• January 22: Orientation (assigning books, learning how to write a book review).
  
  
• January 29: Frank Burke (Queen's University), A Companion to Italian Cinema Links to an external site. (Wiley). IN ENGLISH. Respondent: Matthew Griffith. Second respondent: Francesca Bellei.
  [Download the PDF (strictly for use in the Colloquium): 1) Introduction Download Introduction
  ; 2) A conversation with Peter Bondanella Download A conversation with Peter Bondanella
  ; 3) Forum Download Forum
  ; 4) Table of contents Download Table of contents
  ].
  
  February 5: no class.
  
  
• February 12: Vanessa Roghi (Sapienza Università di Roma), La lettera sovversiva. Da don Milani a De Mauro, il potere delle parole Links to an external site. (Laterza). IN ITALIAN. Respondent: Chiara Trebaiocchi. Second respondent: Maria Tartari.
  
  February 19: University holiday.
  
  
• February 26: Juan Carlos de Martin (Politecnico di Torino), Università futura. Tra democrazia e bit Links to an external site.(Codice edizioni). IN ENGLISH. Respondent: Maria Tartari. Second respondent: Federica Gianni.
  
  

• March 5: John Gennari (University of Vermont), Flavor and Soul: Italian America at its African American Edge Links to an external site. (University of Chicago Press). IN ENGLISH. Respondent: Francesca Bellei. Second respondent: Valentina Frasisti.
  
  March 12: Spring break.
  
  
• March 19: Emanuela Scarpellini (Università di Milano), La stoffa dell'Italia. Storia e cultura della moda dal 1945 a oggi Links to an external site.(Laterza).
 IN ITALIAN. Respondent: Federica Gianni. Second respondent: Matthew Griffith.
  
  
• March 23 (Friday, 4:00-6:00 PM): James G. Turner (University of California, Berkeley), Eros Visible: Art, Sexuality and Antiquity in Renaissance Italy Links to an external site. (Yale University Press).  IN ENGLISH. Respondent: Luca Politi. Second respondent: Amelia Linsky.
  
  
• March 26: Massimo Bucciantini (Università di Siena), Un Galileo a Milano Links to an external site. (Einaudi).  IN ITALIAN. Respondent: Dalila Colucci. Second respondent: Francesco Guzzetti.
  
  
• April 2: Lucia Dacome (University of Toronto), Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy Links to an external site. (Oxford University Press).
 IN ENGLISH. Respondent: Valentina Frasisti. Second respondent: Elisa Sotgiu.
  
  
• April 9: Ellen Lockhart (University of Toronto), Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 Links to an external site. (University of California Press). IN ENGLISH.  Respondent: Amelia Linsky. Second respondent: TBA.
  
  
• April 16: Boston Marathon.
  
  
• April 19 (Thursday, 5:00-7:00 PM): Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College), Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy Links to an external site.(University of Toronto Press). IN ENGLISH.  Respondent: Sarah Axelrod. Second respondent: Corrado Confalonieri.
  
  
• April 23: 
 Emilio Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma), Ridere del mondo. La lezione di Leopardi Links to an external site.(Il Mulino). IN ITALIAN. Respondent: Corrado Cobfalonieri. Second respondent: Luca Politi.

The Colloquium is sponsored by the
Lauro De Bosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization.