Centro Primo Levi New York

Our Program Calendar

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open event

05
September

The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victim and Perpetrator

Michael Rothberg (UCLA) will discuss his new book in conversation with Gil Hochberg (Columbia University). Presented by the Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts at the City College of New York in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi and the Columbia University Cultural Memory Seminar. When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit fr...

The Rifkind Center, CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue

Thursday 5 september 2019 from 18:00 to 20:00
open event

12
September

The Heart of a Stranger

Presentation of a new anthology edited by poet and translator André Naffis-Sahely, offering a uniquely varied look at a theme both ancient and urgently contemporary. André Naffis-Sahely, Jenny Xie (NYU, Graywolf poet), Aaron Robertson (Lit Hub Editor and translator of Ethiopian memoirist Martha Nasibù) and Jonathan Galassi (poet and translator, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The Heart of a Stranger charts the history of our world’s civilizations through the prism of exile, taking the reader f...

Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12 Street, New York, NY 10011

Thursday 12 september 2019 time 19:00
open event

24
October

Primo Levi at 100

Uri Cohen: Affection and Survival: Primo Levi and Friendship in the Camp Affection is a lesser known aspect of the human and Jewish experience in the camps. Mostly it is related to the fractured past of which the camp is the present. Having written some of the essential pages on the human experience in the Lager, Primo Levi continued contemplating and writing about it throughout his life. This talk will question affection in Levi’s writing and its place in the camp as a strategy of survival. ...

NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, NYC

Thursday 24 october 2019 from 19:00 to 20:00
open event

19
November

Primo Levi at 100. Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi

Ian Thomson presents the new edition of his classic biography of Primo Levi. Program presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò. From the Preface I did not choose to write Levi’s biography; Levi had no sooner died than a London publishing house approached me. At first I demurred. Intellectually there seemed to be little point in such a book. Levi was a writer of ethical meditation in the school of the Renaissance essayist Michel d...

Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12 Street, New York, NY 10011

Tuesday 19 november 2019 from 19:00 to 20:00

Public and Academic Programs

Public programs

Centro Primo Levi’s programs explore the diversity of the Italian Jewish experience and take inspiration from Primo Levi’s humanism and his quest to explore the past and understand different aspects of the world we inhabit.

Italian Jewish Studies Seminars

A collaborative initiative of Centro Primo Levi with the NYU departments of Italian, History and Judaic Studies and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò to develop a context for the study of Italian Jewish history, generally absent from curricula of Italian studies and only marginally featured in Jewish Studies programs.

Italian Jews, the oldest minority in Europe, have lived in the peninsula since Roman times, producing a unique cultural milieu, and often acting as liaisons to neighboring societies.

Primo Levi Forum

Readings, roundtables and presentation periodically connect scholars and practitioners from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi’s intellectual horizon. Year after year, contributions from all over the world demonstrate

the inspirational capacity of Levi’s work and the creative power of his journeys across disciplines. Translated in over 40 languages, Levi’s work transcends cultural boundaries and comes to plays often unexpected roles in different cultures.

Memoria

Studies and research on the history of the anti-Jewish persecution in Italy, fascism and the post-war construction of memory. A collaborative effort of the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, the Italian Cultural Institute, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò,

the Italian Academy at Columbia University, CUNY’s John Calandra Italian American Institute and Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi and the Bronx High School of Science. Selected programs are held under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

CPL Editions & Printed Matter

Corrado Cagli’s Drawings in the Collection of the NYPL

May 28, 2019

Printed Matter

In 1948, the New York City Ballet presented The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, a Renaissance poem by Lorenzo de’ Medici whose refrain “del doman non v’è certezza” (the future holds no certainty) may have had a particular resonance in...