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:
| | | 2012-2013 | | | 2011-2012 | | | 2010-2011 | | | 2009-2010 | | | 2008-2009 | | |
| | | 2007-2008 | | | 2006-2007 | | | 2005-2006 | | | 2004-2005 | | | 2003-2004 | | |
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Spring 2013 Papers
Image-sound structure and the audiovisual experienceGianmario Borio
January 30, 2013
Towards an understanding of the molecular basis of Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder
Luca Colnaghi
February 6, 2013
Florentine musical culture in the time of Cosimo I de' Medici: from "music without notes" to the birth of the aristocratic composer
Philippe Canguilhem
February 13, 2013
A predictive-coding model of normal and abnormal perception: implications for brain stimulation
Guillermo Horga
February 20, 2013
"You taught me what Egypt means": some considerations on the ambivalent spaces and aesthetics of the Egyptian Revolution
Paola Abenante
February 27, 2013
A Kind of Iconoclasm: The Jews and the Passio Ymaginis Account
Paroma Chatterjee
March 6, 2013
Pictorial Presence
Joerg Fingerhut
March 13, 2013
Julio-Claudian Denarii and Aurei in Campania and India
Federico De Romanis
March 27, 2013
Climate Change Volatility and Crop Choices
Giacomo De Giorgi
April 9, 2013
Carducho's Diálogos de la pintura. Observations on its readership and circulation
Marta Cacho Casal
April 10, 2013
Preformism, Epigenesis and Antonio Vallisneri's History of Generation
Ivano Dal Prete
April 17, 2013
"Too Many for One": Eugenio Montale's Interlocutors, 1917-43
Domenico Scarpa
April 24, 2013
Fall 2012 Papers
Bernini's S. Andrea al Quirinale and Early Modern Architectural RepresentationFabio Barry
September 19, 2012
The Role of Smoking in Cocaine Addiction (abstract)
Luca Colnaghi
September 26, 2012
Europa Kitsch: On Mario Praz's Critique of Greece as a Site of Anomic Modernity
Lidia Santarelli
October 3, 2012
Paroma Chatterjee
October 10, 2012
St. Peter Martyr: An Introduction
Corinna Gallori
October 17, 2012
Ingenuous Investigators: Antonio Vallisneri's Correspondents and the Making of Natural Knowledge in 18th-century Italy
Ivano Dal Prete
October 24, 2012
Music, Sounds and Virtue in Contemporary Egyptian Sufism
Paola Abenante
October 31, 2012
Reason and Delusion
Remo Bodei
November 7, 2012
The Puzzling Inventory of Life
Elena Casetta
November 14, 2012
Deficits in Predictive Mechanisms and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
Guillermo Horga
November 28, 2012
A Comparative Analysis of the Roman and Portuguese Pepper Trade
Federico De Romanis
December 5, 2012
Spring 2012 Papers
Intentions and Experience (abstract)Alessandro Pignocchi
January 24, 2012
From Closed Cycle to Open Knowledge: On the Early Modern Exotericization of an Esoteric Idea
Brian Ogren
February 1, 2012
Papal involvement in the spread of Greek culture to the medieval Latin West
Reka Forrai
February 8, 2012
Social Anthropology and History of Art in a Holy Drama in Northern Italy
Francesco Faeta
February 15, 2012
The Role of Uncertainties in Structural Engineering Problems: How to Manage Them in Simulation and Design
Marco Savoia
February 22, 2012
Pasquino at the crossroads: the statue, the square and the public in the 16th century
Maddalena Spagnolo
February 27, 2012
Rethinking Futurism at the Italian Academy
Lorenza Miretti
March 6, 2012
Non-Invasive Fully Quantitative Positron Emission Tomography Imaging
Francesca Zanderigo
March 20, 2012
Why there was no centaur in eighteenth-century London: The vulgar as a cognitive category in enlightenment Europe (abstract)
Fabian Krämer
March 27, 2012
The Federico Zeri Foundation
An International Research Centre for Art History
Anna Ottani Cavina
April 3, 2012
Staging History in Monteverdi's Orfeo
Mauro Calcagno
April 10, 2012
On the dynamics of relational minds
Maria Brincker
April 17, 2012
Inequality and Democracy: The UK case in the last thirty years
Anna Soci
