REMEMBERING UMBERTO ECO
Live streaming video by Ustream A conversation to commemorate Umberto Eco (1932 – 2016) award-winning Italian novelist, essayist, literary critic, philosopher and semiotician.With the participation of Salman Rushdie, Siri Hustvedt, and Gianni Riotta.Readings by Edoardo Ballerini.Moderated by: Michael Moore In collaboration with PEN World Voices Festival Umberto Eco, (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) […]
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PREMIO NY/ NEW YORK PRIZE
Francesca Grilli and Letizia Calori & Violette Maillard are the winners of the 2015-1016 edition of Premio NY.The Premio New York brings promising younger Italian artists to New York for a residency at the ISCP Gallery (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in Brooklyn, with the support of the Italian Academy at the Columbia University, the […]
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VALERIO MAGRELLI The Condominium of Flesh.
Book Presentation A darkly humorous exploration of the human body and its various functions in poetic prose, Valerio Magrelli’s personal chronicle of clinical experience catalogues a life history of ailments without ever being pathological. Every sensation and malfunction is placed under the subjective microscope of the poet’s eye and examined in excruciating and obsessive detail. […]
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RIDENDO E SCHERZANDO-ETTORE SCOLA
Screening of the documentary film Ridendo e Scherzando, a tribute to the late director and screen-wright by his daughters, portraying an intellectual who has made delicate irony his way of looking at the world.With the participation of Silvia Scola and Antonio Monda, NYU professor and director of Rome Film Festival, and Larry Kardish, former Senior […]
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CEPHALONIA BY LUIGI BALLERINI
Book Presentation: Cephalonia, by Luigi Ballerini, translated from the Italian by Evgenia Matt, published by The Brooklyn Rail (2016). The author will talk about his work with Tom Huhn (School of Visual Arts). Cephalonia 1943-2001 is a narrative poem in the form of a dialogue or rather, a two-voiced monologue: a fragmented epic, contextualizing the […]
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DAVID LEAVITT American Authors Series. In conversation with Stefano Albertini. “Italian food and cooking”.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University and a professor at the University of Florida. He has also taught at Princeton University. His published fiction includes the short-story collections Family Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), A Place I’ve Never Been, Arkansas and The Marble Quilt, as well as the novels […]
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MAURIZIO BENINI
Maurizio Benini is a regular guest of many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses: the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Opéra de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opéra de Montecarlo, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Teatro La Fenice […]
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GIAN GIACOMO MIGONE The United States and Fascist Italy”
Book Presentation. Originally published in Italian in 1980, Gli Stati Uniti e il Fascismo: Alle origini dell’egemonia Americana in Italia, is regarded, today, as a crucial text on the relationship between the United States and Italy during the interwar years.By analyzing the enduring relationship between the United States and fascist Italy up until Mussolini’s conquest […]
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FESTIVAL VERDI 2016
Tradition, a desire to embrace the new and ever increasing internationality are the predominant features of the 2016 edition of the Festival Verdi (Parma and Busseto, 1-30 October, www.festivalverdi.it) which is dedicated to the German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller, who was always a source of inspiration and subject matter for Italian composers and Giuseppe […]
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LITERATURE AND EMOTIONS
Literature and emotions have been intertwined since time immemorial. Emotions such as fear, empathy, shame, pride, and jealousy are at the core of stories narrated throughout history. How do we understand, however, emotions in a literary text? Ancient philosophers and modern positivists have often interpreted emotions, along with passions, as negative forces, but more recently […]
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