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Art and History

OVI Seminar Series 2024, V: Linguistic Contact in Sardinia in the Medieval Period

Starting from the studies of Max Leopold Wagner, the linguistic contact in the Middle Ages with the Tuscan of Pisa and, to a lesser extent, with the people of the coastal region...

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Art and History

OVI Seminar Series 2024, IV

Investigating the phenomenon of the so-called ‘rhythmic figures’ in Dante through a new database and query platform for the Commedia, which aims at setting up a new, wide...

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Art and History

“Boccaccio, the Disguised Revolutionary” by Martin Eisner (Duke University)

Medieval and renaissance, feminist and misogynist, radical and conservative, class-warrior and aspiring aristocrat, Boccaccio has been interpreted in a variety of contradictory...

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Art and History

OVI Seminar Series 2024, III

Drawing on a research tradition that goes back to the origins of electronic lexicography, the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano has developed, during its activity, models and tools...

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Art and History

OVI Seminar Series 2024, II

The centrality of the figure of Beatrice within the literary work of Dante Alighieri is such a well-known and peacefully accepted assumption in Dante’s modern exegesis that it...

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Religion and Philosophy

The First Last Man

Eileen M. Hunt is a Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame. She is the author or editor of ten books on topics ranging from tracing the place of the family in Enlightenment...

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Art and History

Enzo Biagi and the Indulgent Memory of Fascism in Postwar Italy

The post-1990s public de-mystification of the long celebrated Italian armed resistance against Fascism and Nazism (1943-1945), resulting from the decades-long efforts by a few...

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Global Affairs

Lessons for the West from a Small African Country

Alexander Chula is a Thai-British medical doctor and writer, living and working in London. He studied Classics at Oxford then medicine at the University of London. His first book,...

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Art and History

A Less Than Discreet Copyist

Dating to the last quarter of the 15th century, the ms. Milan, Civic Historical Archive and Trivulziana Library, 85 conveys a lesson from Ser Giovanni’s Pecorone which well...

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Art and History

Out of Silence

The fraught emotions of the COVID-19 pandemic unfold in this interactive sound installation which ran in May 2021 in the Great Hall of O’Shaughnessy. Out of Silence was directed...

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Law and Politics

Yoram Hazony: Judaism and Free Speech on Campus

Please join us for a fireside chat with Yoram Hazony and Professor Patrick Deneen. Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, biblical scholar, and political theorist. He currently...

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Religion and Philosophy

On James Baldwin: History, Responsibility and Atonement

Please join the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government to welcome Melvin Rogers, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy,...

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