional works that feature another quintessential emblem of the Shoah: Anne Frank. The second part will instead examine Literature or Life by Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, who rewrote and rearticulated Levi’s words on the very day of the latter’s suicide. Can testimonial function migrate between mortal bodies, like the royal dignitas, thus preserving itself beyond the ephemeral lives of individuals? 
 

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  Professor David Forgacs, New York University
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Episodes of public violence have recurred at several key moments in the formation and consolidation of the modern Italian state: wars of unification, colonial wars, labor protests and social unrest repressed by police or the military, civil conflicts during the rise and subsequent fall of fascism, terrorism, stragismo, mafia violence. The lecture examines the long history of violence in contemporary Italy, from 1848 to 2015, and suggests that several of these instances of public violence are linked to problems of legitimation of political authority. The lecture looks also at the communication and transmission of memory in connecting or separating different moments of violence, as well as at the near-total erasure of certain episodes of mass violence from the historical record.

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​“After the Revolution: Reading the Italian-Libyan Political Constellation through the Afrosurrealist Imaginary”
Olin Humanities, Room 203  6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
A lecture on Kevin Jerome Everson’s Rhinoceros (2013), an imagined staging of the last speech of the first Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici (1510-1537), also known as the first black European head of state due to his mixed Italian and African ancestry.

This event is co-sponsored by Africana Studies, Art History, Film Studies, and the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs

John Hooper, Italy correspondent of The Economist magazine and the author of The Italians (Viking, 2015 & 2016)
RKC 103  5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? What exactly is bella figura? And why do Romans eat their gnocchi on Thursdays? Having spent more than 15 years reporting on Italy, John Hooper set out to write a book that answers these and many of the other puzzles that confront outsiders in a society that can be as baffling as it is alluring.  The result is The Italians, published by Viking, which has featured in the bestseller lists of The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. In his talk, Hooper will discuss the challenges and rewards of trying to explain a society in which paradox is the norm and in which much is hidden, or coded or left unsaid.

Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union, MoMA
Olin Humanities, Room 204  5:30 pm EST/GMT-5
As Italy moved from the decade of Reconstruction (1945-1955) to the Economic Miracle (1958-1963), an image of a “new Italy” emerged in the United States. Gone was the redemptive rhetoric of a destroyed and impoverished country resurfacing from the war’s rubble; what prevailed now was a modern, glamorous, and pleasing facade. Modern Italian art played a key role in reshaping Americans’ perception of Italy, and during the second half of the 1950s it enjoyed unprecedented success in this country. Nearly a dozen exhibitions of contemporary art from Italy toured the country during these years. Beyond the art world, Italian artists such as Marino Marini, Massimo Campigli, Alberto Burri, and Afro Basaldella conquered Hollywood and the fashion world, and they seduced millions of Americans through mainstream TV programs, movies, and illustrated magazines.

A sepcial thanks to the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty at Cooper Union.

 

Reading her new poems from EXIT 43: Outtakes and Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump and her translations from Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli
Olin 202  6:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Jennifer Scappettone is Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, her study of the outmoded city of lagoons as a crucible for experiments across literature, politics, urbanism, and the visual arts, was published by Columbia University Press in 2014. Her translations from the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli. She is now at work on translations of the futurist F.T. Marinetti and feminist Carla Lonzi. She founded, and now curates, PennSound Italiana, a new sector of the audiovisual archive based at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to experimental Italian poetry. Her poetry collections include From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press in 2009) and EXIT 43: Outtakes and Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos Press 2016).

Installation pieces were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina Gallery in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, and she has collaborated on multidisciplinary performance works with a wide range of musicians, architects, and dancers. She is currently sharing a Mellon Fellowship for Arts and Scholarship with the code artist Judd Morrissey and cross-media artist Caroline Bergvall at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to work on a project exploring the poetics and politics of air called The Data That We Breathe.    

