Events
Fall 2009
Dates and times are subject to change.
Confirmation for any event is required as spaces are limited: lapietra.reply@nyu.edu
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life (directed by Steven Sebring)
Film Screening
Date: Tuesday, September 1st
Location: Villa Natalia, Blue Room
Time: 9:00 PM - Punk Rock, Free Verse, and Politics
A Cross-cultural Conversation with Patti Smith
Date: Wednesday, September 9th
Location: Limonaia
Time: 1:00 PM - Franca Ghitti, L'Aritmetica dei chiodi (in Italian)
Lecture: Prof. Elena Pontiggia and Prof. Federico Acuto
Date: Tuesday, September 22nd
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Wilde in Italy
Oscar Wilde in Florence — Lecture and Performance Series
Lecture: Prof. Joel Kaplan
Date: Tuesday, September 29th
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 pm - Wilde in Italy
Oscar Wilde in Florence — Lecture and Performance Series
Lecture: Prof. Joel Kaplan
Date: Wednesday, September 30th
Location: The British Institute
Time: 6:00 pm - Robert Mapplethorpe: An Art Historical Approach (for a change)
Lecture: Prof. Jonathan Nelson, Syracuse University in Florence
Date: Tuesday, October 6th
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 pm - Oscar Wilde and the Florentine Tragedy
Oscar Wilde in Florence — Lecture and Performance Series
Lecture: Prof. Joel Kaplan
Date: Tuesday, October 6th
Location: Syracuse University, Villa Rossa, Room 13, Piazza Savonarola 15
Time: 6:20 PM - Remarque Institute Seminar
Lecture: Celeste Schenck, American University of Paris
Date: Wednesday, October 7th
Location: Villa Sassetti
Time: 12:00 PM - Theatrical production: A Florentine Tragedy, by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde in Florence — Lecture and Performance Series
Date: Sunday, October 11th
Location: Palazzo Davanzati
Time: 2 performances at 4 PM and 6 PM - Conference: The Obama Administration: An Early Assessment
La Pietra Policy Dialogues
Date: Tuesday, October 20th
Location: Villa Sassetti
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM - Exhibition: Federigo e la bottega degli Angeli. Palazzo Davanzati tra realtà e sogno / Federigo and the Angeli Workshop. Palazzo Davanzati: Dream and Reality.
A collaboration between Palazzo Davanzati and Villa La Pietra
Dates: October 23, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Location: Palazzo Davanzati
Opening Hours: Mon.-Sun. 8:15 AM - 1:50 PM
- Literary Production in Counter Reformation Florence: Stagnation or Innovation?
Lecture: Prof. Abigail Brundin, Cambridge University
Date: Tuesday, October 27th
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Working Sessions for the U.N. World Conference on the Status of Women
La Pietra Policy Dialogues
Select events open to students
Date: October 27th through November 3rd
Location: Villa Sassetti - Progress and Imperatives: An International Town Hall on the Status of Women
La Pietra Policy Dialogues
Open to students and the Florentine community
Date: Monday, November 2nd
Location: Palazzo Vecchio, Salone de' Cinquecento
Time: 5:00 PM - Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others
Book Presentation with the Author: Prof. Jane Tylus, New York University; introduced by Prof. Gabriella Zarri, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Date: Tuesday, November 3rd
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Voices of the Body, Liminal Rhetoric in Guido Cavalcanti's Rime (in Italian)
Lecture: Prof. Federica Anichini
Date: Tuesday, November 10th
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Remarque Institute Seminar
Lecture: Lorenzo Pubblici, Santa Reparata International School of Art and Università degli Studi di Firenze
Date: Wednesday, November 18th
Location: Villa Sassetti
Time: 12:00 PM - I musei del “genius loci”: un modello italiano (in Italian)
Lecture: Prof. Alessandra Mottola Molfino
Date: Tuesday, November 24th
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Florence, the Anglo-American Community, and the Rebirth of Palazzo Davanzati
Lecture: Prof. Francesca Baldry
Date: Wednesday, November 25th
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Dante, La verbalità plurale. Un frammento di poetica (in Italian)
Lecture: Prof. Maria Luisa Ardizzone, New York University
Date: Tuesday, December 1st
Location: Villa La Pietra
Time: 6:00 PM - Remarque Institute Seminar: Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes
Lecture: Paul Corner, University of Siena
Date: Wednesday, December 16th
Location: Villa Sassetti
Time: 12:00 PM