This year's Gaetano Salvemini Colloquium in Italian History and Culture is a featured event of Worldwide Week at Harvard which showcases the remarkable breadth of Harvard’s global engagement.
The 2018 Salvemini lecture will focus on the life of Italian-American economist Franco Modigliani was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985. Modigliani was a professor at UIUC, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT.
This annual lecture series is named in honor of the Italian anti-fascist historian Gaetano Salvemini, who spent much of his career as a professor in the Harvard department of history. This event is co-sponsored with the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and aims to foster a spirit of intellectual inquiry into Italian history within the Harvard community and beyond.
