Past Lectures and Conferences
Fall 2021
Monday, November 8
Directed by Seton Hall's own Jason Tramm, this presentation of the famous opera, Don Giovanni, is made up of both professional singers and Seton Hall students in the chamber choir.
Monday, October 18
Professor Moretti speaks about Maria Montessori's role as a pacifist and humanitarian
in her educational reform theories.
Monday, September 27
2021 Alberto Italian Institute Scholarship Awards and presentation by Dr. Katia Passerini,
Provost and EVP, Seton Hall Hope Amidst the Chaos of the New Migrations to South Italy,
Principles, Realities and Trends.
Spring 2021
Thursday, April 22
Comparing Healthcare Systems in Italy and the U.S. - Professor Ignazio Marino talks
about the Healthcare systems in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
Wednesday, April 7
Dante's Others - Dr. Teodolinda Barolini's talk analyzes Dante's portrayals of women,
homosexuals, and non-Christians in the Divine Comedy.
Friday, March 26
Ottocentismi: Race and Nation in 19th-Italy. Book presentation by Edoardo Barsotti.
Thursday, March 25
At the Origins of Made in Italy - A discussion by Dr. Luca Cottini about the fashioning
Italian 'Industrial Culture'.
Thursday, February 25
Rome and Caravaggio - A lecture by art historian Paolo Gigliozzi on the Caravaggio's
life in Rome in 1600-1606.
Fall 2020
Friday, November 6
Symposium in Italian Studies: Meeting 6
Friday, October 30
Symposium in Italian Studies: Meeting 5
Friday, October 23
Symposium in Italian Studies: Meeting 4
Thursday, October 22
Martina Gatti's, "Michelangelo and secrets of the Sistine Chapel"
Friday, October 16
Symposium in Italian Studies: Meeting 3
Friday, October 9
Symposium in Italian Studies: Meeting 2
Thursday, October 8
Paolo Gigliozzi, The Raphael's Exhibit at the Scuderie del Quirinale Museum: "Raphael:
an Eternal Artist in the Eternal City."
Friday, October 2
Symposium in Italian Studies: Meeting 1
Tuesday, September 29
The Italian Studies Awards Ceremony – A virtual event where several of our past scholarship
winners updated us on their careers and new award winners were introduced.
Spring 2020
Wednesday, February 12
Hearing Voices – A film by Emmy-nominated and Award-winning filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno.
Fall 2019
Tuesday, September 24 Italian Scholarship Event and Poetry Reading:
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, (Poet) and Carla Francellini (Translator)
Tuesday, October 1 Napoli Nobilissima—Naples and the Visual Culture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy
Lecture by Dr. Charlotte Nichols (Art Historian)
Wednesday, October 16 “The Italian Canon: A Gender Perspective”
Lecture by Dr. Alberica Bazzoni (Visiting Scholar)
Monday, October 28 “Sicily and its Sweets”
Talk by Nick Malgieri (Former Executive Pastry Chef at Windows on the World)
Thursday, November 21 Opera:
Puccini’s La Boheme
SOPAC
Fall 2018
Tuesday, September 11 Italian Studies Scholarship event and Msgr. Granato Medal Award Presentation. Keynote
speaker Frank Cannata ’55, “A Message of Hope”
Bethany Hall A
Thursday, October 25 Lecture Patrizia Sambuco, Alberto Institute Visiting Scholar “Fascist Food Discourses
in 1930’s Italy: Cultural Representations and Literary Challenges”
Beck Rooms
Thursday, November 8 Sicilian Poetry Reading
The Theater in the Round
University Center
Wednesday, November 14 Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
SOPAC
Spring 2018
Monday, February 19
Eugenia Paulicelli (CUNY) Lecture: "Italian Style: from the Divas to the Great Beauty."
Beck Rooms
Monday, February 26
Trio of Porta Genova (Italy) Performance: Soundtracks of Italian Cinema.
Beck Rooms
Monday, March 26
Helena Sanson (Cambridge) Lecture: 'Isabella Sori's Ammmaestramenti and Difese (1628):
A Woman's Life in 17th-Century Italy
Beck Rooms
Tuesday, April 3
Margherita Ganeri (Visiting Scholar, University of Calabria) Lecture: The Illusions
of Gattopardismo: the Unmasking of a Deceptive Ideology in Tomasi's Il Gattopardo.
