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Events in winter semester 2025/2026

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Johanna Muster

Note: The above courses can be attended in the winter semester 2025/2026. In the case of courses where the reference to Italy is not dominant or already appears in the title, the coursework must - after consultation with the course instructor - have a reference to Italy.
Further courses can be included or attended here by arrangement.

Language courses

Please register for the language courses by sending an e-mail to italicum[at]uni-kassel[dot]de.

Please register for the courses via eCampus/Hispos.

Archive

  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive course Italian A1. Monday 16:00-18:00, Moritzstraße 18 - Campus Center, room 1124, seminar room 6 & Tuesday 14:00-16:00, Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 25 - room 1112. Start on 17.04.2023.
  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive Italian B1 course. Wednesday 14:00-16:00 & Friday 14:00-16:00, Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room 1020. start on 14.04.2023.

 

  • Marco Bartalucci:Intensive course Italian A1. Tuesday 14:00-16:00, room 0402, AB 2 and Thursday 14:00-16:00, room 1122, week 3. Start on 25.10.2022.
  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive Italian A2 course. Friday 14:00-16:00, room 0112, AB 8 and clock and Wednesday 14:00-16:00, room 1221, NP 4. start on 21.10.2022.

 

  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive Italian A1 course. Tuesday 14:00-16:00 and Thursday 14:00-16:00. Online. Start on 19.04.2022.
    If you would like to take the course, please register by e-mail at . You will then receive further information.
  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive course Italian A2. Wednesday 14:00-16:00 and Friday 14:00-16:00. Online. Start on 20.04.2022.
    If you would like to take the course, please register by e-mail at . You will then receive further information.

 

  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive course Italian A2 - Italicum. Wednesday 14:00-16:00 and Friday 14:00-16:00. Arnold-Bode-Str. 8 - Room 0112. Start on 27.10.2021.
    If you would like to take the course, please register by e-mail at . You will then receive further information.
  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive Italian B1 course - Italicum. Tuesday 14:00-16:00 and Thursday 14:00-16:00. Online. Start on 26.10.2021.
    If you would like to take the course, please register by e-mail at . You will then receive further information.

 

 

  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive Italian A1 course - Italicum. Tuesday 14:00-16:00 and Thursday 14:00-16:00. Start on 20.04.2021.
    Initially, an online event is planned, which will take place via Zoom. If you would like to take the course, please register by e-mail at . You will then receive further information.
  • Marco Bartalucci: Intensive course Italian A2 - Italicum. Wednesday 14:00-16:00 and Friday 14:00-16:0. Start on 21.04.2021.
    Initially, an online event is planned, which will take place via Zoom. If you would like to take the course, please register by e-mail at . You will then receive further information.

 

 

Courses with a slight reference to Italy (the coursework must have a reference to Italy).

  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A1 course - ITALICUM. Monday, 4-8 p.m. in Arnold-Bode-Straße 8, room 0112, starting on 21.10.2019.
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A2 course - ITALICUM. Tuesday, 4-8 p.m. in Nora-Platiel-Straße 8, room 0419, starting on 22.10.2019.
  • Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt (Kunsthochschule Kassel): Art historical Italian basic concepts in Vasari. Tuesday, 4-6 p.m. in Menzelstraße 15, Südbau, room 3140, starting on 22.10.2019.
  • Dr. Angelika Bönker-Vallon (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): Philosophy as self-discovery (Boethius, Dante, Petrarca, Bruno). Thursday, 17.10.2019 from 12-14h in Nora-Platiel-Straße 4, room 1219; Saturday and Sunday, 18-19.01.2020 and 01-02.02.2020, from 10-16h in the Camus Center, Moritzstraße 18, room 1118, seminar room 5.

 

Courses with a slight connection to Italy.(The coursework must be related to Italy).

