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Press Coverage

2012-2013

Academy Fellows Speaking Elsewhere

May 8: Concert

Oscar Bianchi, Marco Stroppa, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giuseppe Tartini
and a world premiere by Jason Eckardt
Miranda Cuckson, violin, with Blair McMillen, piano
Poster

May 1: Concert

The E.R. Lorch Memorial Recital
Emanuele Torquati, piano
Music of Beethoven, Busoni, Fedele, Filidei, Maestri and Scarlatti
Poster

Apr. 26: Workshop

The Renaissance and the History of the World
On the often conflicting Renaissance narratives of the
origin and history of the world;
William Connell (Seton Hall), David Freedberg (Columbia),
Anthony Grafton (Princeton), Pamela Smith (Columbia)
Organizer: Ivano Dal Prete (Academy Fellow)

Apr. 24: Lecture

The 2013 James Beck Memorial Lecture
"Morality and Movement in Renaissance Art"
David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia, and Director of the Italian Academy
Co-Sponsor: ArtWatch International

Apr. 10: Lecture

Rethinking Macroeconomics: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University). A part of the conference "Bounded Rationality Updated," organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and The International Herbert A. Simon Society
Video

Apr 8: Exhibition

Cambodia, The Memory Workshop: Artworks by Vann Nath, Séra, and Emerging Cambodian Artists. Part of the "Season of Cambodia" Festival. Organizers: Pierre Bayard and Soko Phay-Vakalis (of University of Paris 8).
Co-sponsors: Maison Française, Columbia; University of Paris 8; The School of the Arts, Columbia.
Poster | Press Release | Video

Mar 26: Exhibition

Francesco Arena and Anna Franceschini
Winners of the Premio New York, the scholarship program for emerging Italian artists
Co-sponsors: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of NY
Poster | Press Release

Mar 12: Discussion

Shaping the Brain: How genes, emotions, and the arts shape perception
Frances Champagne, David Freedberg, Kevin Ochsner; moderated by Michael Shadlen (all of Columbia)
Co-sponsor; the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia
Poster | Video

Mar 7-8: Conference

Ravenna and the traditions of late antique and early Byzantine craftsmanship:
Culture, labor and the economy
Organizer: Salvatore Cosentino (University of Bologna, former Academy
Fellow) Co-sponsor: University of Bologna
Website

Feb 28: Lecture

Gianmario Borio, the second Compagnia di San Paolo /
Italian Academy Distinguished Visiting Professor
The End of Exoticism or The Infiltration of the Other into Western Art Music -
Boulez, Debussy, Kagel, Varèse and the Development of Musical Thought
Press Release | Poster | Video

Feb 20: Concert

Works by Vivaldi, Geminiani, Porpora, Locatelli, and Couperin
Krista Bennion-Feeney, violin, with the Four Nations Ensemble
Press Release

Feb 18: Lecture

"Italy's Future: Reform or Decline?"
Francesco Giavazzi (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research, Università Bocconi)
Co-sponsor: Program for Economic Research, Columbia

Feb 7: Symposium

"The Unfit": Disability under Nazism and Fascism
Speakers: Patricia Heberer, Susan Bachrach (both of Holocaust Memorial Museum), David Forgacs (New York University)
Press Release | Poster | Video

Jan 24: Exhibition

Paolo Ventura
Photography
Poster | Press Release Video | Slide Show | Selected Press Comments

Dec 13-15: Concert

Così Faran Tutti
World Premiere of a new Italian opera by
American composerJonathan Dawe
Commissioned by the Italian Academy
Poster | Press Release

Dec 5: Conference

The Future of the Western Liberal Order: The Case of Italy
A conference of the Transatlantic Academy and the Italian Academy, with support from the Alliance Program, Columbia University.
With David Freedberg (Director, Italian Academy); Stephen Szabo (Executive Director, Transatlantic Academy); Emiliano Alessandri (German Marshall Fund); Bill Emmot ("The Economist"); Alexander Stille (Columbia); James Newell (University of Salford, UK); Gianfranco Pasquino (Transatlantic Academy; Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center; University of Bologna); Charles Sabel (Columbia); Maurizio Molinari ("La Stampa"); Richard Youngs (Transatlantic Academy; "FRIDE"): Nadia Urbinati (Columbia); Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia); Karin Deutsch Karlekar (Freedom House); Gábor Halmai (Transatlantic Academy; Princeton); Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton)

Dec 4: Italy at Columbia Lectures

Neslihan Senocak
Crime and Punishment in Medieval Italy
Press Release

Nov 30: Concert

The Petrarch Project
Suzanne Farrin and ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)
Poster | Press Release | Pre-Concert Presentation Video | Video of the Concert

Nov 26: Lecture

The Edward Said Memorial Lecture
W. J. T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)
Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture
Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities

Nov 3: Concert

Monteverdi's Madrigals of Love and War
TENET
Poster | Website | Video

Oct 25: Italy at Columbia Lectures

Susan Boynton
The Beginning of Opera in Italy
Poster | Press Release

Oct 23: Reading

Roberto Calasso
La Folie Baudelaire
Introduced by Richard Howard
Poster | Press Release

Oct 1: Italy at Columbia Lecturesv

Holger A. Klein
The Art and Architecture of Ravenna: From Galla Placidia to Theodoric

2011-2012

Academy Fellows Speaking Elsewhere

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean and Seminar in Modern Italy events

May 9: Concert

AMP New Music
Music by Gregory Cornelius, Luigi Nono, and Giacinto Scelsi
With Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
Poster | Press Release

May 4: Concert

TENET
Early music group
Monteverdi Solos and Duets
With Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, sopranos; Daniel S. Lee and Alexander Woods, violins; Hank Heijink and Daniel Swenberg, lutes; Avi Stein, harpsichord
Poster | Website

Apr 27 - 28: Conference

Beyond Italy and New Spain: Itineraries for an Iberian Art History (1440-1640)
Organizers: Michael Cole (Dept. of Art History, Columbia); Alessandra Russo (Dept. of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia)
Website | Poster | Video

Apr 24: Italy at Columbia Lectures

Richard Howard
Calvino's Stories of Love and Loneliness
Press Release | Poster | Video

Mar 25: Concert

Emanuele Arciuli, piano
Music by Beethoven, Berg, Marcello Panni, and Giacinto Scelsi
Poster | Press Release | Video

Mar 23: Film Screening

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
A documentary film by Bruno Wollheim, and discussion with the filmmaker.
Poster

Mar 21: Lecture

Inaugural Lecture
Anna Ottani Cavina, the first Compagnia di San Paolo
Italian Academy Distinguished Visiting Professor
Inventing the Landscape: Italy and Painters from Thomas Jones to Corot Poster | Press Release | Video

Mar 4: Concert

counter)induction
Music by Helmut Lachenmann, Luigi Nono, and Arnold Schoenberg.
With Steve Beck, Miranda Cuckson, and guest narrator Paula Robison
Poster | Press Release | Video

Feb 28: Italy at Columbia Lectures

Joel Kaye
The Growth of the Italian Communes in the Medieval Period
Poster

Feb 22: Italy at Columbia Lectures

Anna Ottani Cavina, the first Compagnia di San Paolo
Italian Academy Distinguished Visiting Professor
Living in the Ancient Style: Villa Albani and the projection of an
antiquarian dream
Poster

Feb 9 through May 17: Opening Reception and Exhibition

The Silent Strength of Liu Xia
Co-sponsored by The Alliance Program, Columbia University, and the Ville
de Boulogne-Billancourt
Selected Press Comments | Poster | Press Release

Feb 2: Symposium

Holocaust Remembrance: "Unnatural Indecency":
Sexuality and Homosexuality during Nazism and Fascism
Speakers: Edward Phillips (US Holocaust Memorial Museum),
Elizabeth Leake (Columbia)
Poster | Press Release | Video

Dec 11: Concert

Liszt In Italy
Kariné Poghosyan, piano
Années de Pèlerinage, Book Two: Italie
Poster | Press Release | Video

Dec 9: Conference

Brainbeat: Frontiers in the Neuroscience of Music
Recent neuroscience on music's therapeutic and rehabilitative potential. With scientists from the New York area and beyond: György Buzsáki, Steven Frucht, John Iversen, Lutz Jäncke, Nina Kraus, Isabelle Peretz, Gottfried Schlaug, Sarah Woolley, and Robert Zatorre.
Website | Poster | Video

