We are happy to welcome two new graduate students in our section. Silvia Raimondi comes from the most beautiful, magnificent city in the world, Rome. She earned a laurea (2015) […]
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paris/algiers 1969: declarations of freedom by the black american avant-garde
At the close of the 1960s leading black American musicians associated with the “free jazz” scenes of New York and Chicago left for Paris. Weary of a poisoned U.S. political […]
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Calvino and the Catacoustic – Nov. 5th – Gilman 479 – 5.15 PM
Calvino and the Catacoustic: An ‘Echo-logical’ Reading Let us consider Calvino’s Invisible Cities as a sound that has produced a vast number of echoes in the over 50 years since its […]
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Dissertation in Progress – Tuesday Oct. 22 – Gilman 479 – 5.15 PM
Join two promising PhD candidates in discussing excerpts of their dissertation. Questions are welcome!
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Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish Conference, Nov 11. – Nov. 12
The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program presents the 15th Lavy Colloquium: Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish Nov 11. – Nov. 12. All sessions will take place at the […]
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Reading and Illustrating the Divine Comedy, Oct. 3rd – Gilman 479 – 5.15 PM
The copy of the Divine Comedy with the commentary by Cristoforo Landino, published in Venice by Pietro Piasi in 1491 and preserved in the House of Dante in Rome, presents […]
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A Cognitive Scientific Approach to Italian Cinema, Sep. 25th Gilman 479 5.15 PM
This presentation was inspired by recent findings in neuro-aesthetics—the study of the impact of the arts on the nervous system. Cinema has been found to have a particularly strong effect […]
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Building Bridges for Future Partnerships
STRENGTHENING GERMAN PROGRAMS IN THE MD/DC AREA One-Day Symposium Saturday, September 28, 2019 8:30am – 4:00pm Hosted at Johns Hopkins University Click here to REGISTER (20.00) We are excited to […]
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Deborah McGee Mifflin elected as President of AATG
Congratulations to German Language Program Director Deborah McGee Mifflin who has been elected President of the Maryland / DC Metro chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG). […]
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Special MLN Italian 2021: Elena Ferrante in a Global Context
The board of MLN Italian is delighted to announce that its 2021 issue will be devoted to the work of Elena Ferrante. Guest editors: Professors Tiziana De Rogatis, Stiliana Milkova, and Katrin […]