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This symposium will address the pedagogical, cultural and institutional challenges of university-level instruction which takes place across continents. In this era of global economy, intense international university exchanges, interdisciplinarity, team-teaching and e-learning it is urgent to explore the challenges and the opportunities of teaching that involves instructors and students who are located physically on different …

A Trilingual Poetry Reading in Italian, French and English. Poet Luigi Fontanella from Stony Brook University will present his poems.  

Machiavelli’s writings substantiate more than their distillation into a political theory that stripped morality from politics. This seminar focuses on Machiavelli’s frequent recourse to images of the Italian terrain as a means of communicating knowledge in The Prince and his other literary works. My driving questions regard how Machiavelli’s descriptions and figurations of the land reveal the …