JCU Events & Lectures
Every year JCU hosts a number of interesting events and challengig lectures.
These events and lectures are a perfect tool to make current students, faculty and staff members, as well as alumni interact and get together to discuss important topics and discover new things together!
These events and lectures are a perfect tool to make current students, faculty and staff members, as well as alumni interact and get together to discuss important topics and discover new things together!
Summer Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation Lectures
Official John Cabot University 'Creative Writing Institute' Brochure
From May 20th to June 26th, 2010, the Institute will bring together students and faculty from around the world to write fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as to study the art of literary translation.
Anyone interested in participating in a creative writing workshop or taking courses in literary translation can participate in the Institute. It's easy! Just apply as a regular Summer I student and sign up for one of the many creative writing or translation courses offered. Courses are taught by renowned faculty from the United States, Italy, and Europe. The costs are the same as JCU's regular summer program with the added bonus that you will be invited to additional social and educational events with students and faculty who love creative writing, translation, and Rome!JCU is committed to building the Institute into a flagship program for international education in creative writing and literary translation. We believe that each student and faculty member who is part of the Institute contributes to as well as gains from a liberal arts experience of international learning in the eternal city.
Below is the list of Planned Lectures.
If you would like to participate to any of them please RSVP to cwinstitute@johncabot.edu or
by phone at 0039/06-68191223.
Anyone interested in participating in a creative writing workshop or taking courses in literary translation can participate in the Institute. It's easy! Just apply as a regular Summer I student and sign up for one of the many creative writing or translation courses offered. Courses are taught by renowned faculty from the United States, Italy, and Europe. The costs are the same as JCU's regular summer program with the added bonus that you will be invited to additional social and educational events with students and faculty who love creative writing, translation, and Rome!JCU is committed to building the Institute into a flagship program for international education in creative writing and literary translation. We believe that each student and faculty member who is part of the Institute contributes to as well as gains from a liberal arts experience of international learning in the eternal city.
Below is the list of Planned Lectures.
If you would like to participate to any of them please RSVP to cwinstitute@johncabot.edu or
by phone at 0039/06-68191223.
Tuesday 25 May 2010
Lecture by Richard Kenney
Speaker
Richard Kenney was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1948. In 1970 he won a Reynolds Fellowship to study Celtic Lore in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. His works have been published in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The American Scholar. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow, a John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation fellow and a Bogliasco Foundation fellow. In 1994, he was awarded the Lannan Literary Award. He currently teaches in the English department at the University of Washington and lives with his family in Port Townsend, Washington. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize), Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River. For more information about Richard Kenny, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Richard Kenney was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1948. In 1970 he won a Reynolds Fellowship to study Celtic Lore in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. His works have been published in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The American Scholar. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow, a John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation fellow and a Bogliasco Foundation fellow. In 1994, he was awarded the Lannan Literary Award. He currently teaches in the English department at the University of Washington and lives with his family in Port Townsend, Washington. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize), Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River. For more information about Richard Kenny, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Lecture by Eliza Griswold
Speaker
Eliza Griswold’s poems and reportage have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, among many others. She is a fellow at the New America Foundation and at the American Academy in Rome. Her first book of poems, Wideawake Field (FSG), was published in 2007. Her first non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the fault line between Christianity and Islam will be published by FSG in the fall of 2010. For more information about Eliza Griswold, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Eliza Griswold’s poems and reportage have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, among many others. She is a fellow at the New America Foundation and at the American Academy in Rome. Her first book of poems, Wideawake Field (FSG), was published in 2007. Her first non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the fault line between Christianity and Islam will be published by FSG in the fall of 2010. For more information about Eliza Griswold, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Monday 31 May 2010
Lecture by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Speaker
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize in Ireland. Translated into 12 languages, The Last Song of Dusk was an international bestseller. Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK: India’s Ten Bright Lights; Elle Magazine’s 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men. Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, nominated for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, has just been published in Italy, and will be published in America in September this year.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award in the UK, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize in Ireland. Translated into 12 languages, The Last Song of Dusk was an international bestseller. Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK: India’s Ten Bright Lights; Elle Magazine’s 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men. Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, nominated for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize, has just been published in Italy, and will be published in America in September this year.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Tuesday 1 June 2010 & Wednesday 2 June 2010
Lectures by Mark Strand
Speaker
Mark Strand is a Pulitzer Prize Winner, Former U.S. Poet Laureate, and Recipient of the Gold Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters For more information about Mark Strand, click here.
Time and Location for both lecutres
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus,
John Cabot University
Monday 7 June 2010
Lecture by Joseph Harrison
Speaker
Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His book Someone Else’s Name (Waywiser, 2003) was named as one of five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. His second book of poems, Identity Theft, was published by Waywiser in 2008. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1998, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, The Library of America’s Anthology of American Religious Poems, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Poetry, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Literature, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and many journals. In 2005 he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009 he received a Fellowship in Poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Baltimore.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Virginia and Alabama, and studied at Yale and Johns Hopkins. His book Someone Else’s Name (Waywiser, 2003) was named as one of five poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. His second book of poems, Identity Theft, was published by Waywiser in 2008. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1998, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, The Library of America’s Anthology of American Religious Poems, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Poetry, the Penguin Pocket Anthology of Literature, The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, and many journals. In 2005 he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009 he received a Fellowship in Poetry from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Baltimore.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Tuesday 8 June & Wednesday 9 June 2010
Lectures by Simon Mawer
Speaker
Simon Mawer is the author of The Glass Room, 2009 Man Booker Prize Short-listed Novel. For more information about Simon Mawer, click here.