  • Dr. Clelia Caruso (FB 05: Social Sciences): Western European consumer history of the 20th century. Monday, 12-13:30 in Mönchebergstraße 1, room 3012, seminar room III. start on 21.10.2019.
  • Dr. Maddalena Marinari (FB 05: Social Sciences): Transnational Lives of European Migrants in the United States. Monday, 12-13:30 in Nora-Platiel-Straße 8, room 0419, starting on 21.10.2019.
  • Dr. Angelika Bönker-Vallon (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): Unity or Being? The question of the first principle of philosophy. Thursday, 17.10.2019 from 10-12 a.m. in Nora-Platiel-Straße 4, room 1219; Saturday and Sunday, 30.11.-01.12.2019 and 14-15.12.2019, from 10-16 a.m. in Arnold-Bode-Straße 8, room 0112.
  • Prof. Dr. Jan-Henrik Witthaus (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): The Conquest and Colonization of the New World. The rise and fall of the Spanish empire as reflected in literature. Tuesday, 2-4 p.m. in Arnold-Bode-Straße 10, Room 0104.
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A1 course - ITALICUM. Mondays, 4-8 p.m. in Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room 3044, starting on 15.04.2019. Additional compulsory dates are 14.06.2019 and 05.07.2019.
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A2 course - ITALICUM. Tuesday, 4-8 p.m. in Kurt-Wolters-Straße 3, room 1120 A. Start on 16.04.2019.
  • Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (FB 05: Social Sciences): Emperor Frederick Barbarossa: On the staging of power in the Middle Ages. Tuesday, 4-6 p.m. in Arnold-Bode-Straße 10, room 0104, starting on 16.04.2019.
  • Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Splitter (FB 05: Social Sciences): Rome in the 18th century: Topography and History. Thursday, 2-4 p.m. in Wilhelmshöhe Palace, Collection of Classical Antiquities. Start on 25.04.2019.
  • Dr. Clelia Caruso (FB 05: Social Sciences): Failed colonial expansion: Spain and Italy at the turn of the century before last. Wednesday, 10-12 a.m. in the DAK building, room 2034, starting on 17.04.2019.
  • Dr. Angelika Bönker-Vallon (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): The Shaping of Modern Europe: The Significance of Italian Renaissance Humanism. Block seminar with introductory event: Tuesday, 16.04.2019, 6-8pm, Arnold-Bode-Straße 2, Room 0404; Saturday and Sunday, 22.06-23.06.2019, 10am-4pm, Arnold-Bode-Straße 2, Room 0401; Saturday and Sunday, 06.07-07.07.2019, 10am-4pm, Moritzstraße 15-31, Systembau 2, Room 0208.
  • Désirée Monsees, M. A.: Insights into artistic collaboration in painting from the 15th to the 17th century - practice, theory and reception. Friday, 03.05.2019, 10am-12pm; Friday, 17.05.2019, 10am-14pm; Saturday and Sunday, 07.06-08.06.2019, 10am-14pm; Saturday and Sunday, 28.06-29.06, 10am-14pm; Friday, 12.07.2019, 10am-14pm. All events take place in Menzelstraße 15, Südbau, room 3140.

 

Courses with a slight connection to Italy.(The coursework must be related to Italy).

  • Dr. Luigi de Ambrosia (FB 05: Social Sciences): Goddesses and witches: Women and Ecstasy in Antiquity and Early Modern Times. Wednesday, 4-6 p.m. in Nora-Platiel-Straße 1, room 1311, starting on 17.04.2019.
  • Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): Machine, literature and theater in the 17th century. Tuesday, 08-10 a.m. in Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room -1030, starting on 16.04.2019.
  • Sophie-Luise Mävers, M. A.: Garden arts in image, writing and nature - an art historical discourse. Monday, 6-8 pm in Menzelstraße 15, Südbau, room 3140.

