Topic: Literature

• Cinema

Presentation of “Dante: Inferno to Paradise”

• History

Book Presentation: “Ransom Kidnapping in Italy”

• Art

1982-2002: A Chronology for Italian Queer Movements

• Literature

Alessandro Giardino presents “The Caravaggio Syndrome”

• Politics

Antonio Di Bella pesents “L’impero in bilico”

• Cinema & Television

Presentation of the TV Series “La Storia”

• Round Table

Literature and Audiovisual Languages in Italy Today

• Art

Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II

• Literature

Italian Lyric Poetry: Perspectives and Interactions

• History & Politics

Presentation of “Oltre i bordi” and the English translation of “Commander of the River”

• Art

It Begins with a Name: Learning to Remember the Triangle Fire

Alba Capriati Lecture

• Literature

Vito Adriaensens presents “Rapsodia Satanica” (1917)

Part of the Festival Drama Queens: When Melodrama Meets Film

• Literature

Pinocchio’s Truth: The Real Messages of the World’s Best-Lovedand Most Misinterpreted Tale

A lecture by Anna Kraczyna Co-translator of the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

• Art

Dressing the Screen: The Best Fashion-Shows in Movies

AdDRESSing Style

• History & Politics

Contemporary Theater by Italians of African Descent: The Playwrights, the Stories, the Challenges

Part of the series Black Italia

• Art

The Platonist in Love: Poetry, Love and Magic in Renaissance Italy

Book presentation of Il Platonico innamorato: Poesia, Amore, Magia in Francesco Patrizi da Cherso by Tommaso Ghezzani, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

• Cinema & Television

Autumn of Patriarchs

Antonio Monda and Stefano Albertini on “The Godfather” and “The Leopard”

• Art

The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Part of GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA 2024

• History & Politics

A Conversation with Gianandrea Noseda

Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin.

• History & Politics

Book Presentation: “An Ugly Word. Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States”

Part of the series Black Italia

• Cinema & Television

Summer Minerva, Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello on “Summer Within” and “Italian Trans Geographies”

Following the screening of “Summer Within” (2023, Documentary, USA, 70 min.)

• Cinema & Television

Forgotten Gems with Maaza Mengiste

Maaza Mengiste, writer in conversation with Antonio Monda, NYU

• History & Politics

The Bread of Angels: Wisdom and Music Behind Bars

Students from Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music collaborate with formerly incarcerated men and women to reveal the contemporary relevance of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The performance uses music and poetry to consider the parallels between contemporary journeys out of prison and Dante’s medieval journey out of hell.

• History & Politics

Dante’s Ancestors: The Poets of the Sicilian School. Intertextuality and Multiculturalism

International Symposium Dante’s Ancestors: The Poets of the Sicilian School Intertextuality and Multiculturalism

• Cinema & Television

“Italo Calvino: The Writer in the Trees” Q&A with director Duccio Chiarini

On the occasion of “Calvino and the Americas”

• History & Politics

Calvino and the Americas (Panel Discussions)

Calvino and the Americas

• History & Politics

Elsa Morante’s “Lies and Sorcery” presented at NYU

Lies and Sorcery (2023, New York Review Books)

• History & Politics

Pages Ripped Out of My Skin: Pier Vittorio Tondelli. The Man, His Quest, His Works

Book Presentation of “Ho sempre cercato tutto Pier Vittorio Tondelli: l’uomo, la ricerca, le opere” by Fr. Antonio Spadaro s.J. (Undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education)

• History & Politics

Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep” Book Presentation

Book Presentation of “Sleep” (2023, New York Review Books) The English poetry of Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996)

• Literature

Autobiografie letterarie: Eraldo Affinati con Chiara Marchelli

In occasione della pubblicazione dell’ultimo libro di Eraldo Affinati “Delfini, vessilli, cannonate Autobiografia letteraria” (2023, HarperCollins)

• History & Politics

The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia

Book Presentation The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia (2023, NYU Press) by Paul Moses

• History & Politics

Lovers’ Letters

Theatrical Performance Lovers’ Letters

• Art

Malaparte and the Visual Arts: Malaparte’s Cinema

International Conference Curzio Malaparte & the Visual Arts

• Cinema & Television

A Call for Disobedience: The Unexpected Revolution of Two Priests in Post-War Italy

An introduction to Don Primo Mazzolari by Diletta Pasetti, Rutgers University An introduction to Don Lorenzo Milani by Vanessa Roghi, historian and author

• Art

Vanessa Roghi presents “In Search of Elsa Morante”

Following the screening of “In Search of Elsa Morante” (“In cerca di Elsa Morante. Storia di una scrittrice)

• Art

Eros: Thinking, Feeling, Writing Love from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity

A two-day international symposium organized by Ida Caiazza, NYU.

• History & Politics

Dreaming of the USA: The Writings and Translations of Cesare Pavese

Co-organized with Fondazione Cesare Pavese In collaboration with Ragusa Foundation

• Economy & Finance

“Viva New York” with author Gianluca Galletto

In collaboration with Sity Book Presentation of “Viva New York” by Gianluca Galletto (Author, Urban Innovation Expert) Introduced by Bill de Blasio, former NYC Mayor The author in conversation with Antonio Monda, NYU Alan Patricof, venture capitalist

• Casa Italiana

Federico Della Valle’s “The Queen of Scots” Book Presentation

Book Presentation “The Queen of Scots” (2023, The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library, University of Toronto Press) Translation of the 1628 play “La reina di Scotia” by Federico Della Valle (1560-1628) Introduced, translated, and annotated by Fabio Battista, University of Alabama

• History & Politics

Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi

In collaboration with Centro Primo Levi