Companies such as Google, Facebook and other platforms have become more powerful than many western states. This lecture will explain why their influence can be detrimental for democracy and public discourse and what the State can do to regain power in the next decades.
Karima Moyer-Nocchi is a professor in the Modern Languages department at the University of Siena and also teaches Food Studies at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata.
The Gala will have a lively program that includes an aperitivo, dinner, a live auction, and the presentation of three Presidential Medals to individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our University.
In this lecture, Griselda Pollock takes up Gertrude Stein’s incisive comment that, of all things, the modern cannot be in a museum. So, what was new and remarkable in the creation of this paradoxical institution: a musealization of modern art?
The Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies is a fully peer-reviewed, English-language journal, which explores Italian cinema and media as sites of crossing, allowing critical discussion of the work of filmmakers, artists in the film industry and media professionals.
In this lecture, Dr. Mia Spizzica will discuss diverse expressions of italianita` in the Antipodean diasporas (The Interwar First Wave and the Great Postwar Wave), comparing these cohorts with the most recent young Italians who have settled in Australia in 2000. (the Brain Drain Wave).