 

Excursions

  • Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (FB 05: Social Sciences): Research - Text - Image. Concepts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (with a one-week excursion to Florence). Wednesday, 10-12 a.m., from 17.04. to 19.06.2019, in Moritzstraße 25-31, Systembau 2, Room 0205. The date on 12.06.2019 is canceled.
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A1 course - ITALICUM. Monday, 4-8 p.m. in Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room -1026 (UG). Start on 22.10.2018.
  • Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (FB 05: Social Sciences): The astonishment of the world: Emperor Frederick II in the judgment of contemporaries. Wednesday, 12-14 p.m. in Nora-Platiel-Straße 8, Room 0419, starting on 24.10.2018.
  • Prof. Dr. Alexis Joachimides (Kunsthochschule Kassel): The European city from the Renaissance to the garden city movement. Tuesday, 10-12 a.m. in Menzelstraße 13, Nordbau lecture hall. Start on 23.10.2018.
  • Dr. Clelia Caruso (FB 05: Social Sciences): Memory-political reappraisal of migratory movements: museum and digital representations of migration in Europe. Wednesday, 4-6 p.m. in Moritzstraße 18, Campus Center, Room 1118, Seminar Room 5, starting on 24.10.2018.

 

Courses with a slight connection to Italy.(The coursework must be related to Italy).

  • Dr. Luigi de Ambrosia (Department 05: Social Sciences): Homo and migrans - migratory movements in European history. Tuesday, 12-14 p.m. in Moritzstraße 18, Campus Center, Room 1117, Seminar Room 4, starting on 23.10.2018.
  • Dr. Francesca Michelini: Myth as a form of philosophical mediation: Prometheus and his philosophical and literary interpretations. Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. in Nora-Platiel-Straße 6, room 0211, starting on 23.10.2018.

 

Excursions

  • Marco Link, Dipl.-Ing., and Dieter Hennicken, Dipl.-Ing.: "Freespace" excursion to the Venice Architecture Biennale.
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A2 course - ITALICUM. Monday, 4-8 p.m. in Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room -1026 (UG). Start on 9.04.2018. Mandatory additional date: Friday, 18.05.2018, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room 3044.
  • Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt (Kunsthochschule Kassel): From Giotto to Raphael - Introduction to early Italian painting. Wednesday, 10-12 am. Start on 11.04.2018. Menzelstraße 13, Nordbau, lecture hall.
  • Prof. Dr. Susanne Bach (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): Fictional Italy. Wednesday, 1012 o'clock. Start on 11.04.2018. Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room -1029.
  • Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (FB 05: Social Sciences): Research - Text - Image. Concepts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (with a one-week excursion to Florence). Start on Wednesday 11.04.2018, 12-14 o'clock. Further dates: 30.05; 20.06; 27.06; 04.07; 11.07. Moritzstraße 25-31, Systembau 2, room 0205.
  • Prof. Dr. Kai Ruffing (Department 05: Social Sciences): Hannibal. Monday, 14-16 hrs. Start on 16.04.2018. Nora-Platiel-Straße 6, Room 0212.
  • Dr. Clelia Caruso: Nationalisms in Western Europe. Monday, 14-16 hrs. Start on 16.04.2018. Moritzstraße 18, Campus-Center, room 1118, seminar room 5.
  • Dr. Armin Becker (FB 05: Social Sciences): Roman Germanic politics from the 1st-3rd century. Friday 20.04.2018, 2-6 pm; Friday 29.06.2018, 4-8 pm; Saturday to Sunday, 30.06.2018 to 1.07.2018, 9 am to 6 pm. Location to follow. (There is no confirmation yet that the event is open to ITALICUM students).
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian B1 course - ITALICUM. Tuesday, 4-8 pm. Kurt-Wolters-Str. 5, Room 3044
  • Loredana Zanne: Intensive Italian A1 - ITALICUM. Monday, 4-8 pm. Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, Room 1020.
  • Prof. Dr. Nikola Roßbach (FB02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): Italian travels from Goethe to the 21st century.
    Dates: 16.1., 23.1., 30.1., 6.2., 13.2.2018, 4pm-2pm in each case. Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, room -1030.
  • Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt; Sophie Luise Mävers MA (Kunsthochschule Kassel): Giorgio Vasari, Umberto Boccioni - Italian in art history - basic texts considered in their specialized terminology. Tuesday, 1-4 pm. Menzelstraße 13-15, Room 3140.
  • Dr. Angelika Bönker-Vallon (FB 02: Humanities and Cultural Studies): State utopias of the Renaissance (Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon). Dates: 09.12. and 10.12.17, 27.01. and 28.01.18, 10 am - 4 pm. Preliminary discussion on 18.10.2017, 6-8 pm. The preliminary meeting will take place in Arnold-Bode-Straße 2, room 0409.
  • Dr. Paolo Sanvito (Kunsthochschule Kassel): Introduction to the basics of architectural theory - Andrea Palladio, Daniele Barbaro and Vincenzo Scamozzi. On the interrelationship between buildings and treatises. Block seminar 3.11 to 5.11. 2017 (time to be announced).
    Menzelstraße 13-15, room 3140.
  • Dr. Clelia Caruso (FB 05: Social Sciences): Dictatorship experience and Europeanization after the Second World War: Italy and Spain in a phase-shifted comparison. Wednesday, 10-12 am. Moritzstraße 25-31, Systembau 2, Room 0209.
  • Language course Italian A2 for ITALICUM students Monday, 4-8 p.m. (from 24.04.2017), please also note the other compulsory dates, see information sheet on the language course Moritzstraße 25-31 (Systembau 1), Room 0107 Zanne, Loredana
  • Fictional Libraries (Lecture) Wednesday, 10-12 a.m. Kurt-Wolters-Straße 5, Room -1026 Witthaus, Jan-Hendrik, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Romance Studies)
  • Plurality of forms of knowledge in the Renaissance (block seminar with introduction) Introductory event: Wednesday, 6-8 p.m., for further dates see course catalog Kurt-Wolters-Straße 3, Room 1120A Bönker-Vallon, Angelika, Dr. (Institute of Philosophy)
  • Italian in art history - describing paintings and looking at basic texts in their specialist terminology I (seminar with continuation in WS 2017/18) Tuesday, 1-4 p.m., (from 25.4.2017) Seminar room KHS, Menzelstraße 15, Südbau, room 3140 Sitt, Martina, Prof. Dr.
  • Civil wars in Italy and Spain (19th and 20th century) Wednesday, 10-12 a.m. Untere Königsstraße 71, 2nd floor, room 2010 (ring the bell) Caruso, Clelia, Dr.

