{"id":2486,"date":"2026-03-19T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:34:05","slug":"final-ferrucci-events-of-the-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2026\/03\/19\/final-ferrucci-events-of-the-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Ferrucci Events of the Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows to Italy Lecture Series. \u201cQuieting the Human in Premodern Italy\u201d by Dr. Arielle Saiber (Johns Hopkins University). Wednesday, April 1, 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Argyros Forum 201. <\/strong>
\nWe can barely imagine what it is <\/em>really like to be another person, much less a beloved pet. How can we even begin to know what it is like to be a coastline, a tree, or a chair? How did thinkers in Renaissance Italy, famed for celebrating the dignity of the human, and even Dante before them, imagine the essence of the nonhuman? \u00a0How did they write about\u202fnonhuman entities\u202ffrom flora to fauna, architecture to automata, demons to angels?\u00a0 It turns out that many Renaissance luminaries, such as Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci, along with Dante, had a great deal more empathy and love for the nonhuman than has been attributed to them. This talk looks at how \u201ctextual nonhumans\u201d\u2014the ones written onto a page\u2014are fascinating expressions of hybridity and compassion and make us rethink our definitions of both Renaissance humanism and a canonical author of the late Middle Ages.<\/em><\/p>\n

Screening of the documentary Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence<\/em> with director Valerio Ciriaci and producer Antonella Di Nocera in attendance. Friday, April 17, 1-3 pm. Digital Media Arts College (DMAC), room 123. <\/strong>
\nElvira Notari, Italy\u2019s first woman film director, left behind only a few surviving films and fragments, and little is known about her life. In the golden age of Neapolitan silent cinema, she created around sixty films blending melodrama with realistic urban life, reaching audiences in Italy and abroad. Forced to stop filmmaking in 1930 due to Fascist censorship and personal struggles, her work largely disappeared. Now, 150 years after her birth, renewed scholarly and artistic interest is restoring her legacy, as Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence highlights her lasting impact as a pioneering filmmaker.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Italian Research Day in the World. Monday, April 20, 12:45-2:30 pm. Beckman 401.<\/strong> This year\u2019s program explores how Italy remembers and re-imagines its cultural identity. Dr. Pacchioni will discuss Federico Fellini\u2019s evocative \u201ccreative saint\u201d figure and its role in shaping modern artistic legacy. Advanced Italian Studies students from \u201cITAL 375 Masterpieces of Italian Literature\u201d will present posters on Italian statues and symbolic heritage figures, offering fresh perspectives on how monuments preserve and transform collective memory. The event is open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cItalian Cinema, Environmental Imaginaries: Ecocritical Video Essays,\u201d a presentation by visiting Italian graduate students, May 8, 1-3 pm. Beckman 104.<\/strong> A selection of video essays created by students in the Critical Writing for Cinema and Performing Arts Lab (MA in Television, Cinema and Media from Libera Universit\u00e0 di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM, Milan), explores ecocritical themes through the reuse and reinterpretation of existing film images, contributing to an evolving A\u2013Z ecocritical dictionary, with a focus on Italian cinema past and present.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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