Year: 2019

Pellegrino Artusi and the Culinary Unification of Italy: Opening Lecture

Please join us for the opening events of this wonderful, ongoing exhibition. To open the event, Alberta Lai, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, will be providing welcoming remarks. Following this, Professor Grazia Menechella of the Department of French and Italian will present her talk, “Italian Food Writing Across the Ocean: The …

Azouz Begag to Speak at the French House

Azouz Begag, a writer, former minister, and a researcher at CNRS will be speaking at the French House (633 N. Frances Street, Madison WI) on Wednesday, March 13 2019 from 4:30 PM-5:30 PM. Monsieur Begag’s talk is entitled “Peurs, replis, et haines en France et en Europe. Au secours Martin Luther King!” The talk will be …

CINETECA ITALIANA INTERVIEW

Italian Ph.D. graduate student, Hilary Emerson, was recently interviewed about the Cineteca Italiana film series on WORT.  The UW Cineteca Italiana is a graduate student initiative that showcases a variety of classic & contemporary Italian films for students and the community.  Movies are shown weekly throughout the Fall and Spring semesters.  More information can be found …