Dec 5: Symposium

Italy and the World Economy
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy
With Columbia Professors Edmund S. Phelps, Charles F. Sabel, and Nadia Urbinati; Fabrizio Saccomanni, Director General, Banca d'Italia, and Gianni Toniolo, Professor of Economics, LUISS & Duke Universities
Sponsored by Banca d'Italia
Poster | Press Release | Video

Nov 19: Fall Concert Series

A concert of chamber music by Nino Rota
In honor of the centenary of his birth
With Emanuele Arciuli, David Fulmer, Carol McGonnell, Chris Gross, and Fiona Kelly
Poster | Video

Oct. 21: Fall Concert Series

Madrigals and Metamorphoses
Works for unaccompanied voices by Carlo Gesualdo, Elliott Carter, Carl Bettendorf, Johannes Schoellhorn, Martin Iddon, and Peter Ablinger
Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble: Jeffrey Gavett, Director
Poster

Oct. 18 through Nov. 23: Opening Reception and Exhibition

Amy Bedik
"Figure and Ground"
Website | Poster | Press Release

Oct 9: Fall Concert Series

Ascoli Ensemble
Music in Italy: 1350-1450
Led by Sasha Zamler-Carhar. U.S. premiere of music from medieval Italian manuscript and vocal works from 1350-1450.
Poster

Oct 5: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Oct 5: Elaine Sisman, "Truth and Lies in Mozart's Don Giovanni"
Nov 1: Teodolinda Barolini, "The Sixth Day of the Decameron: The Triumph of the Word"
Nov 28: Kristina Milnor, "Women in Pompeii"
Poster

Sept 30: Exhibit

Pietro Reviglio: Cinematography of Urban Madness
Poster | Press Release (English) | Press Release (Italian)

Sept 18: Fall Concert Series

The Klimt Quartet
Piano Quartets by Mahler, Schumann and Brahms
Quartetto Klimt: Matteo Fossi, piano; Duccio Ceccanti, violin; Edoardo Rosadini, viola; Alice Gabbiani, cello
Poster | Press Release

2010-2011

Academy Fellows Speaking Elsewhere

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean and Seminar in Modern Italy events

Sept 30 - Oct 1: Conference

Shrinking Cities, Smaller Cities: Modern Crisis or New Path to Prosperity?
Is Smaller Really Better?
Organized by Kenneth Jackson (Columbia), Maurizio Vaudagna (Univ. Piemonte Orientale), Lisa Keller (SUNY Purchase)
Website

Oct 5: Symposium

Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma)
The Body in Aesthetic Experience: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Poster | Press Release | Video (Courtesy of Mel Berkowitz)

Oct 6: Concert

The Italian Harpsichord
Andrew Appel, harpsichordist
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video

Oct 15-17: World Premiere

Cracked Orlando
A new opera by American composer Jonathan Dawe
With Anthony Roth Costanzo, Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, Hai-Ting Chinn, and Karim Sulayman
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video

Oct 18: Lecture

Ernst van de Wetering (Rembrandt Research Project)
Rembrandt: Studio Practice and Art Theory
Co-sponsors: Columbia University Departments of Art History and History;
the Queen Wilhelmina Chair in Dutch Studies
Poster

Oct 19: Lecture-Recital

Italian Castrati
Anthony Roth Costanzo
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video

Oct 22: Workshop

From the Republics of Virtue to the Republic of Parties
The Transformation of Republicanism in Modern and Contemporary Italy
Organized by Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) in collaboration with the Journal of Modern Italian Studies, The Columbia Seminar of Italian Studies, and The European Institute of Columbia University
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Program

Oct 22: Italian Poetry Review

Critica Militante:
A Round Table in Italian on the Role of the Literary Critic in Contemporary Society
Poster

Oct 25: Conference

The Future Roles of Cutting-Edge Methods in the Study and Treatment of Childhood Psychiatric Disorders
Organized by David Shaffer (Columbia), Brad Peterson (Columbia), Bennett Leventhal (NYU), Ernesto Caffo (Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia)
Program

Oct 26-Nov 23: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Oct. 26: Vittoria Di Palma, "Naples and Natural History on the Grand Tour"
Nov. 8: David Rosand, "Ut pictor poeta: Titian's Early Mythologies"
Nov. 23: Francesco Benelli, "The Architecture of Michelangelo"
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release

Nov 3: Concert

The Italian Harpsichord
Andrew Appel, harpsichordist
Thomas Cooley, tenor
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video

Nov 10: Reading

To celebrate the publication of Jonathan Galassi's new translation of
Giacomo Leopardi's Canti.
With Jonathan Galassi, Richard Howard, Mark Strand, Paolo Valesio, and Shirley Hazzard
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Video

Dec 1: Concert

The Italian Harpsichord
Andrew Appel, pianoforte
Krista Bennion Feeney, violin
Loretta O'Sullivan, cello
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video

Dec 3: Conference

Neurotechniques: New Approaches to Understanding Mind, Brain and Behavior
Organized by Franco Pestilli (Columbia)
Website | Poster | Video

Dec 5: Concert

Italian flutist Matteo Cesari
Works for unaccompanied flute by Salvatore Sciarrino
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video

Dec 6: Off-Site Exhibition

Premio New York
Pietro Ruffo and Marinella Senatore
Poster | Press Release

Feb 1: Symposium

Holocaust Remembrance: "Racially Inferior":
Roma, Sinti and Other Holocaust Victims
Krista Hegburg (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies), Rob Kushen (Executive Director, European Roma Rights Centre)
Poster | Press Release | Video

Feb 2, Apr 2: Concert

Three 2nds with Lucy Shelton
Vocal chamber music with soprano Lucy Shelton and friends
Works By Benson, Berio, Birtwistle, Carter, Dallapiccola, Feldman, Fiocco, Gabrielli, Messiaen , Scelsi and Sciarrino
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release | Video | Review

Feb 15 - March 31: Exhibit

Beatrice Pediconi: Untitled
Poster | Press Release
Advance Press | Website

March 9: Jazz Concert

Improvvisatore Involontario in NYC
Guitarist Marco Cappelli (MMP Columbia) presents Italian avant-garde jazz artists:
Improvvisatore Involontario All Stars - Special Guests: Cristina Zavalloni & Mauro Pagani
1- Heimweh duo / 2 - Tetraktys guitar quartet / 3 - Francesco Cusa conducts Naked Musicians
Further info available only at press@improvvisatoreinvolontario.com Website

March 23: Literary Event

New Italian authors Silvia Avallone, Giuseppe Catozzella, and Barbara Di Gregorio
Rizzoli Fiction Editor Michele Rossi
Co-sponsored by the Dante Alighieri Society of NY and the Consulate General of Italy in NY
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of NY and with the Capri Awards Foundation
Poster

Mar 28-Apr 26: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Mar 28: Michael Cole, "Art in Italy: 1560-1570: Decorum, Order & Reform"
Apr 18: Carmela Franklin, "History and Politics in the Book of the Popes"
Apr 26: Elizabeth Leake, "Screening the Anti-Fascist Resistance"
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release

March 25: Conference

Negotiating the Enlightenment: Kant, Gramsci, Education and Women
Organizer: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia)
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Website | Poster | Video of the Conference: Part 1 | Video: Part 2 | Video: Part 3

March 30: Lecture

The Shadow of Light: Leonardo's Mind by Candlelight
Paolo Galluzzi (Director, Museo Galileo, Florence)
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release

April 6-May 3: Exhibition Reception and Booksigning

Pietro Reviglio: Cinematography of Urban Madness
Poster | Website
Press Release (English)
Press Release (Italian)

April 29: Conference

Boccaccio: Philologist and Philosopher
Co-organizers: Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia) & H. Wayne Storey (Indiana University)
Co-sponsors: The Italian Department, The Thomas Da Ponte Lecture Series
(Columbia University); The College Arts and Humanities Institute (Indiana University)
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Details

May 6: Conference

Gramsci Revisited: A Conference in Memory of John M. Cammett
Organized by Mary Gibson (John Jay College, CUNY), & John Davis (U. of Connecticut).
Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Seminar on Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies,
Seminars Office, and the Italian Academy
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster

May 13 and 14: World Premiere

Invisible Cities
An Opera by Christopher Cerrone
Based on the novel by Italo Calvino
1861-2011: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy
Poster | Press Release

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2009-2010

Academy Fellows Speaking Elsewhere

Seminar in Modern Italian Studies and Center for the Ancient Mediterranean events

Sept 26: Concert

“The Real, The Symbolic, and The Imaginary”
Acousmatic & Computer Music
Appearance by Luigi Ceccarelli; works by Ceccarelli and others
Sponsored by Federazione CEMAT-SONORA, Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, NYU Department of Music, and others
Press release

