The public is welcome to hear art historian Elaine Ruffolo speak on the topic “Portraits: From Antiquity to the Selfie” at the C.E.A. Study Center, Piazza della Repubblica 6 on Tuesday, January 29 at 6 pm. Ruffolo will explore the development of portraiture up to the modern era. She will explain why portraits have played such an important role in the history of western art and consider the part they have played in shaping [...]
As the second lecture of a three-part lecture series held at CEA Study Center (third floor of Piazza della Repubblica, 6), Elisabetta Gnignera will present: Under the Veils of the Mona Lisa: Undressing a Portrait and an Allegory, the joint findings of her and Pascal Cotte tonight, Oct. 2 at 6 pm. Cotte, in 2012, discovered after 10 years of research, a second Mona Lisa hidden under the surface of Mona Lisa. [...]
Florida State University International Program and the Golden View Open Bar (Via de’ Bardi 58/r) will join forces to raise money for Florence’s Meyer Pediatric Hospital with an evening of aperitivo (a cocktail and finger food) on Monday, September 24 at 7:30 pm. Since the International Program of FSU was launched in Florence in 1966, the college has taken pride in its active and supportive presence in the Tuscan region. Every six months, [...]
The second edition of FIRENZE LIBRO APERTO, a festival that will host over 500 publishing houses in the Fortezza da Basso from September 28 – 30, invites students on their semester or year abroad in Florence to join in a writing contest on the theme of bridging cultures. Three prizes will be awarded in the literary competition and entries need to be submitted no later than Sept. 20 to the following address: literarycontest@firenzelibroaperto2018.it. HOW TO [...]
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” – Robert Kennedy Students of Florida State University and Texas A&M will be making [...]
A dialogue with Angela Davis and Gina Dent will take place on April 23 (6 pm) at Spazio Alfieri, via dell’Ulivo 6. Angela Davis is a political activist, author and scholar. Davis is distinctly recognized for her role in The Black Panther Party throughout the Civil Rights Movement, although has been involved in various movements for social justice around the world. Gina Dent is a professor of Feminist Studies at the University of [...]
Friday, April 13: Inside Italian Politics: The 2018 Election and Its Aftermath. NYU Florence, Villa Sassetti, Via Bolognese 120. New York University’s La Pietra Dialogue is hosting a daylong event with a variety of guest speakers involved in the 2018 election in Italy. The event will highlight the electoral campaign and the election results in the morning beginning at 9:30 am. The 2018 Electoral Campaign discussion will be led by Nicolò Conti of Sapienza [...]
The public is invited to the lecture, which will take place on Tuesday, March 27 at the CEA Study Center, Piazza della Repubblica, 6 at 6 pm. The speaker, Dr. Sheila Barker, has published extensively on early women artists. In 16th and 17th century Italy, painting professionally was very much a male-dominated career. Only a handful of women managed to rise to the top of the profession and attain financial success. The talk examines [...]
Thursday, March 22: POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE FACE OF POPULISM AND ANTI-PATRYISM. Villa Sassetti (120 Via Bolognese, NYU Florence). 6 to 7:30 pm. Free admission. A political science lecture, in English, is open to the public on Thursday. Four experts will discuss the consequences for democracy in response to the increasing success of populist parties and anti party movements across the globe. The free event is a part of NYU’s La Pietra Dialogues [...]
Noted architect Axel Paredes will give a lecture in English on the subject “Material Modulation” at California State University, via G. Leopardi 12 on January 31 at 4 pm. The event is free and the public is welcome. Paredes received a Master of Architecture from MIT where he was awarded the Imre Halasz thesis prize, a Master of Arts with Distinction from the Architectural Association in London, a Master in Construction Technology from [...]