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Where the Only Light is the One You Create: A Modern Adaptation of Dante’s Inferno

2017-18 Capstone Conference and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony

Pictured: Caravacci-Reynolds Summer Research Project award minner, Michelle Angela (middle) with Professor Andrea Moudarres (left) and Peter Soli, son of Professor Althea Caravacci-Reynolds (right)

Pictured from left to right: Professor Andrea Moudarres, Caravacci-Reynolds Best Capstone Research Paper award winners Daija Marie Moss, Carina Anna Marsella, Cynamon Ashaki Mantley, and Peter Soli, son of Professor Althea Caravacci-Reynolds

Pictured from left to right: Professor Andrea Moudarres with the three winners of the Caravacci-Reynolds Best Capstone Research Paper Award; Daija Marie Moss, Carina Anna Marsella, and Cynamon Ashaki Mantley

Italian Students Volunteering at Bruin Day | April 14, 2018

Students in the Italian Club volunteered at Bruin Day on April 14 to help introduce new Bruins to the Department of Italian.

Italian Immersion Day at Eataly | March 9, 2018

Students in the Italian Club on a field trip to Eataly, a new Italian marketplace in Los Angeles, where they tried authentic Italian foods and practiced their Italian language skills.

Sicilian Concert and Dance Workshop | October 11, 2017

: Michaela Musollno & Fablo Turchetti performing.

The Multiple Identities of Carlo Michelstaedter | May 17, 2017

: UCLA Department of Italian Chairman, Professor Thomas Harrison (left) with fellow presenters Professor Daniela Bini (University of Texas) and Professor Valerio Cappozzo (University of Mississippi) at Royce Hall.

Italian Club meets Getty Center | June 2, 2017

: Andre Tsivis, Jessey Bryan, Alex Li, Cynamon Mantley, Alejandra Velazquez, and Jennifer Brito visited the Getty Museum on Friday, June 2 with the Italian Club. The students explored 3 different exhibits focused on Italy and Italian art: The Lure of Italy, Making History in Eighteenth Century Europe, and Greek & Roman Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

End of Year Reception | May 23, 2017

: Pictured: Dr. Elissa Tognozzi holding Giuseppe Sanna, with his mother, graduate student Adele Sanna, looking on.

: Pictured: Peter Soli, son of Professor Althea Caravacci-Reynolds, and Cynamon Mantley, winner of the 2017 Caravacci-Reynolds Summer Research Award

: Pictured: Graduate students Viola Ardeni and Monica Streifer.

: Pictured: Professor Massimo Ciavolella with Valeria Rumori, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, and Gabriella and Remo Bodei

: Pictured: Federica Di Blasio, winner of the 2017 Professor Giovanni Cecchetti Award and Thomas Harrison, Professor and Chair

: Pictured from left to right: Peter Soli, son of Professor Althea Caravacci-Reynolds; Rachel Cohen, winner of the 2017 Caravacci-Reynolds Undergraduate Research Award, Thomas Harrison, Professor and Chair

: Pictured from left to right: Peter Soli, son of Professor Althea Caravacci-Reynolds; Amanda Lucido, winner of the 2017 Caravacci-Reynolds Undergraduate Research Award, Thomas Harrison, Professor and Chair

Fall Welcome Reception | September 27, 2016

Commencement | June 11, 2016

End-of-Year Reception | May 25, 2016

: Thomas Harrison and Alyanna Cardozo

: Thomas Harrison and Adele Sanna

: Thomas Harrison and Nina Bjekovic

Italian Majors Capstone Conference | May 12, 2016

: Alyanna Angelica Cardozo

: Madeline Foglia

: Esther Govea

: Hiju Kim

: Clare McCreary

: Fatimeh Mohsenu Pour Samii

: Persida Diana Radu

: Ana Hernandez

: Nancy Jiminez

: Karla Lopez Aguiniga

End-of-Year Reception & Awards Ceremony

June 2, 2015

: Student Award Winner in Honor of Professor Giovanni Cecchetti, Viola Ardeni, and Professor & Chair, Tom Harrison

: Professor Lucia Re and Student Award Winner for the Caravacci-Reynolds Undergraduate Research Award, Ana Hernandez

: Family members of Caravacci-Reynolds, the Capitani’s and Soli’s with Student Award Winner for the Caravacci-Reynolds Undergraduate Research Award, Ana Hernandez

Italian Majors Capstone Conference | May 20, 2015

Introductory Remarks: Prof. Thomas Harrison, Chair of the UCLA Department of Italian

Moderator: Prof. Lucia Re, Director of Undergraduate Studies

You can read the abstract for the conference here

: Stephanie Centeno (Prof. Lucia Re) “Influenze francesi nel romanzo Il Gattopardo di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.”

