A lecture by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University) offering a new point of view on the founding of New Towns as part of Mussolini’s attempts to remake Italy. April 2, 2015.
Watch the video: Fascism in the Pontine Marshes [2015]
Elena Buttiero, piano, and Ferdinando Molteni, voice, guitar, narration, perform songs and tell the story of singer-songwriter Luigi Tenco. April 1, 2015.
Watch the video: An Evening with the Music of Luigi Tenco [2015]
Legendary soprano Renata Scotto in conversation with Fred Plotkin. March 31, 2015.
Watch the video: A Conversation with Renata Scotto [2015]
The morning session of a One-Day Conference organized by NYU and Columbia University, launching The Global Dante Project of New York. March 27, 2015.
Watch the video: Dante as a Political Theorist [2015]
An interview with artists Richard Laurenzi and Joe Zarba from Italian-American artist collective IAVANET about the exhibit By Hand and By Lens, on view at Casa Italiana from March 4 to April 17, 2015.
Watch the video: IAVANET: By Hand and By Lens [2015]
Boston-based troupe Pazzi Lazzi introduce and perform authentic Commedia dell’Arte. March 9, 2015.
Watch the video: “Aria di Commedia” with Pazzi Lazzi [2015]
Professor Federica Pedriali (University of Edinburgh) discusses the idea of Rome in cinema, architecture, and politics. March 5, 2015.
Watch the video: Deconstructing Rome [2015]
A lecture by Rhiannon Noel Welch, Rutgers University. March 3, 2015.
Watch the video: Haunting and the Postcolonial Ethics of the Gaze [2015]
An interview with painter Peter Ruta on the occasion of his exhibition Italy Early and Late. February, 2015.
Watch the video: Peter Ruta Interviewed [2015]
A lecture by Octavia Randolph in collaboration with Save Venice. February 24, 2015
Watch the video: Ruskin and Venice [2015]
Fred Plotkin in conversation with Mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona. February 18, 2015.
Watch the video: A Conversation with Daniela Barcellona [2015]
Field recorder David Marker illustrates the contrast between southern Italian peasant music today and in the work of Alan Lomax. With musician Dominic Porco and Lomax’s daughter Anna Lomax Wood. February 11, 2015
Watch the video: From Lomax to Today [2015]