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Professor of Art Véronique Plesch organized and chaired a session for the 2021 conference from the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Binghamton University), “Medieval Cultural Heritage Around the Globe: Monuments, Literature, and the Arts, Then and Now.” Her session, “Graffiti and Cultural Heritage,” considered graffiti (both medieval graffiti and later graffiti on medieval sites) as a cultural heritage. Plesch’s paper, “On the Patrimonialization of Graffiti,” discussed the issues at stake, retraced the history of scholarship on graffiti, and the subsequent recognition of their significance and need for preservation. Scholars from the UK and Italy presented projects that demonstrate the new awareness of graffiti as cultural heritage.

A solo exhibition by sculptor and Associate Professor of Art Bradley Borthwick opened Oct. 22 at Burlington City Arts in Vermont. The exhibition, Objects of Empire, "investigates the significance of two seemingly incongruent manufactured objects – an 18th-century Vermont headstone, known as the Pratt tablet, and an ancient Roman amphora." The exhibition is on view through Feb. 5, 2022.

Gianluca Rizzo, the Paul D. and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature, has recently translated Mark Tardi's poem "Seven Half Sonnets" from English to Italian, subsequently published in Rossocorpolingua.

 

Rizzo's other recent translations and publications:

• “Apelle figlio di Apollo dipinge una sfingefenice: Figurazione e significazione nella poesia di Luigi Ballerini,” Il remo di Ulisse. Saggi sulla poesia e la poetica di Luigi Ballerini, Venezia, Marsilio, 2021, pp. 113-146.

 

“Hiccer, o il gioco delle tre carte,” Mariano Bàino, Ritratto immaginario di Hiccer, (Nola: Il Laboratorio, 2021) (forthcoming).

 

 Carmelo Bene, "I Appeared to the Madonna," trans. Carole Viers-Andronico, Forum Italicum, 55, No. 1, Spring 2021, pp. 233-236.

 

 Translation of "Stefano Benni. Introduction to Bar Sport," Hyperion, Volume XIV, No. 1, November 2021, (forthcoming).

 

Translation of "Testi di Robert Gibbons," Journal of Italian Translation, Volume 15, No. 2, Fall 2020, pp. 124-143.

 

"Il futuro del Fax (giallo): Storia, persistenze e inattualità di una macchina di poesia," Rivista di Studi Italiani, XXXIX, No. 1, 2021, pp. 99-131.

The Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship generated a variety of stories including by the Portland Press Herald and Mainebiz. In Maine Startups Insider, Todd Halloran, whose generosity is allowing for the creation of the lab, was quoted about the virtues of entrepreneurism. “It’s about having a positive impact on the economy and society by helping others through job creation and community building,” he said.

The story by the Associated Press on Colby’s announcement to add caste to its nondiscrimination policy was picked up by a wide range of media across the country and around the world. Highlights include ABC News, the Boston Globe, Britain's Daily Mail, the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Times, to name a few.

The New York Times published a major article on the Colby Museum’s Bob Thompson exhibition. The story, which appeared in the Sunday Arts & Leisure section, refers to the show as “a stunning look at a Black painter who looked to the old masters for inspiration; his bold attitude toward art history is summed up in the show’s title, This House Is Mine.”