ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
New York
TUE 4
THE LIBERTY OF KNOWLEDGE:
REMEMBERING RITA LEVI
MONTALCINI
WED 5
6:00PM
with the participation of Eric Kandel
(Nobel Prize, Columbia University).
5 pm to 8 pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16 Street
Program
MON 10
6:00PM
SALVATORE GITTO
PIANO RECITAL
FRI 28
6:00PM
ITALY 2020:
CHALLENGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES OF GROWTH
Can Italy avoid seven more years of lean
cows? Yes, but only if we restart thinking
long-term. Today’s strategic decisions
will determine what Italy will be in 2020.
Italy should restore hope in the young
generations and rediscover some of its
traditional strengths.
On view till February 13, Monday
Moderator: Massimo Gaggi
Journalist, Senior US Correspondent
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065 - USA
tel: 212-879-4242, fax: 212-861-4018
Italian Cultural Institute
TUE 18
6PM
Panelists:
Marco Magnani, Senior Research Fellow,
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Author of “Sette anni di vacche sobrie”
Alberto Bisin, Professor of Economics,
New York University
Stefano Natella, Global Head of Equity
Research, Credit Suisse, New York
Introduction:
Riccardo Lattanzi
Ass. Professor, New York University
School of Medicine and co-chair ISSNAF
NY Chapter
In collaboration with: The Italian
Scientists and Scholars in North America
Foundation
Italian Cultural Institute
iicnewyork@esteri.it
www.iicnewyork.esteri.it
REBIRTH OF ROME:
ITALIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE
INTERWAR PERIOD
On the occasion of the exhibitons The
Birth of Rome (Wolfsonian, Miami)
and Italian Futurism (Guggenheim,
New York), three Italian scholars
will discuss the alliance between
art, architecture, and ideology that
defined Italian political identity
during Fascist dictatorship (1922–43).
Silvia Barisione, curator - The
Wolfsonian–Florida
International
University, Miami Beach
The Birth of Rome. Five Visions for the
Eternal City
Matteo Fochessati, curator Wolfsoniana–Fondazione Regionale
per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo, Genoa
Mural Painting and Futurist Plastica
Murale. Public Decoration in Italy in
the 1930s
Raffaele Bedarida, doctoral candidate
- CUNY, The Graduate Center, NY
Botticelli or Boccioni? Promoting
Italian Art in the US
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At Volterra Maximum Security Prison,
in 1998, the director Armando
Punzo established the “Compagnia
della Fortezza”, a theatre troupe
comprised of dangerous felons and
hardcore “lifers”. For the past 6 years
Clara Vannucci has documented the
therapeutic use of method acting
in Italy’s notorious Volterra Prison,
capturing travelling inmate troupes
rehearse behind bars and perform to
sold-out crowds. Through Vannucci’s
lens we witness the powerful
transformation these men undergo trying on roles of alternate characters’
lives and in the process leaving
behind the stigma and pain of their
past regressions, albeit for a brief
moment.
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Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011) is widely
considered one of the most important
Italian and European poets of the
twentieth century. Zanzotto’s poetry
has registered the profound social and
cultural changes that have transformed
postwar Italy.
