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The Department of Italian at UCLA offers a unique combination of literary, linguistic and cultural experience at both the undergraduate and graduate level, making it one of the most prestigious programs for Italian Studies in North America. Besides covering the full range of Italian language and literature, the Department also provides scholars the possibility of approaching Italian culture through film; through linguistic history and dialectology; through interdisciplinary ties to many other UCLA departments of Art; and through close relationships with the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.
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NIAF Gift to Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library series |
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 UCLA’s Division of Humanities and the Department of Italian are delighted to announce a recent gift to the Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library series: a three-year grant from the esteemed National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to preserving Italian American culture and heritage. NIAF is the first sponsor outside of Italy and is now in the distinguished company of Fondazione Cassamarca of Treviso, Italy, the Italian Cultural Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Ministry of Arts and Culture.
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MAPPING ITALY IN DANTE, PETRARCH, AND BOCCACCIO
May 21, 2012, 4:30pm, Royce 306
A lecture by Theodore Cachey, Visiting Professor, Speroni Chair, Department of Italian
Awareness of a common civil and cultural identity was among “Italians” rooted not only in the memory of an ancient cultural heritage but also in a shared perception of the characteristic geo-morphological identity of the peninsula. ! Father Dante was the first to recognize the key role that the map of Italy needed to play if any kind of Italian cultural unity were to be achieved. Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio each made canonical contributions to the cartographic invention of Italy in their writings.
JUXTAPOSITION OF TIME, SPACE, AND NATION: THE NARRATIVE FRAME IN ITALIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
May 22, 2012, 5pm, Royce 236
Presented by the Mellon Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities: "Cultures in Transnational Perspective"
A seminar by JoAnne Ruvoli, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Italian |
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The editors of CARTE ITALIANE announce its latest publication:
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