Italians and Americans: How We See Each Other
Americans and Italians often look at each other through the lenses of stereotypes and clichés, and so do Italians and Italian-Americans.
New York Times and Corriere della Sera op-ed columnist Beppe Severgnini, former correspondent of the Economist and author of La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind and Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the US, takes us on a entertaining and thought-provoking journey through our national identities, aspirations and hard-nosed realities.
The event will be in English.About Beppe Severgnini
Beppe Severgnini became a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times in the fall of 2013. He is an opinion columnist for the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera and the author of 14 books, including the American best sellers Ciao, America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. and La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind. His most recent book is Italiani di Domani: Otto Porte sul Futuro (Italians of Tomorrow: 8 Doors to the Future). His writing has appeared in the Financial Times and the Economist, where he was the Italy correspondent from 1996 to 2003.A fuller bio is available here and here.For tickets, please click here.Part of the proceeds will benefit the ‘Adopt an Italian-language student’ project.