Beck Rooms
Tuesday, April 10
James Hankins (Harvard) Lecture: The Italian Humanists on Tyranny
Beck Rooms
Fall 2017
Tuesday, September 26
Scholarship Award Event
Chancellor’s Suite Book Presentation — “The Routledge History Of Italian Americans”
William Connell and Stan Pugliese, Hofstra University
Monday, October 16
Lecture by Giuseppe Catozzella
Italian Author and Alberto Institute Visiting Scholar
Beck Rooms
Tuesday, December 5
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
SOPAC
Spring 2017
Monday, January 30
Lecture - Prof. Laura Benedetti - Georgetown University
"Un Paese De Carta"
Beck Rooms
Monday, February 20
Bill Dal Cerro
Bebob, Swing and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience
Beck Rooms
Tuesday, March 14*
Walter Veltroni
Ex Mayor of Rome
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Beck Rooms
*This event was cancelled and rescheduled due to inclement weather.
Monday, March 27
Martina Piperno - University of Warwick
Alberto Institute Visiting Scholar
Beck Rooms
Fall 2016
Monday, September 26
20th Anniversary of the Valente Library
Chancellor's Suite
Monday, October 17
"Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist And His Politics"
Lecture - Ernest Ialongo, CUNY
Beck Rooms
Tuesday, October 25
Italian Studies Scholarship Event
"Migration Italian Style: 'New' Italians in the U.S. on the Backdrop of the Historical
Italian Diaspora"
Lecture - Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University
Beck Rooms
Wednesday, November 2
"Believing the Impossible: Neapolitan Identity and the Cult of San Gennaro"
Ilaria Poerio, Visiting Scholar, University of Reading, UK
Beck Rooms
Wednesday, November 16
Puccini's Tosca
SOPAC
Fall 2015
Monday, September 21, Chancellor's Suite –University Center
Tuesday, October 6, Beck Rooms, Walsh Library
Lecture – Dalmatian and Istrian Émigré Communities in Post World War II Italy
Dr. Marta Deyrup
Wednesday, November 4, Beck Rooms, Walsh Library
Lecture – Niccolò Ammaniti (Author)
Wednesday, November 18, South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC)
Vivaldi Concert - Salzburg Chamber Soloists
Spring 2015
Monday, February 9, Beck Rooms
The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
Benjamin B. Olshin
The University of the Arts
Monday, March 2
"Daughters of Alchemy: Italian Women at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution"
Meredith Ray, University of Delaware
Wednesday, April 8, Beck Rooms
The Lost Wave: "Women and Democracy in Italy"
Molly Tambor, Long -Island University
Fall 2014
Tuesday, September 16, The Atrium - Jubilee Hall
Scholarship Awards for Italian Studies
"Migration and Literature"
Prof. Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College
Tuesday, October 7, Faculty Lounge
"Men of the Cloth"
Vicki Vasilopoulos, Director
Wednesday, October 15, Faculty Lounge
"Opera Divas and Heroines in Nineteenth Century Italy"
Prof. Katharine Mitchell, University of Strathclyde
Monday, November 3, Faculty Lounge
"The Italian Body"
Mauro Peroni
Wednesday, November 5, SOPAC
"I Pagliacci" Concert
Monday, December 1, Faculty Lounge
"The Law of the Land"
Director Fred Kuwornu
Fall 2008
September 30, 2008: Italian Americans of Newark, Belleville and Nutley, presentation and book-signing
by Sandra Lee, Ph.D.
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Conferences
October 16-17, 2008
Technology and the Printed Media in Italy between 1870 and 1914
December 4, 2004
Real Stories: Discrimination And Defamation in the History of Italian Americans
A day-long conference which involved academics, entertainers, media critics, politicians,
and representatives of major Italian American organizations. The conference was organized
as a joint project with the Anti-Bias Committee of UNICO National, and co-sponsored
by the National Italian American Foundation, the New Jersey Italian American Heritage
Commission, the Columbus Citizens Foundation, the Order of the Sons of Italy in America,
the American Italian Historical Association and the Center for Italian and Italian
American Culture, the conference was the focus of a documentary film, and the conference
papers will be published in a book on the history of discrimination against Italian
Americans
Purchase the DVD on Amazon.com or e-mail [email protected] to purchase from the Alberto Institute.