Sept 29-Oct 20: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Sept 29: Joseph Patterson on “The Crime of Galileo”
Oct 20: Paolo Valesio on “Le Futuriste”
Poster

Oct 7-Dec 2: Concert Series

Oct 7: Emanuele Arciuli, piano
Nov 4: Miranda Cuckson, violin
Dec 2: Alex Lipowski, percussion
Poster | Press release

Oct 27: Book Presentation

Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia) and Fabio Finotti (U. Penn) discussing Dante’s
"Rime: Giovanili e Della Vita Nuova"
Co-sponsored by the Italian Dept., Columbia University
Poster

Nov 9: Brief Lectures

Balzan Prize winners Enrico Bombieri (Institute for Advanced Study)
on Math; Wallace Broecker (Columbia) on Climate Change; Thomas
Nagel (NYU) on Moral Philosophy
Press Release

Nov 11: Performance

GIRLMACHINE
Honoring the centennial year of Italian Futurism
Featured in Performa09 and developed in residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center
Press Release | Website

Nov 12: Conference at Columbia

"Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer"
A two-day international symposium (continued on Nov 13 at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York)
Organized by Paolo Valesio (Columbia) and the Department of Italian, Columbia
Poster | Website

Nov 20: Conference

Myth in Etruria: Images and Inscriptions
Organized by Larissa Bonfante (NYU) and Francesco de Angelis (Columbia)
(continuing Nov 21, off-site, at Columbia’s Dept. of Art History & Archaeology)
Poster | Press Release

Dec 9: Readings, Video, and Discussion

“Translating Italian Poetry”
With Milo de Angelis and Susan Stewart Organized by the Italian Poetry Review in cooperation with the Italian Academy, Columbia’s Department of Italian, and Barnard’s Translation Across the Disciplines Initiative, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation
Poster

Dec 7: Premio New York Exhibition

Artists Salvatore Arancio and Alice Cattaneo. Scholarship program for emerging Italian artists; co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. (At the International Studio & Curatorial Program [ISCP] in Brooklyn) Co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Poster | Press Release

Dec 10: Premio Napoli World Literature Prize

Special Prize awarded to poet John Ashbery
With a talk by Charles Simic
Poster | Press Release | Press Review

Feb 11-Mar 10: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Feb 11: Christia Mercer on Galileo's "The Assayer"
Feb 23: Francesco de Angelis on Triumphant Arts in Rome
Mar 10: James Shapiro on Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
Poster | Press Release

Feb 16: Symposium

Holocaust Remembrance: “Rome’s Jewish Ghetto”
Kenneth Stow (University of Haifa), Irina Oryshkevich (Columbia)
Poster | Press Release | Video

Mar 2: Symposium

Next Stop on the High Line: The Trento Tunnel Project
Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford Humanities Lab) presents an unprecedented urban reclamation project with Elisabeth Terragni (Studio Terragni Architetti; CUNY) and others.
Abitare magazine: "year's most innovative design"
Photos | Press Release | Poster | Video

Mar 11-12: Conference

"The Power of Space: cities in Late Medieval/Early Modern Italy & Northern Europe"
Sponsors: Nederlandse Taalunie; IAP Project funded by the Federal Science Policy of
Belgium; Univ. Paris-Sorbonne
Organized by Martha Howell (Columbia)
Poster | Program | Abstracts

Mar 10-May 5: Concert Series

The Grand Tour Orchestra; Charles Brink, Artistic Director
Mar 10: Paisiello and Metastasio's "Passione del Gesu' Cristo"
Apr 7: Jommelli's "Lamentations"
May 5: Concertos by Vivaldi and Galuppi
Poster | Press Release

Mar 29: Concert

Talea Ensemble presents "Suggestioni: Out of Italy." World Premieres by Gardella and Vanoni; US Premieres by Franceschini, Gervasoni, and Nieder; and works by Billone and Francesconi
Website

Apr 23: Premio New York Exhibition

Artists Meris Angioletti and Luca Trevisani. Scholarship program for emerging Italian artists; co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. (At the Italian Cultural Institute.)
Co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Poster | Press Release | Trevisani Gallery

Apr 29: Conference

Americordo: Italy, Exile, and the New World after the Racial Laws of 1938
Organized by the Centro Primo Levi
Program

Apr 30: Conference

Un poeta sperso tra gli uomini: Antonio Barolini tra Italia e America
Organized by Paolo Valesio & Nicola Di Nino, Columbia
Co-sponsors: Italian Poetry Review; Dept. of Italian, Columbia;
Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures, Fordham;
Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza
Poster | Press Release

Apr 30: Lecture

Prof. Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament:
"After Lisbon: a Strengthened European Parliament in the Transatlantic Partnership"
Co-sponsors: UN European Union Delegation; Columbia-Paris
Alliance Program; European Institute; School of International and Public Affairs;
Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza
Poster

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2008-2009

Academy Fellows Speaking Elsewhere

Spring 2009

Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies

Spring 2009

Sept 25-Oct 9: Exhibition

Photography: Mastros by Daniela Zedda
Part of the "Sardegna in NY" events
Opening reception lecture by Prof. Gabriella Da Re
Poster | Press release

Sept 29-Nov 25: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Sept 29: Lynn Garafola, "The Post-Romantic Ballet: Spectacle, Virtuosity, and the Italian Ballerina"
Oct 20: David Rosand, "Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo and their Scholars"
Nov 25: Richard Howard, "Ronald Firbank and the Powers of Frivolity"
Poster | Press release

Oct 1-Dec 3: Concert Series

The Grand Tour Orchestra
Oct 1: Haydn and Jommelli; with Christine Brandes, soprano, Stephanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano.
Nov 5: Telemann and Galuppi; with Sari Gruber, soprano, Charles Brink, flute, Claire Jolivet, violin, Loretta O'Sullivan, 'cello.
Dec 3: Stamitz and Boccherini; with Eric Hoeprich, clarinet.
Poster | Press release

Oct 16-17: Conference

From Africa to the Balkans:
New Perspectives on Colonialism and Material Culture in Fascist Italy Organized by Lidia Santarelli (NYU) and
Jennie Hirsh (Maryland Institute College of Art)
Poster | Press release | Abstracts

Oct 23 – Nov 20: Exhibition

Paintings and Videos: “Out of Sync” by Giorgio Brogi
Curated by Gianni Romano
Poster | Press release

Oct 30, Nov 6: Seminar / Films

Cold War in the Mediterranean / Marshall Plan Films
Speakers: Victoria de Grazia and Silvio Pons
Poster | Press release

Nov 14: Conference

The Project of Andrea Palladio
With James Ackerman, Howard Burns, and others
Poster | Press release

Dec 3: Readings and Talk

Italian Poetry Review 2008: Poetry in Italy , Poetry in America
Presentation of new issue of the Review, with Susan Stewart, Mark Strand, and others
Poster | Press release

Dec 4-5: Symposium

Emergent Nanoscience
Organized by Vittorio Pellegrini (Italian Academy Fellow; INFM-CNR NEST)
and James Yardley (Columbia University)
Poster | Press release | Bios

Dec 18: Conference

Luigi Barzini Jr. 1908-2008: The Italians: Yesterday and Today
"Journalism between Two Worlds"
with Gay Talese, Beppe Severgnini, and Ian Fisher
Poster | Press release

Jan 21-22: Toscanini Mini-Festival

Theatrical Concert with the Escher String Quartet;
Documentary preview presented by Walfredo Toscanini and Harvey Sachs;
Organized by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Poster | Press release

Jan 29: Symposium

Holocaust Remembrance: "Anti-Semitism at Home and Abroad"
Speakers: Ira Katznelson and Claudio Lomnitz
Poster | Press release | Press coverage

Jan 30: Lecture

Demons in Ancient Egypt During the Late Dynastic and Greco-Roman Periods
Speaker: Rita Lucarelli, Italian Academy Fellow
Organized by Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Poster | Press release

Feb 7: Conference and concert

Instruments of Passion
Organized by Lydia Goehr (Columbia)
Schedule

Mar 10–11: Math Festival

Mathematical Creations and Recreations
Featuring Nobel laureates Sheldon Glashow, Daniel Kahneman,
and John Nash, as well as Claudio Bartocci, Brian Greene, Harold Kuhn, Benoît Mandelbrot, and Piergiorgio Odifreddi
And, at the Italian Cultural Institute: Thomas Banchoff, Claudio Bartocci, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, and Achille Varzi
Organized and presented by the Festival della Matematica, Rome
(Musica per Roma Fondazione)
Poster | Press release

