Event Category: Italian

Della Valle Lecture in Dante Studies: Rewriting Dante in the American South from the 19th Century to Today with Dennis Looney (University of Pittsburgh)

November 7, 2024
5:45 pm - 7:00 pm
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623 Williams Hall This talk begins with a review of ground covered in Freedom Readers, specifically of African American authors from the 19th century to more recent times, including Jesmyn Ward, who amplified Dante’s voice that speaks truth to power, before examining several white authors from the Deep South–Richard Henry Wilde, Augusta Evans Wilson, Robert […]

PRIMA Italian language learning platform launch party

November 21, 2024
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Since the Spring of 2020, Lecturer Julia Heim and Italian grad alum Samantha Gillen (now a lecturer at UGA) have been building a digital humanities platform called PRIMA to help Italian language learners practice grammar and vocabulary by engaging with inclusive contemporary Italian media. With the help of the Price Lab, RDDS, SACHS, and the […]