MENU D’AUTORE
Chefs of yesterday, today and tomorrow On view the work of 12 contemporary Italian artists inspired by menus and recipes, as well as a selection of images from 15th century herbaria, incunables and rare book, with one common theme: the Chef. Curated by Carla Chiaramoni, Accademia Italiana della Cucina – Fermo, in collaboration with City […]
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SLOW FOOD ON FILM: TERRA MADRE (2009) BY ERMANNO OLMI
Film Screening On the occasion of Earth Day, a documentary of the 2008 Terra Madre conference, an international gathering hosted every two years in Turin by Slow Food to bring together a network of food communities committed to preserve taste and biodiversity by producing quality food in a responsible, sustainable way. The film carries this […]
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BETWEEN BELLE EPOQUE AND FASCISM
WWI and the Genesis of Totalitarianism Philospher Remo Bodei, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, in conversation with historian and expert of Roman Law Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane. Introduced by Efrain Kristal, professor and chair of UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature.
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THE FLORENTINE CODEX
Visual and Textual Dialogues in Colonial Mexico and Europe This conference examines the unique manuscript where Nahua contributors and their Spanish interpreter used images and texts to represent themselves and their cultures to mixed audiences in Mexico and Europe during the late 16th century. More at http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/florentine_codex/index.htmland http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/codex14
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ANOREXIA. THE REAL CAUSES: BLOOD TYPES AND TRAUMA
A conversation with the author – in Italian only Dr. Lorenzo Bracco’s “Anorexia, The Real Causes”, which in 2013 received in Italy the Cesare Pavese Award for nonfiction medical writing, presents leading-edge innovative solutions for the understanding and cure of a pathology that is steadily growing in today’s world. In a first step for developing an […]
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MARIO MARAZZITI: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE DEATH PENALTY
Mario Marazziti, co-founder of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty, will talk about his recent book on the inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in the US with Cesare Romano, Loyola Law School Los Angeles (moderator), Sarah Haley, UCLA Gender Studies, Sean Kennedy, Federal Public Defender, Central District of California, and Steven Rohde, […]
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PANORAMA ITALIA @ WORLDFEST HOUSTON
48th Annual International Independent Film Festival The 10th annual Panorama Italia at the 48th WorldFest, Houston International Film Festival, will showcase the most recent Italian productions and host Italian filmmakers including Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? (Patatrac – il sesso dopo i figli 2014) by A. Colizzi and Do You Remember Me? (Ti ricordi […]
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RE/CREATION: TEXT AND PERFORMANCE IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
This conference, organized by Dr. Sharon King (CMRS Associate) and Professor Massimo Ciavolella (UCLA), addresses some of the myriad ways theatre was reinvented, restyled, reimagined, and reproduced in communities on the continent and in England during the later Middle Ages and early modern periods. It also explores how these plays are received and perceived today. […]
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THE WORLD IS A STAGE
Giuliana Muscio, University of Padua, will discuss the cosmopolitan world of the “colonial theatre”, in particular the experiences of Italian performers in North and South America.More at http://sites.chapman.edu/pacchioni/
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MONA LISA IS MISSING by J. Medeiros
Screening of the 2012 documentary on Vincenzo Peruggia and the 1911 Mona Lisa theft, followed by Q&A with director Joe Medeiros. More at http://sites.chapman.edu/pacchioni/
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