Giovanni da Verrazzano. Navigator and gentleman Screening A docu-film by Luigi Giovanni Cappellini, President of Fondazione Giovanni da Verrazzano Presented in collaboration with: Italy OnScreen Today New York Film & TV Series Fest On the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the voyage of Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European to arrive in […]
THIS EARTHLY GLOBE A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Book Presentation ANDREA DI ROBILANT in conversation with TODD PORTNOWITZ From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” — The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who […]
GIOVANNI RIZZONI Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism: Parliamentary Democracy in an Age of Fragmentation (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2024) Book presentation The Author in conversation with Fabio Finotti, Director IIC NY This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge. The book argues that the very meaning of […]
"Airs of Freedom" Rosana Auqué Exhibition December 16 -21, 2024 OPENING Dec. 16 | 6PM www.rosanaauque.com "Airs of Freedom" is the first major solo show presented at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura di New York of renowned Italian Colombian artist Rosana Auqué. The exhibition showcases her latest body of work, featuring over 30 […]
aroundMEny: Living Italy in New York Presentation Event Curators: Fabio Finotti (Director, Italian Cultural Institute in New York) Fabio Castagna (CEO GlobalMedia), Manuela Biondi (Per Le Strade di New York) The Italian Cultural Institute of New York is pleased to present the aroundMEny: Living Italy in New York project. This initiative is organized […]
Managing (Possible) Decline: Lessons from Rome's Survival Through Crises A talk by MARCO CAPPELLI Pandemics, deadly competition with rival superpowers, massive immigration, and internal divisions—these challenges defined the Roman Empire in the third century, much as they characterize the modern West today. However, while Rome in the West eventually "fell" in 476 AD, […]