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Martina Caruso, History and Theory of Photography, John Cabot University, Rome, will discuss her recent book, Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2016), with David Forgacs, Contemporary Italian Studies, NYU, and Maria Antonella Pelizzari, History of Photography, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone.

Book presentation and a conversation with the editors Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra.

Most recently presented on our Florence series at Palazzo Bardi, where the Florentine Camerata met and conjured the new form of opera, Giulio il Romano, a commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Giulio Caccini, founding member of the Camerata and one of the first composers of opera, comes to New York, performed by an acclaimed ensemble of Roman and Florentine virtuosi.

The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. 

An unflinching look at the struggle for survival in postwar Italy, this 1962 film embodies director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s lifelong fascination with the marginalized and dispossessed. 

What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone.

"Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees."
This screening is part of the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2018 Film Series The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad.

The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features renowned American baritone Sherrill Milnes, whose commanding stage presence and majestic voice starred over 650 times at the Met placing him in the all time operatic Hall of Fame.