With this event, the Center for Italian Studies and ISSNAF celebrate Italian achievement and contributions to knowledge in the United States and Canada.

Program

Location: Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall - 249 S. 36th Street

2pm The Value of Italian Experience for Success in North America

Participants: Vincenzo Berghella, Professor - Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University - Cristina Bicchieri, Sasha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, University of Pennsylvania - Antonella Cianferoni, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Arizona - Gabriella Vacca, Vice President of System Engineering, Comcast.

3pm ISSNAF Award for the Humanities

Presentations by the two finalists: Silvia Carlorosi - Adjunct Professor, Fordham University - and Luca Cottini - Assistant Professor, Villanova University.

3:30 Italian Excellence Foundation

Presenters: Alain Elkann, Journalist and Author - Fabio Finotti, Mariano De Vito Professor and Chair of Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania - Giustina Magistretti, Executive Director, ISSNAF

4:30 ISSNAf Award for the
Humanities ceremony and reception

Location: International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street

5:30 Film presentation: La grande bellezza

Presenter: Tim Corrigan, Professor of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania

This event is organized in collaboration with Cinema Studies and is being advertised also as part of "Ciao Philadelphia", a month-long celebration of Italian culture in Philadelphia, coordinated by the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia.

Source: http://www.sas.upenn.edu