Cherpack Lounge This panel will discuss a recent special volume on national discord in the United States published by Limes, Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, the leading journal of geopolitics in Italy. We will focus especially on recent “culture wars” within the American university. The panel will feature two editors from Limes, Federico Petroni and Fabrizo […]
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Public Trust, 4017 Walnut St Andrew Watts will discuss two adaptations of Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin: The Magic Skin (1915, dir. Ridgely), a silent film produced in the United States, and La Peau de chagrin (2010, dir. Berliner), a television film co-produced in France and Belgium. Watts draws on eco-translatology – a concept inspired […]
Zoom, with in-person audience gathering in Cherpack Lounge Professor Grogory Conti will present his new translation of Leonardo Sciascia’s collection of short stories “The Fire in the Sea” and discuss translation strategies with the students with hands on activities. This online lecture is offered in conjunction with Professor Arianna Fognani’s course on Italian Translation (ITAL […]
Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street The Fall 2024 Bowman Lecture will be given by the award-winning Martinican author, playwright, scenarist, and philosopher Patrick Chamoiseau. Chamoiseau received the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, in 1992 for his expansive novel Texaco. Since then, he has been an active theoretician of Francophone literatures, as well as […]
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