Dr. Maristelle De Panizza Lorch - Air date: 10-03-05

Title:
Dr. Maristelle De Panizza Lorch - Air date: 10-03-05

Description:
Dr. Maristella de Panizza Lorch is the founder and president of the major institution ""The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia. The Academy was created in 1991 on the basis of a charter signed by the President of the Republic of Italy and the President of Columbia University. It was conceived as a center for advanced research, particularly in areas relating to Italian culture, science and society. It was also intended to provide a locus for collaborative projects between senior Italian and American scholars, particularly those open to interdisciplinary research. Given its international standing and its long-standing commitment to all aspects of Italian culture and society, Columbia was seen as an especially appropriate context for such a venture. McKim Mead and White's 1927 Casa Italiana, elegantly reconstructed by Italo Rota and Sam White in 1993, is the home of the Academy. It provides an exceptional series of offices for the Academy's Fellows, as well as housing a library, to be dedicated to the history of the Italian cinema, and a magnificent theatre in Neo-Renaissance style, in which major academic, theatrical and musical events regularly take place. www.italianacademy.columbia.edu

Author:
haroldchanner

Tags:
Italy, Faschism, Resistance, Culture, Cinema, Federico, Fellini., Martin, Scorsese, Academic, Theartical, Musical, Events, MNNnyc,