Penn Italian Studies

News and announcements about Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, from the Italian Section of Romance Languages and the Center for Italian Studies

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

Congratulations to Prof. Rossella Di Rosa and Prof. Julia Heim on receiving the 2023 Sachs Program for Arts Innovation award!

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

The spring semester might be over, but it is time to celebrate our students!

Please join us in congratulating our graduate students who were honored with awards for their work during this past academic year.

Congratulazioni! 🏆☀️💐

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

It is with great sadness that we share the death of our dear friend Robert Cargni, former Associate Director of Arts of International House Philadelphia. His friendship will be missed. Our condolences to his family and friends.

[Penn Arts & Sciences @PennSAS]

Congratulations to all of our graduates in the College of Arts & Sciences (@CollegeatPenn), College of Liberal and Professional Studies (@PennLPS), and SAS Graduate Division (@PennSAS_Grad)!! 🎓 ❤️ 💙 @Penn #PennGrad #Penn2023

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

Fall 2023 Graduate Class (open to Undergraduate Students). Writing on the Walls: Art and Poetry in the Streets of Early Modern Florence.

[Italy in Philly @ItalyinPhilly]

The captivating universe of "The Betrothed", its richness and complexity, its timeless themes of power and demagogy, love and faith, in a modern English translation.
Thank you all for joining us @upennlib in a brilliant conversation with Michael Moore.
#IPromessiSposi #Italy

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

Our Ph.D. Candidate @mrmariosassi defended yesterday his dissertation, titled "The Supernatural in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Exempla."

Congratulations, Doctor Sassi!

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Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor or hybrid: https://t.co/uMPbrn6ORF

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

Please join us tonight at 5:15 PM: "Dante vs Dante: Material Traditions of the Lyric and the Construction of Poetic Authority," by Laura Banella @NotreDame and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian Manuscript Studies

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

...John Philoponus and the Modern Theories of Space and Void (1520-1604)."
De Robertis will work at the Universities of Toronto (Canada) and Macerata (Italy).

Congratulations!

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[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

We are proud to announce that Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Tommaso De Robertis has been awarded the Global Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship for his three-year project "Re-orienting the Foundations of 'New Science':... (1/2)

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

Don't miss it!

[Penn Arts & Sciences @PennSAS]

Watch as grad students in the Humanities category showcase their knowledge and compete for first place at 3 p.m. at the 7th Annual #PennGradTalks! Refreshments will be served throughout the day. #PGT https://t.co/rGZIV81P13 @pennmuseum @UPennGAPSA @PennHistory @Penn @SASGov

[Mauro Calcagno @Mauro_Calcagno]

Experimental Italian theater company Teatro delle Albe comes to @Penn via @PennSAS and @PennLiveArts https://t.co/9UGNXgqKtr

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

...for Penn Live Arts [https://t.co/IGMXjn5Iye] on Friday and Saturday, January 20-21 (Prince Theater). They will explore the creative process around the development of their multi-year project about revisiting Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

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Jan 19, 2023, at 5:15pm | Annenberg Center Feintuch Family Lobby.
Join Mauro Calcagno and @evadelsoldato for a discussion with director Marco Martinelli and actress Ermanna Montanari, leaders of the Teatro delle Albe presenting the show Fedeli d'Amore...(continue)

[Penn Italian Studies @PennItalian]

Just a couple of days before the early application deadline (January 15) for Penn-in-Florence, our Summer program in the beautiful Tuscan city!
See here for details 👇
https://t.co/xbW41ElL2S

[Bibliotheca Dantesca @BibDant]

We are very proud to announce the publication of our Fifth Volume (2022).
https://t.co/vyKC1eWQH8
This new Volume is special for two reasons: for the first time, we are welcoming a Thematic Section edited by Elizabeth Coggeshall and Akash Kumar...

[Italy in Philly @ItalyinPhilly]

A discussion with new directors and great cinema: thanks to @penncinemamedia for hosting the Italian film festival: see you next year!

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Italian Professor @evadelsoldato was honored yesterday as one of the Most Valuable Professors by Penn's Women's Basketball team! We are all so proud!
@PennWBB

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New Italian Cinema, 2022 Edition, this weekend Dec 9-11! A three-day festival that aims at showing new and original Italian feature films in Philadelphia.