ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE New York TUE 4 THE LIBERTY OF KNOWLEDGE: REMEMBERING RITA LEVI MONTALCINI WED 5 6:00PM with the participation of Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize, Columbia University). 5 pm to 8 pm Center for Jewish History 15 West 16 Street Program MON 10 6:00PM SALVATORE GITTO PIANO RECITAL FRI 28 6:00PM ITALY 2020: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF GROWTH Can Italy avoid seven more years of lean cows? Yes, but only if we restart thinking long-term. Today’s strategic decisions will determine what Italy will be in 2020. Italy should restore hope in the young generations and rediscover some of its traditional strengths. On view till February 13, Monday Moderator: Massimo Gaggi Journalist, Senior US Correspondent Italian Cultural Institute of New York 686 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 - USA tel: 212-879-4242, fax: 212-861-4018 Italian Cultural Institute TUE 18 6PM Panelists: Marco Magnani, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Author of “Sette anni di vacche sobrie” Alberto Bisin, Professor of Economics, New York University Stefano Natella, Global Head of Equity Research, Credit Suisse, New York Introduction: Riccardo Lattanzi Ass. Professor, New York University School of Medicine and co-chair ISSNAF NY Chapter In collaboration with: The Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation Italian Cultural Institute iicnewyork@esteri.it www.iicnewyork.esteri.it REBIRTH OF ROME: ITALIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD On the occasion of the exhibitons The Birth of Rome (Wolfsonian, Miami) and Italian Futurism (Guggenheim, New York), three Italian scholars will discuss the alliance between art, architecture, and ideology that defined Italian political identity during Fascist dictatorship (1922–43). Silvia Barisione, curator - The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach The Birth of Rome. Five Visions for the Eternal City Matteo Fochessati, curator Wolfsoniana–Fondazione Regionale per la Cultura e lo Spettacolo, Genoa Mural Painting and Futurist Plastica Murale. Public Decoration in Italy in the 1930s Raffaele Bedarida, doctoral candidate - CUNY, The Graduate Center, NY Botticelli or Boccioni? Promoting Italian Art in the US Italian Cultural Institute At Volterra Maximum Security Prison, in 1998, the director Armando Punzo established the “Compagnia della Fortezza”, a theatre troupe comprised of dangerous felons and hardcore “lifers”. For the past 6 years Clara Vannucci has documented the therapeutic use of method acting in Italy’s notorious Volterra Prison, capturing travelling inmate troupes rehearse behind bars and perform to sold-out crowds. Through Vannucci’s lens we witness the powerful transformation these men undergo trying on roles of alternate characters’ lives and in the process leaving behind the stigma and pain of their past regressions, albeit for a brief moment. Italian Cultural Institute Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011) is widely considered one of the most important Italian and European poets of the twentieth century. Zanzotto’s poetry has registered the profound social and cultural changes that have transformed postwar Italy. Patrick Barron teaches at the University of Massachusetts. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy in Rome, the Fulbright Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts. PROGRAM: Fantasy op.28 FELIX MENDELSSOHN Drei Romanzen op. 28 ROBERT SCHUMANN Sonata op. 120 D-664 FRANZ SCHUBERT Sonata op. 14 n. 2 SERGEY PROKOFIEW Various through Friday from 10am to 4pm “Composed directly in English during a period of writer’s block and later ‘translated’ by the poet himself into facing semi-independent Italian versions, Andrea Zanzotto’s fascinating Haiku for a Season constitutes a singular addition to world literature: a classic poetic form handled deftly by a master innovator and one of Europe’s major poetic voices” (John P. Welle, University of Notre Dame) Winner of numerous prizes in more than twenty national and international piano competitions achieving success with audience and critics, Salvatore Gitto performed in important Halls and Festivals all over Italy. In September 2013 he was invited to give a concert in honor of King Albert II of Belgium and Queen Paola of Liége. He worked with composers Carmelo Chillemi, whose some piano works he gave the premiere in 2012, and Giuseppe Azzarelli, whose original scene music Gitto performed in collaboration with the famous stage director Eugenio Monti Colla at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Rita Levi Montalcini, the longest living Nobel Prize winner, died on December 30, 2012 at the age of 103. She established her fame by discovering the first nerve growth factor, NGF, in the1950s. Her finding led to the identification of many growth factors, which have greatly influenced developmental biology, neuroscience, immunology and cancer. ANDREA ZANZOTTO: HAIKU FOR A SEASON – HAIKU PER UNA STAGIONE, A talk by editor Patrick Barron (University of Massachusetts) Italian Cultural Institute Center for Jewish History | 5 pm to 8 pm A YOUNG JEWISH SCIENTIST IN FASCIST ITALY Opening remarks: Alessandro Di Rocco (NYU, CPL) Introduction: Alain Elkann (writer, scholar) Speakers: Piera Montalcini, (Associazione Levi Montalcini), Annalisa Capristo (Center for American Studies, Rome), Antonino Cattaneo (Fondazione Ebri). CLARA VANNUCCI – CRIME AND REDEMPTION THEATRE Photo Exhibition FRI 14 6:00PM On the occasion of the performance Rumore di acque (Noise in the Waters) by Marco Martinelli at First Floor Theatre at La MaMa E.T.C. (January 30th to February 16th in 2014), an open talk will be held with the Teatro delle Albe at the Italian Cultural Institute. Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari and Alessandro Renda will present the thirty-year long history of the company. Teatro delle Albe from Ravenna, founded in 1983 is one of the most important theater companies in the Italian and international scene, in particular with regard to the fusion between research and tradition, focus on actor’s work and dramaturgy, emphasis on musical and vocal experimentation. 9 am to 1 pm Italian Cultural Institute 686 Park Avenue Italian Cultural Institute | 9 am to 1 pm EXPLORING NERVE GROWTH FACTOR Opening remarks: Riccardo Viale (ICI) Introduction: Moses Chao (NYU) Speakers: Ralph Bradshaw (UC/ Irvine), Piergiorgio Strata,MD (National Institute of NeuroscienceItaly), Ruth Angeletti (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Lloyd Greene (Columbia Unversity). Conclusions: Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize, Columbia University). TEATRO DELLE ALBE IN THE US 1983-2013: Teatro delle Albe’s poetics throughout a thirty-year journey Organized by the Italian Cultural Institute and Centro Primo Levi FRI 21 6:00PM FEBRUARY 2014 FOLLOW US ON Italian Cultural Institute JAN 15 FEB 15 MAX PELLEGRINI A tale. Max Pellegrini and Italo Cremona Exhibition An exhibition focused on the last ten years of Max Pellegrini’s work, mostly previously undisplayed, where we can find an evolution of his poetics, towards a delicate symbolism in which he links literary citations to an elegant linear and chromatic style. His personal path, the one of an outsider enamoured with painting, is summarized in these large canvases, where we can see the different inspirations and experiences that nurtered him: psychedelia and protest, the love for history of art and the experiments of avant-garde, classical knowledge and post-modern thinking. On view from January 15 to February 14, 2014. 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