Ongoing, Mar 4–May 6: Concert Series

Three Sopranos: Lucy Shelton, Lisa Bielawa, Sarah Wolfson
Three takes on Berio’s 1966 Sequenza III, and programs of other Italian contemporary music
Poster | Press release

Ongoing, Mar 12–Apr 16: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Francesco Benelli on Donato Bramante; Paolo Valesio on Visconti's
"Death in Venice" (with screening); Kenneth Frampton on Giuseppe Terragni and Italian Rationalism 1918-1938
Poster | Press release

Apr 4-5: Opera at the Academy

“Alcide al bivio”
Columbia Collegium Musicum and new campus company, OperaRepo and staging Hasse's and Metastasio's opera titled Hercules at the Crossroads
Poster | Press release

Thurs–Sat, April 23–25: Conference

A World on the Move: Immigration and Emigration in Europe and the Americas
Organized by Kenneth T. Jackson, Maurizio Vaudagna
Poster | Press release | Program

Jun 13: Agency and Joint Attention Conference

Meeting chaired by Herbert Terrace, Janet Metcalfe, and Betsy Sparrow (Psychology, Columbia); co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience.
Program

Jun 24: Concert

The Mozart Academy honored Dr. Joseph Nsengimana, Ambassador to the United Nations from Rwanda. Soprano Monica Yunus and student musicians performed Menotti, Paganini, Puccini, Verdi, and Vivaldi.

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2007-2008

Sept 17: Exhibition

Installation: Incompiuto Siciliano by Alterazione Video
Press Release

Sept 24-25: Film Series

RAI Fiction Week
Caravaggio, with lecture by Vittorio Storaro; The Good Battle
Program

Sept 28: Symposium

Giuseppe Garibaldi between Italy and the Americas
Presented with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee
Poster

Oct 11: Exhibition

Photography: On the Sixth Day by Alessandra Sanguinetti
Color photography
Poster

Oct 9-Nov 28: Film / Lecture Series

Italy in the Wider World
Curated with Prof. Victoria de Grazia (Columbia)
Poster

Oct 10-Dec 5: Concert Series

Due Concertisti: Italian Music for Two
Ole Bohn and David Fulmer, violins: Bartók, Berio, Nono, Hartke, Prokofiev; Michelle Makarski, violin, and Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi, piano: world premiere by Fiorenzo Carpi, Stravinsky, Busoni; Adele O'Dwyer, cello, and Cullan Bryant, piano: Boccherini, Respighi, Stravinsky
Poster

Oct 26: Workshop

Folk Epistemologies
Organized by Noga Arikha and Gloria Origgi
Poster

Nov 26-27: Film Series

RAI Fiction "Crimini"
Teresa's Hideout, written by Diego De Silva; Blood Art, written by Marcello Fois
Poster

Nov 29: Premio New York Exhibition

Sculpture: A Private View by Ettore Favini
Photograpy: Playgrounds by Linda Fregni Nagler
Co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Poster

Dec 12: Presidential Visit

Visit of Giorgio Napolitano, President of Italy
Press Coverage

Jan 29: Seminar

Holocaust Remembrance: Law and Science in the Service
Of Racism: the Leggi Razziali
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU), Lidia Santarelli (NYU) and Alexander Stille (Columbia University)
Poster

Feb 14-Apr 29: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Teodolinda Barolini: Constructing Petrarch's Canzoniere, from Codex to Modern Edition; Holger Klein: Gifts, Loot, and Scholarship: Byzantine Art in Italy; Flora Ghezzo: Italian novelist Anna Maria Ortese
Poster | Press Release

Feb 27: Concert

Harvey Sollberger, flute
Scelsi premiere with Paul Bowman, guitar; Music by Berio, Evangelisti, and Gentile
Poster | Press Release

Mar 25: Art & Neuroscience Symposium

Vision, Attention, and Emotion
Poster | Press release

Mar 31: Book Presentation

Laura Nader and Ugo Mattei: Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal
Blackwell Publisher
Poster | Press release

Apr 1: Book Presentation

Caterina Napoleone: Fiori di Sicilia and Enciclopedia della Sicilia
Poster | Press release

Mar 12-Apr 8: Exhibition

Paintings: Floriano Vecchi
Poster | Press release

Apr 1-10: Film Series

Sicily is Cinema!
Il Gattopardo; Kaos; 1860; Placido Rizzotto; I Cento Passi
Poster | Press release

Apr 11-Apr 12: Conference

The Risorgimento Revisited; 19th-century Italian nationalism and the intersection of cultural and political history
Organized by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall
Poster

Apr 21: Book Presentation

Stanislao Pugliese: New English Edition of Carlo Levi's Fear of Freedom
With Peter Carravetta (Stony Brook) and Alexander Stille (Columbia)

Mar 12-May 7: Concert Series

Argento Chamber Ensemble
Music by Berio, Carter, Francesconi and Sciarrino
Poster | Press release

Apr 15-Apr 28: Exhibition

Italian Mosaic and Terrazzo Workers in New York City
Organized by Javier Grossutti (Academy Fellow, 2007-8)
Poster | Press release

Apr 15-Apr 28: Premio New York Exhibition

Installation: Libraries Are Not Made They Grow by Andrea Mastrovito
Installation: Here Exactly by Silvia Vendramel
Co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Poster | Press Release

May 2-May 23: Exhibition

Photography: Magnum Sees Piemonte
Sponsored by the Piedmont Region in collaboration with Magnum Photos
Poster | Press release

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2006-2007

Sept 19: Exhibition

Paintings: Transmutations by Fereydoon Family
Poster

Sept 19-Oct 31: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Professor Richard Howard: The Dantesque and the Pirandellian; Professor Giuseppe Gerbino: Monteverdi; Professor Teodolinda Barolini: The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Cantos 31 and 32

Sept 28: Lecture

Andrea De Carlo on his writing and work with film directors Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni
Poster

Oct 4-Dec 13: Concert Series

The Grand Tour Orchestra
Mozart in Italy; Hamburg and Berlin: Another Approach to Classicism; Sacred and Secular Music of Baldassare Galuppi and his Contemporaries

Oct 13-20: Film Series

Anni Di Piombo: Terrorism on Film
Tre Fratelli, 1981; Buongiorno, Notte, 2003; Prova d'orchestra, 1978; Colpire al cuore 1982; Excellent Cadavers, 2006; La seconda volta, 1996

Oct 23: Exhibition

Photography and mixed media: Darkness, Decadence, Empire by Mario Santoro-Woith:
Poster

Oct 27-28: Conference

Canoni Assenti (Absent Canons): A Comparative Conference on Contemporary Italian Poetry
Co-sponsored by Columbia University Dept. of Italian; Italian Poetry Review; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU; The Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Organized by Prof. Paolo Valesio, Italian Poetry Review

Nov 30: Premio New York Exhibition

Video, painting and sculpture: The Trilogy by Paolo Chiasera
New media: 13 Most Beautiful Avatars by Eva and Franco Mattes:
Co-sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Poster

Jan 24: Film Screening

Giovanni Falcone by Andrea e Antonio Frazzi
American premiere screening co-sponsored by RAI Fiction-Palomar and the Italian Cultural Institute

Feb 7: Concert

Stefano Bollani
Solo Piano Recital sponsored by ECM

Feb 21-Mar 26: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Karen Henson: Rigoletto and Romantic Irony; Francesco Benelli: Siena and Urbino: The Work of Francesco di Giorgio Martini; Paolo Valesio: The Futurist Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Mar 2: Music and Fencing

The First Italian Academy Fencing Trophy and the New Contemporary Opera "Selenal"
Luigi Mazzone (Academy Fellow, 2006-7); Daniela Puzzo (Academy Fellow, Fall 2006)

Mar 14-May 2: Concert Series

Music for the New Century
Duo Diorama: Winston Choi (piano), Minghuan Xu (violin), Blair McMillen (piano), Kathleen Supové (piano), Jennifer Choi (violin)
Poster

Mar 23-24: Conference

Technologies of the Diva
Co-sponsored by Maison Francaise of Columbia, Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Columbia University Music Department, and the Office of the Provost
Organized by Karen Henson and Gabriela Gomes da Cruz

Mar 27-Apr 11: Film Series

Commedia Classica all'Italiana
I soliti ignoti, 1958; Abbasso la ricchezza, 1946; Un turco napoletano, 1953; Pane, amore e fantasia, 1953; Peccato che sia una canaglia, 1954; Tutto a posto e niente in ordine, 1974

Apr 17: Grinzane Masters Literature Prize

Prize awarded to Philip Roth in memory of Primo Levi
With the Premio Grinzane Cavour, the Compagnia di San Paolo, The Foundation for Italian Art and Culture, and the Centro Primo Levi

