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Posts tagged as “Religion”

La terra buona [The Good Place]

Emanuele Caruso, 2018 La terra buona (The Good Place) (Italy, 2018, 110 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Emanuele Caruso Written by Emanuele Caruso and Marco Domenicale Starring Lorenzo Pedrotti, Fabrizio Ferracane, Viola Sartoretto, Cristian Di Sante Followed by a Q&A with director Emanuele Caruso The film is inspired by true events. The largest wilderness zone in Europe…

Dante, Franciscan Poverty, and the Donation of Constantine

A lecture by Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University Introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Was Dante a Franciscan? An analysis of the Donation of Constantine in relation to Dante’s political and theological arguments proves that Dante had strong affinity to Franciscan thinkers and their work certainly influenced his rejection of church wealth. Alessandro Vettori is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature…

The Carmignano Visitation

A lecture by Bruce L. Edelstein (NYU). The Carmignano Visitation, a unique masterpiece by one of sixteenth-century Italy’s greatest painters, Jacopo da Pontormo, will be seen for the first time outside of Italy in the exhibition, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York (September 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019) and The J. Paul Getty…

Assisted Reproductive Technologies – Cultural & Ethical Vales From a Comparative Perspective

This two-day Franco-American workshop seeks to compare the cultural, ethical, religious, historical and policy implications of how reproductive technologies have developed and now impact our two national contexts. In both countries, advanced reproductive technologies have long been in development and are now in widespread use. France and the United States share a certain number of similar conceptions relative to kinship…