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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 1d

Nov 13, 5PM—
Primo Levi's "Periodic Table" at 50.
Elena Aprile, Jhumpa Lahiri & other scientists & writers speak. Info & registration: tinyurl.com/43jh38z3

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 11d

Oct 29, 6PM: Jhumpa Lahiri & Alessandro Giammei ON ROME. Prize-winning scholars/translators travel the city w/ the spirits of fellow Romans & adoptive ancestors—Ovid, Ennio Flaiano, Petrarch, Amelia Rosselli, Raphael, & more. tinyurl.com/4v6zx8sb
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 13d

Yesterday our new Director, Elena Aprile, opened up our seminar series to the broader Columbia community. Thx to Sebastian Meyer-von Köckritz—and to GSAPP's Jorge Otero-Pailos.

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 19d

Former Fellow Luca Zipoli's Bryn Mawr course, "Philadelphia the Global City: The Italian Legacy across Time" had a guest lecture by Exec. Director Barbara Faedda: "From Liberty to Libretto: Italian Cultural Contributions to Early America."

More info: www.brynmawr.edu/inside/lates...

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 19d

In her role as ambassador/permanent observer of EPLO, Barbara Faedda, the Academy's executive director, attended the high-level General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 20d

News from current Fellow:
Valeria Fascianelli will be at la Sapienza University of Rome to present her work on how representational geometry correlate with behavior. More info: lnkd.in/e4YNZCmr
@valeriafascianelli.bsky.social

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 23d

[Columbia ID required w/ registration] "Germany was so poor in 1927, but gov't money went to a unique building project. Why?" Oct 1 at 1PM. Speaker: SEBASTIAN MEYER-VON KÖCKRITZ (architect for historic buildings). Moderator: JORGE OTERO-PAILOS (GSAPP). tinyurl.com/yxcmr5en

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 26d

New Fellow joining the Academy:
Claudia Wedepohl; Project: “The story of Aby Warburg’s ‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne’”
tinyurl.com/33np4taa
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 27d

New Fellow joining the Academy:
Simone Picchianti; Project: “Fashioning in gold and steel: the science and art of Giuliano Ferraccini, Medici swordsmith”
tinyurl.com/muwt4eh6
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 28d

New Weinberg Fellow joining the Academy:
Sebastian Meyer-von Köckritz; Project: Transformation of the villa: the example of the Thieleck estate in Berlin (1927–1931)”
tinyurl.com/y3uxdzcv
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 29d

New Fellow joining the Academy:
Andrea Maselli; Project: “Binary black hole systems as particle physics laboratories in dark matter environments”
tinyurl.com/y4p9betp
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · 29d

Deadline tonight, midnight Italian time--

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jul 28

Now:
Emerging Italian artists can have a 5-month residency in NY—with a stipend. We are glad to be a founding partner of this program that has brought in 50 artists over the years.
Deadline: Sept 15
Premio NY: tinyurl.com/3devp3mw

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Sep 15

New Weinberg Fellow joining the Academy:
Marianna Mancini; Project: “Builders of modern Rome: secondary craftsmen and the development of Roman architectural language in the 16th century”
tinyurl.com/4tac5r4r
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Sep 12

New Fellow joining the Academy:
John Kulvicki; Project: “Reshaping the arts of space”
tinyurl.com/bdhcwknd
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Sep 11

New Fellow joining the Academy:
Valeria Fascianelli; Project: “The neural geometry of emotions: cognitive implications and individual variability”
tinyurl.com/2y5mzaw9
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv
@valeriafascianelli.bsky.social

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Sep 10

New Fellow joining the Academy:
Judith Delfiner; Project: “Against the grain: women artists and office technologies”
tinyurl.com/2p8y62m3
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Sep 9

New Gerda Henkel Foundation Fellow joining the Academy:
Stefano de Bosio; Project: “Like butterfly wings: image doubling in Early Modern displays and visual culture”
tinyurl.com/3nsv5sws
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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Sep 8

New Fellow joining the Academy:
Mario Carpo; Project: “Generative AI and the making of images: style transfer, creativity, and the automation of visual imitation”
tinyurl.com/2dd67v9m
See all Fellows: tinyurl.com/5afsx4kv

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jul 31

News from past Fellows— Call for Papers: "Colonial Objects – Material Culture of Italian Colonialism."
Day 2 at Italian Academy in 2026; Day 1 is in Dec. 2025 at Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.
tinyurl.com/4ru5a83f
@camilleriana.bsky.social

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jul 28

Now:
Emerging Italian artists can have a 5-month residency in NY—with a stipend. We are glad to be a founding partner of this program that has brought in 50 artists over the years.
Deadline: Sept 15
Premio NY: tinyurl.com/3devp3mw

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jul 14

This week, UNESCO's Heritage list added the grave sites called "domus de janas"—& Barbara Faedda (Academy's Exec. Director) visited the 'Sas Concas' domus de janas w/ archaeologist Consuelo Moro.
(In the Academy's Sardinia Cultural Heritage Project tinyurl.com/SardiniaHeri...)

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tue, Jun 24, 6-8PM:
Open Studio event at EFA Studios (323 W 39th St. 3Fl, NYC) featuring Premio New York prize winners Adji Dieye & Eleonora Luccarini
italianacademy.columbia.edu/content/prem...

Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Barbara Faedda, the IA's Exec Director, and Marco Pizzo, Vice Director, Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento, developing a long-term project to provide the IOCH with valuable documentation, rare unpublished materials, & exclusive archival content. tinyurl.com/3h8rh77f

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jun 9

News from a current Fellow:

Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · Jun 8

Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association @theava-uk.bsky.social

Looking forward to my talk “Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience”

Thanks so much to NOMIS Foundation,
@italianacademy.bsky.social ,
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

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Italian Academy, Columbia University @italianacademy.bsky.social · Jun 5

News from former Fellow:
Read Nicola Camilleri's essay,
"Challenging race, gender, and class in Fascist and postwar Italy. Biographical notes on Elena Sengal (1911–1962),"
based on his Italian Academy research;
Published online: tinyurl.com/2c4sfa76
@camilleriana.bsky.social

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