For cinema buffs…

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Bologna is home to a world-renowned institution devoted to the promotion, study and preservation of film, the Cineteca di Bologna. Its Cinema Lumière screens a huge selection of movies throughout the year, with a rich program that features independent movies, rarities, classics, animated and silent films (sometimes with live music). Next to the theatre is the Renzo Renzi library which boasts a collection of 38,000 books, 1,100 international and Italian film journals from the Silent Era to the present, 18,000 audiovisual materials, 200,000 movie posters and more than 1,500,000 photographs. The catalogue of its books and journals is available online, along with that of the audiovisual materials. The library also holds the Charlie Chaplin archive project, which contains the personal and professional archive of the great director. Taking full advantage of the Cineteca’s unmatched resources, E.C.Co. offers an exciting in-house film course. Continue reading →

Want to volunteer at an elementary or middle school?

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The E.C.Co. students have a chance to get to know the Italian educational system from within by teaching English to children at a Bolognese public school (age 6-11 at the Scuola Elementare, or age 11-14 at the Scuola Media). With just one hour a week of their time they get a terrific first-hand teaching experience. Our past students have said: “I had a wonderful time volunteering at the Scuola, I would really recommend doing this volunteer program if you are at all interested in teaching or if you like children. It was one of the highlights of my week!” Amy (Fall 2010) “My experience at the school was very enlightening and educative. I realized that I really like working with children and also how hard it is. It was really challenging: I had to keep in balance the work with individual pupils and the whole class and try to keep everyone engaged, yet the work is extremely rewarding.” Elena (Fall 2010) Continue reading →

An art capital waiting to be discovered

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Bologna has an extraordinary artistic and historical heritage and for this reason it itself is a museum. Genius bononiae – Musei della città – a cultural and artistic path throughout the city center – is gradually opening its eight restored historical buildings to the public. These include Palazzo Pepoli Vecchio, Biblioteca d’Arte e di Storia di San Giorgio in Poggiale, Complesso di San Colombano, Palazzo Fava, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vita, Casa Saraceni, Complesso Monumentale di San Michele in Bosco and Chiesa di Santa Cristina – all monuments containing precious works of art, ancient books and other signs of Bologna’s millennial civilization. Aside from its treasure-filled churches, Bologna’s world-renowned Pinacoteca Nazionale is home to some of the greatest Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces in the country, including works by Raphael, Lavinia Fontana, the Carracci, Guido Reni, Guercino, and many others. Lovers of modern and contemporary art will also find a lot to see in Bologna: the studio and museum of the great Bolognese painter Giorgio Morandi, the recently opened Mambo (Museo… Continue reading

Science anyone?

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When you think of Italy, your mind probably goes straight to art, literature and the other liberal arts. But did you know that the University of Bologna has 39 world-class science departments, as well as science museums and specialized libraries? Faculties such as the Faculty of Natural Sciences (where you will find physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biotechnology, etc.), the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Agriculture, the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry and the Faculty of Pharmacy offer hundreds of courses, many of which are sure to appeal to you. Working with your advisor back home, the E.C.Co. staff can help you find exciting courses appropriate for your science major. Continue reading →

Opportunities in International Relations

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The University of Bologna is home to a prominent Department of Political Science and International Relations. With students coming from many countries around the world and its prestigious faculty, it is one of the best departments of its kind in Italy. Within SPBO (Scienze Politiche Bologna), E.C.Co. students will have the opportunity to take a wide range of courses in the fields of Political Science, International Relations, Gender Studies, Law, and History. Continue reading →

If you’re interested in Urban Studies/Architectural History

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In 1806, the british writer George Tappen wrote in his description of Bologna: “The most remarkable feature in this city are the arcades on which the houses are built [...]." Bologna represents an unique case-study to understand the urban and architectural history of Italy. E.C.Co. program offers an unique in-house course on this topic, To Read a City: Urban History of Bologna since the Medieval Period taught by prof. Francesco Ceccarelli. The Urban center Bologna , located at the top floor of Salaborsa (Piazza Nettuno, 3) has a permanent exhibition displaying the urban strategies and projects which will map out the face of Bologna over the next fifteen years. The Center periodically organizes conferences and workshops. Continue reading →

