A new institution sponsored by the European University Institute and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (a bank foundation) was recently launched in the city of Medici bankers and Renaissance intellectual thought. EUI president Joseph Weiler and CRF president Umberto Tombari recently signed an agreement inaugurating a program aimed at training future professionals in banking and finance. The new school aspires to become a leading European platform bringing together practitioners and academics to [...]
March 23: “On Longing,” inauguration of an exhibition by artist Holly Greenberg. Syracuse Studio Arts Space, Piazzale Donatello 21. 5:30 – 7 :30 pm. Longing is the theme of the exhibition of Holly Greenberg, organized by the Syracuse University Florence The show, On Longing consists of a series of prints on three-meter long hand carved woodblocks. Longing and desire are some of the most ambiguous emotions. Nowadays the world is about the happiness [...]
OF ALL THE BOOKS I PREFER MY PASSPORT. English lecture by Julia Race. The director of the British Institute of Florence will be hosting a lecture about the amazing and unique places she has lived and worked throughout her life. She will reflect on her past experiences and give insight into the rich cultural diversity she has come into contact with in her travels. British Institute Library. Palazzo Lanfredini, Lungarno Guicciardini 9. 6 [...]
Tues. Feb. 23: A CONVERSATION WITH LUCA TOMMASSINI. Accent Study Center, Piazza Santo Spirito 10. 4:30 pm. Free admission. Luca Tommassini, dubbed the “International Star Maker” will give a talk, open to the public, on Tuesday afternoon that will focus on his experience as a dancer in the United States and how that has influenced his current career. This well-known public figure, who got his start working with the likes of Michael Jackson, [...]
Viola Canales, author of the novel The Tequila Worm (2012), winner of the Pura Belpré medal for narrative in addition to a PEN Center USA award, will speak on the topic “A Culture Viewed through its Stories, Rituals and Foods” at Florence’s Stanford University campus on Wednesday, January 13 at 5:30 pm. Early in her career, Viola Canales served as a field organizer for the United Farm Workers and an officer in the United States [...]
The public is invited to the film première “Concrete Love: The Böhm Family” in real time with its presentation in Rotterdam, Wednesday, October 7 at 8 pm in the Aula Magna of Cal State University Florence program (via Leopardi 14), as part of the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival.
Gottfried Böhm is widely regarded as Germany’s preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he is the patriarch of a modern architecture [...]
English author Christobel Kent will read from her book The Crooked House and talk about her writing process at the St. Mark’s Cultural Association, via Maggio 16 on Tuesday, October 6 beginning at 6:30 pm. Admission is free and the public is welcome. The book cover describes the contents in a single line: “Her life is a lie. The truth is hidden within…” Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. [...]
“Masters and Students: in the Painter’s Workshops of 16th Century Florence. Bronzino and Pontormo, A Case Study,” is the topic of a talk in English by Professor Bruce Edelstein in Room 13, Syracuse University (Piazza Savonarola) beginning at 6:20 pm). The event is free and open to the public.
Jacopo Miliani will talk about his career in a the first of a series of conferences entitled “Artist Talk” hosted by Syracuse University on Tuesday, September 29 at the Studio Art Galleria, Piazzale Donatello 21 beginning at 6:20 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Jacopo Miliani works mostly with installation, photography and performative art. His investigation deals with a constant questioning of the role of representational systems inside cognitive [...]
“Women Writing Art History in the 19th century: Looking like a Woman,” is the topic of a lecture in English by Hilary Fraser at the British Institute Library on Wednesday, Sept. 23. It is also the name of the book written by Fraser and published by the Cambridge University Press in September 2014. Hilary Fraser is the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies Executive Dean, School of Arts, Birkbeck University of London. She recently became [...]
