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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.