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Vanessa Pietrantonio

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Vanessa Pietrantonio teaches literature courses at E.C.Co. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature in the United States and subsequently won various grants, such as a research grant and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Bologna. She has delivered a series of lectures at the IULM University in Milan on rewriting, parody, pastiche, the modern European novel and on representations of time in Don DeLillo’s Underworld. Prof. Pietrantonio has also been a visiting professor of literature at Vassar College, and has taught courses on the history of literary criticism at the University of Bologna, where she currently collaborates with Prof. Ferdinando Amigoni. Among her publications are Debenedetti e il suo doppio. Una traversata con Marcel Proust (Mulino, 2003) and Archetipi del Sottosuolo (FrancoAngeli, 2011), as well as co-edited volumes Nel paese dei sogni (Le Monnier, 2003) and Crocevia dei sogni. Dalla Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse (Le Monnier, 2004).

Ivan Tassi

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Ivan Tassi teaches Italian languge and writing courses at E.C.Co. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna and has taught at the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona. His research has focused on the techniques of autobiographical writing in Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as on Italian nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative. Prof. Tassi has authored books on the history and theory of autobiography as a literary genre (Storie dell’io) and on the autobiographical techniques of Goldoni, Alfieri and Leopardi (Gli specchi del possibile). He has published a volume of the three editions of Silvio D’Arzo’s short story Casa d’altri, the entry for “Biography” in the Encyclopaedia Treccani, and a survey of Italian nineteenth-century literary criticism for l’Almanacco Rizzoli. Ivan Tassi has also translated Breece Pancake’s short stories into Italian (Trilobiti). He is a contributor to the daily newspaper il manifesto’s culture column and to the weekly supplement Alias with his articles on literary criticism.

If art is your focus

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At E.C.Co we offer

Fall : Art and The Counter-Reformation: The Carracci and Caravaggio
Professor Vera Fortunati

With the closing of the Council of Trent in 1563, the Catholic Church of Rome responded to the Protestant ban on the use of images in churches and official rites with new, highly didactic and religiously propagandistic, policies on art. In Bologna, the cardinal Gabriele Paleotti pushed for an intensive reform of the visual arts by publishing a treatise in 1582 which explained, with persuasive firmness, the criteria that the painters were supposed to follow in order to produce images that could communicate religious truths with clarity and decorum, while at the same time involving the faithful on an emotional level.
This cultural climate shaped the work of the Carracci – Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale – who inaugurated a new kind of painting. Their reform broke with late sixteenth-century traditions and opened itself up to a new kind of naturalism that merged the achievements of the great Renaissance masters with a new pathos that anticipated Baroque theatricality. In the same years,… Continue reading

How to Apply

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Eligibility
The program is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors in good academic standing at their home institution. Two semesters of college-level Italian constitute the prerequisite for the fall semester, three semesters of college-level Italian for the spring. A “B” average in Italian language courses is required. Students wih less than four semesters of college-level Italian are required to attend the August session in Lecce, in the region Puglia. This course is a three-week intensive review of grammar and an introduction to contemporary Italy, and is required of students with only one year of college-level Italian. Students with two full years of college-level Italian may be exempted from the Lecce session. Participants are subject to specific requirements laid down by their home institution for study abroad.

Tuition and fees
The program fees cover tuition for the academic program, a round-trip airline ticket on the group flight, housing as well as extracurricular trips and activities organized by the program. Each semester, students will receive a food allowance to cover approximately 2/3 of food costs.

