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ANSA. Palermo Chairman Maurizio Zamparini vowed Monday to keep the Mafia out of the Serie A club's business. ''The Mafia won't get its hands on the club while I'm around,'' said Zamparini, a tough-talking boss with a reputation for firing coaches. (Read the article)
ANSA. An Italian primary school teacher is in hot water after a sex education class in which she openly discussed whips, handcuff ...(Read the article)
THE BOSTON HERALD. Palminteri, 56, is back on stage doing “A Bronx Tale” in a touring production that arrives Tuesday at the Colonial Theatre. “It just exploded when I first did it,” Palminteri said of his play. “It became the hottest property in Hollywood since ‘Rocky.’ It was this insane thing.” (Read the article by Jenna Scherer)
Xinhua. Many Italians chose to keep their houses unlit from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Earth Hour relay, a global energy-saving campaign organized by the World Wildlife Fund. (Read the article by Silvia Marchetti)
REUTERS. Back in 2006, a group of four Turin youths insulted and physically abused a young classmate with Down syndrome so severely that the terrified boy soiled his pants. One of the four filmed 191 seconds of the unsettling episode and uploaded it to Google Video, where it remained for about two months before the company finally pulled it. (Read the article)
The New York Times. The explorer Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza is the subject of a show at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza. (Read the article by Edward Rothstein)
AFP. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday kicked off a long-expected party congress consolidating right-wing forces under his increasingly dominant leadership. "A great dream is coming true, the official birth of the People of Freedom (PDL)," Berlusconi said at the congress where his 15-year-old Forza Italia party will formally merge with the older National Alliance. (Read the article)
AFP. Reigning champions Italy and 2006 runners-up France can train their thoughts firmly on reaching the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa if successful in qualifiers in the next few days. (Read the article)
ANSA. Bologna is hosting a 10-day celebration of diversity and dignity with a film and arts festival devoted to human rights. Human Rights Nights, opening on Friday, will screen some 50 films from around the world, including features, shorts and documentaries. (Read the article)
ANSA. The Vatican is to receive condoms in the post from subscribers to a Facebook group protesting Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments against the use of condoms to combat AIDS in Africa. Organisers of the Italian group on the social networking website said 60,000 subscribers will send a condom to the Vatican on Friday. (Read the article)
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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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