People - 26 Maggio 2019 “Deliriously” Leafing Through Naples, City of Paradoxes and Enigmas In sifting through "Delirious Naples", it becomes clear that there is more to uncover in Naples than just a really good meal and a nice spot to take a selfie. There’s trash and treasure, old and new, foreign and familiar, and many more polar opposites that contribute to its reality as an enigma: "This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with, and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself".
U.N. - 3 Maggio 2019 World Press Freedom Day at the United Nations: “Post-Truth is Pre-Fascism” Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, said, “No democracy is complete without access to transparent and reliable information,” and he firmly stated, “It is the cornerstone for building fair and impartial institutions, holding leaders accountable, and speaking truth to power.”
Arts - 1 Maggio 2019 “Eye-Centricity” at the Calandra Institute Shows Seeing Really is Believing On April 26th-27th, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of the City University of New York held their annual international conference to explore the images that have been evocative of Italy for decades, even centuries, and to define ideas like what it means to be an Italian woman.
New York - 18 Aprile 2019 Can Profit and Social Responsibility Really Go Hand-in-Hand? Considering fairly recent major global events with impending international socio-economic impacts, such as Brexit or the ever-increasing threat posed by climate change, it seems like a good time to hold an event to foster dialogue between European and American industry experts, and government and academic institutions.
People - 12 Aprile 2019 Defending Space and Sea One Step at a Time: Hope for a Sustainable World On Tuesday, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York hosted the event “Project: Planet Clean-Up” in order to showcase two Italian start-ups, D’Orbit and Sea Defense Solutions (SEADS), that are working on promising temporary fixes to the Earth’s worsening health.
News - 5 Aprile 2019 Now Guterres Fears Impending Libyan Hell After Meeting a Defiant Haftar UN special envoy Ghassan Salamé, along with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, held a special closed meeting from Libya about the state of Libyan stability. The President of the UNSC, German Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, addressed the press, stating that the UN is truly united in its desire to prevent another civil war taking place there. When we asked him if he really believed that nobody within the Security Council is backing Haftar, he diplomatically declined to answer.
U.N. - 1 Aprile 2019 As Global Climate Change Worsens, UN Attempts to Generate Action in New York During a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters, Secretary General António Guterres, along with President of the UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa and WMO SG Petteri Taalas, urge world leaders to skip the speeches and present plans for the September 2019 Climate Action Summit in light of new findings on the health of our planet. But the briefing room is half empty.
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.”
U.N. - 15 Marzo 2019 “Our Girls Are Born Complete”: UN Panel Goals and Strategies for Eliminating FGM It will be imperative to have multilateral cooperation between countries in which FGM is performed in order to have “efficient intervention” against this phenomenon that “[violates] the physical integrity of women in general and girls in particular,” says Burkina Faso’s Minister of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Affairs.
Arts - 8 Marzo 2019 Women Through the Cultural Lens of a Man: Caravaggio on Women’s Day But should the question “is it a Caravaggio or isn’t it a Caravaggio?” really be at the forefront of people’s minds the evening before International Women’s Day?