Jennifer Scappettone, University of Chicago
RKC 103  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Jennifer Scappettone is Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, her study of the outmoded city of lagoons as a crucible for experiments across literature, politics, urbanism, and the visual arts, was published by Columbia University Press in 2014. Her translations from the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli. She is now at work on translations of the futurist F.T. Marinetti and feminist Carla Lonzi. She founded, and now curates, PennSound Italiana, a new sector of the audiovisual archive based at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to experimental Italian poetry. Her poetry collections include From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press in 2009) and EXIT 43: Outtakes and Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos Press 2016).

Installation pieces were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina Gallery in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, and she has collaborated on multidisciplinary performance works with a wide range of musicians, architects, and dancers. She is currently sharing a Mellon Fellowship for Arts and Scholarship with the code artist Judd Morrissey and cross-media artist Caroline Bergvall at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry to work on a project exploring the poetics and politics of air called The Data That We Breathe.    

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Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

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Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

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  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

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Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
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  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

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Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

  Please join us each Wednesday.  Stay for as long as you would like.
Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

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Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Lost Words, New Directions, 2015
Olin Humanities, Room 203  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
In conversation with Prof. Joe Luzzi
 
Introduction by Prof. Franco Baldasso
 
 
Nicola Gardini is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Keble College, University of Oxford, and the author of numerous scholarly and creative works, including the recent Lacuna (Einaudi, 2014). He will speak about his novel Lost Words (New Directions, 2015), a translation by Michael Moore of Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd (Feltrinelli, 2012), winner of both the Viareggio Prize and Zerilli Marimò/City of Rome Prize.  
 

  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

  Please join us each Wednesday.  Stay for as long as you would like.
Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

  Please join us each Wednesday.  Stay for as long as you would like.
Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

  Preston Theater, 110  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Every semester the Italian Department is pleased to invite you to an Italian Film Series.
All movies are free, in Italian language with English subtitles

  Please join us each Wednesday.  Stay for as long as you would like.
Kline, back corner by President's Room  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Look for the table with the Italian flag.

A conversation with award-winning translators Ann Goldstein (New Yorker) Michael F. Moore (PEN/Heim Translation Fund)
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Moderated by Prof. Franco Baldasso
Introduction by Prof. Cecile Kuznitz
 
Toni Morrison described Primo Levi’s writing as a “triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.” Levi is the distinguished author of decisive books such as If This Is a Man, and The Periodic Table. For the first time the entire oeuvre of the most acclaimed Holocaust survivor is available in English, after a seven-year collective endeavor led by Ann Goldstein, New Yorker editor and celebrated translator of Elena Ferrante and Jhumpa Lahiri. Together with Goldstein, the event will feature Michael F. Moore, a most accomplished translator from Italian and UN interpreter.

For more information on Goldstein and the Complete Works of Primo Levi, view interview: HERE

Primo Levi,  (born July 31, 1919, Turin, Italy—

died April 11, 1987, Turin), Italian-Jewish writer and chemist, noted for his restrained and moving autobiographical account of and reflections on survival in the Nazi concentration camps. Levi was brought up in the small Jewish community in Turin, studied at theUniversity of Turin, and graduated summa cum laude in chemistry in 1941. Two years later he joined friends in northern Italy in an attempt to connect with a resistance movement, but he was captured and sent to Auschwitz. While there, Levi worked as a slave labourer for an I.G. Farbenindustrie synthetic-rubber factory. Upon the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviets in 1945, Levi returned to Turin, where in 1961 he became the general manager of a factory producing paints, enamels, and synthetic resins; the association was to last some 30 years.
Levi’s first book, If This Is a Man, or Survival in Auschwitz), demonstrated extraordinary qualities of humanity and detachment in its analysis of the atrocities he had witnessed. His later autobiographical works, La tregua (1963; The Truce, or The Reawakening) and I sommersi e i salvati (1986; The Drowned and the Saved), are further reflections on his wartime experiences. Il sistema periodico (1975; The Periodic Table) is a collection of 21 meditations, each named for a chemical element, on the analogies between the physical, chemical, and moral spheres; of all of Levi’s works, it is probably his greatest critical and popular success. He also wrote poetry, novels, and short stories. His 1987 death was apparently a suicide.

Sponsors: Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, and the Hannah Arendt Center

March 8, 6:00pm
RKC 103 - Laszlo Z. Bito ‘60 Auditorium
Free & Open to the Public!