Working Papers
The papers presented at the weekly luncheon seminars trace the progress of Fellows' research. These papers are available below in PDF format.Also available is a list of Fellows' publications conceived, written, or completed in the course of a Fellowship at the Academy, as well as the Academy's Annual Report and a list of other volumes, including the Italian Academy Lecture Series (from 1995 to 2002; with Columbia University Press).
Academic Year:
| | | 2007-2008 | | | 2006-2007 | | | 2005-2006 | | | 2004-2005 | | |
| | | 2003-2004 | | | 2002-2003 | | |
Spring 2008 Papers
Ethnographical examination of "fantasy coffins"Roberta Bonetti
April 2008
Biological functions of stable microtubules: a proposed role in cellular memory
Francesca Bartolini
April 2008
Dante, Sanudo and Polo. From the Crusades to the Perpetuation of Early Modern
Descriptions of the East as a Literary Genre
Antonio Garcia Espada
March 2008
The Other Side of Philology. Stories of Literary Creation
Mariarosa Bricchi
March 2008
Litigants' duty to disclose
Chiara Besso Marcheis
February 2008
Forms of Transmission of Anatomical Knowledge in the Age of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Vesalius (abstract)
Domenico Laurenza
January 2008
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Fall 2007 Papers
rTMS, antidepressant effect and synaptic plasticity in rodentsRosalia Crupi
November 2007
Microtubules and actin filaments "cross-talk" in cell migration: role of the formin mDia and the tumor suppressor APC
Francesca Bartolini
October 2007
Italian Mosaicists and Terrazzo Workers in New York City. Estimating the Size, Characteristic and Structure of a High-Skill Building Trade (abstract)
Javier Grossutti
October 2007
Identity Claims and the Law: Uses and Abuses (abstract)
Giorgio Pino
October 2007
Critical edition of Leopardi's translation from Greek moral prose and the use of Greek ethics in the early nineteenth century
Franco D'Intino
September 2007
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Spring 2007 Papers
A New 2D World for Physicists?Alberto Morgante
April 11th 2007
Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding protein (CPEB): a prion-like protein as a regulator of local protein synthesis and synaptic plasticity
Luana Fioriti
April 11th 2007
Domestic Conversions: households and bishops in late antique 'papal legends'
Tina Sessa
March 28th 2007
"Chi sono?" (1930), Self-portrait by Aldo Palazzeschi
Simone Margherini
March 7th 2007
Practical Sense and the Limits of Deliberation
Tito Magri
January 31st 2007
Montefeltro. A Coded Conspiracy, the Medici and the Sistine Chapel
Marcello Simonetta
January 17th 2007
History versus Memory? A Discussion on Italian War Crimes in World War II
Lidia Santarelli
January 14th 2007
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Fall 2006 Papers
Reward System in children and adolescents with ADHD and Anxiety disordersLuigi Mazzone
November 1st 2006
Diabolical appearances in late antiquity: the case of exorcism
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
October 25th 2006
Charge transport in molecular devices
Alberto Morgante
October 18th 2006
Documentality
Maurizio Ferraris
October 11th 2006
Creating Christian Rome: Households, Bishops and the Spiritual Politics of Domestic Space in Late Antiquity
Tina Sessa
October 4th 2006
Universal Duty and Global Justice
Sebastiano Maffettone
September 20th 2006
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Fall 2005 Papers
Antiquarians, objects and historical scholarshipWilliam Stenhouse
December 14th 2005
The Invention of "Maniera Greca"
Ludovico Geymonat
December 7th 2005
Arnaldo Momigliano between history, politics and autobiography
Simon Levis Sullam
November 30th 2005
Molecular architecture of signal transduction in living cells
Antonio Feliciello
November 16th 2005
Search Engines: Google's revolution
Linda Pagli
November 9th 2005
Where did I leave my keys? (or: How we use mouse genetics to understand memory)
Bina Santoro
November 2nd 2006
Does the European Union have a fiscal policy?
Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa
October 19th 2005
A Poetics of Lacuna
Nicola Gardini
October 12th 2005
The Magus and the Strippers, or: The Indiscreet Art of Giambattista Della Porta
Sergius Kodera
October 5th 2005
Problems of historical methodology in Carlo Ginzburg's work
Francesco Borghesi
September 28 2005
Who Wrote the Book of Nature? Gianfrancesco Sagredo, masks and propaganda in seicento natural philosophy
Nick Wilding
September 22 2005
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Spring 2005 Papers
Signa et res - The pictorial discourse of the imaginary in Early Modern ItalyKlaus Krüger
January 26
Aby Warbug in America Again (abstract)
Davide Stimilli
February 9
How Can One Recognize What One Did Not Know? Mnemosyne and the Art of the Twentieth Century
Mauro Carbone
February 16
Black Italia: Migrant Voices From Africa (abstract)
Alessandra DiMaio
February 23
Fortunato Depero and the Space of Futurist Theatricality (abstract)
Laura Chiesa
March 2
What Does It Mean to Trust in Epistemic Authority?
