Event Category: FIGS

Class of 1955 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library In a letter that he wrote to Francesco Vettori on 26 August 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli rejects Aristotle’s teaching in political matters, suggesting that practice is a better teacher than authority. Machiavelli did something similar in both The Prince and the Discourses suggesting that the Aristotelian idea of […]

Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329-A Film screening and Q&A with the director. Stony Brook University professor Simone Brioni has spent the past ten years researching Italian colonialism. On a return visit to Italy, he discovered a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa (Eritrea and Ethiopia) in the 1930s by a […]