Italian Studies Program Events
Elisa Veronesi, a PhD student affiliated with the Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine (CMMC) at Université Côte d’Azur, spent a month with us in LLC.
Her project focuses on Mediterranean gardens as spaces of ecological collaboration, and works in connection with our Environmental Humanities initiatives.
France-Florida Research Institute Events
The France-Florida Research Institute has held a number of events this spring. These are listed below:
Public Lectures in our Environmental Humanities series by Dr. Jean-Luc Guichet (Universite de Picardie) and Dr. Julia Frengs (University of Nebraska)
Visit of Doctors Without Borders guest Hunter Keys. More information may be found at our website: https://franceflorida.clas.ufl.edu/about/
The Second Annual Night of Ideas organized by Dr Rori Bloom, featured Dr. Deborah Amberson, Dr. Gabriele Belletti (pictured right), Bernard Cardenas Lailhacar, Dr. Terry Harpold, Dr. Eleanor Laughlin (University of Florida) and local guest artists Christine Alicot, Carlos Beltran and Margaret Tolbert
Roundtable on Gardens in Movement with Mr. Alexander Reford (Reford Gardens in Quebec) and Dr. Amanda Vincent (Wake Forest University)
Choix Goncourt US 2025
On April 19, Isabel Ribeiro and Siena Zicchinella represented UF at Villa Albertine in New York to select the US Goncourt Prize winner. This year, participating universities included Columbia, Duke, Harvard, New York University, Princeton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Southern California, and University of California Los Angeles, and Yale.
Italian Department Play
On Wednesday April 23, the students of the Italian Play Production course taught by Gianfranco Balestriere gave a public performance of “La morsa, ” “La patente, ” and “L’altro figlio, ” three one-act plays by Luigi Pirandello. Sponsored by LLC, The Center for European Studies, and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the course allowed the audience at Gator Wesley to enjoy the hard work and talent of the students of the Italian program. Pictured above.
Japanese Program Film Viewing
The Japanese department presented a film viewing entitled, Carving the Divine: Buddhist Sculptors in Japan, March 7th 2025. Pictured above.
“Honoring the Ocean” Honors Course
Gabriele Belletti (center) with students.