Patrick Barron teaches at the University
of Massachusetts. He has received awards
from the Academy of American Poets,
the American Academy in Rome, the
Fulbright Commission, and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
PROGRAM:
Fantasy op.28 FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Drei Romanzen op. 28 ROBERT
SCHUMANN
Sonata op. 120 D-664 FRANZ
SCHUBERT
Sonata op. 14 n. 2 SERGEY
PROKOFIEW
Various
through Friday from 10am to 4pm
“Composed directly in English during
a period of writer’s block and later
‘translated’ by the poet himself into
facing semi-independent Italian versions,
Andrea Zanzotto’s fascinating Haiku for
a Season constitutes a singular addition
to world literature: a classic poetic form
handled deftly by a master innovator
and one of Europe’s major poetic voices”
(John P. Welle, University of Notre Dame)
Winner of numerous prizes in
more than twenty national and
international piano competitions
achieving success with audience and
critics, Salvatore Gitto performed
in important Halls and Festivals all
over Italy. In September 2013 he was
invited to give a concert in honor
of King Albert II of Belgium and
Queen Paola of Liége. He worked
with composers Carmelo Chillemi,
whose some piano works he gave
the premiere in 2012, and Giuseppe
Azzarelli, whose original scene music
Gitto performed in collaboration with
the famous stage director Eugenio
Monti Colla at the Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Rita Levi Montalcini, the longest
living Nobel Prize winner, died on
December 30, 2012 at the age of
103. She established her fame by
discovering the first nerve growth
factor, NGF, in the1950s. Her finding
led to the identification of many
growth factors, which have greatly
influenced developmental biology,
neuroscience, immunology and
cancer.
ANDREA ZANZOTTO: HAIKU
FOR A SEASON – HAIKU PER
UNA STAGIONE,
A talk by editor Patrick Barron
(University of Massachusetts)
Italian Cultural Institute
Center for Jewish History | 5 pm to 8
pm
A YOUNG JEWISH SCIENTIST IN
FASCIST ITALY
Opening remarks: Alessandro Di
Rocco (NYU, CPL)
Introduction: Alain Elkann (writer,
scholar)
Speakers:
Piera
Montalcini,
(Associazione Levi Montalcini),
Annalisa Capristo (Center for
American Studies, Rome),
Antonino Cattaneo (Fondazione
Ebri).
CLARA VANNUCCI – CRIME AND
REDEMPTION THEATRE
Photo Exhibition
FRI 14
6:00PM
On the occasion of the performance
Rumore di acque (Noise in the Waters)
by Marco Martinelli at First Floor
Theatre at La MaMa E.T.C. (January
30th to February 16th in 2014), an
open talk will be held with the Teatro
delle Albe at the Italian Cultural
Institute. Marco Martinelli, Ermanna
Montanari and Alessandro Renda will
present the thirty-year long history of
the company. Teatro delle Albe from
Ravenna, founded in 1983 is one of the
most important theater companies in
the Italian and international scene, in
particular with regard to the fusion
between research and tradition, focus
on actor’s work and dramaturgy,
emphasis on musical and vocal
experimentation.
9 am to 1 pm
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue
Italian Cultural Institute | 9 am to 1
pm
EXPLORING NERVE GROWTH FACTOR
Opening remarks: Riccardo Viale (ICI)
Introduction: Moses Chao (NYU)
Speakers: Ralph Bradshaw (UC/
Irvine),
Piergiorgio
Strata,MD
(National Institute of NeuroscienceItaly), Ruth Angeletti (Albert Einstein
College of Medicine),
Lloyd Greene (Columbia Unversity).
Conclusions: Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize,
Columbia University).
TEATRO DELLE ALBE IN THE US
1983-2013: Teatro delle Albe’s
poetics throughout a thirty-year
journey
Organized by the Italian Cultural
Institute and Centro Primo Levi
FRI 21
6:00PM
FEBRUARY 2014
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JAN 15 FEB 15
MAX PELLEGRINI
A tale. Max Pellegrini and Italo
Cremona
Exhibition
An exhibition focused on the last
ten years of Max Pellegrini’s work,
mostly
previously
undisplayed,
where we can find an evolution
of his poetics, towards a delicate
symbolism in which he links literary
citations to an elegant linear and
chromatic style. His personal path,
the one of an outsider enamoured
with painting, is summarized in these
large canvases, where we can see the
different inspirations and experiences
that nurtered him: psychedelia and
protest, the love for history of art
and the experiments of avant-garde,
classical knowledge and post-modern
thinking.
On view from
January 15 to February 14, 2014.
Monday through Friday 10AM to 4PM
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