DACIA MARAINI – WRITING LIKE BREATHING
On the occasion of the recent English publication of “Beloved Writing”, a selection of her most important works, some of which had never been translated into English before, Dacia Maraini will talk with Jane Tylus, Professor of Italian at NYU. The title of the talk hints at the idea of writing as a constant feature […]
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RINALDO ALESSANDRINI
Italian conductors in New York series. Rinaldo Alessandrini in conversation with Harvey Sachs Rinaldo Alessandrini will conduct, on Tuesday February 21, Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (opera in concert) at the Stern Auditorium as part of the Festival La Serenissima, Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic organized by the Carnegie Hall. Rinaldo Alessandrini is […]
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC
“Venice and the Ottoman Empire”with Alessandro Barbero “Freedom of Thought in Renaissance Venice”with Edward Muir Jr. In talks that explore La Serenissima’s social, cultural, and political history, bestselling Italian historian and novelist Alessandro Barbero views Venice’s relationship with the Ottoman Empire through the lens of the epic Battle of Lepanto in 1571, while Edward Muir […]
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MANAGERS:FROM ITALY TO TOP GLOBAL BUSINESSES
SPECIAL EVENT OPEN ONLY TO: Friends of the Institute Luca Maestri, Chief Financial Officer of Apple, will open the first of a series of encounters which focus on the excellence of Italian human capital and personal success stories, presenting Italian top managers holding important positions in global companies. He will be in conversation with Maria […]
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ITALO CALVINO. Quickness, Enchantment, and the Felicity of Storytelling
The second of a series of events dedicated to the Memos written by Italo Calvino that begun with Jonathan Lethem’s lecture on ‘Lightness” and continues with a conversation between Paola Antonelli and Maria Popova on: Quickness, Enchantment, and the Felicity of Storytelling. In 1984, Italo Calvino was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures […]
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LA SERENISSIMA
La Serenissima, Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic. Venice stands as a monument to the improbable paradise where city meets sea. The Venetian Republic—also known as La Serenissima, or “the Most Serene Republic”—reached levels of maritime supremacy, democratic progressiveness, financial prosperity, and both cultural achievement and innovation, flourishing for 1,000 years before its fall […]
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MEMORIES OF SERENISSIMA
Memories of Serenissima: Nineteenth-Century Artists in Venice – Opening Curated by Marco Bertoli, this exhibition is the last of a three-year project dedicated to 19th Century Italian painting. It showcases a selected group of artworks, dating from the second half of the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, revealing how the memories of and […]
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GIORNATA DELLA MEMORIA – CEREMONY
Ceremony, at the Italian Consulate in New York, of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and Italian territories. During the ceremony a brief accounts of the lives of men, women and children whom the Nazi and Fascist regimes had been labeled as “foreign Jews” or “stateless Jews” will be read. […]
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PAPER LIVES The Little Known Story of Foreign Jews Interned in Italy
Anna Pizzuti, curator of the database and historical portal on foreign Jews in Italy during World War II, presents her work.Film screening, E42 by Cynthia Madansky, produced during her fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In 1938 the Racial Laws stripped of their citizenship Jews who had acquired Italian citizenship after 1919 and ordered […]
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MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
The Institute continues the series of evenings with American authors that speak about their ties with Italy presenting Michael Cunningham who will talk about Matera. Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in […]
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