Gloria Origgi
March 9
Music from the South: Non-standard Proper Mass Items in Beneventan Manuscripts
Luisa Nardini
March 23
The Anatomy of a Memory: Insights to How Information is Stored in the Brain
Maria Concetta Miniaci
April 6
Motionless Gesture: The Reclining Body in the Renaissance
Davide Stimilli
April 13
Narrative Memory, Episodic Memory and W.G. Sebald's Idea of Memory
Gloria Origgi
April 20
Composing Vinteuil: Proust's Unheard Music
Mauro Carbone
April 27
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Fall 2004 Papers
The Young and the Restless: Scientific Institutions in the late 17th and early 18th CenturyLuciano Boschiero
September 22
Italian Music and Aesthetic Debates in France at the Beginning of the 18th Century
Guido Olivieri
September 29
Transmission of Repertories/Contamination of Styles: The Case of Liturgical Music in Southern Italy (9th to 13th Century)
Luisa Nardini
October 6
Nietzsche Italiano
William McCuaig
October 20
Behavioral Game Theory: Towards a Realistic Represenation of Strategic Behavior?
Giovanna Devetag
October 25
The Anatomy of a Memory: Insights into How Information is Stored in the Brain
Maria Concetta Miniaci
November 3
Building Social Memory: Enduring Networks of the Neapolitan Nobility Around 1500
Tanja Michalsky
November 17
System Identification to Detect Damage in Historical Constructions
Maura Imbimbo
December 1
Pictorial Frames and Textual Thresholds. Bitextuality in Rebecca West and David Low's The Modern Rake's Progress
Francesca Frigerio
December 15
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Spring 2004 Papers
Image and Narration (from Wickhoff to the Fantastic Four)Andrea Pinotti
January 28
Now That's Italian!
Simone Cinotto
February 11
The Place of the Tyrant in Machiavelli's Political Thought and the Literary Genre of the Prince
Giovanni Giorgini
February 18
Roman Archaeological Heritage and Cultural Identity in Republican Italy
Gabriele Cifani
March 10
Enumerative Geometry
Enrico Arbarello
March 24
Embodying Literature
Ellen Esrock
March 31
Self-knowledge (But not: "Know Thyself")
Annalisa Coliva
April 7
Something from Nothing: Making Sense of Early Modern Nonsense
Eileen Reeves
April 14
Film and Video Work
Sarah Ciraci, Premio New York Artist
April 21
Italy in the Atlantic World: The View from OGGI, 1950-1955
Marco Mariano
April 28
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Fall 2003 Papers
Touching Art: Intimacy, Embodiment, and the Somatosensory SystemEllen Esrock
September 17
Randomness
Fabrizio Luccio
October 1
Memory and Image
Andrea Pinotti
October 8
In The Mind's Eye
Marina Warner
October 15
Of Language and the Lodestone
Eileen Reeves
October 22
Why are fertility and participation rates so low in Italy (and Southern Europe)?
Daniela Del Boca
October 29
Is Italy an "Atlantic" country?
Marco Mariano
November 5
A Story in Color, at Notre Dame in Paris
Alessandra Tesi, Premio New York Artist
November 12
Style, difference and uniqueness
Carla Benedetti
November 19
Public History and the Production of the "Culture of Shiraz"
Setrag Manoukian
December 3
Civic Pedagogies, Cultural Identity and the Issue of Liberal Education in Italy
Giovanni Giorgini
December 10
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Spring 2003 Papers
Music, Fascism, and Resistance in Mussolini's Italy: Six SitesAnnie Randall
January 29
Canon-Making in Italy and the Italian Tradition of Moral Enquiry
Roberto Farneti
February 5
Peiresc and Ethiopia: Oriental Studies and the Origins of Orientalism
Peter Miller
February 12
Staging Europe
P.A. Skantze
February 19
Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment
Noga Arikha
February 26
Subliminal Perception and Music. A Brief Survey
Carlo Alessandro Landini
March 12
Receptiveness, knowledge and influence – The Spread of Italian economic thought in the United States (1890-1940)
Luca Fiorito
April 2
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Fall 2002 Papers
Tracing lineages in Italian Culture: modes of viewing from Vasari to filmJonathan White
September 18
Shakespeare and Italian Confessional treatises: Pestilent speeches, infected ears
Rosanna Camerlingo
September 25
"The Real Italians": On the Discourse and Politics of Italian Character in the 1940s
Silvana Patriarca
October 2
Receptiveness, Influence, Knowledge: The Spread of Italian Economic Thought in the United States
Luca Fiorito
October 16
Winner of NY Premio Presentation of Films
Sara Rossi
October 23
Hadrian's Stylus
Noga Arikha
October 30
Mnemosyne, memoria and the engram
Amy Morris
November 6
Thirteen Ways of Crossing the Piazza: Rome as Cinematic City
Pellegrino D'Acierno
November 20
Sardinian Fishmarkets: The Operation of the Eye
Leide Porcu
December 4
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