Year: 2017

 Aria Cabot, Truman State UniversityFriday, April 7  2:15pm, 1418 Van Hise Hall Lecture: “Dangerous Liaisons: Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Italy.” Aria Cabot, Truman State University Through a selection of literary and visual references to female readership starting from the period of the Catholic Reformation, the talk will address modes of reading and of representing Italian women readers …

Irene Hatzopoulos Directorial Voice in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore In his article “The Voice of Documentary”, film critic and theoretician Bill Nichols focuses on the evolution of expository discourse as documentary film techniques changed.  I will focus on what he calls the “reality effect” seen in documentaries that belong to the tradition of cinéma verité, and will …

  Katherine Blackman                 Remembering Shame: “La fausse honte” in Rousseau’s La Novelle Héloïse Jarmila Sawicka                 Sheets of Sound: Composing Jazz om Christian Gailly’s Un Sloir au club Patrick Rumble                  Paolo Gioli: The Last of the [First] Filmmakers   This seminar will feature presentations of ongoing scholarly work by the graduate students, academic …

François Tochon Poetry, Depth, and Displaced Children I will first present my recovered book of French poetry, “Béryls de l’aube.” Then I will introduce the field of “Deep,” with the creation of a Deep Approach to world languages and cultures, Deep University Press, Deep University International, and the concept of Deep Education at large.  How can Deep …

Stefania Buccini Seventeenth-Century Fiction Lost (and Regained) Francesco Pona, one of the most prominent figures of the Italian 17th century and the author of La Lucerna di Eureta Misoscolo (1625), a dialogic novel inspired by the Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation, published his first fictional narrative in 1622 at the age of twenty-seven. This rare book, …