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Italian Studies
Department of Languages, Literatures
and Cultures
314 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Email: freital@frital.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 545-2314
Fax: (413) 545-4778

Events

Thursday, 19 November, 11:00am:
Herter 301

Vincent Panella

Author of The Other Side
and Cutter's Island

"Growing up Italian in America"


Thursday, 12 November, 5:00pm:
Herter 301

Massimo Riva
Brown University

"Journeys [in] Italy:
Modernist Strategies in Italian Cinema of the Early 1960s"

Academic Year 2008-09


Monday, 4 May, 5:00pm:
Herter 301

Margherita Ganeri
Professore di Letteratura italiana contemporanea
Università della Calabria

presents

"Italian Political Corruption in I Vicerè by Federico De Roberto.
An introduction through a comparison with Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo"


Thursday, 23 Apr., 4:30pm:
Herter 601

Carlo Cipollone
Dir. dell'Ufficio Scuola
Consolato Generale d'Italia a Boston

presents

"L'Italia negli anni Sessanta"


Friday, 21 Nov., 1:00pm:
Herter 301

Prof. Paolo Pucci
U of Vermont

presents

"From Rags to Riches ...
and (Maybe) Back:
The Renaissance Courtesan's
Struggle for Life"

   Tuesday, 16 Sept., 4:30pm:
Herter 301

   Prof. Antonella Castelnuovo

presents

"Ebraismo Italiano:
Un modello per
l'integrazione interculturale"

Italian Studies at UMass is part of the French and Italian unit of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Students who pursue their studies in our program learn not only about the language, literature and cinema of Italy but also about the way in which the nation and its people have for centuries been involved in the most important aspects of artistic and intellectual innovation in the Western World.



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