News and Events

Talk: Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison on Translating Dante's Inferno

Thursday, November 5th, 5pm, North Hall 1006

We are delighted to welcome Lorna Goodison, one of the Caribbean's most distinguished poets and Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2017–2020), for a remote lecture on her recent translation of Dante's Inferno. The talk will be moderated by Prof. Giancarlo Tursi and open to all. This event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Program in Translation Studies. We hope to see you there!

UCSB Italian Club, 1st Meeting of the Year

Wednesday, October 7th, 6:30pm, Phelps Hall 5309

Benvenuti! Interested in Italian culture? Want to learn Italian? Love Italian food? Join us at the first meeting of the UCSB Italian Club. Ci vediamo presto!  Follow us: @ucsbitalianclub, @ucsbitalian

UCSB French Club, 1st Meeting of the Year

Tuesday, October 6th, 4:45pm, Phelps Hall 5309A

All are welcome to join us for the first meeting of the year of the UCSB French Club. Open to all skill levels, come and hang out! Follow us: @frenchclubucsb

Enri Lala ’26, French minor, wins prestigious Lafayette Fellowship

We are delighted to announce that recent UCSB graduate Enri Lala ’26, who minored in French with a double major in Global Studies and History, has been awarded the prestigious Lafayette Fellowship for graduate study in France next year.

Lecture: "Animating Matter: Italian Puppetry as a Technology of Wonder," Prof. Federico Pacchioni (Chapman U)

Thursday, May 28th, 2pm, SSMS 2303

Congrats to Stephanie Malia Hom on her new co-edited volume!

We are delighted to celebrate Stephanie Malia Hom's new volume, Illegality and the Making of Italy: Crime Italian Style (2026), co-edited with Dana Renga. 

Talk: A Man's Secrets: Translating Queer French Writers (Jeffrey Zuckerman)

Thursday, April 30th, 5pm, MCC Theater

Brown Bag Talk: "The Force of Poverty," Prof. Silvia Mazzini (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts)

Friday, April 24th, 12pm, 6206C Phelps Hall

Please join us for a Brown Bag talk by Prof. Silvia Mazzini (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts) co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program and the Departments of French and Italian and the Graduate Center for Literary Research.

"The Force of Poverty: Eco-Political Resistance as the Creation of Alternatives"