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BBC. italy's government has revived plans to build a controversial bridge linking the island of Sicily to the mainland. The Messina bridge, whose centre span of 3.3km (two miles) would make it the longest in the world, has been a pet project of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi. (Read the artiicle)
AP. For the father of Italian painting, Rome is putting on a mother of all shows. An ambitious exhibit of works by Giotto and his pupils, the first on such a scale in Italy since the times of Mussolini, opened in the Italian capital on Friday. (Read the article by Frances D'Emilio)
WASHINGTON POST. "What did you think?" he snorted. "You think I would whack the secretary of the Treasury in the middle of a press conference? You been watching too many reruns of 'The Sopranos.' We don't operate like that anymore. We're legitimate businesspeople. And as such we believe that in these difficult times it is our patriotic duty to behave like legitimate businesspeople, and that means demanding the government give us billions of dollars." (Read the article by Michael Kinsley)
New York Times. Stephen Caracappa and Louis J. Eppolito, two highly decorated former detectives who were convicted of serving as assassins for the mob, helping to kill at least eight men in one of the most spectacular police corruption scandals in New York City’s history, were sentenced on Friday to life in prison — for the second time. (Read the article)
ANSA. olice on Thursday busted a major human trafficking racket whose members referred to the immigrants they shipped from Libya to Italy as 'tuna fish', 'crates of tomatoes' or, if they were minors, 'school satchels' during telephone calls. (Read the article)
ANSA. The remains of a 'vampire' have been found in a grave in Venice lagoon, an Italian forensic anthropologist has claimed. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Italy has announced that it will recall its delegates from the working groups on the UN Conference on racism and xenophobia, planned for April 20-24. The government considers two points in the main conference document to be anti-Semitic, and has said it will not allow its delegates to return until changes have been made. (Read the article)
ANSA. Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the Holy land in May will not take in Israel's Holocaust museum where WWII pope Pius XII is accused of silence on the Holocaust, the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See told ANSA. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italian actress Monica Bellucci received a prestigious world prize for women Thursday night and paid tribute to a preteen Yemeni girl who was prevented from attending the ceremony after becoming a global icon against forced marriages. Nojoud Muhammad Nasser, 10, was not allowed out of Yemen to accept the honour in the World Hope category. (Read the article)
THE HUFFINGTON POST. March 8th is International Women's Day. First proposed by German political Clara Zetkin in 1910, it was officially adopted in 1911 as a means to celebrate the economic, social and political achievements of women. (Read the article by Maria Eitel)
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October 19
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On the occasion of the fifth centenary of the publication of the Orlando Furioso, the City University of New York and New York University in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Columbia University, Department of Italian, are organizing an international symposium attended by eminent scholars, both Italian and American, on the relevance of the poem in the literary history and as a source of inspiration for visual arts and music. Speakers: Karina Attar, Luigi Ballerini, John Bidwell, Lina Bolzoni, Federica Caneparo, JoAnn Cavallo, Daniela D'Eugenio, Wendy Heller, Alessandro Giammei, Bettina Lerner, Dennis Looney, David Quint, Eugenio Refini, Joshua Reid, Antonio Ricci, Brian Richardson, Melissa Swain, Jane Tylus and Sergio Zatti.
A rich calendar of events is taking place between October 17 and 21 at: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, Italian Cultural Institute, The Morgan Library and Museum, PrPh Books and The Graduate Center CUNY.
Conference Co-Sponsors
Co-sponsored by Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center, the NYU Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Renaissance Society of America, the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center, The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, the Doctoral Students’ Council at the Graduate Center, the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation, the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College, and the Department of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College.
La Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo si svolge sotto l'Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica Italiana.
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Ariosto After 500 Years will take place from October 17 to October 21, 2016, at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Italian Cultural Institute, Morgan Library and Museum, PrPh Books, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Click here for the complete program of events.
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The exhibition "COVER REVOLUTION!" aims at highlighting how, during the last ten years, illustrators have contributed to reinventing the image of the major Italian publishing houses. The show features works by some of the most popular and acclaimed Italian illustrators, such as Lorenzo Mattotti, Franco Matticchio, Guido Scarabottolo, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli.
"COVER REVOLUTION!" is a project curated by Melania Gazzotti and produced in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin and Laboratorio Formentini, Milan. A catalogue will be published for the occasion by Corraini Editions.
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The textile and fashion industries produce millions of tons of waste every year, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse, is an exhibition presenting three women’s creative and sustainable, yet distinct, design approaches to the shockingly high human and environmental costs of textile industry waste. Three designers—Luisa Cevese, Christina Kim, and Reiko Sudo—working on three different continents, who put sustainability at the heart of their design practice. Each designer takes a very different approach to the millions of tons of waste generated each year by the textile and fashion industries, yet all share a profound respect for fabric scraps as repositories of raw materials, energy, labor, and creativity. Presenting the exhibition at Cooper Hewitt will expand public awareness of textile recycling and sustainability beyond the thoughtful use and conservation of precious material resources, to include the creation of skilled creative work and the preservation of local craft traditions. It will illuminate how a commitment to sustainability can spark creativity in new, unimagined ways. Scraps will feature a single project or concept from each designer and each installation will utilize fabric waste from a different stage of the manufacturing stream.
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Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo. XVI edizione.
On the occasion of the fifth centenary of the first edition of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso The Italian Cultural Institute presents a round table on Language and Translation of Orlando Furioso in collaboration with City University of New York, NYU and Columbia University.
Speakers:
Daniela D’Eugenio (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Ariosto 1516-1532 and Harington 1591: “Translation” of Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases in the ‘Orlando furioso’
Joshua Reid (East Tennessee State University), He Do the ‘Orlando Furioso’ in Different Voices: Ariosto’s Ventriloquizing Presence in English Translation
Moderator: Hermann Haller (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
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Dialogues in Languages and Humanities is a new initiative from the Center for Applied Liberal Arts, the American Language Institute, and the International Student Support Center--three departments at the NYU School of Professional Studies. The Dialogues mission is to host events that engage the NYU community and the public in provocative conversations on timely and meaningful topics that link the liberal arts, language, and international education.
Political Rhetoric: The Presidential Campaign and Beyond
From the current US presidential election to the United Kingdom’s historic Brexit vote, political rhetoric has the power to build communities and create rifts in society--with lasting global repercussions. As the rhetoric of politics continues to escalate, both in the U.S. and abroad, join us in taking a step back to consider what the words and language used by politicians and the news media reveals about the political landscape.
Panelists:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, NYU professor and frequent CNN contributor
Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University
Ben Zimmer, language columnist for The Wall Street Journal
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