The Discipline of Lightness
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Topic: Literature
- Economy & Finance
Federico Rampini presents “Quando inizia la nostra storia”
The author and journalist in conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU). December 10, 2019
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- Literature
Dante and Cosmology
A lecture by William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University. December 9, 2019
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- History & Politics
Medieval Medicine and Literature
A lecture about Galenic presence in Dante’s writing by Paola Ureni (CUNY). December 2, 2019
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Christmas Party and Cantata di Natale
Musical show based on Neapolitan tradition (7pm)
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- Art
Presenting “Roma | New York 1948-1964”
Roma | New York 1948-1964 The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before | After (Silvana Editoriale, 2019)
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- History & Politics
Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi
Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
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- Casa Italiana
Presenting Scarcella Perino’s “Furiosus”
Composer Roberto Scarcella Perino gives a presentation of this latest opera, Furiosus, based on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in the company of Professors Eugenio Refini (NYU) and Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), featuring selections of the opera performed by tenor Michele Angelini, accompanied by Steven Eldredge at the piano.
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- History & Politics
Terra Matta (with Stefano Panzeri)
Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition
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- Art
The Humanities and the Sciences: Their Epistemologies
A lecture by Richard Foley, NYU
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- History & Politics
Lina Bolzoni presents “Una meravigliosa solitudine”
Una meravigliosa solitudine L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna (Einaudi, 2019)
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- History & Politics
Empire’s Mobius Strip: Italy’s Migrant Crisis Today and Its Colonial Past
La voce di New York
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- Italian Society
Joanna Clapps Herman’s “When I Am Italian”
Author Joanna Clapps Herman presents When I Am Italian (2019, SUNY Press) with writers Mary Ann Carolan, Maria Laurino, Edvige Giunta, and Nancy Carnevale. With the participation of Michela Musolino. November 7, 2019
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