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Online symposium

Environment, Climate, and Cultural Heritage: Native American Perspectives

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International Observatory for Cultural Heritage

The Benin Bronzes: The Resolution of a Long Dispute?

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

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Concert commissioned by the Italian Academy

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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Roundtable Discussion

Fri, Jan 28, 2022
12:15 pm

On David Freedberg's new book, "Iconoclasm"

With new surges of activity from religious, political, and military extremists, the destruction of images has become increasingly relevant on a global scale. A founder of the study of early modern...

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Humanities & Neuroscience, Conference

Fri, Apr 8, 2022
9:00 am

Engrams and Memory

Leading scientists who research how memories are formed, stored, and retrieved—via the engram, the biological realization of a memory—will discuss their work on treatments for pathologies...

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Sun, May 1, 2022
11:00 am to Sun, May 15, 2022, 11:00 am

2021–22 Fellows

Get to know the Fellows in the sciences and the humanities who are at the Academy September–May.

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Tue, May 31, 2022
1:00 pm

Events in Winter & Spring 2022

On David Freedberg's new book, "Iconoclasm" Roundtable Discussion From the series: NEW BOOKS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES —SOF/Heyman Jan 28 Annual Holocaust Remembrance Interview February 4 Conductor ...

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Tue, May 31, 2022
3:00 pm

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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