After the Ghetto, In the World at Large, a multimedia presentation and talk
After the Ghetto, In the World at Large. This program explores the immediate aftermath of the end of the ghetto era. Through the stories of a family of collectors and entrepreneurs, the Treves de’ Bonfil and the work of Luigi Luzzatti, prominent economist, politician and intellectual of international renown, the panel will discuss the […]
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The Venice Ghetto at 500: A Jewish Community’s Past, Present and Future
David Laskin, author most recently of The Family: A Journey into the Heart of the 20th Century and The Children’s Blizzard, will discuss the history of the Jewish ghetto in Venice and consider how the city’s Jewish community has evolved and developed over the past half millennium. Even American travelers who visit the ghetto’s […]
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La Kriptonite nella Borsa, a film by Ivan Cotroneo
It is a story about love, but above all, a coming-of-age story which fishes out memories from a Naples experienced as a child. La Kryptonite nella Borsa (Kriptonite!) is, in fact, set in 1973, when Naples was certainly not rich, but was experiencing a wind of change in social and sexual customs. Peppino (Luigi Catani) […]
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Enrico Fermi, the Pope of Physics
An exceptional Lecture, open to a general audience, by the Keynote Speakers: Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin Authors of the recent and acclaimed book “The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age” Enrico Fermi, Italy’s greatest physicist since Galileo, was unique in a number of ways, including […]
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The Venice Ghetto 500 Years of Life
This event is part of the series La Serenissima (February 3-21,2017), a Music and Arts Festival, organized by Carnegie Hall, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, The Jewish Museum, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Centro Primo Levi, and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. SYNOPSIS: “The Venice Ghetto, 500 years of life” […]
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9 X 10 Novanta, a documentary film
In 2014 the Istituto Luce turned 90, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and the unique treasure of images stored in the Luce Archives. To celebrate its anniversary, some of the most acclaimed rising filmmakers in Italy were invited to make a small film, with each director selecting ten minutes […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017, the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Embassy of Israel present the photo exhibit Return of Life – The Holocaust Survivors: from Liberation to Rehabilitation. The event includes the testimony of Rachel Mutterperl Goldfarb, Holocaust survivor, and the performance of Cantata Ebraica by Kolot HaLev, a […]
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Artists in Residence: Renato D’Agostin
The Italian Cultural Institute proudly presents 7439, a photo exhibit by Renato D’Agostin. 7439 While traveling across United States on the back of my motorcycle I had a lot of time to think, to think at all the reasons why I was doing it, how it would connect to my previous projects, my previous photographs, how […]
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Friendship, Language, and the City: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Society, present Friendship, Language, and the City: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels. Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University), in conversation with Anna Lawton (New Academia Publishing), lead a discussion on Elena Ferrante’s tetralogy about two friends growing together and drifting apart during sixty years of Italian history. MORE […]
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Bella e perduta (Lost and Beautiful)
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC and the National Gallery of Art present the movie “Bella e perduta” by Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci. In Bella e perduta, a masked Pulcinella is summoned from the afterlife to wander through present-day Campania in search of a new home for a young buffalo, called Sarchiapone, who also narrates the film. […]
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