NYU Department of Italian Studies

As the semester draws to a close, yesterday we had a day of celebration - serendipitously enough, the same day, April 25, as the Italian Festa della Liberazione! - It all started with our annual Undergraduate Research Conference (kudos to all speakers and graduate mentors!) and concluded with our end-of-year department party + special treats for graduating majors and minors! PS we’re so lucky to have the most beautiful garden on the NYU campus!!

✨ INFINITO: A Translation Marathon ✨
Join us at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò on Monday, April 21 at 6PM for a special celebration of Leopardi’s iconic poem L’Infinito.

📚 Featuring a conversation between Jonathan Galassi and Luigi Ballerini, moderated by NYU’s Scott Kapuscinski, followed by a multilingual poetry reading by NYU students.

Explore how translation brings new life—and infinite meaning—to one of Italy’s greatest literary treasures.

🎟 Free & open to all | In English | Registration encouraged
📍 NYU Casa Italiana | 24 W 12th St, NYC

Join us on Monday, March 31, for the last event of this academic year's John Freccero Lecture Series. Professor Gur Zak (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will speak about "Boccaccio's Anger: A Case in the Philology and Politics of Emotions." Looking very much forward!

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We couldn’t be prouder of our own Professor Stefano Albertini Congratulations for such a well deserved award!!

Looking forward to the third event in The John Freccero Lecture Series next Wednesday, January 29, 6:30pm! Professor Luca Somigli (University of Toronto) will talk about “Branding Modernity: Marinetti, Futurism and the Invention of the Avant-Garde.” NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University

Many thanks to our Tiro a Segno Visiting Professor, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder for organizing a beautiful event as part of his graduate seminar. Students were lucky enough to hear from Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D Calandra Italian American Institute, about the works of Annie Rachele Lanzillotto.

How many departments have the luxury of being based in venues that host wonderful art exhibits? Not many 😉 Tonight we are NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò for the opening of “METROPOLI: VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE FROM FUTURISM TO RATIONALISM,” an exhibit organized in collaboration between Casa Italiana and Fondazione Cirulli curated by our own professor Ara H. Merjian and Dr. Nicola Lucchi, a former graduate of our PhD program and currently director of academic programs Magazzino Italian Art Don’t miss the exhibit!! It runs through February 7, 2025! Stay tuned for related programming in the new year!

Professor Ara Merjian introducing day 2 of the conference “Surrealism and Anti-Fascism: The Political Imagination between Reason and Dream.” We are delighted to co-sponsor this symposium together with many partners at NYU and beyond.

NYU Department of Italian Studies and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò together with other departments and centers at NYU are co-sponsoring “Surrealism and Fascism: The Political Imagination between Reason and Dream” later this week, November 14 and 15. Shout out to the conference organizer, our own Professor Ara Merjian, for putting together a timely and fascinating program. Looking forward!

Day 1: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/italian/events/fall2024/surrealismandantifascism.html

Day 2: https://as.nyu.edu/departments/italian/events/fall2024/surrealismandantifascism1.html

A few shots from last week’s event in our “Race, Migration, Italy” series in collaboration with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò “Blackness, Power and Representation in Renaissance Florence,” co-sponsored by NYU’s MARC - Medieval and Renaissance Center, included the screening of “Il Moro” and a panel discussion with film director Daphne Di Cinto and musicologist Emily Wilbourne.

Celebration day! Our esteemed and beloved colleague, Professor Stefano Albertini, Director of NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò has received the highest honor given by the President of the Italian Republic - the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana - for his outstanding and long lasting commitment to Italian culture in all its forms. Here you see Stefano with the Consul General, Fabrizio Di Michele, who assigned him this wonderful onorificenza on behalf of President Mattarella. Congratulazioni, Stefano, we can’t overstate how proud you make us all!