THE ITALIAN AND MEDITERRANEAN COLLOQUIUM
PROGRAM October 8, 2015, 6:00-8:00 pm Hamilton 717 Cammy Brothers (University of Virginia, Italian Academy) Granada-Genova-Seville-Rome: Sixteenth-Century Palaces in Andalusia through a Mediterranean Lens October 15, 2015, 6:00-8:00 pm Hamilton 717 Peter Miller (Bard Graduate Center) Marseille and Genoa, again: Thinking about the Seventeenth-Century Western Mediterranean November 20, 2015, 12:00-1:30 pm Hamilton 509 Nathalie Hester […]
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LIGHT OF SOUTHERN ITALY
Exhibit-On view from October 7, 2015 to November 5,2015 Paintings from the 19th-century Neapolitan School The “Neapolitan School” of the 19th century encompasses a wide range of artistic schools, stylistic currents and geographic regions on the peninsula, stretching from Molise to the Abruzzo region and from Campania to Puglia. The exhibition traces the evolution of […]
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APNEA- by Victoria Surliuga
You are cordially invited to the booksigning of Victoria Surliuga’s poetry volume apnea (Turin: disegnodiverso, 2015, Paola Gribaudo publisher) Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian at Texas Tech University, will read her poetry in English and Italian from the volume apnea. Artwork of Ezio Gribaudo illustrating the volume will be displayed RSVP victoria.surliuga@ttu.edu – paola.gribaudo@tin.it
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ELENA FERRANTE IN AMERICA
A conversation with: Kent Carroll, Ann Goldstein, Bettina Lerner e Giancarlo Lombardi.
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IN OTHER WORDS: Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri on the Italian Language and Culture as a Place of Creative Freedom As an established writer in one language, how does one “relocate” to another language and another culture? This lecture/conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri -recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal- will focus on her recent book written in Italian […]
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PAINTING NEW YORK RED
Watch Italy’s best Armani Olympia Milano team battle Israel’s best Maccabi Tel Aviv.Tickets on sale on Ticketmaster.com Special discount to members, family and friends of ICI, enter promo code 686 ParkAvenue.
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FOLK-S Will you still love me tomorrow
Crossing the Line, The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)’s annual fall arts festival, explores the dialogue between artist and public. FOLK-S Six dancers enter the stage and perform in hypnotic unison in Folk-s, will you still love me tomorrow?, the East Coast debut of Italian performance maker Alessandro Sciarroni. Precise, rhythmically pounding feet and a […]
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FOLK-S
di Alessandro Sciarroni Folk-s is both a choreography and a performance focusing on time. The work came to life while thinking about ancient folk dances as cultural, popular heritage that have survived in time. The Schuhplattler is a typical Bavarian and Tyrolean dance. The meaning is “shoe batting” because it literally consists in hitting one’s […]
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DARIO D’AMBROSI- Pathological Theatre
Meet actors and musicians from Pathological Theatre On the occasion of Medea at La MaMa Theatre Meet with some of the actors from the Company of award-winning director and actor Dario D’Ambrosi’s Teatro Patologico- Pathological Theatre, who will present their latest work, Medea, featured at La MaMa Theatre in New York, in October. In particular […]
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POPE FRANCIS AMONG THE WOLVES: The Inside Story of a Revolution
MARCO POLITI Book Presentation Discussant: Elizabeth Castelli (Barnard College – Columbia University) Marco Politi takes us deep inside the power struggle roiling the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI, the pope who famously resigned in 2013, and intensifying with the contested and unexpected election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of […]
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