InScena! Festival 2018
Kairos Italy Theater, New York’s preeminent Italian Theater Company, and KIT Italia present the 6th Edition of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, which features a record of twelve shows, directly from Italy to NYC; including a special Opening Night Event, We are Not Alone, starring Dario D’Ambrosi. The 15-day, 5-borough Festival, founded by KIT […]
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Outstanding Italian Women Series – Lidia Bastianich
The series continues with Lidia Bastianich in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Lidia Bastianich is the best‐selling author of thirteen cookbooks and the Emmy award-winning host of public television’s Lidia’s Kitchen, which also airs internationally, as well as a judge on MasterChef Junior Italy and Italy’s highly rated daily program La Prova del Cuoco.The flourishing […]
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Book presentation: The Pope Who Would Be King by David Kertzer
Presentation of The Pope Who Would Be King The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe, by David Kertzer. The author will be in conversation with Alexander Stille. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini takes on a pivotal, untold story: the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political […]
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Conference: May First, Italian Labor Day
Around the world, May 1 is celebrated as Labor Day. In North America, instead, Labor Day occurs on the first Monday of September, and the tradition orginates from the manifestation of September 5, 1882 by the Knights of Labor in New York. The international democratic socialism officially declared May 1 as Labor Day in 1889, […]
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Exile and Creativity Series -The politicians: Ascoli and Salvemini
In this third talk of the series we address the political topic of those who were forced to leave Italy because they were antifascists or Jews, or, often, both. Many of them fled to the United States. Two historians, Renato Camurri Italian, and Federico Finchelstein, Argentine but residing in New York, discuss about the American […]
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Giornate della Scienza- The James Webb Space Telescope – New Horizons in Science and Technology
The James Webb Space Telescope – New Horizons in Science and Technology is a presentation by Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo that provides an overview of the project, the scientific and technological challenges encountered during its realization, and the countless spin-offs generated all along that benefit life on Earth every day. The JWST will replace the Hubble […]
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Giornate della Scienza- Precision medicine for brain tumors
Presentation: Precision medicine for brain tumors. Dr. Anna Lasorella, MD, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Pediatrics and Dr. Antonio Iavarone, MD, Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology and Neurology, both in the Institute for Cancer Genetics at CUMC, present the latest results of their ongoing research on cancer. Focusing on cancer as a […]
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70th Anniversary of the Italian Constitution
On the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Italian Constitution a conversation with Nadia Urbinati and David Forgacs. Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political […]
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The Creative World of Alberto Savinio (part 2)
Live! From the Autobiographical to the Philosophical: Alberto Savinio’s “Vita dell’uomo” With Luciano Chessa and Luca Valentino A U.S. Premiere The second event presents Alberto Savinio’s Vita dell’ Uomo, that premiered in 1951 at Milan’s La Scala Theatre, in a production designed by the author himself. Although intended as a key to unlocking the […]
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The Creative World of Alberto Savinio (part 1)
On the occasion of Alberto Savinio’s CIMA Installation (0ctober 6, 2017 – June 23, 2018) the Italian Cultural Institute and The Center for Italian Modern Art present two events aimed at showcasing the multi-faceted artistic life of Alberto Savinio (1891–1952). The younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico, in addition to visual artist, was indeed a […]
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