 

Excursions:

  • Research - Text - Image. Concepts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (advanced seminar with one-week excursion to Florence) Wednesday, 10-12 a.m. Nora-Platiel-Straße 4, Room 1219 Baumgärtner, Ingrid, Prof. Dr. (FB 02: Medieval History)
  • Loredana Zanne: Italian A1 language course for ITALICUM students. Monday, 4 - 8 pm. Kurt-Wolters 5, Room 3044
  • Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner (FB 05: Social Sciences): Rome - Center of the World in the Middle Ages. Tuesday, 2 - 4 pm. Moritzstr. 2, Room 3200.
  • Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt; Monsees, Désirée, M.A. (Kunsthochschule Kassel): Italian art history or art history in Italian - between technical terms and technical language. Thursday, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Menzelstr. 15, Südbau, room 3140.
  • Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt (Kunsthochschule Kassel): Masterpieces of the Baroque -The "Heaven on Earth" or the rediscovery of an "ugly style". Wednesday, 4.30-6pm. Menzelstr. 15, south building, room 3140.
  • Prof. Dr. Alexis Joachimides (Kunsthochschule Kassel): Titian. Tuesday, 2-4 pm. Menzelstr. 15, south building, room 3140.
  • Prof. Dr. Kai Ruffing (FB 05: Social Sciences): Life in imperial Rome. Tuesday, 10-12 a.m. Arnold-Bode-Str. 2, Room 0408.

Excursions:

  • Prof. Dr. Kai Ruffing (FB 05: Social Sciences): Rome excursion. 08.01.2017 - 14.01.2017.
  • Prof. Dipl. Ing. Stefan Rettich; Christina Antonelli, M. Sc: Excursion Architecture - Venice Biennale: Reporting from the Front. 5 days in November, seminars on preparation and follow-up.