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Tomorrow! Tues, Mar 10, 4 PM: Seminar "Learning to Create with Machines: AI, Innovation, and Education"
Register here: tinyurl.com/23sjc5pd
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Thu, Mar 26, 10AM-6PM "Material Histories of Italian Colonialism"
Scholars from many disciplines exploring objects from museums and private homes. On Zoom or register for in-person here: tinyurl.com/p553ttpz
Next week! Tues, Mar 10, 4 PM: Seminar "Learning to Create with Machines: AI, Innovation, and Education"
Register here: tinyurl.com/23sjc5pd
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Mar 18 in Philadelphia, Barbara Faedda on "250 Years of USA-Italy Cultural Relations. W/ former Fellow Luca Zipoli. RSVP & more: www.eventbrite.com/e/250-years-...
After the earthquake in L'Aquila: talks on architecture, art history, conservation, engineering, photography, physics, & sociology.
Today! Wed, Mar 4, 2 PM: Seminar "Sound, Bodies, Visuality: From Baroque Opera to Contemporary Performance"
Register here: tinyurl.com/543aadds
Join us for an afternoon of talks & discussion over coffee & cookies.
Tomorrow, Tues, Mar 3, 2PM: Architecture, art history, conservation, engineering, photography, physics, & sociology on the earthquake in L'Aquila. Register here: tinyurl.com/3j5ar2na
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Francesca Granata, Romana Andò, Barbara Faedda, Eugenia Paulicelli, & Samuele Briatore marked 10 years of the Italian Academy's International Observatory for Cultural Heritage with talks on museums and fashion and heritage.
Next week! Wed, Mar 4, 2 PM: Seminar "Sound, Bodies, Visuality: From Baroque Opera to Contemporary Performance"
Register here: tinyurl.com/543aadds
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Tomorrow! Friday, Feb 27, 2:30PM.
"Italian Fashion Museums, Material Culture, and Cultural Heritage"
Symposium of int'l. experts
Register: tinyurl.com/2fk9wnm2
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Mesmerizing talks yesterday by Roberta Bernasconi (IUAV Univ. of Venice; CUNY Grad Cntr) & Bruna Bonanno (Univ. of Milan). Organized & moderated by Italian Academy Fellow Piersandra Di Matteo (IUAV Univ. of Venice). Opening remarks; Barbara Faedda (Executive Director, Italian Academy)
Tomorrow: Registration is full, but we hope to accommodate standby guests at the door.
"Music of the Italian Jewish Baroque, and 3 world premieres"
Thur, Feb 26, 7 PM.
For more info: lnkd.in/e9iAJv38
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Next week, March 3, 2PM: Int'l experts in architecture, art history, conservation, engineering, photography, physics, & sociology on the earthquake in L'Aquila, restoration, & revival. Register now for this symposium: tinyurl.com/3j5ar2na
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Fellow Barbara Nestola at the RSA meeting in San Francisco in Feb, with a paper, “What Remains When the Music Is Lost: Performance Traces in Andromeda by Manelli and Ferrari (Venice, 1637).” www.rsa.org/news/715597/...
@metmuseum.org Study Room for Drawings and Prints: a special tour that was designed for our newest Fellows
POSTPONED to this Friday, Feb 27, 2:30PM.
"Italian Fashion Museums, Material Culture, and Cultural Heritage"
Symposium of int'l. experts
Register: tinyurl.com/2fk9wnm2
Elena Aprile, Academy Director and Centennial Prof. of Physics (Columbia) talked last night at the Italian Cultural Institute.
Tues, Mar 31, 4PM "Conscious and Unconscious Vision"
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Looking back at yesterday’s seminar
“Western travelers, local emissaries &
ancient monuments in Ottoman Greece (1784–1834)."
Our Fellow, Alessia Zambon,
with Edhem Eldem (History, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social)
Tomorrow, Feb 19, 7 PM
Antonio Vivaldi's "L'estro armonico" violin concerti are performed by Abendmusik, NY's period instrument string band.
Registration is full, but we hope to accommodate standby guests at the door.
For more info: tinyurl.com/yz54d49r
Next week! Tues, Feb 24, 3PM Talks for anyone interested in the “blue humanities” (ocean and sea imaginaries), climate, performance & dramaturgy: "On Performance Pedagogies and Blue Dramaturgy: Transdisciplinary Perspectives." Register here: tinyurl.com/2ed42t7s
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Next week! Feb 23, 5 PM: "Italian Fashion Museums, Material Culture, and Cultural Heritage"
Symposium of int'l. experts.
Register: tinyurl.com/2fk9wnm2 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Tues, Feb 24, 3PM Talks for anyone interested in the “blue humanities” (ocean and sea imaginaries), climate, performance & dramaturgy: "On Performance Pedagogies and Blue Dramaturgy: Transdisciplinary Perspectives." Register here: tinyurl.com/epyj9jv2
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Thu, Mar 12, 6 PM: Three physicists talk—Columbia Provost Angela V. Olinto, Italian Academy Director/CU Prof. Elena Aprile, & Barnard Prof. Janna Levin on the universe. Register here: tinyurl.com/3nz7xc9c
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Tomorrow, TUESDAY, Feb 10, 4PM Seminar: "Built Spaces: The Iroquois, the Romans, and the Manhattan Project at Columbia." Register here: tinyurl.com/ycywvmea
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March 3, 2PM: Int'l experts in architecture, art history, conservation, engineering, photography, physics, & sociology on the earthquake in L'Aquila, restoration, & revival. Register now for this symposium: tinyurl.com/3j5ar2na
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First event of the term! Film prof. Jane Gaines opened with a shout-out to the Fellows’ seminars being open to the public now.
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Tomorrow! Feb 3, 4PM
Seminar: "Crumbling Beauty, An Environmental History of Italian Cinema" On classic, forgotten, & emergent Italian films; climate crisis; memories of traumatic events. Laura Di Bianco w/ film prof. Jane Gaines. Register here: t.co/fikK15KevQ
Free concert:
"Music of the Italian Jewish Baroque, and 3 world premieres"
Feb 26, 7 PM.
Rebecca Cypess & the Raritan Players are back for another dazzling performance.
For more info and registration: tinyurl.com/m9hdmmuj
New Fellow joining the Academy:
Alessia Zambon; Project: “Western travelers, local emissaries and ancient monuments in Ottoman Greece (1784–1834)”
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