Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies Discussion

When
5:30 p.m., Feb. 21, 2018
Where
UA Poetry Center, 1508 E Helen Street

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.

 

Italian Film Showing of Perfetti Sconosciuti

When
7 p.m., Feb. 1, 2018
Where
Steward Observatory N210

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. 

Dr. Beppe Cavatorta Elected President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian!

Sept. 20, 2017

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

Queer Language Across Borders

When
12 p.m., April 7, 2017
Where
Student Union Memorial Center, Pima Room

 

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

The Closest Reader: Why Translation Matters

When
5 p.m., Feb. 20, 2017
Where
Mesquite Room, Student Union Memorial Center

Dr. Gianluca Rizzo (Colby College) will give a presentation on translation and translators:

"Translators have it rough: they do an impossible job – something nobody in their right mind would agree to do – for very little pay and absolutely no recognition. Yet, they are indispensable cultural ambassadors, on whose services we depend for connecting people living at the opposite ends of the world. Not only that, by manipulating the target language (that is, the language into which they translate) in order to make it do things it wouldn’t normally do, they stretch it – increase it, enlarge it– and transform it, sometimes for good. Having been a practitioner of this most vilified and useful art for over a decade, I have been able to witness first-hand what a good translation is capable of achieving and, on the contrary, the disappointment for the missed opportunities caused by each failed translation. In this talk I will offer a few reflections on both scenarios, on my years as a translator, and what I learned from them."

 

Ph.D. Student Borbala Gaspar Receives Grant Award

Feb. 2, 2017

Congratulations to Borbala Gaspar, Ph.D. student in SLAT and GAT in Italian Studies, who received a Student/Faculty Interaction (SFI) Grant from Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Academic Initiatives and Student Success (SAEM/AISS).  The grant will allow her to purchase tablets for a digital literacies project she will complete with her students in Italian 202.   

Congratulations to Dr. Fabian Alfie Who Published “La donna taverna: La ballata delle due cognate ubriache”

Jan. 18, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Fabian Alfie, who just published “La donna taverna: La ballata delle due cognate ubriache” as part of a collection of essays for a conference held in June 2015, "La poesia italiana prima di Dante" (Italian Poetry before Dante).

Dr. Aileen Feng Publishes Monograph

Jan. 12, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Aileen A. Feng who has officially published her monograph with the University of Toronto Press!

Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender 

"Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set the terms for gender, agency, and power in early modern Italy.

By revealing the literary motifs in men’s and women’s writing about gender she maps how certain figures in Petrarch’s writing transmitted gendered ideas of power and reflected a growing anxiety about women as public figures. This work includes nuanced analyses of poetry, linguistic treatises, debates on imitation, representations of gender and epistolary correspondence in Latin and Italian. Writing Beloveds is a landmark study that highlights the new social reality of women writers in early modern Europe."

http://www.utppublishing.com/Writing-Beloveds-Humanist-Petrarchism-and-the-Politics-of-Gender.html

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