Please join us for the Italian 420 Student Showcase to be held April 20, 2018 at 5:00pm in the Presidio Room of the Student Union Memorial Center.
Join us for a lecture by Italian faculty member, Professor Fabian Alfie, at the UA Main Library Special Collections. Professor Alfie will talk on an important classic of Italian literature by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the Decameron. The literary work consists of a series of 100 stories by 10 tellers who escaped the Black Death of 1348. Two hundred years later, although it was considered a model of literary Italian, the Decameron was suppressed by the Inquisition because of its bawdy content and anti-clericalism. Professor Alfie will discuss the volume edited by Leonardo Salviati (1540-1589), who censored the Decameron in the hopes of preserving as much of Boccaccio’s language as possible for posterity. For more information, please visit the Special Collections website.
Title: An Imperfect Rescue: Lionardo Salviati’s Edition (1597) of Boccaccio’s Decameron
Come mingle with fellow Italian students and Italophiles while enjoying a free cup of gelato from Bella's Gelato Shoppe truck.
March 28, 2018 5-7pm
Geraldo Rivera Park (east of Learning Services Building)
Prof. Aileen A. Feng has been awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the Renaissance Society of America to conduct archival work in Italy during Summer 2018. Prof. Feng will spend three months in Italy continuing research for her new monograph titled Feminism’s First Paradox: Female-Authored Misogyny and Homosociality in Early Modern Italy and France.
Please save the date and join us for a discussion of the making of Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies , an anthology that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. The book’s editors Giuseppe Cavatorta, UA Associate Professor of Italian, and Luigi Ballerini, Professor Emeritus of Italian at UCLA, will talk about the creation of the anthology that features such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti, Zanzotto, Villa and Cacciatore. UA Creative Writing faculty Ander Monson and Susan Briante will discuss the relationship between poetics, poetry, and translation. Included in the volume are 24 images by visual poet Magdalo Mussio, which will be displayed. The event will conclude with a dual-language poetry reading of selections from the anthology.
5:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2018
UA POETRY CENTER, 1508 E. HELEN STREET
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Co-sponsored by the UA College of Humanities, German Studies, English, French & Italian, the UA Confluencecenter for Creative Inquiry, and the Gamma Kappa Alpha National Italian Honor Society.
Join Cinema Italiano as they offer the first film showing of the Spring 2018 semester: Perfetti Sconosciuti. The event is free and all are welcome to attend.
On November 28, Margherita Berti, Stefano Maranzana, and Jake Monzingo hosted a unique event to allow students to experience Italy without even leaving the classroom. Google Cardboard glasses let Italy come to the UofA! Read more about this fun event on The Daily Wildcat: http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2017/12/n-italian-vr
Congratulations to Dr. Beppe Cavatorta for having his talk highlighted in a recent article. The full text can be found here.
The Department of French and Italian is very happy to announce that our colleague Dr. Beppe Cavatorta has been elected president of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) for a three-year term beginning in January 2018.
The American Association of Teachers of Italian is a professional organization of scholars worldwide who contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of Italian Studies through teaching, research, and service. Their mission is to promote, advance, and preserve the study of Italian language, literature, and culture in its multiple historical and contemporary manifestations. The AATI achieves these goals by sponsoring meetings, seminars, conferences, competitions, workshops, national examinations, the National Italian Honor Society, and by publishing the quarterly journal Italica, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research in all areas of Italian studies. The AATI also collaborates with other professional organizations to accomplish its objectives.
For more information on AATI: http://aati-online.org
The Department of French and Italian is co-sponsoring a symposium in April. Please feel free to join us for any/all of the talks! Staff, Students & Faculty are all invited! Please see the schedule below:
12:00: “No time-line, no boundary: Locating queer language ‘before’ Stonewall”
William L. Leap (American University and Florida Atlantic University)
12:30: “Homophobic Anti-Globalism(s)”
David Peterson (University of Nebraska, Omaha)
1:00: “Language, sexuality, and terrorism in the work of 2Fik, Taïa, and Ayouch”
Denis Provencher (UA, Dept of French and Italian)
1:30: “Dilemmas in Queer Literary Translating: Or, the Awkward Reunion between Normativity and Anti-normativity”
David Gramling (UA, Dept of German Studies)
2:00 “Huevos Rancheros: Sex and the Pleasure of Language in Mexican Popular Culture”
Liliana Gonzalez (UA, Dept of Spanish and Portuguese)
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 “From Foot Whipping to Whoopee-ing! Lubunca, Semiotics of Resistance and Queer Friendship in Neoliberal Turkey”
Emrah Karakus (UA, Dept of Gender & Women’s Studies)
3:30 “Documenting Julio Salgado’s Undocumented Criminality”
Juan Ochoa (UA, Dept of Gender & Women’s Studies)
4:00 “Blaming the Wife: Medieval Notions of Sodomy in Dante’s ‘Inferno’”
Fabian Alfie (UA, Dept of French and Italian)
4:30 Wrap-Up
