WFU hosts Casa Artom conference
On June 20-22, Wake Forest will host an international conference at Casa Artom, its international house in Venice, to honor of the 700th anniversary of the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio.
“Boccaccio and the Venetian World: 700 years of Cultural Crossing in Mediterranean Venice” is organized by Roberta Morosini, professor of Italian Studies at Wake Forest and a former vice president of the American Boccaccio Association. The conference is supported by multiple organizations in the field of Mediterranean and Medieval studies, including the American Boccaccio Association and Fondazione Querini Stampalia.
More than 30 international scholars will be presenting papers and discussing the overall influence of Boccaccio on the literary activities of the Veneto region and beyond. Boccaccio, a Tuscan writer and poet, is best known for his work Decameron. A complete schedule for the event is available here.
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Secrest Artists Series event is tonight
The Venice Baroque Orchestra, a world-renowned chamber orchestra, will perform on Thursday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Brendle Recital Hall. The program will be all Italian: Vivaldi, Albinoni, Geminiani and Veracini. Andrea Marcon is the conductor. Learn more about the orchestra on the Secrest website »
The Secrest Signature Speaker for this event will be Peter Kairoff, pianist, director of Casa Artom in Venice, and professor of music. His talk will begin at 6:40 p.m. in Room 208, adjacent to Brendle in Scales Fine Art Center.
Faculty, staff and students receive free tickets to all Secrest events. Click here for details »
Read more about the orchestra and the performance in the Winston-Salem Journal »
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