Quo Vadis Italian Movie

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Joinus at Dr. Sandra Palmer's presentation in the Nasti lecture series, "Great Masters of the Italian Baroque: Bernini & Caravaggio". The presentation will focus on two artists, Gian Lorenzo Bernini in sculpture and Caravaggio in painting, both revolutionizing art of the past. This event will take place from 5:30pm to 7pm at the Center for Italian Studies (E-4340 Melville Library, Stony Brook University). Please direct any inquiries to ctritali...@stonybrook.edu or call us at (631) 632-7444.

Join us in the Original Play Premiere of "Woman through the Window". The play, written by Anthony DiFranco and directed by Martin Knapp, centers on a multi-generational Italian American family grappling with issues of identity, love, and language. It stars an all-female cast: Lisa Meckes, Missy Roche, Deborah Rupy, Patricia Becker, and Kristin Ingegno.

DiFranco, an award-winning fiction writer, filmmaker, and playwright, is the founder and artistic director of Debut Theater Company. He teaches courses on Italian American Studies at Stony Brook University. This event will take place at 7pm at the Wang Theater (Wang Center, Stony Brook University). Please direct any inquiries to ctritali...@stonybrook.edu or call us at (631) 632-7444.

Join us in the Book Presentation of "Crazy Fish Sing", alongside Suranga Katugampala, Simone Brioni, Loredana Polezzi, and Peter Bruno on Zoom. This event is open to SBU students, faculty, and staff only. This event will take place from 1pm to 2:30pm at the Center for Italian Studies (E-4340 Melville Library, Stony Brook University). Please direct any inquiries to ctritali...@stonybrook.edu or call us at (631) 632-7444.

Join us in a new program in the Nasti Lecture Series - Dr. Oronzo Brunetti, Representing the Italian South: Rural Architecture and Photography in the 1920s/1930s." Dr. Oronzo Brunetti (University of Naples Federico II) will present on Carl Hubacher's photographs of Puglia, specifically the trulli: dry stone houses with cone-shaped roofs. Architect and professional photographer, Hubacher was one of the leading exponents of the Swiss Werkbund. From 1924 to 1933, he visited Puglia several times and took hundreds of photos that constitute a precious document on the local landscape and rural architecture in the inter-war period. This event will take place from 5:30pm to 7pm at the Center for Italian Studies (E-4340 Melville Library, Stony Brook University). Please direct any inquiries to ctritali...@stonybrook.edu or call us at (631) 632-7444.

Join us in the screening of MAKA at Princeton with Dr. Simone Brioni. MAKA will be screened on February 21, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Rocky-Mathey Theater, Princeton University, followed by a conversation with the film's director Elia Moutamid and writer Simone Brioni. For event details, please click here.

Join us for our Caff Italiano: Spring Meet & Greet! Drop by the Center for Italian Studies on Thursday, February 8, between 1:00 and 3:00 PM, for a cup of our famous espresso and a selection of Italian cookies. Learn about our Spring event series, fellowship opportunities for graduate students, and meet the new Assistant to the Director Christine Griffiths, as well as Interim Director Dr. Andrea Fedi and long-time volunteer Josephine Fusco. Open to students, faculty, and staff.

SBU's Distinguished Professor, Mary Jo Bona, joins celebrated textile artist Cameron Taylor-Brown, award-winning novelist and teacher Adria Bernardi, and event host Natalie Boyett of the Chicago Weaving School for a wide-reaching virtual conversation.

To sign up, please click here.

Art Director and Thespian, Valentina Rizzi, along with authors Antonella Veracchi and Michela Tonelli, offers a workshop for teachers that focuses on the reading of Confini. CTLE credit from SBU is available ($25 cash fee due at event).

Join us for a conversation on the United States' strategies to preserve democracy while partaking in global and overseas affairs with author Dr. Vito De Simone, and Dr. Gallya Lahav of the Department of Political Science.

The North American Premiere of Maka (poster/trailer) will be held at the 10th Edition of the Socially Relevant Film Festival. The documentary, inspired by Genevieve Makaping's book, Reversing the Gaze (Rutgers UP, 2023), was written by SBU's own Simone Brioni and directed by Elia Moutamid.

To learn more, please check out this article from La Voce di New York.

