Dai Quaranta ai Settanta
- Literature
Postwar Italy Through the Lens of Literature
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Topic: Literature
The Neapolitan Language and Its “Accademia”
- Art
Meeting Massimiliano Verde
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- Art
“House of Secrets” Book Presentation
Author Allison Levy (Brown University) presents House of Secrets, about Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, followed by a conversation with Leonard Barkan (Princeton University), Gerry Milligan (College of Staten Island/CUNY GC), Alexander Stille (Columbia University). March 28, 2019
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- Literature
Ariadne and the Minotaur
A lecture by Stiliana Milkova (Oberlin College) about the symbolic and literal labyrinth in Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. March 27, 2019
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- Literature
Invisible Biculturalism
Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the Calandra Institute (Queens College, CUNY), presents his book Un biculturalismo negato: La letteratura “italiana” negli Stati Uniti together with Peter Carravetta (SUNY). March 14, 2019
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- Cinema & Television
Leonora Bernardi’s “Clorilli”
Presented by Eric Nicholson (NYU), Virginia Cox (NYU) and Anna Wainwright (University of New Hampshire), with videos from Villa La Pietra by Gabriel Goh and Domenico Cannalire and scenes performed by the La Pietra Players. March 13, 2019
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- Literature
Pasolini After Dante
The “Divine Mimesis” and the Politics of Representation. A lecture by Emanuela Patti (Royal Holloway, University of London). March 8, 2019
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Virgil’s Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy
- History & Politics
Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU
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Beyond Mourning?
- History & Politics
A Reading of Eugenio Montale’s Arletta Poems
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Rime: Dante’s Workshop of the Heart
- History & Politics
An International Symposium
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Sprezzatura”
Today’s word is SPREZZATURA, indicating the nonchalanche necessary to make something difficult appear easy.
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- Literature
Dante Without Footnotes
Launching the series Dante and…, organized by Prof. Alison Cornish (NYU), a lecture by Ron Herzman (SUNY Geneseo) about why Dante is for everyone. February 27, 2019
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- Cinema & Television
LGBTQ in Italian Theater
Commemorating 50 years from the Stonewall uprising, Kairos Italy Theater presents an evening dedicated to Italian LGBTQ theater, featuring Laura Caparrotti, Mario Merone, Gianmarco Colucci, Alice Lussiana Parente, and Giacomo Rocchini, with historical remarks by Matthew Zundel (NYU) and Brian DeGrazia (NYU). February 25, 2019
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