Category: Event

Speaker: Subha Xavier Date: May 1, 2019 – 4:00pm Location: French House Event Language: French Event Type: Lecture Faculty Sponsor: Lindsey Smith: llsmith4@wisc.edu

Date: April 22, 2019 – 7:00pm Location: Marquee Cinema, 1308 W Dayton Street Event Language: Italian Event Type: Film Series Description: MOVIE: RESIN * RESINA (Director Renzo Carbonera, Drama, 2017, 92 min.), with special appearance by Director Renzo Carbonera  Young cellist Maria, disillusioned with the ruthless music industry. returns to her native Alpine village, a small …

Date: April 8, 2019 – 5:00pm to 11:45pm Description: Day of the Badger (DOTB) is a campus-wide annual giving effort that actually begins at 5 p.m. Central Time on April 8, and runs for 1848 minutes, until midnight on April 9th.  It’s a day (and then some) for all alumni, students, and friends throughout Badger nation to give …

Speaker: The Italian club of UW–Madison, FRIT Department Date: April 13, 2019 – 6:00pm Location: French House, 633 N Frances St Event Language: English, Italian Description:  COME AND JOIN US! la cena italiana, presented by the UW–Madison Italian Club featuring the flavors of Emilia-Romagna and recipes inspired by pellegrino artusi’s science in the kitchen and the art …

Speaker: Margaret Butler, Ritt Deitz, Peter Russella Date: February 13, 2019 – 4:00pm Location: TBD Event Language: English Event Type: Research Seminar Description: Margaret Butler, Thinking from Divas’ Lives: Celebrity and its Mechanisms in 18th-Century Italian Opera Abstract: A seminal article entitled “Thinking from Women’s Lives” interrogated the experience of 17th-century Italian composer Francesca Caccini and …

Speaker: Elizabeth Harris Date: February 22, 2019 – 4:00pm Location: French House, 633 N. Frances St. Event Language: English Event Type: Lecture Description: Elizabeth Harris translates contemporary Italian fiction. Her translated books include Mario Rigoni Stern’s novel Giacomo’s Seasons (Autumn Hill Books), Giulio Mozzi’s story collection This Is the Garden (Open Letter Books), and Antonio …

Speaker: Heather Willis Allen, Ullrich Langer, Eric Wistrom Date: February 27, 2019 – 4:00pm Location: Union South, check TITU Event Language: English Event Type: Research Seminar Description: Heather Willis Allen, Toward a Design Approach to Foreign Language Writing Instruction Reconceptualization of the notion of literacy and its relevance to foreign language instruction in the U.S. has …

Speaker: Professor Ritt Deitz Date: March 8, 2019 – 1:00pm to 2:00pm Location: 294 Van Hise Hall Event Type: Workshop Description: Join Professor Ritt Deitz to learn more about speaking to a non-academic audience. This event is a part of the FRIT Professional Development workshops that are ongoing this semester. Faculty Sponsor: : Download More Info:  Speaking to …

Speaker: Grazia Menechella Date: March 13, 2019 – 4:00pm Location: 126 Memorial Library Event Language: English Event Type: Lecture Description:  Opening Lecture for the exhibition “Pellegrino Artusi and the Culinary Unification of Italy”  Alberta  Lai (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago): Welcoming Remarks  Grazia Menechella (French and Italian, UW–Madison): “Italian Food Writing Across the Ocean: …

Speaker: Azouz Begag Date: March 13, 2019 – 4:30pm Location: French House, 633 N. Frances St. Event Language: French Event Type: Lecture Faculty Sponsor: Nevine El Nossery: elnossery@wisc.edu