La Mossa del Pinguino (The Penguin’s Move)
THIS SCREENING STARTS AT 6:30PM Bruno is a thirty-year-old man from Rome, with a wife and a son, who still hasn’t found his path in life. After his latest failure, which costs him most of his savings, he comes up with a bizarre and bold intuition: he discovers the little-known winter sport of curling and […]
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The Catholic School and the Roman Bourgeoisie with author Edoardo Albinati
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, in collaboration with New Academia Publishing, Italians in DC/ParoLab, and The Library of Congress, invite you to the presentation by Edoardo Albinati of his book, La scuola cattolica, in conversation with Anna Lawton, Lorenza Pieri and Lucia A. Wolf. Last year, a jury of the […]
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Understanding Seclusion: the Legal Dimensions of the Ghetto – at Library of Congress
The Law Library of Congress will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice with the program “Understanding Seclusion: the Legal Dimensions of the Ghetto”, which is in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute, highlighting the early history of the segregated Jewish community in Venice and showcasing […]
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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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