{"id":994,"date":"2016-10-01T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T22:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=994"},"modified":"2016-10-01T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T22:15:03","slug":"the-inauguration-of-chapman-university-13th-president-daniele-c-struppa-infused-with-italian-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2016\/10\/01\/the-inauguration-of-chapman-university-13th-president-daniele-c-struppa-infused-with-italian-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inauguration of Chapman University 13th President Daniele C. Struppa infused with Italian poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening Dr. Pacchioni opened the event <em>A Celebration of Creativity in the Arts<\/em>\u00a0with a recital of Giacomo Leopardi\u2019s \u201cL\u2019infinito\u201d , followed by original music by Sean Heim, a conversation with the film director Werner Herzog, and a dance\u00a0choreographed by Alicia Guy.<\/p>\n<p>During the investiture ceremony on Friday, President Struppa\u2019s speech drew inspiration from Dante\u2019s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em> in presenting a view of learning as a continual journey. The speech was preceded by Dr. Pacchioni\u2019s reading from the final canto of <i>Il Paradiso<\/i>.\u00a0Watch the entire investiture ceremony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChapmanUniversity\/videos\/10154712946975967\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (recital beginning at 26:40).<\/p>\n<p>Both events took place in the magical\u00a0ambiance of the Musco Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/files\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-995\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/files\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di-1024x493.jpg\" alt=\"dante\" width=\"640\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di-1024x493.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di-600x289.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di-768x370.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/dante-v6c1di.jpg 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday evening Dr. Pacchioni opened the event A Celebration of Creativity in the Arts\u00a0with a recital of Giacomo Leopardi\u2019s \u201cL\u2019infinito\u201d , followed by original music by Sean Heim, a conversation with the film director Werner Herzog, and a dance\u00a0choreographed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2016\/10\/01\/the-inauguration-of-chapman-university-13th-president-daniele-c-struppa-infused-with-italian-poetry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}