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ITALY AT COLUMBIA
A SERIES OF FREE PUBLIC LECTURES BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29 AT 10:30 A.M.,
LYNN GARAFOLA:
"THE POST-ROMANTIC BALLET: SPECTACLE, VIRTUOSITY, AND THE ITALIAN BALLERINA"
MONDAY OCTOBER 20 AT 4 P.M.,
DAVID ROSAND:
"FIGURING THE RENAISSANCE: LEONARDO, DÜRER, MICHELANGELO AND THEIR SCHOLARS"
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25 AT 11 A.M.,
RICHARD HOWARD:
"RONALD FIRBANK AND THE POWERS OF FRIVOLITY"
New York, NY - September 3, 2008 - Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America will host three public lectures by prominent professors in the humanities. All three lectures will be held in the 3rd-floor Library of the Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116 and 118th Streets. Admission is free. Each of the lectures is part of a Columbia University course and will begin promptly at the noted time.
Lynn Garafola, Professor at Barnard College, is author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and the editor of several books, including The Diaries of Marius Petipa (which she also translated), Of, By, and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930, José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir, and The Ballets Russes and Its World. Curator of the New-York Historical Society's exhibition Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet , the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection (with Patrizia Veroli), and several smaller shows, she is a former Getty Scholar, recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanties, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Editor of the acclaimed book series Studies in Dance History, she has written for Dance Magazine, The Nation, Times Literary Supplement, and many other publications.
David Rosand joined the Columbia faculty in 1964, has served twice as chairman of the Department of Art History and Archeology, as director of Art Humanities, and as chairman of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities; he currently chairs the Department's Wallach Art Gallery Committee. His books include The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian (1988), Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto (1982, rev. ed. 1997), and Robert Motherwell on Paper (1997), which accompanied an exhibition in the Wallach Art Gallery. His most recent books are Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State (2001) and Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation (2002). Working with the Media Center for Art History, he has been developing a project on Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura, extending visual and cultural analysis through digital imaging and computer graphics. Professor Rosand has received the Great Teacher Award of the Society of Columbia Graduates.
Richard Howard, the well-known translator, poet, and critic, is Professor of Professional Practice in Columbia's graduate Writing Division. He is the author of many books of poetry, including Untitled Subjects (1969), Trappings (1999), Talking Cures (2002), and most recently Without Saying, as well as the critical study Alone with America. His Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003 and Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 were compiled and released jointly by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2004. He has published over 150 translations, including works by Cioran, Stendhal, and Roland Barthes; in 1983 he received the American Book Award for his translation of Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal. In 1970 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his third book of poems, and received the Academy of Arts and Letters Literary Award. In 1996 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He has also received the PEN Translation Medal and the French-American Prize and was designated a Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Mérite by the French government in 1982. A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters since 1983, he has served as the Poet Laureate of New York State (1994-1997) and the President of PEN American Center (1978-1980).
Admission to all lectures is free. Reservations may be made by calling 212 854 1623 or emailing to rw2115@columbia.edu. For more information, please see our website: www.italianacademy.columbia.edu. The Italian Academy's Teatro in Casa Italiana is located at 1161 Amsterdam Avenue between 116th and 118th Streets.