Application procedures
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Courses at UNIBO

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Dormitories

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Of all American students studying in Bologna, only E.C.Co. students have the privilege of living in the University of Bologna’s own “studentati” (dormitories) with same sex, Italian or international roommates. Most of these apartment-style residences are located in the city center near the University; some are a short bus-ride from the center. They consist of a common living space, a study space, a private bath, and a small kitchen, in addition to two double rooms. The University of Bologna housing authority assigns rooms by a lottery system comparable to those used on the campuses of the three consortial institutions. The living quarters are all similar with one exception: Forni is an all-female “studentato” and male students are not eligible to live there. The dormitories provide sheets, a comforter, and a pillow; they do not provide towels. Students are responsible for washing their own bed linens in the coin-operated washing machines in each “studentato,” and for keeping their living space tidy and clean. Rooms do not have telephones. There are payphones on the premises, but they do not receive incoming phone… Continue reading

The worlds of the Carracci, between Renaissance and Baroque: Religion and Literature, Myth and Theater

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History of Art Syllabus Prof. Vera Fortunati With the closing of the Council of Trent in 1563, the Catholic Church of Rome responded to the Protestant ban on the use of images in churches and official rites with new, highly didactic and religiously propagandistic, policies on art. This cultural climate shaped the work of the Carracci – Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale – who inaugurated a new kind of painting. Continue reading →

Behind the scenes

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Theatre Syllabus Prof. Gabriele Marchesini This course takes a general approach to acting styles, providing a direct and in-depth involvement with the Italian language as it mediates between the theory and the practice of theatrical literature, a literature conceived as a recited art rather than as one to be read. This way, we will approach the theatre as protagonists, rather than simply practising our knowledge of another language and culture. Continue reading →

Italian Scenes, Bolognese Scenes: Cultural and Identity Transformations in Postwar Italy (Television, Cinema, Music, Literature, Theatre, Comics)

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Cultural History Syllabus Prof. Franco Minganti The course proposes to examine Italian (cultural) identity, following the transformations taking place after the Second World War in a country moving toward an end of modernity and therefore toward today’s postmodern and global dimensions. We will try to identify the processes of modernization and globalization woven together with Italian and European images of Americanization, along with a changing youth culture and the slipping away of the idea of an “Italian icon.” Continue reading →

The edge of the abyss: the pathological in Italian nineteenth-century literature

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Italian Literature Syllabus Prof. Vanessa Pietrantonio The goal of this course is to cross the nineteenth century, stopping at some of its culminating moments such as Romanticism and Verism. An anthological reading of select fundamental works of the period such as Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi, Leopardi’s I Canti, and Verga’s short stories, constitutes a repertory of images, reflections and technical innovations that directly reflect the birth and the physiognomy of a new century whose shadow seems to arrive at our own times. Continue reading →

The wars of the 20th century in a European Perspective

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History Syllabus Prof. Alberto Preti Wars represent one of the principal keys to the reading of the twentieth century. The following represent some of the most relevant aspects underlining the centrality of this historiographical theme: the duration and intensity of the wars; the involvement of hundreds of millions of people (...); the modernization of the technologies (...); the subordination of the economy, politics, culture, and religion to the logic of war. Continue reading →

Political System and Society in Italy after World War II (1945-2008)

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Political Science Syllabus Prof. Stefano Cavazza The course aims to analyze the birth and development of the Italian political system and its interaction with the evolution of society. The first part of the course explains constitutional forms, the consolidation of the political system, and Italy’s final transition from an agricultural country to an industrialized one (Meetings 1-10). The second part of the course (Meetings 11-20) examines the transformations of Italian politics and society after 1968, ending with the crises of the political system in the 1990s. Continue reading →