Join us for a screening of the documentary, Porpora, followed by a Q&A session with Italian sociologist, writer and LGBTQ+ activist, Porpora Marcasciano, and Prof. Liz Montegary of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

A talk by musicologist, Danilo Prefumo, followed by a performance by three outstanding students in the Department of Music. The notes of Niccol Paganini's Caprices and Romanzas will accompany the opening of the month-long exhibit on the performer's afterlives titled, Paganini (si) ripete: A Performer's Afterlives.

Presented by the A. D'Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the Center for Italian Studies, the Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication (MIC), the Institute for Globalization Studies (GLI) and the Humanities Institute

Jo Angouri (Warwick University), Moira Inghilleri (UMass Amherst) and Loredana Polezzi (Stony Brook) will discuss the role played by language in shaping multiple forms of diasporic belonging and in creating inclusive communities.

This public lecture given by David Garca Cueto, Head of the Department of Italian and French Painting, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, focuses on the challenges and overall project of the colossal exhibition "Guido Reni" on view at the Prado Museum from March to July 2023.

On May 9, 2023, Dr. Matteo Brera and Dr. Loredana Polezzi, along with Dr. Annavaleria Guazzeri and Valentina Rizzi, will present a paper titled, Essere cittadini a New York: Educare alla cittadinanza attiva attraverso la mediazione artistica, during the Educazione Civica conference at the Liceo Classico Giulio Cesare di Roma. The presentation includes information regarding an upcoming project in collaboration with local schools.

Presenters at both workshops included children's literature author Valentina Rizzi; rapper, author, and educator Amir lssaa; Three Village District teacher Daniela Casadei-Berwind; D'Amato Endowed Chair Dr. Loredana Polezzi; Interim Director of the Center for ltalian Studies Dr. Andrea Fedi.

Stony Brook University colleagues Simone Brioni, left, and Loredana Polezzi are working to complete acquisition of artifacts from the life of Pietro di Donato, whose 1939 bestseller about the immigrant experience still resonates in the lives of their students.

Among the developments that resulted as we confronted the COVID-19 pandemic has been our having to postpone the formal memorial conference that was planned to honor the legacy and appropriately recognize Dr. Mignone's achievements as Distinguished Service Professor at the University and Director of the Center for Italian Studies which he founded in 1985. As we want to be sure that all of Mario's friends and colleagues have the possibility to participate in person, this memorial event is being planned to take place in November 2022.

In the meantime, to recognize the anniversary of his passing and to reflect with you on how he continues to be fondly recalled and thought of, we have posted the remarks that were spoken at his funeral service by his son in law, Daniel Salzman, and his daughter, Elizabeth Mignone Jakic. We've also included compositions written by his grandchildren, Luca Jakic and Isabella Armato, as submissions in an OSIA Italian Heritage Essay Contest which particularly reference and extol the life and achievements of their "nonno". Read more.

Award winning Italian author Claudia Durastanti will discuss her novel (2019), which has

just been published in English as Strangers I Know (2022). The book, shortlisted for the prestigious Premio Strega, narrates a largely autobiographical coming-of-age story set between Italy, New York and London.

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Prof. Loredana Polezzi and graduate fellow Antonio Fideleo, interviewed by Valentina Rizzi, discuss the importance of the icono-text and its potential as a teaching tool in Italian language classes.

Each year, the Center for Italian Studies presents the Robert D. Cess Concorso d'Eleganza Annual Celebration of Italian Vehicle Excellence and Beauty. The show is a display of "art forms on wheels" as a means of illustrating one form of Italian culture. Various Italian vehicle groups will be represented. The show is free and open to the public and will take place on the campus lawn adjacent to the Physics Building, across from the Athletic Arena on John Toll Drive.

A faculty book discussion hosted by Loredana Polezzi, D'Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies

Polezzi, Stony Brook University scholars and guests from the US and UK, including the volume's editors, discuss this core book in the "Transnational Modern Languages" series from Liverpool University Press.

The event is supported in collaboration with the Center for Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies, the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, the Institute for Globalization Studies, and HISB.

Please join us for the ceremony to announce and recognize the winner of this year's Gradiva's International Poetry Contest. Conducted by Professor Luigi Fontanella, Editor of Gradiva Publications, the celebration will include bilingual poetry readings, a musical interlude, and a reception. All are invited.

The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to announce that it is hosting a memorial conference in honor of its founder, Mario Mignone, at Stony Brook University. The program has been organized to include presentations by his family, friends, colleagues, scholars, University associates, and government officials who are looking forward to remembering him and recalling his life's achievements.

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