Italian Cultural Institute in New York

“Days of Fear” by Daniele Mastrogiacomo - Thursday, 29 April 2010 - New York

On a special session of the Pen World Voices Festival of International Literature 2010 correspondent Daniele Mastrogiacomo will present “Days of Fear,” the firsthand account of his captivity under the Talibans. Federico Rampini, Italian journalist and writer, will join Mastrogiacomo for a discussion on the new relations between Italy, Europe, the US and the world in the aftermath of September 11.

"L'Italia vista dall'America" - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - New York

On the occasion of the publication of “L’Italia vista dall’America, battaglie e riflessioni di un esule”, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2010, a collection of Modigliani’s articles, interviews, essays selected by Prof. Renato Camurri (University of Verona).

 Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto

ARIO (Associazione Ricercatori Italiani in Ontario)  - Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Associazione ricercatori italiani in Ontario (ARIO) will be formally presented at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto, 496 Huron Street, Toronto, on April 28, 2010. ARIO is a non-profit organization that seeks to promote cultural, professional, academic, and social interaction among Italian researchers, scholars, professionals, and entrepreneurs living in Ontario. To learn more about ARIO visit www.ariontario.ca

Circulation of Cultural Models and Pluringualism in Sicily Aragonensis - Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - Toronto

A lecture by Fabrizio Titone (University of Toronto) presented by Domenico Pietropaolo, Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies, University of Toronto.

From Dream to Reality. Letters from the Lacor Hospital Uganda by Dr. Dominique Corti and Dr. Odong Emintone - Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - Toronto

A Book presentation organized by the Consulate General of Italy, in collaboration with the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian studies, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto. A Q&A will follow.

 Italian Cultural Institute in Washington

Nancy C. Carnevale, "A New Language, A New World" - Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Washington

A lecture by Nancy C. Carnevale, Associate Professor of History at Montclair St. University, and  author of "A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States 1890-1945,"  sponsored by the  Department of Italian at Georgetown University in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington.

 Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal

Simone Marchesi "Between Virgil and Augustine: Dante's Cato in the Wood of the Suicide" - Thursday, April 1, 2010 - Montreal

Simone Marchesi (PHD at Princeton University, Comparative Literature) is an assistant professor of French and Italian at Princeton University. He is interested in the influences of classic and antique Latin works on medieval Italian writers. His publications >>>

  Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal

CSIC-SQ Presentations

Dr. Cinzia Cuneo "Reinventing How Nutrition Reaches Out to People" - Friday, March 19, 2010 - Montreal

Cinzia Cuneo, a  Degree in Engineering from the  Politecnico di Torino and a maîtrise in sciences appliquées de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, has occupied several managerial positions in Europe, in the US, and in Canada at Nortel Networks. In 2004, Cinzia Cuneo founded Sukha Technologies and SOSCuisine.com – a breakthrough Meal & Grocery Planning service, that matches the users' personal preferences to the local availability of fresh products and supermarket specials. The service is being further developed to address the needs of people with medical conditions influenced by food, such as diabetes, heart condition and others.

Claudia Padovani "Rethinking Power in World Politics: the Empowering Potential of Media Monitoring and Gender-Based Advocacy Networks" -- Friday, April 30, 2010

Claudia Padovani is researcher and senior lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at the Department of Historical and Political Studies, University of Padova (Italy). For the period 2009/2010 Claudia Padovani is  a Media@McGill visiting research fellow working on the  Global Media Policy Mapping project.  Her research  focuses on transnational governance networks on communication and communication rights. Padovani is the Italian co-coordinator for the IV edition of the international Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) on gender representation in the news, promoted by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). More on Padovani’s work in http://media.mcgill.ca/en/claudia_padovani

 Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco

Federico Rampini "Slow Economy" - Monday, March 29, 2010 - San Francisco

Federico Rampini, the NYC correspondent for La Repubblica, will present his latest book ''Slow Economy - Rinascere con Saggezza,'' Mondadori, 2009. Introduction by Stefano Della Vigna , UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Economics.

 Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago 

Discovering the Operating Room of the Future - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - Chicago

Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti, Lloyd Nyhus Professor of Surgery at UIC and UIC Chief of the Division of General, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, will deliver a lecture on the latest advances in robotic surgery. Professor Giulianotti, a pioneer in robotic techniques, has already performed over 2100 minimally invasive surgeries, 914 of them with robotic procedures.

David Fisher - Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - Chicago

David Fisher, an Israeli-born Italian architect, will discuss the philosophy of “Dynamic Architecture” and present the Rotating Tower project  - a sustanable and dynamic skyscraper to be built in Dubai. This event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago.

 Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles 

Alessandro Duranti and Kenny Burrell - Thursday, May 27, 2010 - Los Angeles

Alessandro Duranti, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA, and Kenny Burrell, UCLA Director of Jazz Studies, will discuss the experience of jazz music from an aesthetic and anthropological point of view. A video about their course at UCLA, ''The Culture of Jazz Aesthetics'', will also be shown. The L.A. event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles in collaboration with UCLA.