In this talk, Professor Nadieszda Kizenko will discuss her new book, Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire, with Professor Anne Lounsbery. From the moment that Tsars as well as hierarchs realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians, the sacrament of penance in the Russian…
Casa Italiana hosts this book club online on the Zoom platform to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have taken place with time in…
When we ask "what spaces are we fighting for," we mostly conjure ideas of existing spaces in our cities and societies. In this talk, Ilija Trojanow asks us to take a step into the imaginative and inspirational - in both fiction and politics, utopia is the most important space in our democracies. After all, what are we fighting for if we don't…