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In collaboration with the Italian Studies
department on campus, the Italian Studies Program is planning
an exciting lecture series for the 2005-06 academic year.
ISP is also sponsoring a seminar on Contemporary Italian
Political Thought to be conducted in English; readings will
be available in both English and Italian. Details on these
happenings are listed below.
Beyond
the Myth of Sicily: The Sicilian Roots of the Anti-Mafia Struggle
Jane Schneider, PhD
Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Thursday, September 22, 6 p.m., Geballe Room, Townsend
Center, 220 Stephens Hall
8th Annual Marie G. Ringrose Lecture
Co-Sponsored by the Italian Studies Program
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Police Chiefs on Trial: Prostitutes' Voices
from Rome c. 1600
Elizabeth Cohen, Department
of History & the Division
of Humanities, York University
Thursday, September 29, 5 p.m., 160 Dwinelle
Co-sponsored by the Italian Studies Program
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Offering Hostages to Win Trust: The Varied Ploys
of 'Fede' in Italian Renaissance Culture
Tom Cohen, Department of History and the Division of Humanities, York University
Friday, September 30, 5 p.m., 370 Dwinelle
Co-sponsored by the Italian Studies Program
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Writing in Books, Writing on Books
Armando Petrucci and Franca
Nardelli, History of Writing
and of the Book
UCB and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Chairs of Italian Culture, Fall 2005
Thursday, October 6, Dwinelle 370, 6 p.m.
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Il dono e la dedica: Libri di lusso nel rinascimento
italiano
Armando Petrucci and Franca
Nardelli, History of Writing
and of the Book
UCB and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Chairs of Italian Culture, Fall 2005
Thursday, October 20, 6 p.m.
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Dante, Milton, and the Poetry of Christian
Europe
Piero
Boitani, Comparative Literature, University of Rome, “La
Sapienza”
Thursday, October 27, 5 p.m., Dwinelle 160
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Suzanne Stewart Steinberg, Brown University
Thursday, November 10, 5 p.m. place TBA
TBA (either Montessori, or her new work on Lombroso)
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Noa Steimatsky, Yale University
Monday, November 21, place TBA
TBA (Cinecitta' sfollati)
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Italian Studies 235 (2 or 4 units)
SEMINAR IN 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Contemporary Italian Political Thought
Visiting Professor Alessia Ricciardi
Course taught in English
This course examines the fundamental Italian contribution to the contemporary
redefinition of the category of the political. We will begin by reviewing
Gramsci's classic reflections on the question of hegemony and on the
relationship between politics and culture. Our investigation will continue
through an analysis of more recent writings by Agamben, Esposito, Negri,
Tronti, and Virno which have consistently put into question the cogency
and relevance of the political paradigms of modernity (including those
of Marx and Gramsci). We will concentrate especially on the critical
interpretation of such crucial terms as "workerism," "biopower," "the
impolitical," "empire," and "multitude." A central
aim of the course will be to assess the significance of Italian thought
for contemporary French and American debates on the afterlife of Marxism
in the epoch of so-called globalization. To what extent do the Italian
thinkers succeed in reconfiguring politics as a vital catalyst of culture,
creativity, and forms of life, rather than as a ghastly, cynical practice?
How do they revise the task of the intellectual for the twenty-first
century? With these questions in mind, we will give consideration to
the different ways in which the efforts of contemporary Italian thinkers
enter into dialogue with works by figures as various as as Balibar, Butler,
Laclau, Mouffe, Nancy, Ranciere, Said, Spivak, and Zizek. Readings will
be available in both English and Italian.
For more information on any of these events, contact Yana
Feldman.
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