April 8
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Humans: A Monstruous History
Join award-winning historian of science Dr. Surekha Davies as she reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient gods and generative AI, Frankenstein’s monster and E.T., Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025) shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal. In an age when corporations increasingly see people as obstacles to profits, this book traces the long, volatile history of monster-making and charts a better path for the future. The result is a profound, effervescent, empowering retelling of the history of the world for anyone who wants to reverse rising inequality and polarization. This is not a history of monsters, but a history through monsters.
April 9
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 9, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Unlearn. Racialization and Italian Identity in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
How do both Italians of multiple backgrounds and members of the Italian diaspora consider their place in the world, their various identities, and how they relate to one another? The UNLEARN series podcast, created by Zoe Map and produced in collaboration with Accento World, seeks to answer this question through a visual podcast. Each episode features a series of discussions with Italians of different backgrounds on topics like racialization in Italy and abroad, emigration from Italy and immigration to Italy, Italian colonialism, and, most recently, Italian fashion.
After a screening of excerpts from the UNLEARN series podcast featuring various guests, Zoe Map and Kristal Trotter, founder of Accento World, will talk about their experiences engaging in conversations about Italian identity within the context of the podcast. They will discuss how they make academic knowledge and information accessible to a broader public, what kinds of challenges and resistances they’ve faced in their work, and how Italians and others unlearn old narratives and create space for new ones while taking accountability.
April 10
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Dante and Money
Day 1: Keynote Lecture. Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste. Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante’s representation of the medieval financial revolution.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Perfection di Vincenzo Latronico
Presentazione libro. Perfection, il primo libro di Vincenzo Latronico tradotto in inglese da Sophie Hughes, è un romanzo tagliente sull’esistenza contemporanea, un racconto di due persone che si svegliano gradualmente e si ritrovano in varie trappole, chiedendosi come tutto ciò sia potuto accadere. È stata una mancanza di lungimiranza o sono semplicemente nati troppo tardi? - Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York – Thursday, April 10, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Perfection di Vincenzo Latronico
Presentazione libro. Perfection, il primo libro di Vincenzo Latronico tradotto in inglese da Sophie Hughes, è un romanzo tagliente sull’esistenza contemporanea, un racconto di due persone che si svegliano gradualmente e si ritrovano in varie trappole, chiedendosi come tutto ciò sia potuto accadere. È stata una mancanza di lungimiranza o sono semplicemente nati troppo tardi?
April 11
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Friday, April 11, 2025 – 9:30 pm
Dante and Money
Day 2:Symposium. Giacomo Todeschini, University of Trieste. Against or According to Nature: Money as circulating humor or aposteme in Dante’s representation of the medieval financial revolution.
April 14
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Monday, April 14, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Dino Risi’s “Il giovedì”
Dino Versini, a separated father, obtains a judge’s permission to spend one day a week with his son. Every Thursday, Dino picks up Robertino in his flashy sports car, eager to impress him and hide from the boy the failures of his life. However, Dino’s brash manners and high-society friends fail to convince the child. After a disastrous trip to the seaside, during which Dino’s lover leaves him, and a visit to the grandmother’s house, an encounter with an industrialist further ruins the father’s already shaky reputation. At the end of the day, after returning his son to his ex-wife, Dino is left to call his lover to beg for forgiveness.
April 15
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 15, 2025 – 6:00 pm
Italian POWs in the United States on Screen
The event series will consist of two days of academic presentations, roundtables discussions, and film screenings that investigate how World War II Italian Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in Western Allied hands have been represented and memorialized through their creativity in North America, Australia, and Europe during and after WWII (1940-2025), in films and documentaries.This event aims to continue the successful series started in Spring 2024 at NYU Casa Italiana as part of the New York events sponsored by the Australian Research Council grant “Mapping Creativity in Captivity during WWII.” Furthermore, 16 April 2025 event will mark the launch of the Digital Atlas of Creativity in Captivity (DARCI).
April 16
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Wednesday, April 16, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Italian POWs in Australia on Screen
The event series will consist of two days of academic presentations, roundtables discussions, and film screenings that investigate how World War II Italian Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in Western Allied hands have been represented and memorialized through their creativity in North America, Australia, and Europe during and after WWII (1940-2025), in films and documentaries. This event aims to continue the successful series started in Spring 2024 at NYU Casa Italiana as part of the New York events sponsored by the Australian Research Council grant “Mapping Creativity in Captivity during WWII.” Furthermore, 16 April 2025 event will mark the launch of the Digital Atlas of Creativity in Captivity (DARCI).
April 22
- Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò – Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 6:30 pm
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin
The seventh Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features New Yorker mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, who will be singing the role of Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Metropolitan Opera. Isabel Leonard appears courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera.
