US/EU Trade for Cross-Border Alternative Societies
Labor and Industrial Relations in the Transatlantic Free-Trade Agreement Guidelines Workshop A workshop to comparatively analyze the labor policies and industrial relations in Europe and U.S. Chair: Tiziano Treu, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Among the speakers: Miriam Sapiro, Deputy US Trade Representative (t.b.c.) Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO Trade Policy Specialist I. Garcia Bercero, Director, DG […]
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SALVATORE EMBLEMA “TRANSPARENCY”
In collaboration with the archives, estate, and museum of Italian postwar artist Salvatore Emblema, BOSI Contemporary is proud to announce his first New York exhibition Transparency, which examines his career through 20 works and a large-scale installation. Having spent the majority of his life in Italy, Emblema remains relatively unknown to an American audience despite […]
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NEW LITERATURE FROM EUROPE
Festival November 16NYPL, S. A. Schwarzman Bldg S. Court Auditorium 42nd St. & Fifth Ave., New York, NY3:45pm: The Sins of the Father Readings with Erri De Luca, György Dragomán joined in discussion by Witold Szablowski and Daniela Zeca-Buzura. The legacy of the Second World War and the many civil wars that it overshadowed continues […]
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TRIBUTE TO VERDI
Exhibition opening and concert. The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, over the centuries, was able to bring together internationally renowned set and costume designers, whose works form a gigantic iconographic heritage through artistic and highly relevant documents. The exhibition, by way of a collection of valuable costumes, models, and original sketches from the early twentieth century […]
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N.I.C.E. ITALIAN CINEMA
Film Festival Round Table and short video presentation Presentation of the 23rd N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events with the participation of Viviana del Bianco, Alba Rorhwacher, and Gloria Reuben (tbc). Directed by Viviana del Bianco and Grazia Santini, The series of eight new Italian films by debuting directors will premiere in New York City on […]
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TRIBUTE TO VERDI
Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company’s ICI intends to pay homage to the operatic genius of Giuseppe Verdi on the bicentennial of his birth hosting a viewing of excerpted videos of some of Verdi’s operas from the Colla Company’s repertory, along with a live marionette performance to the accompaniment of selected arias. The Colla family […]
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OPERETTE MORALI BY GIACOMO LEOPARDI
Theatrical production directed by Mario Martone On the occasion of the Year of the Italian Culture in United States, and of the publication of the forthcoming English translation of Leopardi’s Zibaldone, the Teatro Stabile of Torino presents a performance of the “Operette Morali”, with Italian subtitles. This theatrical production opened the celebrations for the 150th […]
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TERRITORIAL INEQUALITIES IN ITALY:WHY IS THE SOUTH LAGGING BEHIND?
Lecture by Carlo Trigilia (Minister of Territorial Cohesion) Trigilia was born in Siracuse on 18 June 1951. He graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in sociology in 1974. Trigilia taught at universities of Palermo, Trento and Harvard He is professor of economic sociology at the University of Florence He is chair of […]
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FRANCIS OF ASSISI: A NEW BIOGRAPHY
Winner of Flaiano Prize 2013 Lecture by Fr. Augustine Thompson, OP “Francis of Assisi. A New Biography” is a recent and sound biography dedicated to one of the most venerated and beloved saints of the Catholic tradition in Italy and worldwide. Fr. Augustine Thompson, a Dominican scholar and author of the book, researched the historical […]
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BALLA IS BACK -ALL DAY VIEWING
Casa Italiana invites art scholars and enthusiasts to a landmark viewing of an important and long-forgotten Futurist work by Giacomo Balla, Penetrazioni dinamiche d’automobile (1912-13). Last on view in the United States during the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, the iconic work of art plays a fundamental role in Balla’s dynamic contribution to […]
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