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Opening of exhibition “Serenity”. Artwork by Olimpia Ferrari and Joshua Hughes (thru Jan.18, 2009)

Info: www.henrygregggallery.com

On December 18, from 3.30 to 6.30 pm, a conference on The Italians: Yesterday and Today - Luigi Barzini, Jr., 1908–2008 - Journalism between Two Worlds, will be held at the Italian Academy at Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Ave.). The conference will be moderated by Massimo GAGGI (Corriere della Sera). Remarks by Gay TALESE (author and journalist), Beppe SEVERGNINI (Corriere della Sera), Gianni RIOTTA (Corriere della Sera), Ian Fisher (The New York Times), Gerry HOWARD (Doubleday Editor), Roger COHEN (New York Times), Anthony TAMBURRI (Calandra Institute, CUNY).

Quella Pagina Strappata By Daniel Toaff, RAI, 1988 Produced on the 50th anniversary of the Racial Laws Followed by a conversation between Andrea Fiano and Rabbi Jack Bemporad on the Italian 1938 refugees in the US.RSVP: [email protected]

Lo Stato di Eccezione by Germano Maccioni Post Screening discussion with the author and Valeria Castelli (NYU)

"The Liberal Alternative: Jews in the United States during the Decades of Italian Fascism".Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia University) "Dreyfus in Latin America: Anti-Semitism and the Ideology of the Mexican Revolution".Free and open to the public; seating is limited: reservation requiredRSVP: [email protected]

Program to be announced

Franco Scaglia, a well-known Italian author, will present and sign copies of his successful trilogy: 'Il Gabbiano di Sale', 'Il Custode Dell'Acqua' amp; 'L'Oro di Mose'and his new release Il Viaggio di Gesu’.Special guest attending the event Mr. Stephen Riggio, CEO amp; Vice Chairman of Barnes amp; Noble.

Centro Primo Levi and the Herbert Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studiesat the University of Pennsylvaniapresent:

The Scholars' Roundtable:Jews, Commerce, and Culture”

The Film of Matteo Garrone, a Retrospective of the Italian Director, winner for Gomorrah of the Grand Prix at Cannes.In collaboration with BAMcinématek. Tickets: BAM.org/718.777.Film February 12 -17, BAM Rose Cinemas, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. Film in Italian with English subtitles.

On the one hundredth anniversary of Futurism’s founding, this exhibition examines the ways in which Futurist artists infused word and text with meaning and power through a display of books, manifestos, periodicals and handwritten correspondence.
Curated by Laura Beiles