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    Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021

    Exclusive interview with Senator Liliana Segre

    On Auschwitz, hate speech, racism—and the Capitol Hill assault in the U.S.: "Fascism can return"

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    Current Fellows

    The scholars with Fellowships from the Academy this year bring projects in architectural preservation, neuroscience, economic history, art, and other fields.

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    In Columbia Magazine: "How Mozart’s Librettist Became the Father of Italian Studies at Columbia"

    Executive Director Barbara Faedda on Lorenzo Da Ponte

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    On Dante, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Montaigne

    Carlo Ginzburg, Fellow in 2021-22, will give three lectures this semester

    Feb 23 talk: on Dante »
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    Amatrice in Focus—Earthquakes & Photography

    After the earthquake

    An online exhibition by Italian Academy Fellow Francesco Gangemi

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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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  • Wed, Jan 27, 2021
    5:30 pm

Liliana Segre on "Pure Barbarism." Exclusive interview with Barbara Faedda

Europe and the United Nations commemorate the victims of the Shoah each winter on the date of Auschwitz’s liberation in 1945, and the Italian Academy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day annually with an...
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News Flash
  • Sat, Jan 30, 2021
    11:00 am

Publication Round-Up

Barbara Faedda interviewed for an article about Lorenzo Da Ponte in Columbia Magazine "How Mozart’s Librettist Became the Father of Italian Studies at Columbia"...
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News Flash
  • Sun, Jan 31, 2021
    10:00 am

Fellows 2020–21

The Fellows of the Italian Academy in 2020–2021 are scholars whose work ranges across the sciences and the humanities. See the full...
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Lecture
  • Tue, Feb 23, 2021
    12:00 pm

Carlo Ginzburg on Dante

Carlo Ginzburg, Italian Academy Fellow 2021-22, appears now in a series of lectures: February 23: Reproduction/Reproduction: Approaching Dante from Afar March 16: Forging the People: Machiavelli,...
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