- 04/18/2005 - John Ahern (Vassar College): "Red Dress, White Dress: Emily Dickinson Reads Dante"
- 11/01/2004 - Richard A. Varbero (SUNY New Paltz): "The Americanization of the Italians. Acculturation Then and Now"
- 04/20/2004 - John Marciari (Yale University Art Gallery): "Old and New in the Italian Garden. An Illustrated Lecture"
- 04/03/2003 - Gioia Timpanelli (Distinguished Poet, Prose Writer and Storyteller): "From Folk Tale to Fiction: The Italian Oral and Literary Traditions"
- 02/26/2003 - Prof. Alexander Stille (New York University): "Italian Jews under Fascism"
- 11/20/2002 - Prof. Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University): "Notes Toward a Gendered History of Early Italian Literature"
- 04/15/2002 - Prof. Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford University): "Genetics and the History of Modern Man"
- 11/15/2000 - Joseph Tusiani, Poet and Distinguished Service Professor (CUNY): "From Emigration to Poetry: An Hour with Joseph Tusiani"
- 04/04/2000 - Prof. Jaimee Uhlenbrock (SUNY New Paltz): "In the Shadow of Vesuvius Herculaneum. The Other Pompeii"
- 12/02/1999 - Prof. Paolo Valesio (Yale University): "Exile, Expatriation and Italophone Poetry"
