Spring 2006 Lecture Series
The Colloquium Committee of the Program in Comparative Literature and Italian Studies is pleased to present its Spring lecture series for 2006.
Friday, February 10 Room 9207, 4:30 PM	Martha Klironomos San Francisco State University "Early Twentieth Century British Women Travellers to Greece; A talk and slide presentation"
Friday, February 17 Room 4116, 4:30 PM	Jon-Christian Suggs John Jay College and the Graduate Center "Comparative Proletarianisms in the Age of the Comintern: International, Proletariat Literature and the Nurturing of a Genre"
Friday, February 24 Room 9204, 4:30 PM	Elizabeth Allen Bryn Mawr College "Crossing Uncharted Waters: Experiences of Cultural Transition"
Friday, March 3 Room C201, 5:00 PM	Joseph Francese Michigan State University "Calvino's 'mal di romanzo': The Reshaping of his Public Self-Image," in Italian
Friday, March 10 Room 9205, 4:30 PM	Sladja Blazan NYU "Eastern European or Extra Terrestrial: Positioning Postsocialist American Literature"
Thursday, March 16 Room 4116, 6:30 PM	Federico Luisetti University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Literary Machine: Habermas reads Italo Calvino"
Friday, March 17 Room 4116, 4:30 PM	Roger Foster Borough of Manhattan Community College "Adorno and Proust on the Recovery of Experience"
Wednesday, March 22 Room Room C202, 6:30 PM	Special Guest: Agostino Saccà Sponsored by RAI and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura "Italian Fiction in New York : Bartali. A Miniseries produced by RAIUNO & Palomar," in Italian
Friday, March 24 Room 9206, 4:30 PM	Leonard Cassuto Fordham University "Watching the Detectives"
Wednesday, March 29 Room 9100 (Skylight Room), 6:30 PM	Luigi Ballerini UCLA "Calvino's 'mal di romanzo': Cefalonia 1943-2001: An Epic of Sarcasm? A lecture and poetry reading"
Friday, March 31 Room 4116, 4:30 PM	Richard McCoy Graduate Center "Theater and Faith in the Renaissance"
Thursday, April 6 Room 9206, 6:30 PM	Robert Singer Kinsborough Community College "Students, Spectacle, and Damnation: Reflections on Early Faust Films"
Friday, April 28 Room 9206, 4:30 PM	Rebecca Mlynarczyk Kingsborough Community College "Working with Multilingual Students in Writing Intensive Courses: Pedagogical Concerns"
Thursday, May 4 Room 9207, 6:30 PM	Nico Israel Hunter College "Spiral Notebook: Gyrations of a Twentieth-Century Form"
Friday, May 5 Room 4116, 5:00 PM	Massimo Arcangeli Universita' di Cagliari "Lingua e stile della narrativa generazionale dai primi anni Novanta a oggi," in Italian
All of the above meetings of the Colloquium will be held at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Avenue (at 34th Street), New York City. For more information, call (212) 817-8165, or email cunycolloquium@earthlink.net. All events are free and open to the public. Colloquia are sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature and the Sonia Raiziss Foundation.