News & Events
"Through their Gazes: Women on Screen and Intersectional Feminism"
Friday, March 16, 2018
UVA Professor of Italian Francesca Calamita is co-organizing the symposium "Through their Gazes: Women on Screen and Intersectional Feminism"
Date: Friday March 16; Place TBD
Participants include Prof. Bernadette Luciano (Auckland University, NZ) and Italian film director, Alina Marazzi.
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan): "Fascism and Antifascism, 1920-2020"
Monday, February 19, 2018
Co-sponsored by the Page Barbour Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences, Center for German Studies, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, East Asia Center, Department of German, Jewish Studies Program, and Corcoran Department of History
2017-18 UVA Polish Lecture Series: "Protest and Resistance"
Thursday, February 8, 2018 to Thursday, April 5, 2018
2017-18 UVA Polish Lecture Series: "Protest and Resistance"
Sponsored and organized by CREEES
Co-sponsored by the Corcoran Department of History and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Made possible by the generosity of Lady Blanka Rosenstiel and the American Institute of Polish Culture
Thursday, February 8 at 5pm
"Between Empire and Nation-State: Poland's Eastern Borderlands and the Interwar World"
Kathryn Ciancia, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 21 at 5pm
"'The Solidarity of the Shaken': Poland, Ukraine, and the Metaphysics of Revolution"
Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University
Thursday, April 5 at 5pm
"International Comradeship: Polish Communists in the Twentieth Century"
Padraic Kenney, Professor of History, Indiana University
"Emmanuel Macron : A Radical Centrist in Gaulist Sheep's Clothing?" A lecture by Professor Vincent Michelot, Sciences-Po, Lyon
Friday, November 3, 2017
"Sanctuary and Belonging: Overcoming a Divided America" - A Page-Barbour Lecture, Featuring Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times
Monday, October 23, 2017
"Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Memory" Center for German Studies
Friday, March 24, 2017
Post-Humanism in the Anthropocene
Friday, December 2, 2016
Post-Humanism in the Anthropocene - an Institute of the Global Humanities and Culture Mellon Symposium
Schedule of Events:
9.00 a.m.
Coffee
9.30 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction – Enrico Cesaretti
9.45 – 11.00 a.m.
Panel 1: Questioning Boundaries
Massimo Lollini (Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Oregon), “The Ancient Roots of a Non-Anthropocentric Philosophy: A Pythagorean Perspective”
Monica Seger (Dept. of Modern Languages - Italian, College of William & Mary), “Walking the Land: Toxicity, Transcorporeality and Phytoremediation in Southern Italy”
Louise Westling (Dept. of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon), “Merleau-Ponty's Ecophenomenology and Human Enmeshment in the Semiosphere”
11.15 – 12.30 p.m.
Panel 2: Energies, Ecologies, Matters
Karen Pinkus (Dept. of Italian & Comp. Literature, Cornell University), “Thinking Decarbonization with Italian Autonomia”
Elena Past (Dept. of Classics and Italian, Wayne State University), “Thinking on Foot in the Hydrocarbon Sublime: Sorrentino’s Petrocultures”
Heather Sullivan (Dept. of German & Comp. Literature, Trinity University, “Petro-Texts and Material Ecocriticism”
12.30 – 13.45 p.m.
Lunch
14.00 – 15.15 p.m.
Panel 3: Mediterranean Narratives Between Bios and Zoe
Federico Luisetti (Dept. of Romance Studies - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Political Animism”
Damiano Benvegnù (Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College) “How Much Animal There Is in Us: Primo Levi's Animal Testimony”
Pasquale Verdicchio (Dept. of Literature – Italian & Comp. Lit. UCSD), “This Nostrum That is Neither Sea nor Remedy: Mediterranean Re-visions”
VIrginia Film Festival - Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today
Monday, October 10, 2016
Click here for "FIlming at the Borders" program information and here for more details concerning each film.
Image from Gianfranco Rosi's 2016 documentary film "Fire at Sea" (Fuocoammare).
Professor Jeff Rossman Offers Insight Into Future of US-Russian Relations
Read a UVA Today interview with Prof. Rossman on current US- Russian relations and how things could be different as a new administration takes office.
UVA Panel at 24th Conference of Europeanists, Glasgow, Scotland
"Sustainable Pedagogies and Scholarship on Europe in the 21st century”
Chair : Janet Horne, Associate Professor of French, Director of European Studies, University of Virginia
Michael Levenson, William B. Christian Professor of English, University of Virginia
- "Making a Religion out of Learning: What the Ordinary World can Teach the University"
Manuela Achilles, Director, Center for German Studies, University of Virginia
- “Teaching and Learning about Sustainability: A Transatlantic Perspective”
Enrico Cesaretti, Assoc. Prof. of Italian, 2016-17 Mellon Humanities Fellow, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures , University of Virginia
- “Ecocinema as Political Pedagogy in Italy: Massimiliano Mazzotta’s Oil. The Devastating Force of Petroleum. The Dignity of Sardinians"
Elgin Cleckley, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design Thinking, University of Virginia
- “TEMP Studio: Design Thinking for the Migrant and Refugee Crisis on the Italian Island of Lampedusa.”
Krishan Kumar, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
- “Imperial Legacies, East and West”
Discussant: Katya Makarova, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia