2011-2012 - The Italian Academy - Columbia University

Amongst the many
programs and agreements
we have set up with Italian
universities, current pride
of place must go to the advanced
program—for both
graduate and undergraduate
students—which we
have set up together with
the University of Rome, La
Sapienza, and the Honors
Center for Italian Universities
(H2CU), directed
by Professor Lucio Ubertini. This exciting new program, which has
largely been developed by our Columbia colleagues Professors Francesco
de Angelis and Marco Maiuro (himself a former Fellow of the
Academy) includes excavation and fieldwork at the famous ancient
villa of Stabiae in the lee of Vesuvius, as well as more theoretical and
methodological work in both Rome and New York.
A further new development this year has been the establishment
of an exchange and conference program with the Scuola Internazionale
Superiore di Studi Avanzati in Trieste (SISSA), one of Italy’s
most prestigious centers for advanced research in the sciences.
It is my pleasure to report that following the workshop organized
by our colleague Professor Nadia Urbinati on the transformation
of republicanism in modern and contemporary Italy (in
the context of our extremely successful celebrations of the 150 th
Anniversary of the Unification of Italy in 2010-11, and in collaboration
with a number of American and Italian institutions) the Acts
of the conference have finally appeared as a special issue of Italian
Studies, with the title of The Transformation of Republicanism in Modern
and Contemporary Italy.
As we move forward to the celebration of 2013 as the “Year of
Italian Culture in the United States,” we look forward to working
together with our friends at the Embassy in Washington under new
Guarantor Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, and at the Consulate
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