Opening Remarks | 1pm
- Alberto Di Mauro (Director, Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles)
- Giuseppe Perrone (Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles)
Welcoming Remarks | 1:15pm
- Todd Presner (Director, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies)
- Andrew Viterbi (Patron, The The Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies)
- Giulia Sissa (President, NISA)
- Marxiano Melotti (Secretary, Fondazione SUM)
- Serafina Hager (Georgetown & NISA): Italian Culture and Language: A Sustainable Passion
Italy Made! Passions & Projects | 2 pm
- Ernesto Galli della Loggia (SUM): A Unified Italy: the End of a Story? and Aldo Schiavone (SUM): Italy between Past and Present
- Carlotta Sorba (University of Padova): Melodramatic Emotions in the Italian Risorgimento and Mary Ann Smart (UC Berkeley): How Political were Verdi’s Operas? Spectacle and Censorship in 1840s Milan
- Simon Levis Sullam (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia): Out of the Ghetto, Into the Revolution: The Jews of Venice in 1848-49 and Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, IHMC (CNRS/ENS): Representing Jewish Patriotism: A Look at Italian Jewish Periodicals
- Remo Bodei (UCLA): Waiting for Unity: The Hopes and Disappointments of Exile
Reception & Entertainment | 7pm
- Poetry reading by Paolo Valesio (Columbia & NISA)
