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2021 World Poetry Day
Remembering Adam Zagajewski, who died on March 21, 2021 …One brief poem from his collection Eternal Enemies: DEFENDING POETRY, ETC. Yes, defending poetry, high style, etc.,but also summer evenings in a small town,where gardens waft and cats sit quietlyon doorsteps, like Chinese philosophers. Bibliography Zagajewski, Adam, and Clare Cavanagh. Eternal Enemies. New York: Farrar, Straus…
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Contagion, ethics, and compassion
What can a great novel from the past teach us in the time of the Corona virus? The Betrothed (1840) by Alessandro Manzoni speaks of the plague that struck Milan in 1630 but reveals political, social and cultural mechanisms very similar to ours.
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2020 World Poetry Day
The Problem of Spring by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1923 BIBLIOGRAPHY Mayakovsky, Vladimir, and Dorian Rottenberg. Vladimir Mayakovsky: Selected Works in Three Volumes. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1986. Print.Vol. II, pp.91-92.
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Oregon Petrarch Open Book
The website – hypertext includes different versions and formats of Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta from manuscript to digital culture. Translations, rewritings (including tweets), artistic and musical adaptations, and commentaries provide multiple texts and ways of looking at the original source materials. This allows for pedagogical, technical, and research-related innovation. https://wayback.archive-it.org/21835/20230817163249/https://petrarch.uoregon.edu/home
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Exploring the Dolomites
Exploring the Dolomites: Landscape, History, and Ecology in Northern Italy Field seminar I look forward to leading a group of UO students in the exploration of the astonishing natural history and geological wonders of the Dolomites and the traces of human history in these sublime mountains. During the 2-week journey, we will experience the best…
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Humanist Studies & the Digital Age
This peer-reviewed open-access e-journal contributes to a better understanding of humanity and the humanities in relation to new information technologies of the past, present, and future. Here is the latest issue: Vol 7, No 1 (2022): Steps Towards the Future: More-Than-Human Humanism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Massimo Lollini 