To Read a City: Urban History of Bologna since the Medieval Period

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Urban Studies/History of Architecture Syllabus Prof. Francesco Ceccarelli Based on the study of select Italian cities in the north-central region, the course’s goal is to provide the tools for identifying the historic and urban factors that have shaped Emilia Romagna as well as its urban centers, primarily Bologna. The course will alternate between a series of classroom lectures dedicated to the comprehension of diverse evolutionary phases of construction, and site visits to different aspects of Bologna’s urban fabric. Given the nature of the course and the necessity to develop a comparative approach, day trips to other nearby cities are also planned. Continue reading →

Life and Adventures of Italian Women from the Renaissance until Today

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Women's Studies Syllabus Prof. Beatrice Collina The course proposes a trajectory through the life, work, and ideas of several well-known female writers of the twentieth century, and explores the Renaissance origins of questioning the meaning of “the feminine.” Questions connected to the evolution of women’s role in Italian society will be analyzed in particular: the relationship between mothers and daughters as told in the history of great women of the Italian Renaissance. Moving forward, we will examine other topics: the kitchen and memory, women’s privileged spaces; mothers, daughters, sisters, the right to vote, divorce laws, and abortion. Continue reading →

Italian Contemporary Art: 1860-2000

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History of Art Syllabus Prof. Lucia Corrain The goal of this course is to trace a path through the recent artistic production in Italy, with a chronological span encompassing the second half of the nineteenth through the end of the twentieth century. The focus on Italy will be presented in relationship with other European and non-European experiences. The guiding threads through the course will essentially be two: the first has to do with history and the chronological evolution of artistic change; the second relates to learning how to read an image or to the language of artistic work, as well as to the functional and communicative mechanisms of a visual text. Continue reading →

Cinema of Poetry and Cinema of Dreams: Pasolini and Fellini in Bologna

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Film Studies Syllabus Prof. Piero Di Domenico Poetry is a constant presence in the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini – the Bologna-born writer, director, poet, critic for the Corriere della Sera – whose analyses of Italy of the 1970s economic boom have left a profound intellectual legacy. In fact, questions raised by Pasolini’s works frequently concern Italy’s shifting identity. Which, among many critical and poetic allusions tied to cultural conformism and to the “development without progress” left behind by Pasolini still retain an explosive charge of actuality in the director’s view of Italy, with all the transformations the country had undergone? Continue reading →

The Italian Short Story, 1800-1900: Verga and Pirandello

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Italian Literature Syllabus Prof. Paolo Rota This course will examine the origins of the modern Italian tradition of the novella through the texts of Giovanni Verga and Luigi Pirandello, two authors who were largely responsible for paving the way for the establishment of the genre. Both in and outside the classroom, students will read and discuss several stories from the collections of both writers, and will also have the opportunity to see some cinematic and theatrical adaptations of the texts under examination. Continue reading →

Stefano Cavazza

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Prof. Stefano Cavazza teaches “Contemporary History” (undergraduate) and “History of European Society in the Twentieth Century” (graduate) at the University of Bologna’s Faculty of Political Sciences. He is currently the director of the BA Program in International Studies and of the PhD Program in Politics, Institutions, and History. At E.C.Co, he offers the course “The Political System and Society in Italy after World War II (1945-2008).” Prof. Cavazza’s research interests include Italian and German political history, Fascism, the study of consumption and regional history. He has been a research fellow at the University of Tübingen, at the German Historical Institute in Rome, and at the Center for Contemporary History in Munich, and a visiting professor at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has also taught at the University of Trier, the Humboldt in Berlin, and in Potsdam with the Socrates Program. He is a member of the editorial board of the historical journal Ricerche di Storia politica and co-editor of the Storia Politica, a book series published by Rubbettino Editore. In 2005, Prof. Cavazza’s… Continue reading

