Schedule for the Columbia Seminar in Modern Italian Studies,

2012-2013 Season

All meetings take place at Columbia’s Casa Italiana (aka The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue) in the 5th floor seminar room beginning at 6:15 pm.

October 12--Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University, “After Neorealism. Screening the Resistance in the Age of Posthistory."

Respondent:  David Forgacs, New York University

November 9--Umberto Gentiloni, Università di Terramo, “The Pending Republic. Italy and the United States During the Cold War.” 

Respondent:  John Davis, University of Connecticut, Storrs

December 7--Frank Rosengarten, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, “Giacomo Leopardi: Maverick Poet of the Common Man.” 

Respondent:  Elizabeth Leake, Columbia University

February 8--Gerald Steinacher, University of Nebraska, “With the Pope’s Blessing?  The Pontifical Commission for Refugees in Rome and its Aid to Nazi and Axis War Criminals.”

Respondent:  David Kertzer, Brown University

March 8--David Forgacs, New York University, “Three Stylemes in Neorealism:  The Long Take, the Pan and Crane Shot."

Respondent:  Nelson Moe, Barnard College

April 19--Mary Gibson, John Jay College and the Graduate School, City University of New York, “From the Papal States to ‘Roma Capitale’:  Prisons in Nineteenth-Century Italy.”

Respondent:  Frank Snowden, Yale University