Congratulations to CCS Professor of Humanities Dr. Gioia Woods on her recent invited presentation at the Italian Cultural Institute in the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C. on Oct. 19, 2023! The discussion featured faculty from four universities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Italo Calvino and the enduring relevance of his writing in the twenty-first century. The panel engaged in a conversation about Calvino’s insights and wrestled with topics such as A.I., the role of literature, and the urban… Read more
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Faculty news: new publication by Dr. Gioia Woods in California Italian Studies
Professor of Humanities Dr. Gioia Woods published the article “‘The Scope of an Epigram’: Quickness, Magic, and Marcovaldo’s Environmental Eye” in California Italian Studies volume 12 on October 15. The special issue on Italo Calvino marks the centenary of his birth. Read the article.
Abstract: “Quickness”, the second lecture collected in Six Memos for the New Millenium, is an essential value linking the old… Read more
CCS Professor Dr. Jason BeDuhn will present a public lecture at The Catholic University of America on Oct. 11
Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Jason BeDuhn will present an invited public lecture, “Rethinking Asceticism through the Example of the Manichaeans” at The Catholic University of America on Oct. 11, 2023.
Abstract: Manichaeans and Christians share many ascetic practices and common ideals of the disciplined, perfected body. Yet the respective motivations and purposes of these ascetic regimes differ significantly between the two traditions, calling into question whether they belong to… Read more
Upcoming public talks in November by CCS faculty Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman and Dr. Björn Krondorfer
Assistant Teaching Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman and Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer will both present public talks in November 2023 as part of the exhibit Tom Kiefer: El Sueño Americano / The American Dream at the Coconino Center for the Arts. His work is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the… Read more
CCS Assistant Professor Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in September
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Implements of Dissent: Resisting Family Structures in the Noh” at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in September.
Abstract: The 14th century Nō plays Kanawa and Kinuta take as the subject matter marital relationships, betrayal, and abandonment. In Kanawa, husband takes a mistress, upon which his wife seeks to exact revenge by ritually transforming into… Read more
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Walking the Suffering: Travel Sequence as Path to Enlightenment in Onnamonogurui Plays” at the European Association for Japanese Studies
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Walking the Suffering: Travel Sequence as Path to Enlightenment in Onnamonogurui Plays” at the European Association for Japanese Studies in August. Her paper analyzed michiyuki – travel sequences – in two “mad women” Noh plays arguing that depictions of travel and landscapes create symbolic language which articulates the protagonists’ frantic wandering as a… Read more