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Upcoming Events for Spring 2012
Events - Spring 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 PM, DeBartolo 129: Le Fate Ignoranti, 2001, dir. Ferzan Ozpetek.
Presented by Umberto Taccheri. Part of the “Rome in the Cinema” series. For the most up-to-date information on the event, please visit the Italian Studies website>
Wednesday, April 11, 4:30 PM, Eck Visitors Center Auditiorium: "Outrageous Fortune: Luck and the Holocaust," A lecture by Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge.
In this lecture, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Robert Gordon looks at an array of different responses to the Holocaust – in books, films, popular science, and the work of survivors such as Imre Kertesz and Primo Levi – to make sense of the strange and compelling role played by luck in our understanding of this most appalling of historical events. What remains of our common conceptions of good and bad luck after the horrors of the concentration camps?
This event is part of the Primo Levi Events and Lectures, Spring 2012, co-sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the PhD in Literature Program. For the most up-to-date information on the event, please visit the Italian Studies website>
Thursday, April 12, 4:30-6:00 PM, Special Collections in the Hesburgh Library: “Auschwitz--Italy,” Research Seminar by Robert Gordon (Cambridge).
Robert Gordon (Cambridge) will lead a seminar exploring certain aspects of Italy's complicated and often contradictory responses to the Holocaust over the long postwar era. It does so by way of posing a simple set of questions: when, how and why did the word Auschwitz, and the place it designates, become part and parcel of Italian culture and language?
This event is part of the Primo Levi Events and Lectures, Spring 2012, co-sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the PhD in Literature Program. For the most up-to-date information on the event, please visit the Italian Studies website>
Thursday, April 12, 6:00 PM, Coleman Morse Lounge: Un Noche Con Radio Sabor Latino: Voices of the Community.
Join us for a panel with leaders of Radio Sabor Latino on Michiana's Latino community efforts and engagement opportunities. Food will be provided by Puerto Vallarta restaurant. Must RSVP to cslc@nd.edu by 12:00 PM, April 11.
While there is no cost to attendees for dinner, donations can be given to help support the scholarship program run by Sabor Latino to assist South Bend Latino students who attend college.
Sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for Social Concerns, the Institute for Latino Studies, the Kellogg Institute, and the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures.
Friday, April 13, 1:30-4:30 PM, Special Collections in the Hesburgh Library: Presenting the Primo Levi Collection.
Please join us for an open house exhibition that presents the Library's new collection of Primo Levi material to the University community. The event will open with welcome remarks by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., and a short talk by Robert Gordon, titled "Primo Levi's Books."
This event is part of the Primo Levi Events and Lectures, Spring 2012, co-sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the PhD in Literature Program. For the most up-to-date information on the event, please visit the Italian Studies website>
Saturday, April 14, 1:00 PM, and Sunday, April 29, 1:00 PM, Browning Cinema: La Traviata, The Met Opera Live in HD.
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Monday, April 16, 4:30-5:30 PM, Decio Commons: Italian Coffee Hour.
Meet members of the Italian Department, Italophones, Italophiles, and people with an appreciation for Italian coffee.
Wednesday, April 18, 7:00 PM, Browning cinema: A Better Life, 2011, dir. Chris Weitz.
Carlos (Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir) always dreamed of a better life for his family when he crossed the border into the U.S. After years of hard work, he fears for his son Luis, an impressionable teen at risk of becoming involved in Los Angeles gang culture. Chris Weitz’s present-day reworking of Vittorio DeSica’s Bicycle Thieves is grounded by Bichir’s standout performance.
Introduction by Professor Marisel Moreno. Rated PG-13, 98 minutes. English and Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the Worldview Film Series.
Tuesday, April 24, 4:30-5:30pm, Decio Commons: Café français. French Coffee Hour, an informal chance to talk to professors and other students interested in French about study abroad, research, and interesting classes, or simply practice your French! Coffee and pains au chocolat are provided by French faculty.
Wednesday, April 25 - 7:00-9:00 p.m. - Room 140 DeBartolo Hall
Eurochannel Short Film Festival 2012 - Love in Europe
Sponsored by Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Thursday, April 26 - 7:00-9:00 p.m. - Room 136 DeBartolo Hall
Eurochannel Short Film Festival 2012 - Love in Europe
Sponsored by Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies
