THE ITALIAN AND MEDITERRANEAN COLLOQUIUM

Columbia University – Department of Italian
Spring 2015

March 10, 6:10-7:30 pm
613 Hamilton
Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University),
Can Women Speak Languages? Gender and Multilingualism in the Early Modern Mediterranean.
April 10, 12:15-2:30 pm
507 Hamilton
Elisabetta Benigni (Italian Academy) and Andrea Celli (UConn),
“L’aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci”. The debate on Islamic influences on Dante and the Arabic Translations of the Divine Comedy
April 16, 4:00-6:00 pm
501 Hamilton
Claudio Fogu (UC Santa Barbara),
The View from the Mediterranean: turning Center into South.
Discussant: Nelson Moe (Columbia U, Barnard College).
May 1, 12:15-1:40 pm,
507 Hamilton
James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid),
Discovering the Mediterranean: Carlo Levi, Fernand Braudel, Ernesto De Martino.
Contact:
Pier Mattia Tommasino
Assistant Professor
Columbia U, Department of Italian
pmt2114@columbia.edu