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New York Times. I am sitting at the desk of my room at the Renaissance Toronto Hotel Downtown when I realize that I should be standing. I think. Outside my window, “O Canada” is playing. Two teams of baseball players are arranged on the baselines, honoring the Canadian flag. I am not in the stands, so I do not count toward the attendance figure. I can see my seat in the press box, and it is empty. Yet I am really here at the game. (Read the article by Tyler Kepner)
BROADWAYWORLD. It may sound like an ethnic stereotype to say Angelina Fiordellisi runs the Cherry Lane Theatre like an Italian mama, but it’s hard to resist as you listen to her talk about making a home for artists and tending to their needs. (Read the article by Adrienne Onofri)
AP. After a nervous start, Carlos Guillen got Venezuela rolling with a home run. It was just the start for a potent offense. Guillen and Melvin Mora hit solo homers, Bobby Abreu singled in two runs in a four-run fifth inning and Venezuela defeated Italy 7-0 at the World Baseball Classic on Saturday night. (Read the article)
ABC. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called violence against women an "abomination" Thursday and urged political leaders to take the lead in changing the attitudes of men who abuse women. (Read the article by Edith M. Lederer)
ADNK. The Italian government has over the past week deported 90 illegal immigrants from the southernmost Italian island of Lampedusa, the interior ministry said on Friday. Those expelled were mainly Tunisians, Algerians and Egyptians. (Read the article)
LOS ANGELES TIMES. The 1980s are a novelty — and a not too distant one — to the twentysomethings that the fashion business so desperately chases. So the time period is ripe for ripping off. (Read the article)
MARKETING WEEK. To the thumping beats of dance music, designer Roberto Cavalli stuck two fingers up to the recession and launched his own credit card at Milan Fashion Week. (Read the article)
BBC. Some observers say Italy's recent focus on border controls and security neglects integration policy, at a time when the immigrant population has grown to more than four million, almost 7% of the total."Italy's becoming a caricature," said Sergio Carrera, a research fellow at the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies. "It's becoming the example of a very extreme political discourse framing migration as a security issue, and justifying the implementation of very restrictive policies, having huge implications for human rights, fundamental rights, and social inclusion." (Read the Article)
USA TODAY. If anyone fits the target profile of a Maserati customer, it's Marti Eulberg. She's a top executive who splits her time between two homes: an apartment on Manhattan's West Side and a California ocean-view home here, perched over a golf course. (Read the article by Robert Hanashiro)
NEW YORK TIMES. “What’s really important is the Italian design,” said Mr. Zagato, as we sat in a small conference area on the company’s show stand. A few feet away, the new Zagato Perana Z-One looked every bit like the swept-back sports cars I used to doodle in my schoolbooks. (Read the article by Nick Kurcsewsiki)
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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.
For more information and to view the program click HERE
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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