April 24, 2012
Fall 2011 Papers
The social affordance model: a sensorimotor view of intentional action and aesthetic involvementMaria Brincker
Sept 2011
Jusepe de Ribera and the Dissimulation of Sight (abstract)
Itay Sapir
Sept 2011
In the footsteps of Momus: irony and vituperio in early modern art criticism (abstract)
Maddalena Spagnolo
Oct 2011
Possessions and reputation in 17th-century Rome
Renata Ago
Oct 2011
Dosso's Ambiguity
Marianne Koos
Oct 2011
Dance libretto as social text: the Italian dance librettos in the Cia Fornaroli collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Stefano Tomassini
Oct 2011
The contemporary performance of Italian Baroque opera
Mauro Calcagno
Nov 2011
A paper archive of everything written: Ulisse Aldrovandi's Pandechion Epistemonicon
Fabian Krämer
Nov 2011
Galileo and the Roman Curia: modern science and Catholic Reformation
c. 1610–1700
Federica Favino
Nov 2011
Combined analysis of multimodal brain imaging data for the study and prevention of major depressive disorders in high risk offspring
Francesca Zanderigo
Nov 2011
The popular image of Dante as a theologian
Leon Jacobowitz-Efron
Dec 2011
Music in the Italian Renaissance home
Flora Dennis
Dec 2011
Spring 2011 Papers
Uncovering the Genes for Addictive BehaviorLaura Bevilacqua
January 2011
Alternative Paths Towards the Age of Mercantilism: Revisiting the 17th Century's Economic Crisis
Vera Costantinl
March 2011
Italian Sculpture and Sculptors at the French Court, between Charles VIII and François I
Tommaso Mozzati
March 2011
Politics, law and literature. The dialogue between Machiavelli and Guicciardini
Paolo Carta
March 2011
Perrault's watch and Beltrami's pseudosphere: A story without a moral
Claudio Bartocci
March 2011
Alternative Paths Towards the Age of Mercantilism: Revisiting the 17th Century's Economic Crisis
Mathieu Grenet
March 2011
Fall 2010 Papers
Looking at images and reasoning about their content: The case of shadow depictionRoberto Casati
October 2010
Hermann Broch and Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: A human and literary friendship
Ester Saletta
October 2010
Neural correlates of conscious and unconscious perception of self-faces (abstract)
Alessia Pannese
October 2010
The educational network in Rome during the Napoleonic Years
Maurizio Sangalli
October 2010
Identity or Control: the Jewish Badge in Renaissance Italy
Flora Cassen
October 2010
Vision to Reason: Using Diagrams to Think
Valeria Giardino
November 2010
On the Trail of Frederick II: The Rediscovery of Medieval Architecture in Southern Italy and 19th Century European Nationalism
Gabriella Cianciolo
December 2010
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Spring 2010 Papers
Loan Interruptus: The World Bank, Reconstruction and Development in Italy, 1947-53
Michele Alacevich
February 2010
Memory, political culture, institutional change. A comparative perspective
Gianfranco Pasquino
February 2010
Palladio’s drawings: a self-portrait on paper
Guido Beltramini
February 2010
The neural mechanisms by which attention enhances vision
Franco Pestilli
February 2010
Damage detection in structures subjected to ground motion excitation
Maura Imbimbo
March 2010
Censorship and the ecclesiastic hierarchy's attitude towards
educated culture and uneducated culture (abstract)
Giorgio Caravale
March 2010
Theater as a psychosomatic art for a philosophical investigation
Chiara Cappelletto
March 2010
Medicine, power, and society in sixteenth-century Rome
Elisa Andretta
April 2010
The structural dynamics of narrative silence
Tammy Smith
April 2010
Neural systems subserving valence and arousal during the experience of induced emotions
Tiziano Colibazzi
April 2010
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Fall 2009 Papers
The Role of Religion in Culture: a Comparison of Italian and Mongolian Traditions (abstract)
Marsarjav Gantuya
September 2009
Professionals of Rehabilitation.
UNRRA Officers in Postwar Europe (abstract)
Silvia Salvatici
October 2009
Very Large Scale Structures in Growing Neutrino Quintessence (abstract)
Valeria Pettorino
October 2009
The Few and the Many: Machiavelli, Tocqueville and Nietzsche on Authority and Equality
Mikael Hörnqvist
October 2009
The World Bank Loans to Italy and the History of Postwar Development Policies
Michele Alacevich
October 2009
Paris, capital of the arts in the 1800s:
The dialogue between literature and the visual arts
Marc Fumaroli
November 2009
The banning of a culture: intellectuals, illiterates and censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy, I (abstract)
Giorgio Caravale
November 2009
Palladio and Polybius’ Histories
Guido Beltramini
November 2009
Gray and White Matter Morphology in Patients with Schizophrenia (abstract)
Tiziano Colibazzi
November 2009
Spanish physicians in Rome between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation.
Protagonists, practices and the circulation of knowledge (1492-1598) (abstract)
Elisa Andretta
December 2009
Visual Attention
Franco Pestilli
December 2009
Conservation and Documentation of New Media Art
Laura Barreca
December 2009
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Spring 2009 Papers
Borderlands: A system for a multi-national Europe (abstract)
Dominique Kirchner Reill
January 2009
Kepler’s method (abstract)
Stefano Gattei
February 2009
The Book of War: The Making of the Roman Art of War 400 BCE-1617, II (abstract)
Marco Formisano
February 2009
Genes and Human Diseases (abstract)
Vittorio Enrico Avvedimento
February 2009
Credit Ratings Failures: Causes and Policy Options
Marco Pagano
February 2009
History and Developments during the Later Phases of Pharaonic History and the Greco-Roman Period (abstract)
Rita Lucarelli
March 2009
Cognitive styles in academic and industrial research
Riccardo Viale
March 2009
Images, Nature and Ethics (abstract)
Erminia Ardissino
April 2009
Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (abstract)
Antonio Mantovani
April 2009
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Fall 2008 Papers
Goals and Methodology: From Bond to Border: The Transformation of the Adriatic in the Nineteenth Century (abstract)
Dominique Kirchner Reill
September 2008
Shining Light on Electrons in Low Dimensions
Vittorio Pellegrini
October 2008
Between Men and Gods: Demons in Ancient Egypt (abstract)
Rita Lucarelli
October 2008
The Anti-Judaic Tradition and the Birth of an
Anti-Jewish Anti-Capitalism
Michele Battini
October 2008
The Book of War: The Making of the Roman Art of War 400 BCE-1617, I (abstract)
Marco Formisano
October 2008
The Diplomat's Dog: The Natural World of Papal Nuncio Girolamo Rorario and how his Quod animalia (1544) Framed Enlightenment-Era Debates on Animal Rationality (abstract)
Megan K. Williams
October 2008
On Some Italian Busts of Charles V of Habsburg (abstract)
Walter Cupperi
November 2008
Perpetuation of memory storage: a novel mechanism in the long-term maintenance of synaptic plasticity and behavior (abstract)
Ferdinando Fiumara
November 2008
Alexander Pekelis: The Law, The State, and the Individual (abstract)
Mauro Grondona
November 2008
Communism and Anti-Communism in Italy, 1945-1989
Silvio Pons
December 2008
On the intellectual origins of the abolition des privilèges: the Machiavellian criticism of liberality
Jérémie Barthas
December 2008
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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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