CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 4 - 6, 2013 An international, interdisciplinary conference on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio's birth, to be held at Georgetown University and the Italian Embassy. Abstracts were due March 31, 2013.   Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. TRAVEL GRANTS SPONSORED BY TH...

Dear Colleagues, Recently we have created an Italian Research Institute at GeorgetownUniversity whose principal goal is to identify and highlight the significant contemporary contributions of our talented scholars and leaders in all fields and create a synergy with non-Italian scholars and leaders. On Friday, May 30, in collaboration wi...

Georgetown University Italian Research Institute and the Embassy of Italy cordially invite you to a conference and discussion on "The Voyage: a Journey into the Fantastic World of Fiction and Film."Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will present "Boccaccio on Stage: a Journey into the World of the Imagination."Alessandro Baricco...

The Department of Italian invites you to a lecture by Fulvio S. Orsitto who is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Italian and Italian American program at California State University at Chico.   Born in Turin, Italy, he holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Turin, an M.A. in Film Studies and a Ph.D. in Italian from th...

La mostra Il Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli e il suo Tempo inizia a Washington il suo tour internazionale. Dopo il successo al Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano la scorsa primavera, l'esposizione arriva, grazie alla partnership con Eni, negli Usa in occasione dell'Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, di cui l'azienda è corporate ambas...

Sunday, October 13, 2013   Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble with Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director, soprano and the National Gallery of Art Cha...

The Department of Italian at Georgetown University together with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. invites proposals for a conference titled Teaching Italian Culture. The one-day conference will take place on October 19th 2013 during the Italian Language Week as part of a series of events celebrating the Year...