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A recital by Daniela Roma, piano

Program:

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Sonata in G minor, op. 7 No. 3

Alfonso Rendano (1853-1931)
Variazioni sopra un tema calabrese
Valse Triste
Tarantella

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Isoldens Liebestod (From Wagner's Tristan und Isolde)
Rossini's La Danza, Tarantella Napoletana

Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Sonata Op.68 n. 9

A lecture by Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London.

This event is organized and presented by Save Venice.

A lecture by Pellegrino D’Acierno, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Hofstra University

A lecture by Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Harvard University

Dante is one of the greatest satirists of all time. His satire challenged and reshaped moral, legal, and linguistic boundaries. Popes, kings and members of Italy's most powerful families are placed in his upside-down world. Yet, he managed to get away with it. How did he achieve that? How did he manage to justify the use of a language so violent, and so offensive?

A lecture by Dr. Emily J. Orlando, Fairfield University

Presented by Friends of FAI

Emily Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair of Humanities at Fairfield University, where she has taught since 2007.  She is the author of Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts as well as articles published in peer-reviewed journals and essay collections. She is currently editing Volume 6 of The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Writings on Architecture, Design, and Gardens for Oxford University Press.  

A lecture by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, NYU Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor

A film by Mujah Maraini-Melehi (2017, Documentary, 73 min.).

Followed by a Q&A with the director and author Dacia Maraini. Further guests to be announced.

Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini. They were imprisoned with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today, Toni’s daughter Mujah explores her family’s experience and legacy by trying to bring their memories to life by retracing their steps in her own journey to Japan.

Join the Young Professionals of the Italy America Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the British American Business, to meet new professional contacts and fine tune your networking skills. This event will help you expand your professional network, refine your pitch and contribute to your future success.

Drinks and light bites will be provided throughout the event.

Event Fee: $45 per person (includes Food and 2 Drink Tickets)

With the screening of Santiago, Italia by Nanni Moretti we begin a journey into the world of Italian documentary, a genre that represents one of the most interesting and innovative areas of contemporary Italian cinema. Works by directors such as Gianfranco Rosi or Roberto Minervini have been selected and have received awards from major international festivals such as Venice, Berlin and Cannes.

Three years after My Mother, Nanni Moretti, releases a documentary about the role that Italy played in Pinochet's coup in Chile, in September 1973.

The second talk of the series is with Federico Faggin, an Italian physicist, inventor and entrepreneur, widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor (1971) and leading the design group of the 4004 (MCS-4) project, during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Most importantly, in 1968, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, he had also created the self-aligned MOS silicon gate technology (SGT), that made possible dynamic memories, non-volatile memories, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor.