INFINITO: A Translation Marathon
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Celebrating Leopardi’s poem with Jonathan Galassi, Luigi Ballerini, and NYU students
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PEN 2015: The Passion of Elena Ferrante [2015]
Presented as part of The Literary Mews – a festival within the PEN World Voices Festival. Award-winning translator Ann Goldstein (The New Yorker) in conversation with NYU professor Rebecca Falkoff. May 8, 2015
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PEN 2015: Édouard Glissant – Everything Scatter, Scatter [2015]
Presented as part of The Literary Mews – a festival within the PEN World Voices Festival. A celebration of the late Martinican writer, poet and cultural commentator. With Kaiama Glover, Achille Mbembe and Veronique Tadjo. Moderated by Christopher Winks. May 8, 2015
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InScena 2015: Viola di mare [2015]
From the opening night of the 2015 InScena Italian theater festival. Viola di mare: By and with Isabella Carloni, based on the novel Minchia di re by Giacomo Pilati / Rovine Circolari Company (Ancona/Marche). May 4, 2015
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InScena 2015: Homage to Pasolini [2015]
From the opening night of the 2015 InScena Italian Theater Festival. Homage to Pasolini: A staged reading directed by Marco Calvani, with Rocco Sisto, Carlotta Brentan and Jacopo Rampini. May 4, 2015
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Machiavelli: A Portrait [2015]
Machiavelli: A Portrait author Christopher Celenza (Johns Hopkins University) in conversation with NYU’s Virginia Cox and Stefano Albertini. April 16, 2015.
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Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema [2015]
Ruth Ben-Ghiat presents her latest book, Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema together with Joseph Luzzi (Bard College), Richard Peña (Columbia University), and Stanislao Pugliese (Hofstra University). April 9, 2015.
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Dante as a Political Theorist [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.
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Ruskin and Venice [2015]
A lecture by Octavia Randolph in collaboration with Save Venice. February 24, 2015
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Dante’s Lyric Poetry [2015]
A presentation of Dante’s Lyric Poetry: Poems of Youth and of the ‘Vita Nuova’ with editor Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia UNiversity) and Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU). February 4, 2015.
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Tweeting Da Vinci [2014]
Geologist and Italian Renaissance art scholar Ann Pizzorusso presents her new book, Tweeting Da Vinci which explores the geology of Italy and how it influenced its art, architecture, religion, medicine, literature and just about everything else. December 8, 2014.
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Chiara Marchelli’s “L’amore involontario” [2014]
Author Chiara Marchelli presents her latest novel L’amore involontario with journalist Andrea Visconti. December 4, 2014.
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Maria Laurino’s “The Italian Americans” [2014]
Maria Laurino presents her book The Italian Americans with Stefano Albertini (NYU), Martino Marazzi (University of Milan/NYU) and John Maggio (director of the PBS mini-series The Italian Americans). December 2, 2014.
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