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Arts - 28 Dicembre 2019

The World After Plants According to Emanuele Coccia

Emanuele Coccia, Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the EHESS in Paris, presents his new book The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2019) recently published in English by Polity Press. In conversation with Alberto Parisi, Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Harvard, they discuss the personal and scientific origins of the book, its […]

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Arts - 25 Ottobre 2019

Spunky Boston Indie I AM Books Kicks off Two-Day Festival of Italian Culture

After a successful debut last year, the IDEA Boston festival is returning packed with an expanded lineup of more than 25 panels, 60 guest speakers from academia to award-winning authors, poets, artists, social and political analysts, actors, musicians, a photo exhibit (open to the public) and a gala to wrap up the two days of intellectual stimulation and live entertainment. While focusing on things Italian, all sessions are held in English for greater accessibility.

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Arts - 15 Giugno 2019

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante with Elena Lombardi

Professor Elena Lombardi (University of Oxford) discusses her book Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her book brings to light the several uses of fictional women readers for authors such as Dante and Bocaccio. She is joined by Luca Politi, graduate student in Italian at Harvard University.Headline: Imagining the Woman […]

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Arts - 13 Aprile 2019

Luca Cottini on “The Art of Objects”: At the Origins of Made in Italy

In The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 (University of Toronto Press, 2018), Luca Cottini, Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University, traces the fascinating history of early Italian industrial culture from post-unification Italy to Fascism. In this conversation with Elena Bellina, Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Italian at the University […]

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Arts - 31 Marzo 2019

Turning the First 30 Years of “Bordighera Press” Into 30 More Years to Come

“The Italian literary establishment...tends to only recognize things within [Italy], and anything else outside of Italy is not really ‘Italian literature’—it’s just sort of ‘stuff.’ And we thought, you know what, there’s a lot of ‘stuff’ out there.”

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People - 12 Febbraio 2019

Never Give Up! Elena Favilli’s Success with “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls”

Here I go! I showed up curious at the Italian Cultural Institute at Park Avenue, Thursday February 7, 2019. Hard copy in hands, I waited for Elena Favilli to sign my Italian copy of “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” that I had bought two years ago while vacationing in Italy with my daughter. What a young and inspiring woman of many talents, from journalist to entrepreneur!

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Arts - 12 Giugno 2018

Lucia Dacome on the First Anatomical Models and their Makers

Lucia Dacome, Associate Professor and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar Chair in the History of Medicine at University of Toronto, in conversation with Valentina Frasisti, PhD student in Italian Studies at Harvard, presents her most recent work: Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Dacome illustrates that the production of anatomical knowledge was influenced by religious interests, power and politics, as well as a shift in […]

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Arts - 20 Febbraio 2018

Simone Somekh: “I Want to Give a Voice to Those Who Cannot Express It”

"I’m not a photographer, but I guess I’ve always been fascinated by images and by photography. I imagined that for Ezra it would not be that impossible to receive a camera for his bar mitzvah. He would have never received a smartphone. It would have been impossible. But, a camera, I said, “Maybe we can push it that far.” And a camera can open you up to worlds that you cannot even imagine. It is Ezra’s companion throughout the whole story".

meredith ray

Arts - 3 Maggio 2017

Illuminating Seventeenth-Century Italy with Meredith Ray

Perhaps the best-known figure of seventeenth-century Italy is Galileo Galilei. What is not as widely known, though, is that Galileo exchanged letters with natural philosopher and poet Margherita Sarrocchi. In Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Professor Meredith Ray of the University of Delaware presents for the first time […]

Heather Webb

Arts - 19 Aprile 2017

Heather Webb explores personae in Dante’s Commedia

Dante navigates the afterlife by speaking with the persons that populate it, his interactions gradually shaping his concept of humanity and personhood. Souls in Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise appear not as physical embodiments of the persons they were in life, but as the essence of those persons expressed in speech, gesture and interaction. Heather Webb […]

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