Studying Italian Literature: a Geographical Approach — Italian Mediterranean Colloquium

The European Institute at Columbia University 420 W 118th St #1205, New York City

Presenter: Gabriele Pedullà, Università di Roma Tre Respondent: Nelson Moe, Columbia University Moderator: Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University Between 2010 and 2012 Einaudi published a three volume Atlante della letteratura italiana edited by Sergio Luzzatto and Gabriele Pedullà, in which Italian cultural tradition was reinterpreted in the light of geography and through systematic recourse to maps, graphs and digital instruments. One of the two directors of the project will talk about the aims…

Film: Le Cinema de Mai 68

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. Please note that these films are in French without subtitles. We will present a selection of rarely seen short documentaries shot in France in May 1968, showing the events as they unfolded in real time in universities, occupied factories, rural France, and on the streets of Paris.  These films were collected into a curated collection to mark…

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Identity, Transformation, and Freedom

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

French author Lola Lafon and American novelist Christopher Sorrentino both share a fascination for the 1970s, the figure of Patty Hearst–who is at the heart of their novels Mercy Mary Patty (Actes Sud, 2017) and Trances (Simon and Schuster, 2005)–and the collective secret desire to shed one’s skin and start life over again. Their bodies of work explore the meaning of identity, and the role that storytelling…

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