FESTINA LENTE

 
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Lectures
  • "Pythagoras' Mediterranean: Travels, Migration and Philosophy". Spring Workshop and Conference of the Mediterranean Seminar. University of Oregon. April 13-14, 2018.
     
  • “The Candle of Light: Revisiting Cesare Beccaria’s Vision.” University of Oregon. November 2, 2017.
     
  • "Language in Life and Work." Commencement Speech University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages. June 20, 2017.

  • "Reading, Rewriting and Encoding Petrarca's Rvf as Hypertext." Annual Conference of the MLA, Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2017.

  • "The Ancient Roots of a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: A Pythagorean Perspective." Mellon Symposium – Environmental Posthumanities in the Anthropocene - Friday, Dec. 2nd 2016, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

  • "Early Modern Ecocriticism?." Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, April 23, 2016.
  • "Twiitterature and Hermeneutics of the Text." Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, April 23, 2016.
  • "Roberto Saviano's Letter to My Land." Annual Conference of the PAMLA, Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2015.
  • "Lector in Rete: The Oregon Petrarch Open Book as Hypertext." Annual Conference of the Sixteenth Century Society, Vancouver, October 23, 2015.

  • "Ancient Lost Sea. Italy and the Poetic Memory of the Mediterranean." University of Oregon, May 21, 2015.

  • "Suggestioni mediterranee: la Riviera ligure da Montale a Biamonti." California State University, Long Beach. March 24, 2015.
  • "Sicilian Ruins from Vittorio De Seta's Documentaries to Vincenzo Consolo's Citiscapes." Common Knowledges Symposium 2014, Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Culture, the Environment and Labor. Wednesday May 14, 2014. UC San Diego.
 
 

 

The Oregon Petrarch
Open Book

A working database-driven hypetext in
and around Francis Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta (Canzoniere).

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