February 6, 2025
1– 4 PM

Caffè Italiano
Join us for espresso and biscotti to kick off our spring event season! Learn about our upcoming programs and scholarship opportunities, meet our staff, or just have a coffee or tea with us.
Open to all SBU students, faculty, and staff. A presto!
E-4340 Melville Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358.

February 12, 2025
5 – 7 PM

Panel: Richard Gambino’s Legacy and the Future of Italian American Studies
Discover how Italian American Studies illuminates the Italian American experience and the diverse mosaic of American society. Dr. Richard Gambino (1939-2024) established the first academic program dedicated to Italian American Studies at Queens College in 1973. He further helped institute a similar program at Stony Brook University, and later served as Visiting Professor in the 1990s. Gambino co-founded the influential journal Italian Americana, and published nonfiction books, including Blood of My Blood and Vendetta, which documented the experiences of multiple generations of Italian Americans and reached broad audiences.

Our distinguished panel, moderated by Peter Carravetta (Stony Brook University), will explore the past and future of Italian American Studies beginning with Gambino’s founding contributions. Speakers include Mary Jo Bona (Stony Brook University), Fred Gardaphé (Queens College), Anthony Julian Tamburri (John D. Calandra Italian American Institute). The event will also feature personal reflections from Gambino’s wife Gail, and Josephine Fusco, who collaborated with Gambino and Mario Mignone during a pivotal period in the history of the Center for Italian Studies.
Open to all SBU students, faculty, and staff.
E-4340 Melville Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358.

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February 19, 2025
12:30 – 2 PM

Panel: Andiamo!
Learn about the benefits of studying or interning abroad!
Open to all SBU students, faculty, and staff. SBU students are especially encouraged to attend.
E-4340 Melville Library, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358.

February 27, 2025
5 – 6:30 PM

Book Presentation: Peter Carravetta (Philosophy), "Whither the Human in Humanism?"
After examination of and responses to the challenges of anti-, trans-, and post-humanism, Peter Carravetta looks at key ideas from the tradition that may still be adapted to redefine and energize the humanities. These include free will and intersubjectivity, as well consciousness of sociopolitical co-existence and commitment, the relation between myth and history, and rhetoric and logic, as manifested through works by Dante, Pico, Machiavelli, Campanella, Vico.
This event has been organized by the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook and is co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies. Please note that this event will take place in Humanities 1008.
Open to all SBU students, faculty, and staff.
Humanities 1008, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794.

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April 3-5, 2025

Society for Italian Philosophy Eighth Annual International Conference
Advance registration is required. Keynote speakers include Paolo D’Angelo (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) and Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College, CUNY). Program forthcoming.
Proceedings on Thursday and Friday will be held at Stony Brook University.
Please note, Saturday's program only will be held at the Calandra Institute (25 W 43rd St Suite 1700, New York, NY 10036).

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May 1-3, 2025

Tenth Quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference "Provo-Athens"
Advance registration is required. Keynote speakers include Denise Allen (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Kelley Helmstutler di Dio (University of Vermont), and Andrea Bacchi (Università di Bologna). Program forthcoming.

The conference is supported by The Center for Italian Studies, The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and The Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Special Project Grant from I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794.

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