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Lecture: "Deaf Gain & Absourdité: How did Méduses Turn into Jellyfish?" (Adèle Rosenfeld & Jeffrey Zuckerman)

Wednesday, 2/25, 12pm, Sarah Miller McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

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Book cover of L'immaginario mediterraneo (2025) by Claudio Fogu

Prof. Claudio Fogu completes book tour in Italy

Congratulations to our colleague Claudio Fogu, who has just completed successful book tour in Italy launching L’immaginario mediterraneo nella storia dell’Italia (Pacini Editore, 2025), a translation of The Fishing Net and the Spider Web:

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Brown Bag Talk: "Rebuilding St. Paul's Outside the Walls," Prof. Richard Wittman (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)

Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lecture Series

Wednesday, 11/19, 12-1pm, 6320 Phelps Hall

Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature, French & Italian, German and Slavic Studies, Graduate Center for Literary Research

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Undergraduate French Reception Poster

Undergraduate French Reception

Wednesday, 10/15, 4pm, Mosher Alumni House

Please join us for our fall undergraduate French reception. Discover our major and minor in French! Meet French professors and learn all about what the study of French can offer you! Coffee and tea will be served.

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2025 Annual Italy versus Germany Soccer Game

🇮🇹 Italy vs. Germany Annual Soccer “Partita”

Hosted by the UCSB Italian Club
📅 May 30, 2025
📍 UCSB Recreation Center Soccer Fields

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Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe Event Flyer

We Were Here: Transnational Italian Studies Program Film Screening

Thursday 2/27, Multicultural Center, 5-7:30 PM

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