Apr 19: Premio New York Exhibition

Video: The Sun Shines in Kiev by Rossella Biscotti
Performance and multimedia: A Great Circle by Nico Vascellari
Sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Academy and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York

Apr 24: Art & Neuroscience Lecture

Vittorio Gallese: Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation and Aesthetic Experience
Poster

Apr 27-28: Conference

Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism under Fascism
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Organized by Andrew Manson, Lucy Maulsby and David Rifkind

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2005-2006

Sept 28: Lecture

Mission Italy by Ambassador Richard Gardner

Sept 29-Nov 17: Film Series

Fascism on Film
Il Conformista, 1970; Una Giornata Particolare, 1977; Sciuscià, 1946; Porte Aperte, 1989; L'uomo della Croce, 1943; Il Portiere de Notte, 1974
Sponsored by Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Oct 5: Exhibition

Installation: Wood.sy/wóodzee by Francesco Simeti
Poster

Oct 5-Dec 7: Concert Series

Lorenzo Da Ponte: A Bridge from Italy to New York
Krista River (mezzo-soprano); Lucy Shelton (soprano); James Schaffner (tenor)

Oct 10-17: Exhibit and Colloquium

Lorenzo Da Ponte: Opera and Enlightenment in 18th Century Vienna
Poster

Oct 12-Nov 23: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

James Beck: Masaccio and the Pictorial Revolution; Richard Howard: Luigi Pirandello; James Shapiro: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Poster

Dec 8: Symposium

The New Geopolitics of the Balkans with Carlo Jean (Luiss University, Rome)
Co-sponsored with the Harriman Institute

Dec 14: Premio New York Exhibition

Multimedia, performance and painting: Global Sisters by Ivana Spinelli
Sculpture and performance: Suspended by "Sissi" (Daniela Olivieri)

Jan 31-Apr 3: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

David Rosand: Giorgione, Titian, and Crisis in Venice; Victoria de Grazia: How the West Was Won for Mass Consumption: the Italian Campaign, 1953-1973; Gayatri Spivak: Dante's De vulgari eloquentia as a World Text
Poster

Mar 8: Exhibition

Photography and Video: Scala Zero by Silvio Wolfe
Poster

Mar 8-May 3: Concert Series

Three Italian Men: Marco Cappelli (guitar); Tom Meglioranza (baritone); Emanuele Arciuli (piano)
Poster

Mar 24: Art and Neuroscience Forum

Art and the New Biology of Mind
Co-sponsored by the Louis T. Blouin Foundation
Speakers: Antonio Damasio, V.S. Ramachandran, Raymond Dolan, Vittorio Gallese, Joseph LeDoux, Semir Zeki, Margaret Livingstone; also Marina Abramovic, Robert Irwin, Richard Meier, Lynn Davis, Laurie Anderson, Terry Winters, Joan Snyder, Philip Taaffe, George Condo, David Salle. Led by David Freedberg along with Arthur C. Danto and Eric R. Kandel
Poster

Mar 27-Apr 11: Film Series

The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
La Notte, 1961; L'Avventura, 1962; L'Eclisse, 1962; Il Deserto Rosso, 1964; Blow-up, 1966; The Passenger, 1975
Sponsored by Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Poster

Mar 30-31: Conference

Social Justice in Transatlantic Perspective
Co-sponsored by the History Department, the Office of the Provost, and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History at Columbia University, and the Interuniversity Center for European-American History and Politics
Organized by Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna
Poster

Apr 18: Premio New York Exhibition

Photography, video and sculpture: I Was Fine Before You Came by Antonio Rovaldi
Video, installation and performance: An Impossible Tour by Marcella Vanzo:
Poster

Apr 21: Workshop

Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Context
Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Turin and CHILD (the Centre for Household Income, Labour, and Demographic Economics)
Organized by Daniela Del Boca and Giovanna Devetag
Poster

May 2: Seminar: Digital Editing

June 13: Art and Neuroscience Seminar

Art and Vision Science
Seminar with Fortunato Battaglia, Patrick Cavanagh, David Freedberg, Alan Gilchrist, Robert Harrist, Siri Hustvedt, Francoise Mouly, Pietro Perona, Amy Powell, David Rosand, Peter Schjeldahl, Stephen Shore, Art Spiegelman, and Terry Winters

Jul 24: Concert

Giacinto Scelsi's "Trilogy"
Frances-Marie Uitti (cello)

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2004-2005

Sept 24: Exhibition

Photography: Italiani d'America by Ernesto Bazan
Poster

Sept 30-Dec 2: Film Series

Exploring Stereotypes: Italians in America on Film
Give Us This Day, 1949; Sacco e Vanzetti, 1971; The Godfather Part II, 1974; A Wedding, 1978; Down by Law, 1986; Good Morning Babylon, 1987
Sponsored by Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Oct 13-Dec 1: Concert Series

Italy / NYC: Contemporary Music at the Italian Academy
The Argento Chamber Ensemble; Stefano Scodanibbio (contrabassist); Jenny Lin (pianist)

Oct 29-30: Conference

A Workshop on Randomness
Sponsored with the Italian Embassy in Washington

Nov 10-19: Exhibition

Per Vino e Per Segno
Italian wine labels and label design through history
Co-sponsored by the Italian Wine Growers of New York and the Produttori Cormòns of Friuli-Venezia Giulia with The American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit (ASILM)
Poster

Nov 17: Library Inauguration

Ceremony and reception with a gift of books from the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita' Culturali

Nov 22: Italian Academy Meeting

The Arts and Neurosciences

Nov 30: Ceremony

The Italy-USA Excellence Exchange: Activities of the Recently Founded Honors Center of Italian Universities
US Inauguration with the Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" and Honors Center of Italian Universities di Formazione Internazionale

Dec 7: Lecture

Compositional Strategies in the Creation of New Mass Formularies: The Case of the Transfiguration in Southern Italy
Luisa Nardini
Poster

Dec 10: Symposium

Petrarch at 700: Hermeneutics and Philology
Sponsored with the Italian Dept. of Columbia University and the Italian Cultural Institute
Poster

Jan 24: Heyman Center Lecture

Dinner in honor of Daniel Barenboim on the occasion of the first Edward Said Memorial Lecture
Poster

Feb 3-Apr 28: Film Series

Exploring Stereotypes II: Americans in Italy on Film
Paisà, 1946; Two Weeks In Another Town, 1962; Dimenticare Palermo, 1989; Who's That Knocking At My Door, 1968; Give Us This Day, 1949; The Godfather III, 1990
Sponsored by Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Poster

Feb 8-Apr 6: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Guido Olivieri: The Influence of Italian Instrumental Music on the Emergence of a Modern Audience in 18th Century France; John Podesta: NIAF Public Policy; Lynn Catterson, PhD: Michelangelo's Laocoön?
Co-sponsored with Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Olivieri Poster | Catterson Poster

Feb 28: Italian Poetry Review Reading

Paolo Valesio

Mar 2-May 4: Concert Series

Musica Antica e Nuova
Tom Chiu (experimental violinist); QNG: Quartet New Generation, recorder collective; Blair McMillen (pianist)
Poster

Apr 11: Concert

L'Arena di Verona
Sponsored by Enit and the Italian Cultural Institute
Poster

Apr 18: Premio New York Exhibition

Film, Video, Drawing and Painting: Works In Progress by Rä Di Martino and Gabriele Picco
Poster

Apr 21: Book Presentation

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe
Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

Apr 27: State Visit

Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome, on Aiuto e Sviluppo: Il Ruolo delle Città nella Cooperazione Internazionale (Aid and Development: The Role of Cities in International Cooperation)
Poster

May 16: Book Presentation

Memory and Identity by Pope John Paul II

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2003-2004

Sept 24: Reception

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and President of Confindustria Antonio D'Amato

Sept 25-Nov 20: Film Series

Visions of the South
La Terra Trema, 1948; Viaggio in Italia, 1953; Divorizio all'Italiana, 1961; Salvatore Giuliano, 1961; L'avventura, 1960; Pasqualino Settebellezze, 1961
Sponsored by Monte dei Paschi di Siena
Poster

Oct 8-Dec 3: Concert Series

Contemporary Classic Italian: Music of the Last 50 Years
Emanuele Arciuli (piano); Antares: Vesselin Gellev (violin) Rebecca Patterson (cello), Garrick Zoeter (clarinet), Eric Huebner (piano); Luciano Berio Sequenzas: Joan La Barbara, William Schimmel, Vesselin Gellev, Michal Beit Halachmi, Miriam Kapner

