Franco Baldasso

Background

About Franco Baldasso

Director of Italian Program, Division of Languages and Literature Director of Bard College Summer Abroad Program in Taormina, Sicily, in collaboration with Babilonia - Italian Language School 200 and 300 level Italian Literature, Art and Cinema courses, Instructor - 200:"Italian Crimes, Italian Fictions,""Sicily and Writing,""Imagining Italian Cities from Dante to Calvino,""The Middle Sea: Mediterranean Encounters in Italy,""Primo Levi: The Holocaust and Scientific Imagination,""Speaking Truth to Power: Testimony, Prison, Exile;"- 300:"Democracy and Defeat: Italy after WWII""The Birth of the Avant-Garde: Futurism, Metaphysics, Magical Realism" Elementary to Advanced Level Language Classes (100 and 200 level), Instructor Italian Cultural Events at Bard College, Organizer - Ara Merjian (NYU),"Continuous Revolution: Mussolini's Profile between Futurist Spin and Fascist Propaganda," lecture (March 2020)-"Writing after Fascism. Curzio Malaparte between Paris and Moscow." A conversation with author and translators Jenny McPhee (NYU) and Steven Twilley (publicbooks.org)(October 2018)- Anna Maria Mariani (University of Chicago), “The Witness’s Two Bodies: Primo Levi, Anne Frank, Jorge Semprún,” lecture (February 2018)- David Forgacs (NYU),"History of Violence: Killing, Communication and Memory in United Italy," lecture (September 2017)- Shelleen Greene (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee),"After the Revolution: Reading the Italian-Lybian Political Constellation through the Afro-Surrealist Imaginary," lecture (March 2017)- Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union),"When Hollywood Fell in Love with Italian Modernism," lecture (November 2016)- Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago),"Venice by Electric Moonlight," lecture (October 2016)- Nicola Gardini (Oxford), presentation of his novel "Lost Words," lecture (March 2016)-"Celebrating the Complete Works of Primo Levi," conversation with translators Ann Goldstein (New Yorker) and Michael M. Moore (PEN/Heim Translation Fund),(March 2016)- Ruth Ben Ghiat (NYU),"Italian Fascism's Empire Cinema," lecture (October 2015)