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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HOMAGE TO NATALIA GINZBURG. Special Guest Nanni Moretti
This year marks the one-hundredth anniversary of Natalia Ginzburg’s birth: it is a great opportunity to celebrate one of the best-known writers in 20th-century Italy, who was a key figure in the Italian literary world and, also, an influential fiction editor at Einaudi publishing house, a role to which she committed herself for almost half […]
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DESPERATE CROSSING
Desperate Crossing The exhibition focuses on the dramatic journey of thousands of migrants fleeing from war, famine and poverty, desperately in search of a better future in Europe. The photographs come from two different and complementary “eyes”: that of Paolo Pellegrin, famous photojournalist, and a member of the prestigious Magnum agency, and that of Mohamed […]
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ANDRÈ ACIMAN
The Institute continues the series of evenings with American authors that speak about their ties with Italy: this evening with Egypt born writer Andrè Aciman. André Aciman is currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York teaching the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. His memoir, […]
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VOICES OF ITALIAN SCIENCE IN THE US
ICI presents a series of lectures on Medical Science, by Italian academics practicing in New York institutions including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and New York University. These Italian physicians heavily contributed to the scientific advance in their field and their lives are characterized by interesting personal stories that ultimately made them decide to practice […]
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