Oct 24: Conference

Machiavelli Revisited: New Approaches to his Political Theory
Poster

Nov 24: Lecture

My Airy Spirit: Ethereal Metaphors & Magical Thought
Marina Warner (Italian Academy Fellow)
Co-sponsored by Columbia Department of English & CCLS

Dec 4: Symposium

Democracy and Information: Truth, Politics and the Press
Sponsored by The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America and Fondazione Corriere della Sera
Poster

Feb 5-Apr 15: Film Series

Visions of the North
Il Posto, 1961; Prima della Rivoluzione, 1964; Senso, 1954; Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli, 1960; La Notte, 1960; Miracolo a Milano, 1951
Sponsored by Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Dec 11-May 5: Concert Series

Solo at the Italian Academy
Yael Weiss (piano), Marilyn Nonken (piano); Lucy Shelton (soprano) accompanied by Pedja Muzijevic; Frances-Marie Uitti (cello)
Poster

Mar 10: Exhibition

Photography: Untold Stories by Marina Berio
Poster

Apr 12: Premio New York Exhibition

Multi-media: Dimensional Jump by Sara Ciraci

Apr 27: Premio New York Exhibition

Multi-media: Glass Movie/Film di vetro by Alessandra Tesi

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2002-2003

Sept 26-Nov 21: Film Series

Divo / Diva:
L'oro di Napoli, 1954; Lo sciecco bianco, 1951; La dolce vita, 1959; Bellissima, 1951; Il sorpasso, 1962; Mimi' metallurgico ferito nell'onore, 1972; Una giornata particolare, 1977
Poster

Oct 30-Apr 24: Concert Series

Chamber Music at the Italian Academy
Bach: Music for Strings & Keyboard: Judith Ingolfsson (violin) Shalev Ad-El, harpsichord, Inbal Segev (cello); Bach: Three Suites for Violoncello: Inbal Segev (cello); Boccherini & Haydn: The Amernet String Quartet: Misha Vitenson and Marcia Littley (violin) Michael Klotz (viola) Javier Arias and Inbal Segev (cello)
Poster

Nov 8: Book Presentation

The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern History by David Freedberg

Nov 13: Film Screening

Occhio Nero, Occhio Biondo, Occhio Felino: Una Serata con Muzzi Loffredo

Dec 3: Premio New York Exhibition

Photography and Digital Media: New York by Chiara by Chiara Carocci

Feb 5-Apr 14: Film Series

Beyond Cinecittà: Highlights of Italian Cinema from 1980 to the Present
La Notte di San Lorenzo (Night of the Shooting Stars), 1982; Tre Fratelli, 1981; Ginger e Fred, 1986; Palombella Rossa (Red Wood Pigeon), 1989; Caro Diario, 1994; L'america, 1994
Poster

Mar 10: Premio New York Exhibition

Multi-media and Video: Miele by Sara Rossi
Under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute

Mar 25: Exhibition

Photography: Sardinia by Leonard Sussman

Apr 25: Premio New York Exhibition

Painting: New Paintings by Marta Dell'Angelo
Under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute
Poster

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2001-2002

Sept 18: Italian Academy Prize Ceremony

Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Lecture/Performance on La Commedia dell' Arte
Guests' visit to America cancelled; lecture-performance replaced by an open house, to share in the spirit of community, solidarity, and reflection on the events of the past week

Oct 23: Oral History Narrative and Memory Project

September 11, 2001 Organization for Migration in Rome. Jack Saul, Director of Trauma Studies Program at NYU; Silvia Salvatici, Archives of Memory Development at the International Organization for Migration

Nov 7: Columbia University Music Performance Program

World Trade Center Benefit Concert
Original jazz improvisations along with music of Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Brahms, Faure and Villa-Lobos
Deborah Bradley, Director

Nov 8-Apr 11: Concert Series

Chamber Music at the Italian Academy
An Evening of Chamber Music with Bernard Greenhouse: Axel Strauss (violin), Ayano Ninomiya (violin) Toby Hoffman (viola) Inbal Segev (cello) Bernard Greenhouse (cello); Music for Clarinet and Piano: Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet) Jonathan Feldman (piano); Italian Masterpieces and More: Inbal Segev (cello), Noreen Cassidy-Polera (piano)

Nov 15-16: Conference

Enrico Fermi and the Beginnings of Nuclear Fission
In collaboration with the Department of Physics of Columbia University
Program | Video

Feb 7-Apr 18: Film Series

The Rise and Fall of Italian Neorealism
Obsession, 1942; Roma città aperta, 1945; Ladri di biciclette, 1948; Riso amaro, 1948; Umberto D, 1952; La strada, 1954
Poster

Mar 12: Seminar

Fighting the Mafia
Leoluca Orlando, Former Mayor of Palermo and President of the Palermo Renaissance Foundation
Moderated by Alexander Stille, author of Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism and Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Mar 28: Forum

Giuliano Amato, Vice-President of the Convention on European Union Reform

Apr 10-Apr 24: Italian Academy Lecture Series

L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza: Genes, Words and Ideas
Ethnic Differences: Genes, Culture and Prejudice and Differences; The History of the Last Hundred Thousand Years: Towards an Understanding of Modern Mankind; From Language to Medicine: Biological and Cultural Foundations of Modernity

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2000-2001

Sept 7: Head of State Reception

For Vaclav Havel
Ceremonies (CU Presidents' Office)

Sept 22: Performance and Workshop

Sesso? Si, Grazie!
Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Co-sponsored by the with Barnard College Theater Department

Oct 13: Seminar

Difference, Identity, Sovereignty and the Problem of Trieste
Glenda Sluga (History Department and Center for European Studies, University of Sydney)
Sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies, Columbia University

Oct 19-Oct 26: W. Averell Harriman Lecture Series

Professor Emeritus Moshe Lewin (University of Pennsylvania): The USSR: Three Historical Probes
The 1930s: A System and a Psyche; The USSR's 1960s: In Quest of Modernization; Russia's 20th Century: The Burdens of History

Oct 11-Nov 8: Italian Academy Lecture Series

Ranajit Guha: History at the Limit of World History
The Prose of History or the Invention of World History; Experience, Wonder and the Pathos of Historicality

Nov 10: Seminar

Law and Justice: The Italian Constitutional Court
Pasquale Pasquino (New York University Law School and Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique)

Nov 15-Dec 13: Concert Series

Trio Sonatas of Corelli and Others
Louis Louis; The Claremont Trio: Emily Bruskin (violin), Julia Bruskin (cello), Donna Kwong (piano)
Co-sponsored by the Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Nov 16-18: Conference

Italy and Cyprus in Antiquity
Larissa Bonfante (Department of Classics, New York University) and Vassos Karageorghis (Director, Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation)

Dec 8: Seminar

Fascist New Towns and the Reinvention of Italians
Mia Fuller (Department of Italian Studies, University of California at Berkeley)
Sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies, Columbia University

Jan 31-Mar 21: Concert Series

Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3, Part 1: Gotham City Baroque Orchestra; The Complete Concert Music of Robert Parsons: Parthenia Viol Concert and guests; Vivaldi's L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3, Part II: Gotham City Baroque Orchestra
Co-sponsored by the Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Feb 5-Apr 30: The Future of Europe Lecture Series

Francesco Giavazzi (Università Bocconi): Enlarging an Unreformed Europe; Alan Milward, London School of Economics: The Future of the European Union in Historical Perspective; Stanley Hoffmann (Harvard University): The Future of Transatlantic Relations

Feb 8: Exhibition

A Journey through Imperial Rome: An Exhibition of Artifacts from the Imperial Forum
Curated by the Sovrintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma
Organized by The Consulate General of Italy, The Italian Cultural Institute, The Italian Trade Commission and The Italian Government Tourist Board of NY
Poster

Mar 2: Seminar

The Best Known Girl in the Whole Wide World: Why the Mona Lisa?
Donald Sasoon (Department of History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London)
Sponsored by the Columbia University-University Seminar

Mar 28-Apr 25: Italian Academy Lecture Series

Tiziano Bonazzi: "The Sovereign People as American People: Explorations in the Politics and Metapolitics of Nationalism in the United States"
Sovereign People in the Making: The Political Myth of Modernity in the Declaration of Independence; Civilization and Its Burdens: Redefining the Other to Meet the Challenge of History in Late 19th Century America; Innocence in the 20th Century? Exemplary Narratives of the American Nation and the Usual Odd Couple: Frederick J. Turner and Charles Beard