Time and Location for both lectures
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
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Monday 14 June 2010
Lectures by Michael Reynolds
Speaker
Michael Reynolds is editor in chief of Europa Editions, was born in Australia in 1968. He now lives in Rome, Italy. In addition to his work as an editor he has also translated three books by Carlo Lucarelli for Europa Editions, Daniele Mastrogiacomo's Days of Fear, and children’s fiction by Altan and Wolf Erlbruch.
He will be part of the Europa Editions Panael Discussion on the American Book Market and Books in Translation.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Tuesday 15 June 2010
Lectures by Massimo Gezzi
Speaker
Massimo Gezzi was born in 1976 in Sant’Elpidio a Mare (FM). In 2002 he received his laurea in Modern Literature from the University of Bologna, with an International Montale Prize-winning dissertation about the poet Bartolo Cattafi. He is a contributing editor for Atelier, Poesia and Nuovi Argomenti. He has published two collections of poetry: Il mare a destra (Edizioni Atelier 2004) and L’attimo dopo (Luca Sossella Editore). He has been an Italian Fellow for the Arts of the American Academy in Rome. After living and working for some years in Pavia and Rome, he’s currently working as an assistant at the Italian Institute of the University of Bern (Switzerland). He lives between his native town and Switzerland. For more information about Massimo Gezzi, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Massimo Gezzi was born in 1976 in Sant’Elpidio a Mare (FM). In 2002 he received his laurea in Modern Literature from the University of Bologna, with an International Montale Prize-winning dissertation about the poet Bartolo Cattafi. He is a contributing editor for Atelier, Poesia and Nuovi Argomenti. He has published two collections of poetry: Il mare a destra (Edizioni Atelier 2004) and L’attimo dopo (Luca Sossella Editore). He has been an Italian Fellow for the Arts of the American Academy in Rome. After living and working for some years in Pavia and Rome, he’s currently working as an assistant at the Italian Institute of the University of Bern (Switzerland). He lives between his native town and Switzerland. For more information about Massimo Gezzi, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Monday 21 June 2010
Lectures by George Minot
Speaker
George Minot was born and raised in a large family in Massachusetts, lived in New York most of his adult life, and now lives in Rome. He is the author of a novel, The Blue Bowl (Knopf), and the forthcoming OmGirl. In addition to fiction, he writes non-fiction, works as an environmental communications consultant (writing and editing), and teaches yoga and healing with whole foods. He has a four year-old son, Milo Minot - who is also his uncompromising Italian language teacher.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
George Minot was born and raised in a large family in Massachusetts, lived in New York most of his adult life, and now lives in Rome. He is the author of a novel, The Blue Bowl (Knopf), and the forthcoming OmGirl. In addition to fiction, he writes non-fiction, works as an environmental communications consultant (writing and editing), and teaches yoga and healing with whole foods. He has a four year-old son, Milo Minot - who is also his uncompromising Italian language teacher.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Lectures by Peter Campion
Speaker
Peter Campion is the author of two collections of poetry, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009,) both from the University of Chicago Press. He also published a monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson in 2004, with Terrence Rogers Fine Art. His poems and prose have appeared recently in AGNI, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, Poetry, The New Republic, Slate, and The Yale Review. He has received a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a Civitella Ranieri Individual Artist’s Fellowship. He is currently the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Auburn University. He edits the journal Literary Imagination, which is published by Oxford University Press. For more information about Peter Campion, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Peter Campion is the author of two collections of poetry, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009,) both from the University of Chicago Press. He also published a monograph on the painter Mitchell Johnson in 2004, with Terrence Rogers Fine Art. His poems and prose have appeared recently in AGNI, ArtNews, The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, The New York Times, Poetry, The New Republic, Slate, and The Yale Review. He has received a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship at Stanford University, a Pushcart Prize, and a Civitella Ranieri Individual Artist’s Fellowship. He is currently the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Auburn University. He edits the journal Literary Imagination, which is published by Oxford University Press. For more information about Peter Campion, click here.
Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Lectures by Brad Leithauser & Mary Jo Salter
Speaker
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five novels, a novel in verse, four previous volumes of poetry, a collection of light verse, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2005, the president of Iceland inducted him into the Order of the Falcon for his writings about Nordic literature. Leithauser and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, are members of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information about Brad Leithauser, click here.
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five novels, a novel in verse, four previous volumes of poetry, a collection of light verse, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2005, the president of Iceland inducted him into the Order of the Falcon for his writings about Nordic literature. Leithauser and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, are members of the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information about Brad Leithauser, click here.
Speaker
Mary Jo Salter is the author of five collections of poems that have won such accolades as the New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a lyricist who has worked with composers Allen Bonde and Fred Hersch. She is also an essayist and reviewer for such publications as The New York Times Book Review and The Yale Review. She has received many awards, including NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. For more information about Mary Jo Salter, click here.
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Mary Jo Salter is the author of five collections of poems that have won such accolades as the New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a lyricist who has worked with composers Allen Bonde and Fred Hersch. She is also an essayist and reviewer for such publications as The New York Times Book Review and The Yale Review. She has received many awards, including NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. For more information about Mary Jo Salter, click here.
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Time and Location
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
8:00 p.m. - Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus
John Cabot University
