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The Institute continues the series of evenings with American authors that speak about their ties with Italy presenting Michael Cunningham who will talk about Matera. Michael Cunningham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.

The exhibition "Drawings" featuring works by Carla Accardi​, Louise Bourgeois​, Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani​, Fausto Melotti​, and Giorgio Morandi​.

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Anna Pizzuti, curator of the database and historical portal on foreign Jews in Italy during World War II, presents her work.
Film screening, E42 by Cynthia Madansky, produced during her fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

Ceremony of the reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and Italian territories.

During the ceremony we will read brief accounts of the lives of men, women and children whom the Nazi and Fascist regimes had been labeled as “foreign Jews” or “stateless Jews” will be read .and, After arriving in Italy in an attempt to leave Europe, many of these individuals were deported. The stories have been collected by Anna Pizzuti in the book “Paper Lives”.