Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
This National Historic
Landmark, once the home of General Winfield Scott, was purchased by New
York University thanks to a gift from Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò
in memory of her late husband, Guido, industrialist and diplomat. It was
inaugurated in 1990 and is the seat of the Department of Italian
Studies. Equipped with a research library and a 100-seat theatre, the
Casa is an active cultural center, offering a wide variety of events,
from academic lectures to art exhibits to social gatherings. Noted
guests have included Gianni Amelio, Joseph Brodsky, Gianni Celati,
Francesca Duranti, Vittorio Gassman, René Girard, Shirley Hazzard,
Dante Isella, Dacia Maraini, Marco Risi, Giorgio Strehler, Gay Talese,
and Giuseppe Tornatore.
Centers for research
NYU has a number of important centers for
interdisciplinary research which are useful to students in
Italian. The Center
for Research in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
(CRMAR) and the
Medieval and Renaissance Center (MARC) provide a scholarly infrastructure for all those doing research
in medieval and Renaissance subjects, by facilitating the offering of
graduate and undergraduate interdisciplinary courses, in particular in areas that are
critical for various fields but which regular departments seldom offer.
The Institute
for the History of the Production of Knowledge (IHPK) is a
non-degree-granting initiative designed to encourage faculty and
students to explore the changing configurations of disciplines,
methodologies, and technologies that have shaped knowledge in the
ancient and modern worlds. The Remarque
Institute supports and promotes the study and discussion of Europe,
and encourages and facilitates communication between Americans and
Europeans. The Center
for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS) is unique nationwide in
its named emphasis on both gender and sexuality. It fosters explorations
of gender and sexuality in a broad range of contexts in the humanities,
social sciences, sciences, and professions. The Center for Ancient
Studies (phone 992-9642) coordinates a variety of interdisciplinary and
cross-cultural initiatives including courses, conferences and colloquia,
a visiting scholars program, and community outreach. The Center
for European Studies (CES) was established to support and promote
the study of contemporary Europe. An academic department as well as a
study center for American and European scholars, CES provides workshops,
colloquia, lectures and periodic conferences. The New York Institute
for the Humanities (phone 998-2100) was founded in 1976 as a place
where people of widely different expertise could come together on a
regular basis to talk. It organizes seminars, ad hoc events, and
occasional major conferences. The International
Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS) sponsors an annual fellowship
program that brings scholars to New York City and New York University to
become part of an international research community. It sponsors work
that explores the formation of contemporary structures of political
power, social life, and cultural expression from perspectives at once
local and global. Under its auspices American and foreign
scholars—senior and junior, academic and non-academic—form an
intellectual community that is international in its membership,
comparative in its intellectual agenda, and global in perspective.
Bobst Library
The facilities at NYU include one of the largest open-stack research
libraries in the nation, the Bobst Library.