Apr 13: Seminar

The Papal Response to Fascist Anti-Semitism: From the Confrontation of Pius XI to the Conciliation of Pius XII
Frank Coppa (Department of History, St. Johns University)
Sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies, Columbia University

Apr 25-May 5: Concert Series

Students of the Columbia-Juilliard Joint Program
Music of Debussey, Dvorak, Villa Lobos, Etler, Bozza; Music of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Crumb, Donanyi; Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat
Deborah Bradley, Director
Co-sponsored by the Miller Theatre, Columbia University

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1999-2000

Sept 14-Oct 15: Exhibition

Italian Art Posters: c.1880-1935

Oct 13-14: Symposium

Global Movements Towards a Moratorium on the Death Penality
Co-Sponsored by Hands off Cain, Commune di Sant'Egidio and Moratorium 2000
In Conjunction with The Human Rights Institute (Columbia University School of Law)

Oct 17-Oct 22: Symposium

Transforming the Places of Production: New York/Milano Planning Colloquia
Directed by Giovanna Fossa (Politecnico di Milano), Robert Pirani (Director of Environmental Programs, Regional Plan Association) and Robert Lane (Director of Community Design Programs, Regional Plan Association)

Oct 19: Concert

Tears of the Muse: English Folksongs and Elizabethan Ballads
Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor), Steven Stubbs (lute)

Oct 29: Lecture

Spallanzani's Biological Contributions, 200 Years After His Death
Co-sponsored by the Department of Italian, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Biology and the Department of Genetics and Development (Columbia University)

Nov 5-Nov 6: Oratorio

Caldara and Lotti: 17th Century Italian Mannerists
The Gotham City Baroque Orchestra and Vox Vocal Ensemble, Conductor: George Steel
Co-sponsored by the Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Nov 12-13: Conference

Old Differences and New Similarities: American and European Immigration Policies in a Comparative Perspective
Directed by Enrico Pugliese (Department of Sociology, Università di Napoli Federico II and SSPA-Rome)

Nov 19-20: Symposium

The Self and Self-Knowledge
Directed by Akeel Bilgrami (Department of Philosophy, Columbia University)

Dec 14: Concert

An Italian Renaissance Christmas
The Vox Vocal Ensemble
Co-sponsored by the Miller Theatre, Columbia University

Jan 18-Mar 21: Concert Series

The Complete Concerti Grossi of Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Corelli and Vivaldi; Corelli and England; Corelli and France: Gotham City Baroque Orchestra

Feb 17: Lecture

On Corelli's 347th birthday: The Complete Concerti Grossi of Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Corelli's Music in Cultural Context

Feb 24-26: The Earth Economic Forum II

Directed by Massimo di Matteo (Università di Siena) and Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University)

Feb 29: Concert

The Risorgimento Project: Italian Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century
Julia Grella (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Izzo (piano)

Mar 7: Lecture

Addio Per Sempre: Exile and Other Dislocations in Italian Nineteenth-Century Song
Julia Grella (Fellow, Italian Academy)

Mar 30: Conference

E2K: A New Vision For Europe
The Institute on Western Europe's 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Apr 7-9: Conference

Dante 2000
Directed by Teodolinda Barolini (Chairman, Department of Italian, Columbia University)

Apr 11: Concert

The Italian Violin in the Twentieth Century
Michelle Makarski (violin), Brent McMunn (piano)

Apr 9-16: Colloquia

Apr 14: Seminar

Tourism, Nation and Empire in Fascist Italy
Krystyna von Henneberg (Department of History, University of California at Davis)

Apr 18: Roundtable

WWII as Civil War: South and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective
Organized by Silvana Patriarca and Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

May 12: Seminar

Peripheral Landed Elites in Comparative Perspective: Patriarchalism and Paternalism in the American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno, 1815-1860
Enrico Dal Lago

May 16-18: Conference

Commemoration of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees at 50: Past, Present, and Future of Refugee Assistance
Directed by Dr. Lydio F. Tomasi, Center for Migration Studies
Co-sponsored by the Center for Migration Studies

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1998-1999

Sept 15: Concert

Faculty Concert featuring Members of the Performance Faculty, Department of Music
Works by Gabrieli, Dutilleux, Roussel, Martino, and Brahms: Mindy Kaufman (flute), Allen Blustine (clarinet), Sarah Adams (viola), Mark Shuman (cello), and guest pianist Todd Crow

Sept 17: Seminar

Sixteenth-Century Venetian Observers of Muslim Societies
Giorgio Vercellin (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)

Sept 24-Apr 20: RAI Documentary Film Series

L'Isola degli Schiavi, 1997; Grandi Mostre: Futurismo e Futuristi, 1986; Memoria: I Sopravvissuti Raccontano, 1997; Minatori del Sulcis: Dinamite Nuraxi Figus, 1994; 'A' Come Arte: Le Torri della Discordia, 1997; Le Mani Sporche (Part I), 1978; Le Mani Sporche (Part II), 1978
In collaboration with RAI, Radio Televisione Italiana

Oct 8-Oct 29: Lecture Series

The Leopardi Lecture Series Commemorating Count Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Emilio Peruzzi (Scuola Normale di Pisa); Professor Emeritus Ghanshyam Singh (University of Belfast); Fiorenza Ceragioli (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa); Gabrielle Barfoot (Università degli Studi di Trieste); Fiorenza Ceragioli, Emilio Peruzzi, Monica Ballerini and Eugenio Picchi; Mario Andrea Rigoni (Università degli Studi di Padova); Cesare Galimberti (Università degli Studi di Padova); Manfred Riedel (Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg); Desmond Egan, Eamon Grennan (Vassar College), Karl Kroeber (Columbia University), Anthony Oldcorn (Brown University), Volker Steinkamp (Universitaet Heidelberg)

Oct 11: Conference

The Comparative Study of Urban Water Management in Italian Cities
Directed by Dr. Erik Mortensen
Convened by the Italian Academy, the Columbia Earth Institute, the International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO) and the World Water Council

Oct 12-13: Conference

Colloquium on Water Diplomacy
Directed by Dr. Erik Mortensen, Ambassador John McDonald (Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy) and Dr. Jerry Delli Priscoli (US Army Corps of Engineers) as Colloquium Facilitator and Moderator
Convened by the Italian Academy, the Columbia Earth Institute, the International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO) and the World Water Council

Oct 20-Apr 13: Concert Series

Louis Louis: Entertainment of the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries: Robert Mealy (violin), Leah Nelson (violin), Lisa Terry (viola da gamba), Dongsok Shin (harpsichord); Mannes String Quartet with Mezzo-Soprano: Wen Qian (violin), Theresa Salomon (violin), Amedee Darlyn Williams (viola), Wolfram Koessel (cello), Desiree Halac (mezzo-soprano); The Risorgimento Project: Italian Art Songs of the Nineteenth Century: Julia Grella (soprano), Francesco Izzo (piano); Baroque Music of Four Centuries: The Riverside Symphony; Musical Episodes: Bach to Wieniawski: John Marcus (violin), Rohan DeSilva (piano)

Nov 5: Concert

The Music of Ennio Porrino & Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Maria Lucia Costa

Nov 19-20: Conference

Public Opinion, Mass Media and European and American Foreign Policy
Directed by Pierangelo Isernia, Robert Shapiro and Brigitte Nacos

Dec 15: Concert

Columbia University Student Chamber Ensemble Recital
Works by Bach, Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Telemann and Grant Still

Feb 4: Conference

The Italian American Tradition
Directed by Pellegrino d'Acierno (Hofstra University)
Participants include Fred L. Gardaphe, Stanislao Pugliese, Stephen Sartarelli, Gioia Timpanelli and Robert Viscusi

Feb 9: Lecture

Leon Battista Alberti: 'Libri della Famiglia'
Francesco Furlan (UniversitZ de Paris VII and Director, Société Internationale Leon Battista Alberti)

Feb 18-Feb 20: Conference

The Marshall Plan: 50 Years After Cold War Culture: Film, Fact and Fiction
Co-sponsored by the New York Consortium for European Studies, composed of entities from New York University, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research and Indiana University at Bloomington

Feb 26: Conference

Comparative Literature: The Intellectual Foundations
Andreas Huyssen, Franco Moretti, Gayatri Spivak and Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)

Mar 24-Apr 21: Italian Academy Lecture Series

Anna Ottani Cavina: Cultural Change and Visual Representation in the Late Eighteenth Century
Antiquity as Future: The Past as a Model for Aesthetic Renewal;
Domesticity and Functionalism in Upper-Class European Residences: The Italian Model in the Masterpieces of Felice Giani;
The Landscape of Reason: The Quest for Basic Geometric Forms in Landscape Painting from David to Corot

