NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

Italian cinema is back in NYC!

This Italian word can be just as easily applied to a plate of pasta as it can to another person. Find out how and why in the company of Ennio Ranaboldo and Elisabetta Milan in this week's episode of Parole Parole.

Does the Black Lives Matter movement that originated in the U.S appropriately capture the layers of movement building in Italy? Throughout Italy, grassroots organizers are leading an intersectional movement that addresses changing of the Italian citizenship law, death in the Mediterranean, undocumented labor in the agricultural sector, the romanticization of the colonial past, racism in Italian mainstream media, and LGBTQI+ lack of legal rights. Join the conversation on Wednesday, May 19th at 5 PM to learn of the impact and limitations of the Black Lives Matter movement in Italy.

In this episode of Canto per Canto, titled "Ophidiophobia," Eva Del Soldato and Marco Aresu discuss Canto 25 of Dante's Inferno.

Welcome to the FIFTH Season of Parole Parole! With Valentine's Day coming up this Sunday, here is a kiss-themed double-feature, presented by Christie Fiumara and Flavia Caroppo. Buona Festa di San Valentino!

Valentina Pisanty’s book, The Guardians of Memory, asks difficult questions such as has a much-vaunted cosmopolitan Holocaust memory with its linked slogans of Never forget! and Never again! simply failed to prevent the rise of the right or, more darkly, might it even be implicated in that political turn? Tune in for this important discussion on Feb. 16 at 2 PM EST

George Rayson and Aist Kiltinaviit take us through Purgatorio 15 in today's Canto per Canto, returning every Monday and Wednesday.