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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MAX IONATA CONCERT
Max Ionata – Tenor Sax Spike Wilner – Piano Tyler Mitchell – Bass Dan Aran – Drums Born in 1972, Max Ionata is considered one of the most important Italian saxophonists on the scene. In the span of just a few years, he has won praises from the critics and accolades, succesfully performing both […]
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PIRANDELLO 150
The program is presented by Film Forum in association with “Pirandello 150,” a city-wide, year-long festival commemorating the 150th anniversary of Pirandello’s birth, organized by the newly-formed Helluva Theatre Company. In addition to the film festival, events will include one-act plays, major theatrical productions, readings, panel discussions, podcasts, and academic seminars. Supported by the Italian […]
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ANDREA VITERBI – Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur
Andrew Viterbi in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Presentation of Andrew Viterbi’s memoir Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur (CPL Editions, Memoirs & Biographies series, 2016). In his book the author examines his life in America as an immigrant child, his success as a scientist and businessman and the principles that inspired his most […]
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Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton on ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO
Historians Anthony Grafton and Carlo Ginzburg will discuss the work of Arnaldo Momigliano, one of the most distinguished 20th-century scholars of ancient and modern history. In 1939, following the promulgation of Italy’s racial laws, Momigliano was forced to leave his professorship in Turin. He continued his career at Oxford, London, and later in Chicago. His […]
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