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    Rule of Law book

    Crucial reading for this time of social division, polarization, poverty, climate change, and pandemics; edited by Barbara Faedda

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  • International Observatory for Cultural Heritage

    The Benin Bronzes: Towards the Resolution of a Long-Standing Dispute?

    Speakers from Africa, Europe, and the U.S.

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    Recital

    American Voices: Selected Piano Works by Black and Native American Composers

    Four works composed for Arciuli, and two world premieres

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    Italy's Cultural Heritage Protection Unit

    Interview with Roberto Riccardi

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    Concert

    Quartetto Prometeo: Beethoven Op. 95 and more

    Inventive transcriptions by some of Italy's best-known living composers

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The Italian Academy of Columbia University

A center for advanced research in history, science, culture, and society; founded in 1991 by Columbia University together with the Republic of Italy.

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Symposium
  • Fri, Oct 22, 2021
    9:00 am

Epistole, Ecloghe, Questio: Dante’s Epistles and His Latin Works of the Last Years

Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) & Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia) Presented by: New York University, Department of Italian Studies Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Medieval and Renaissance...
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  • Wed, Nov 17, 2021
    1:00 pm

Jhumpa Lahiri with Amara Lakhous: On Writing in Italian, Migration/Mobility, and Belonging

As part of the Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium, a dialogue between Jhumpa Lahiri and Amara Lakhous: “On Writing in Italian, Migration/Mobility, and Belonging” Co-sponsors: Department of...
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  • Tue, Dec 14, 2021
    11:00 am     to Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 11:00 am

Fall 2021 Fellows

Get to know the Fellows in the sciences and the humanities who will be at the Academy starting in September.
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  • Wed, Dec 15, 2021
    9:00 am     to Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 9:00 am

Watch recent symposia and lectures

See video-recordings and press clips and more on our international symposium on the restitution of the Benin Bronzes to Africa; on the lectures by Carlo Ginzburg on Dante, Montaigne, Machiavelli, and...
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  • Wed, Dec 15, 2021
    10:00 am     to Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 10:00 am

View our newly-commissioned concert programming

See video-recordings of our recent concert programming: American Voices...
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