Studies in Modern Italy

  • Founded
    1966
  • Seminar Number
    483

This seminar is concerned with political, social, cultural, and religious aspects of Italian life from 1815 to the present. In recent years, the seminar has stressed an interdisciplinary approach to Italian studies, increasing the participation of anthropologists and scholars of art, film, and literature. The seminar meets on the second Friday of the month, from October to April, to discuss a paper presented by a member or an invited speaker. Papers cover a wide range of topics, approaches, and methodologies. The seminar occasionally holds a day- long conference or a more restricted symposium to explore a topic in depth.

Chair
Professor Ernest Ialongo
Assistant Professor, Hostos Community College, CUNY, History
eialongo@hostos.cuny.edu

Rapporteur
Alessia Palanti
Columbia University, Italian
ap3105@columbia.edu

Welcome

Meetings

10/12/2012 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
After Neorealism. Screening the Resistance in the Age of Posthistory
Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University

Respondent: David Forgacs, New York University



11/09/2012 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
The Pending Republic. Italy and the United States During the Cold War
Umberto Gentiloni, Università di Terramo

Respondent: John Davis, University of Connecticut, Storrs



12/07/2012 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
Giacomo Leopardi: Maverick Poet of the Common Man
Frank Rosengarten, City University of New York

Respondent: Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University



02/08/2013 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
With the Pope’s Blessing? The Pontifical Commission for Refugees in Rome and its Aid to Nazi and Axis War Criminals
Gerald Steinacher, University of Nebraska

Respondent: David Kertzer, Brown University



03/08/2013 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
Three Stylemes in Neorealism: The Long Take, the Pan and Crane Shot
David Forgacs, New York University

Respondent: Nelson Moe, Barnard College



04/19/2013 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
From the Papal States to ‘Roma Capitale’: Prisons in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Mary Gibson, John Jay College and the Graduate School, City University of New York

Respondent: Frank Snowden, Yale University



05/10/2013 Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave, 5th Floor
6:15 PM
Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town
Lucy Riall, European University Institute

Respondent: Jane Schneider, CUNY Graduate Center

Respondent: Peter Schneider, Fordham University