Apr 7: Symposium

The History of Science: History and Knowledge of the Natural World
Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Office of the Provost
Participants include Peter L. Galison (Harvard University), Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Insitute for the History of Science-Berlin), Robert Richards (Morrie Fishbein Center, University of Chicago); Organized by D. Graham Burnett (Mellon Fellow)

Apr 12: Lecture

Japan: The Magic of Mountains
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
Fosco Maraini (Università di Firenze)

Apr 15-17: Conference

Who Owns Culture?
Co-sponsored by The National Journalism in the Arts Program
Participants include scholars, curators, dealers, lawyers, politicians and journalists

Apr 23: Conference

Carl Schmitt: Legacy and Prospects
Organized by Andreas Kalyvas (Columbia University) and Jan Muller (New York University)
The conference will continue on 24 April at the Columbia Law School and on 25 April at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

May 6: Celebration

A Celebration of Columbia University Library's Seven Millionth Volume: the Dante Estense, a Gift from the Family of Mario Casalini, Book Dealer and Publisher; Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Columbia University Libraries

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1997-1998

Sept 13-15: Seminar

Economic Governance Rights Versus Efficiency
Caren Addis, Eduardo Gomez, Nadya Castro, Monica Casselet
Directed by Douglas Chalmers, Co-directed by Robert Kaufman and Scott Martin
Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Studies Institute (School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)

Oct 7-Dec 12

United Nations Lecture Series
Benedetto Conforti (Università di Napoli): The Law and Practice of the United Nations; Oscar Schachter (Columbia University): The Reform of the United Nations; Ambassador Paolo Fulci (Italian Mission to the United Nations): Italy and the Reform of the Security Council

Oct 10-12: Seminar

Authoritarian Legacies Rights Versus Efficiency
Paola Cesarini, Gianfranco Pasquino, Luisa Passerini, Consuelo Cruz
Directed by Douglas Chalmers, Co-directed by Edward Malefakis and Katherine Hite
Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Iberian Studies Institute (School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)

Oct 21: Italian Design

Snaidero and Paola Pininfarina; Co-sponsored by Snaidero USA

Oct 23: Fermi Lecture 1997

Particle Accelerators: From Fundamental Research to Cancer Therapy
Ugo Amaldi (CERN-European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Nov 13: Bernini

Charles Avery and David Rosand (Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University)
Co-sponsored by Little, Brown & Co

Nov 17-Nov 19: Seminar

Between Hermeneutics and Neopositivism
Umberto Eco, Arthur Danto, Stefano Zecchi, Sergio Giovone, Maurizio Ferraris, Mario Perniola, Richard Brilliant, David Freedberg
Directed by Riccardo Dottori (Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata')

Nov 21: Conference

Justice and Social Reconstruction: A Conference on the Bosnian Experience and the Rule of Law
Co-directed by Lance Liebman (Columbia University) and Thomas Cushman (Wellesley College)

Dec 4: Harriman Institute Lecture Series

Post-Structuralist Necrophilia, or the Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Ancestors, Property, and Religious Legitimation
Kathleen Verdery (Johns Hopkins University)
Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute (Columbia University)

Dec 3: Performance

Colpo di Scena; Performance Sponsored by the Department of Italian (Columbia University)

Feb 5: Lecture

The American Legal System: An Italian Heritage
Hans Smit, Professor Stanley H. Fuld (Columbia University)

Feb 14: Conference

The Marshall Plan and Public Opinion
Co-sponsored with New York University

Feb 19: Exhibition

Gianni Versace: History and Invention
Richard Martin (The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Feb 24-Mar 24: Italy at Columbia Lecture Series

Carlo Ginzburg: No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective
The Old World and the New, Seen From Nowhere; England, Europe and a Defense of Rhyme; A Search for the Origins: Reading Tristram Shandy Again; Tusitala and His Polish Reader

Mar 5: Seminar

East Meets West: The Challenge of Enlarging Europe
Directed by Glenda Rosenthal (Columbia University)
Coordinated by Michelle Seguine & Patti de Groot
Co-sponsored by the Institute on Western Europe

Mar 9: Lecture Series: The Da Ponte Lecture

Antonia Arslan (Università di Padova): Voci Negate dell'Ottocento Italiano: Neera (Anna Radius Zuccari, 1846-1918)
Presented by the Department of Italian (Columbia University)

Mar 27-Apr 29: Lecture Series

Anne Robichaud: Assisi: Before and After, Hans Belting (Institut fuer Kunstgeschichte-Karlsruhe): Dante: The Painter of Shadows; Francesca Duranti: The Construction of the Fictional Character
Co-sponsored with The Friends of Assisi and the National Italian American Foundation and the Department of Italian (Columbia University)

Apr 17-Apr 18: Seminar

Social Policy Rights versus Efficiency
Directed by Douglas Chalmers, Co-Directed by Monique Segarra

Apr 19: Conference

Columbia University Italian Graduate Students' Conference: The Body and Object
In conjunction with the Italian Students' Association of New York University

Apr 24-Apr 26: Conference

Earth Forum From Kyoto to Buenos Aires: Technology Transfer and Emissions Trading
Directed by Graciela Chichilnisky (UNESCO Professor of Information Resources and Economics and Garette Professor of Public Policy, Columbia University)

Apr 29: Concert

Concert of Italian Operatic Arias
Performed by singers of the Jerome Hines Foundation (Opera Music Theatre International)

May 2: Symposium

The Fulbright Experience: Italians in America, Americans in Italy

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1996-1997

Oct 14-18: International Conference

Advanced Confinement Concepts and Theory
Co-sponsored with the Applied Physics Department (Columbia University)

Oct 18-19: Conference

After Orientalism: A Symposium on the Work of Edward Said
Co-sponsored with the Department of English (Columbia University)

Oct 23: Conference and Book Exhibit

Uomo di Incontro tra Politica e Cultura by Giovanni Spadolini

Oct 24: Lecture

Il Complesso di Ulisse: La Transizione Politica Italiana dalla Prima alla Seconda Repubblica

Oct 24-Nov 26: Italian Academy Lecture Series

Umberto Eco: An Author and His Interpreters;
From Internet to Gutenberg;
The Dream of a Perfect Language

Nov 14: Lecture

Diario Postumo: Homage to Eugenio Montale

Nov 15: Conference

Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century

Nov 30: Conference

Writing Italia: The Fourteenth Annual Graduate Students' Conference
Co-sponsored by the Italian Graduate Students' Association (Columbia University)

Nov 30: Conference

Writing Italia: The Fourteenth Annual Graduate Students' Conference
Co-sponsored by the Italian Graduate Students' Association (Columbia University)

Feb 13: Lecture

Individualization and Globalization: New Frontiers for Personal Experience and Collective Action
Alberto Melucci (Università degli Studi di Milano)
In cooperation with the Department of Political Science (Columbia University)

Feb 25: Lecture

How to Redefine Italy's Unity: A Federalist Solution Within Europe
Piero Bassetti (Chairman, Camera di Commercio, Industria e Artigianato di Milano)
Co-sponsored by the Institute on Western Europe (Columbia University)

Mar 6-8: Conference

The Sixteenth Annual IWE Graduate Students Conference
Glenda Rosenthal (Director, Institute on Western Europe): The End of the Welfare State? Social Policy, Citizenship Rights and Welfare Provision in a Changing Europe
In cooperation with the Institute on Western Europe-School of International and Public Affairs

Apr 3: Gramsci and Modernity

Co-sponsored with the Fondazione Gramsci (Roma) and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (New York)

Apr 5: Writing Italia

The Graduate Student Conference

Apr 8: Exhibition

Painting and Photography: Images and Openings of Italy by Archie Rand and Edmund Purvis

Apr 11-12: International Conference

Byzantium through Italian Eyes
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History (Columbia University)

Apr 14-17: Euro-Telecommunications

Giuliano Amato (European Institute in Florence) in cooperation with the BNL Chair, Columbia School of Law

Apr 16: Lecture

Primo Levi (1919-1987)

Apr 17: Concert

Metamorphosis Ensemble, Cameristi di Sulmona

May 20: Lecture

The Evolution of Medicine From Natural History to Natural Science
Giovanni Felice Azzone (Università di Padova and Director, Institute of General Pathology)

Jun 10: Conference

Italian Icons: Living with Marble Architecture Design
Co-sponsored by the Regione Veneto and Cariverona Banca
Poster

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1995-1996

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1994-1995

Apr 3-5: Italian Academy Lecture Series

Gianni Vattimo: After Christianity

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1993-1994

Oct 25, 26, 27: Lecture Series

Edward Said: Late Style

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