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Journalist Alexander Stille to Speak

Alexander Stille, San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University will deliver the keynote lecture at this year's meeting of the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies. Stille's books include Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism (1991); Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (1995); The Future of the Past (2002); and The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi (2006). The sometimes-spectacular element of violence has pervaded politics and social life in Italy, where it has also been the subject of attentive theoretical and philosophical elaboration. The conference, on violence in Italian history and culture will run all day on March 1st Alumni Room, University Center and will feature papers by faculty and graduate students in Italian Studies from throughout the state of California.

Download the poster for the February 29th event (1.4 MB).
Download the poster for the March 1st event (244 KB).
Event details

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