Sep 18 All day “The Hopeless Tricked and the Clever Trickster from Boccaccio to Basile” with Daniela D’Eugenio (University of Arkansas) (‘Comic Relief: Making the Best of Things in the Italian Tradition’ webinar series)
Oct 23 11:00 am - 12:00 pm “From Prison With Humor: Two Letters by Giovan Battista Marino” with Alessandro Metlica (Università di Padova) (‘Comic Relief: Making the Best of Things in the Italian Tradition’ webinar series)
Nov 13 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm “Do Comedies All (Have to) End Happily? Scenes from Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and their Contemporaries” with Jane Tylus (Yale University) (‘Comic Relief: Making the Best of Things in the Italian Tradition’ webinar series)
Jan 22 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm “Italian Terrorism in Contemporary Italian Literature: Laughing at History” with David Ward (Wellesley College) (‘Comic Relief: Making the Best of Things in the Italian Tradition’ webinar series)
Feb 10 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Black History Month Speaker Series – Dr. Matthew Pettway – Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Feb 12 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm “Dark Serial Humour” with Dana Renga (The Ohio State University) (‘Comic Relief: Making the Best of Things in the Italian Tradition’ webinar series)
Feb 19 February 19, 2021 - February 20, 2021 The University of Alabama Languages Conference: Embracing Language in a Changing World
Feb 24 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Black History Month Speaker Series – Dr. Roberto Saba – American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation