Spring 2009

 

Walter Cupperi at Columbia University
"Displaying Loyalty: the Italian Busts of Charles V and their Replicas"
Feb 2; Howard Hibbard Forum Dept. of Art History and Archaeology


Marco Formisano at Fordham University
"Literary construction of Cicero's De oratore"
Feb 2; PhD class


Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi at Columbia
"'Made in Italy': Faking Cultural Exchange in Shakespearean England"
Feb13; Columbia Shakespeare Seminar


Marco Formisano at Fordham University
"Perpetua"s prisons: notes on the margins of literature"
Feb 26


Walter Cupperi at the Fondazione Civilta’ Bresciana
"La committenza di Berardo Maggi e il Maestro di Santa Anastasia"
Feb 28; Conference commemorating the 700th anniversary of the death of Berardo Maggi


Rita Lucarelli at Boston University
"Divinized Demons and Demonized Gods in Late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt"
Mar 4; Boston University Myth and Religion Study Group


Stefano Gattei at Harvard University
"Kepler's 'School of Athens' for Astronomy:
The Frontispiece of the Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627)"
Mar 5; History of Science Department


Marco Pagano at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity"
Mar 10; joint presentation with Paolo Volpin, LBS
(not open to the public)


Enrico V. Avvedimento at Temple University
"DNA Damage and Gene Silencing"
Mar 17; Dept. of Pathology and Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology


Walter Cupperi at the Renaissance Society of America Conference 2009
"Did Philip II of Spain Collect Secular Sculptures? New Evidence for a Revision of the Problem"
Mar 19; Renaissance Society of America


Rita Lucarelli at the Universidad Catolica (Buenos Aires)
"The world of ancient Egyptian demons according to an anthropological perspective"
Mar 19: Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente, UCA;
Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, UBA; Centro de Estudiantes de Historia, UCA


David Freedberg (Director, Italian Academy) at The Getty Villa
Plenary Speaker at the Renaissance Society of America Conference 2009
"Movement and Morality in the Renaissance"
Mar 20; Josephine Waters Bennett Plenary Lecture


Erminia Ardissino at the University of Rochester
"Galileo, a Literary Master of the Italian XVIIth Century"
March 26; Colloquium Galileo Galilei, Scientist and Humanist


Stefano Gattei at Columbia University
"Kepler's 'School of Athens' for Astronomy:
The Frontispiece of the Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627)"
Mar 26; The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society Seminar Series


Marco Pagano at the Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania
"Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity"
Mar 27; George Weiss Center for International Financial Research


Enrico V. Avvedimento at University of Central Florida
"DNA Damage and Repair and Gene Silencing"
Apr 3; Dept. of Molecular Biology, College of Medicine


David Freedberg (Director, Italian Academy) at the Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome
"Galileo, Astronomia e Scienze Naturali"
Apr 6; commemorating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's astronomical discoveries with the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica


Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi at University of California, Berkeley
"Bawdy Doubles: Fictitious Italian Imprints and the Appearance of English Drama"
Apr 25; Italy in the Drama of Europe: A Conference in Honor of Louise George Clubb


Stefano Gattei at Princeton University
"Kepler's New Astronomy in Images"
Apr 30; Program in the History of Science


Erminia Ardissino at the University of Chicago
"Scrittura visiva e musicale negli scritti di Galileo"
May 4; Italian Department


Erminia Ardissino at the 44th Medieval Conference at Kalamazoo
"'Ciascuna cosa qual ell'č diventa.'" Ovidio nel Paradiso di Dante"
May 6-9


Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi at Villa La Pietra, NYU, Florence Italy
"Early Modern Theater, Performance and the Trans-National Encounter"
May 24-26; Fifth Annual Theater without Borders Conference