(15th of each month - YouTube & Podcast)
Conversations with leading business figures or academics in Italian Studies
Season 3
THE ITALIAN SCIENTIFIC NETWORK IN NORTH AMERICA. FROM NASA TO ISSNAF
Cinzia Zuffada (associate chief scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA, and president of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation; ISSNAF)
ITALIAN JOURNALISM & ACADEMIA IN THE AGE OF POST-TRUTH
Gianni Riotta (journalist, writer, director of Data Lab at LUISS Guido Carli University School of Government in Rome, and Pirelli visiting professor of Italian Studies at Princeton University
WHEN DESIGN MEETS TECHNOLOGY. HERITAGE & INNOVATION AT OLIVETTI
Gaetano Di Tondo (VP, Communication and External Relations Director at Olivetti and President of the Olivetti historic archive)
DESTINATION ITALY. STUDY ABROAD AND THE 'ITALIAN EXPERIENCE'
Roberto Andreoni (composer & director of IES Milan) and Stefano Baldassarri (Renaissance scholar & director of ISI Florence)
ITALIAN NEOREALISM AS A TOTAL ART
Charles Leavitt, Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame
THE LABORATORY OF SILK. ON INNOVATION, CULTURE, AND IMAGINATION
Fiorenzo Omenetto, Professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University, Fortune 50 innovator
THE ITALIAN REINVENTION OF AMERICAN SPORTS
Flavio Tranquillo, journalist and sportscaster at Sky Sport
THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE. ON ITALIAN FOOD & WINE
Vic Rallo (restaurateur, wine critic, host of PBS show On the Road with Vic Rallo)
Season 2
Ignazio Marino (Transplant Surgeon, Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University)
Nicola Guerini (General Manager at Milano Fashion Institute)
Pier Forlano, General Consul of Italy in Philadelphia
ON RACING, COMPETITION, AND ITALIAN CARS
Fred Simeone (Neurosurgeon and owner of the world’s #1 car collection, The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum)
THE ART AND BUSINESS OF MAKEUP
Clio Zammatteo (Co-Founder of ClioMakeUp, Entrepreneur, Author, Blogger, Influencer, TV Presenter)
ITALY/USA. A LONG STORY OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE
Guido Bonsaver (Oxford University)
INNOVATING TRADITION. THE BUSINESS OF OPERA
Corrado Rovaris (Music Director at Opera Philadelphia)
THE DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE. ON ITALIAN CULTURE, INNOVATION, & THE NEW MEDIA
Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard University, Piaggio Fast Forward)
ABOUT THE ITALIAN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Armando Fumagalli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)
Mauro Porcini (SVP & Chief Design Officer at PepsiCo)
INVESTING IN ITALY. INVESTING IN ITALIAN
Joseph Gulino (multilingual American attorney at DRRT)
ON FASHION, CINEMA, AND COSTUME DESIGN
Eugenia Paulicelli (fashion scholar at Queens College, CUNY)