March 1, Thursday, 4:30 p.m. Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Dr. Joseph Tromba Lecture Series Event: Joseph Francese (University Outstanding Faculty and Professor of Italian, Michigan State University) Lecture on the topic: Giufà, The Sicilian sciocco/furbo Folk Hero.

Professor Francese will discuss this Sicilian folk character, who has been a part of popular culture in Sicily since the Muslim conquest in 827 and the conflicting ways Writers, Italo Calvino and Leonardo Sciascia, have appropriated him. Location: Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University’s Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340.