: Janie Cliff (Prof. Thomas Harrison) “Intellettuali organici e attivismo politico nel cinema italiano.”

: Sherina Guimmond (Prof. Thomas Harrison) “Pinocchio: dal libro ai film.”

: Roy Jackson (Prof. Harrison) “L’austerità contro l’Italia: un’analisi degli effetti dell’austerità imposta dall’UE alla Repubblica Italiana.”

: Stephina Pascho (Prof. Andrea Moudarres) “Il dibattito sull’aborto in Italia e come un’idea di Dante potrebbe cambiarlo.”

: Sandra Russell (Dr. Elissa Tognozzi) “La narrazione del sé in Pinocchio: uno studio dell’uso del linguaggio.”

: Ginevra Scherini (Prof. Harrison) “La psicologia clinica dei personaggi ‘folli’ di Luigi Pirandello.”

: Noah Toates (Prof. Massimo Ciavolella) “Arte e scienza nel Rinascimento: l’anatomia da Vesalius a Leonardo e Michelangelo.”

: Dario Vitolo (Prof. John Agnew) “La corruzione, la camorra e i rifiuti.”

: Alex Yanke (Professor Thomas Harrison e Dr. Alessandro Pirolini) “Uno spettro del potere: tematiche e tecniche narrative nel cinema di Paolo Sorrentino.”

Speroni Chair Lecture & Annual Awards Ceremony

June 3, 2014

“Machiavelli’s Prince and Renaissance Tyranny”

Lecture by Gabriele Pedullà, Speroni Chair

: Student Award Winner for the Caravacci Reynolds Award, Fatimeh Mohseni Pour Samii, and Peter Soli

: Department Chair, Thomas Harrison, and Winner of Award in Honor of Professor Giovanni Cecchetti, Adele Sanna

: Cindy Stanphill, Bynian Li, Valeria Koenigsberg, Carolyn Quijano, Nathanial Peterson-More, Natalia Cuba, Andrea Moudarres, Carmella Passero, Renata Redford

Italian Majors Capstone Conference

May 14, 2014

The 2014 Italian Department Graduating Majors Capstone conference, which was followed by a Q&A and a reception for all attendees, was a big success. Faculty and graduate students were in attendance and took part in the discussion. There were 12 presentations (including multimedia and one in video format from Bologna), on a variety of interesting topics, periods and interdisciplinary themes related to Italian culture, ranging from Boccaccio and Medieval women to contemporary trends in tourism in Bologna. Disciplinary areas included literary studies, biographical and archival studies, Renaissance studies, art history, religious history, gender studies, contemporary social studies and linguistics.

Many thanks to all who helped facilitate this event and congratulations to all graduating majors!

For the conference program: click here.

: Andrea Bari, Nina Bjekovic, Naomi Calbucci

: Bynian Li, Carolyn Quijano, Luba Kovalchuk, Carmella Passero

: Carmella Passero

Getty Research Institute Lecture | April 30, 2014

: Italian 102A students take trip to Getty Research Institute to see Heaven and Earth: Byzantine Illumination at the Cultural Crossroads and hear a lecture

Departmental Awards 2013 | June 5, 2013

: (Left to right) Alexandria Aliotti, winner of the Althea Caravacci-Reynolds Award; Thomas Harrison, Professor and Chair of UCLA’s Department of Italian; Andrew Hiltzk, winner of the Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Graduate Award

Italian Major Capstone Thesis Presentations

May 29, 2013

On May 29, 2013, the following Italian majors presented their capstone theses to an audience of faculty and fellow students:

Winter 13: Mireya Cadena, Mayra Delgado, Nile Cappello, Jenny Hernandez, Micayla Hoch, Allison Olivera, Vanessa Rosales-Mercado, Antonella Santostefano, and Alexandra Serre

Spring 13: Alexandria Aliotti, Caitlin Harrington, and Terri Morris

: Allison Olivera

: Micayla Hoch

: Antonella Santostefano