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The Space Between: Women, Wisdom, and the Poetics of Spiritual Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Italy
Green Hall 0-S-6This talk emerges from my current book project on poetics of piety in early modern Italy, a study of the relations between spiritual life and lyric expression in the long […]
A Collective of One: Umberto Boccioni’s I/We and Photography before Futurism
Louis A. Simpson International Building - A71Sometime between 1905 and 1907, the artist Umberto Boccioni stepped into a photographic cabinet to sit for a “multigraph”: a fivefold (self-)portrait created with the aid of an unseen mirror. […]
The Transnational Samurai: Nation-building and Community Searching in the Twentieth Century Italian Far-right
Green Hall 0-S-9This talk explores the origin and development of the Italian fascination with Japanese samurais in the aftermath of the 1904 Russo-Japanese War and the rise of a young, nationalistic movement in Italy. Far from representing a simple, exotic, and monolithic image, the samurai warrior inspired multiple adaptations ranging from the loyal soldier to the spiritual […]