Francesco Ceccarelli

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Francesco Ceccarelli teaches architectural history at the University of Bologna, as well as the history of urbanism at the University of Ferrara. At E.C.Co., he offers a course on the urban and architectural development of Bologna. The focus of Prof. Ceccarelli’s research is the study of the early modern and modern Italian city, from the Renaissance through Neoclassicism. He has written numerous studies on Italian architects active between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries, from Leon Battista Alberti to Giovanni Antolini, and curated important international exhibitions in architectural history, such as Une renaissance singuliere. La cour des Este à Ferrare(Brussels 2003 and Ferrara 2004). He has also co-edited volumes on Giovan Battista Aleotti, on villas and gardens in Renaissance Ferrara, and on Bolognese art and architecture in the age of Pellegrino and Domenico Tibaldi, as well as contributing significant chapters to Electa’s series on the history of Italian architecture. In recognition of his innovative studies on the strategies of urban development of cities of the Po valley during the Renaissance – above all, his book La città di Alcina. Architettura… Continue reading

Beatrice Collina

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Prof. Beatrice Collina offers courses in women’s history at E.C.Co. and teaches in the Department of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. Her research is focused primarily on the history of Renaissance and Baroque literature, in particular on Venetian female writers who addressed women’s issues between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some of her articles have been dedicated to biographies of notable women from this period and to theories regarding women in the Early Modern age. A student of Piero Camporesi, Prof. Collina has written widely on Italian Counter-Reformation authors, such as Giovan Battista Marino, Arcangela Tarabotti, and Tomaso Garzoni. She has published critical editions of Garzoni’s Le vite delle donne illustri della Scrittura Sacra and La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondo. For many years, Prof. Collina held research and teaching positions in the United States: she was a visiting scholar at the Regenstein Library in Chicago, held a course for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, and received a Fulbright Fellowship in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures… Continue reading

Lucia Corrain

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A specialist in modern and contemporary art, Prof. Lucia Corrain is particularly interested in the language of figurative arts, especially painting. In her studies ranging from ancient to contemporary art, she has investigated how a work of art communicates, how it engages the spectator, and what kinds of emotions it provokes in the viewer. She is on the scientific board of the journal Visibile, and has served as the secretary of the International Association of Visual Studies. Prof. Corrain’s scholarly articles have appeared in numerous Italian and international journals (such as Versus, Visio, Visible, etc.); she has also published the monograph Semiotica dell’invisibile. Quadri a lume di notte and edited the volume Semiotiche della pittura. At E.C.Co, Lucia Corrain offers the course “Italian Contemporary Art: 1860-2000”. She also teaches “Semiotics of Art” at DAMS and the Faculty of Communication, and “Semiotics of the Visible” for the laurea magistrale degree in Visual Arts and Semiotics. Prof. Corrain currently directs the undergraduate program in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna.

Piero Di Domenico

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In addition to offering a history of cinema course at E.C.Co., Prof. Piero di Domenico teaches “Cinema and Multimedia Technologies” and “Theory and Technology of the New Media” at the University of Bologna’s Dams Cinema, and “Institutions of Cinema History” and “History of Italian Cinema” at the University of Ferrara. For the past ten years, he has served as the editorial director of the Ermitage Cinema, an Italian and French publisher of home videos of great cinematic masterpieces of the past. Prof. Di Domenico is also in charge of the multimedia section of the Cineteca di Bologna, and serves as the curator of the “DVD Awards” prize at the “Il Cinema Ritrovato” annual festival in Bologna. For many years, he has collaborated with the Martin Scorsese Foundation and the World Cinema Foundation on the preservation of cinematic heritage, and has written for the culture column of the daily newspaper “Il Corriere della Sera.” In recent years, Prof. Di Domenico has focused his research on the questions of re-issue of historic cinematic patrimony with new technologies. He has published and presented… Continue reading

Introduction to History of Art

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History of art Dott. Stefania Biancani The course aims to give students the technical vocabulary they will need in History of Art courses taught in Italian, the opportunity to use that vocabulary in the discussion of various works of art, as well as an overview of the major genres and historical events of the Italian Renaissance. Students intending to enrol in the ECCO Art and Architecture course offered in the fall are required to attend an introductory course in September. Continue reading →