

The Department of French & Italian Graduate Student Association (FIGSA) is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 semester lecture in Italian Studies. Professor Lorenzo Fabbri, McKnight Land-Grant Associate Professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, will be on campus to give a talk about his new book Cinema is the Strongest Weapon (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).
FIGSA will moderate a presentation of Dr. Fabbri's book, which explores the banality of evil and asks big questions like why ordinary Italian citizens collaborated with totalitarianism, white supremacy, antisemitism, and colonialism. Fabbri’s book is available for purchase here.
For Zoom attendance, register here.
The French and Italian Graduate Student Association (FIGSA) is an organization with the following goals:
- Promote career development of the graduate students of the Department through the creation of opportunities for intellectual and social exchange
- Ensure an adequate representation of graduate students in Department governance
- Provide an understanding of the organization and functioning of the Department of French and Italian
- Meet the everyday concerns of graduate students of the Department in their work as students and as Graduate Teaching or Research Assistants
- Ensure the fair treatment of its members in the Department
Learn more about the organization and upcoming events on FIGSA's website.