Courses

2025 PROGRAM

This intensive four-day program is an immersive experience that offers a blend of lectures, scholarly conversations with an international faculty, meetings with the professionals of the audiovisual and cultural industry, and visits to local institutions; the full schedule, which includes details about the various locations where the school will take place, can be downloaded from this page.

To find out more about our teaching staff, please refer to the 2025 Faculty sub-page.

Lectures and seminars

• Opening Remarks
  Fabio Pollice (Università del Salento)

• Course Presentation. How to Study the Mediated Italy
  Luca Barra (Università di Bologna)
• A Country Called Italy: Stereotypes and New Narrative Horizons on Screen
  Elisa Farinacci and Emiliano Rossi (Università di Bologna)

• Investigating Representation, Inclusivity and Social Responsibility in Italian Public Service TV: Trends and Case Studies
  Paola Brembilla (Università di Bologna)

• These Italians Are Everywhere! Worldwide Dissemination of Italian Cinema during the Silent Era
  Paolo Tosini  (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia)

• The Languages of Italian Fashion
  Eugenia Paulicelli (CUNY, Queens College)

• Autonomia Abroad: the Politics and Mediation of “Laboratory Italy”
  Jonathan Mullins (The Ohio State University)

• Chiara Ferragni’s Journey: Authenticity, Fame, and Shame in the Digital Age
  Nicoletta Marini-Maio (Dickinson College)

• “Indeed There Is Magic in Casting”: Contemporary Italian Seriality, Casting, and Gendered Labor
  Dana Renga (The Ohio State University)

• The Racial Politics of Summertime’s Reception
  Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol)

• Italy for Beginners. How the Essayists of the XXth Century Have Portrayed Italy
  Claudio Giunta (Università di Torino)

• Pop and the Popes: Vatican Politics and Intrigues in Audiovisual Fiction (1968-2024)
  Matteo Marinello (Università di Bologna)

• The Eternal Temptation of Populism in Italian Cinema
  Giacomo Manzoli (Università di Bologna)

• The AI Emergence/Emergency: a Conversation
  Massimo Riva (Brown University)

Guided tours, special events, and social activities

• show cooking experience in partnership with Gambero Rosso Academy
• nature tour, beach trip and sunset aperitivo
• arts & culture promenade with Manuela De Giorgi
• daily book presentations

Student presentations

A full schedule of the poster presentations planned for the 2025 edition is now available as a downloadable document.