Events Preview 2025–26
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October 29, 2025: Conversation On Rome and Writing: Jhumpa Lahiri and Alessandro Giammei
Speakers: Jhumpa Lahiri (Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, Barnard College); Alessandro Giammei (Assistant Professor, Department of Italian Studies, Yale University)
November 6, 2025: Talks On Dante and Lorenzo Da Ponte (Worldwide Week of the Italian Language)
Speakers: Teodolinda Barolini (Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia) and Barbara Faedda (Executive Director, Columbia's Italian Academy). In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York
November 13, 2025: Symposium Primo Levi's "Periodic Table" at 50: Scientists and Writers Speak
Speakers: Elena Aprile (Director, Columbia's Italian Academy), Jhumpa Lahiri (Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, Barnard), Christian M. Rojas (Professor of Chemistry, Barnard) and more
November 18, 2025: Symposium Universal Rights in Practice: International Frameworks and Domestic Legal Systems
Co-Sponsor: European Public Law Organization (EPLO)
Part of the Academy’s Academy’s “Rule of Law” initiative
November 20, 2025: Keynote Lecture Massimo Osanna on Painting from Ancient Apulia
Speaker: Massimo Osanna, Director General of Museums at Italy’s Ministry of Culture
Part of NYU’s and Columbia’s “Larissa Bonfante Workshop of Etruscan and Italic Arts”
This project is under the umbrella of the Academy’s International Observatory for Cultural Heritage
November 21–23, 2025: Opera Monteverdi’s “Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” & a new work by Nico Muhly
With Catapult Opera
December 4, 2025: Recital Marc Peloquin, piano: The Bel Canto Piano II
Music arranged for solo piano by Verdi, Puccini, Rzewski, Del Tredici, and Samuel Barber
January 27, 2026: Interview Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026
Interview by Barbara Faedda
Part of the Academy’s 19-year Holocaust Remembrance series
February 19, 2026: Concert Vivaldi with Abendmusik, the Early Music string band
L’Estro Armonico violin concertos; performed by an all-women group as an homage to Vivaldi’s all-women ensemble at the orphanage where he composed these 1711 works
February 26, 2026: Concert Rebecca Cypess, harpsichord, and Ian Pomerantz, baritone
Compositions by Rossi and a program of Jewish music
February 2026: Conference and Opening of Exhibition The New UNESCO Heritage Sites: Sardinia’s “Domus de Janas”
Organizers: Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy, Columbia University; Paolo Carta, University of Trento
Co-sponsors: The Autonomous Region of Sardinia; the Mont’e Prama Foundation
This initiative is part of the Italian Academy’s Sardinia Cultural Heritage Project which includes books from Columbia University Press, digital exhibitions and gallery exhibitions, and other conferences. In a related initiative, the Academy facilitated the loan of a 3000-year-old statue from Mont’e Prama to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This project is under the umbrella of the Academy’s International Observatory for Cultural Heritage
March 3, 2026: Conference Post-Earthquake Reconstruction of a Historic City: Learning from L'Aquila, Italy
This project is under the umbrella of the Academy’s International Observatory for Cultural Heritage
March 8, 2026: Interview International Women’s Day 2025
Interview by Barbara Faedda
Part of the Academy’s series “Women Leaders Now—Annual Events for Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day”
March 26, 2026: Conference Material Culture and Colonialism: Theoretical Perspectives and Methodologies
Organizers: Nicola Camilleri, Carmen Belmonte, Laura Moure Cecchini, Bianca Gaudenzi
Co-sponsors: Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, Bibliotheca Hertziana
April 9 & 10, 2026: Workshop Quantum Science
Organizer: Alberto Morgante (University of Trieste, Former Fellow and current Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Academy)
Co-sponsor: Physics Department of the University of Trieste
April 16, 2026: Recital David Witten, piano
Part of Carnegie Hall’s Spring 2026 festival "United in Sound: America at 250" (Italian and US composers)
April 2026: Conference Museums, Archives, and Fashion: Cultural Heritage
Organizer: Prof. Romana Andò, Sapienza University of Rome
This project is under the umbrella of the Academy’s International Observatory for Cultural Heritage
Hosted here:
The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (an interdepartmental initiative at Columbia University) meets within the Academy building periodically. See here for invitation details.
The Columbia University Seminar group "Studies in Modern Italy" meets within the Academy building monthly to discuss a paper presented by a member or outside speaker. See here for invitation details.