The Italian Studies program organizes several activites: here you can check out our events calendar and catch a glimpse of the life of the department. Italian film nights, visiting authors and filmmakers, lectures and schedule for language table can all be found here.
Current Events
11/26
Tuesday
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like. Kline, College Room12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 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.
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Kline, College Room
12/03
Tuesday
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 A screening and discussion with the filmmakers Olin Humanities, Room 1027:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Set against the backdrop of the worst European migrant crisis since WWII, It Will Be Chaos unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor. Five years in the making, the film features two refugee stories of human strength while capturing in real time the escalating tension between newcomers and locals. The cinema vérite documentary intertwines the harrowing journey of Aregai, an Eritrean shipwreck survivor fleeing his country’s dictatorship, with the story of Wael, who is embarking on a life-threatening trip to bring his Syrian wife and four kids to safety in Germany.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the two filmmakers and Bard faculty Franco Baldasso (Italian) and Ziad Dallal (MES).
Lorena Luciano is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and a fellow of the Sundance Film Institute, IDA Enterprise, and the MacArthur Foundation.
Filippo Piscopo is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and 2024 Academy Award–nominated cinematographer of “The ABC’s of Book Banning.”
Online Event12:00 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.