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Events in the summer semester 2026

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Johanna Muster

Note: The above courses can be attended in the summer semester 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 added 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.