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Lecture from the book "Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire" (2018, David Bull Publishing) by Luca Dal Monte.

Theater performance by and with Francesco Andolfi, directed by Janice Orlandi.

A round-table discussion with representatives of both spheres about how the world of business influences, controls, and manipulates culture and why culture needs to be present in the board room.

In the narratives collected in Italian American Women, Food, and Identity (Palgrave McMillan, 2018) food represents home, loss, and longing. Food also stands in for race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration, region, place, and space. This mother-daughter research team explores ways in which Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York, use food as a symbol and a social vehicle that carries multiple meanings.

In the posthumously published Missing Madonnas, the late poet Gil Fagiani writes with lyricism and humor about the absurdities of life, from mythical Madonnas to nonnas to urban addictions, gallant struggles for redemption, and the sustained beauty of ordinary days and lives.

In collaboration with the Bogliasco Foundation.

A lecture by David Yezzi, Johns Hopkins University.

The poet Anthony Hecht returned from combat in WWII devastated by the horrors he had seen. Soon after, he established a lifelong connection to Italy that began with a move to the island of Ischia, and ended at the Bogliasco Foundation, where he wrote his final poems in 2004.

From the 26th to the 30th July 2017, the Italian Navy Training Ship Amerigo Vespucci is in New York, the  8th port of call of the 2017 Training Campaign. The Training Campaign on board the Amerigo Vespucci represents a key element in cadet professional development, passing on the Italian Navy’s core values of love for the sea, ethics, loyalty and honor. The Amerigo Vespucci proceeded to New York on July 26th, and continues to represent our country and "Made in Italy."

Tuesday 27 July: 14.30 - 18.30

A seminal figure in 20th-century design, the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) created a vast body of work, the result of an exceptionally productive career that spanned more than six decades. This exhibition reevaluates Sottsass's career in a presentation of key works in a range of media—including architectural drawings, interiors, furniture, machines, ceramics, glass, jewelry, textiles and pattern, painting, and photography.

Curated by For Freedoms, the 2017 Aperture Summer Open exhibition, On Freedom, offers a photographic response to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The photographers and image-makers selected for inclusion each address these issues in their work in varying ways.