Our Spring ’15 mini-series coincides with two home spring-sports games involving ACC opponents. The dates are as follows:

April 17, 2015
1:00 presentation; 2:00 reception

Bradley Reading Room, Strozier Library 
Dr. Lina Insana
http://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/person/lina-insana

Associate Professor of Italian
University of Pittsburgh

“All-consuming? Citizenship and Consumer Culture in Pittsburgh’s La Trinacria newspaper, 1917-1921”:
this talk looks at a WWI-era Italian-language newspaper in Pittsburgh from the perspective of its editorial and advertising content, with particular emphasis on the ways that Italian immigrants are called to citizenship through department-store consumption and support of the Italian war cause.

January 23, 2015
1:00 presentation; 2:00 reception

Bradley Reading Room, Strozier Library
Dr. Catherine Fosl 
http://louisville.edu/wgs/catherine-fosl.html

Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, and Associated with the History Department. She also is Director of the UofL Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research
University of Louisville

Please click here for a copy of the poster for Dr. Fosl's lecture.