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June 4, 2024 The Liberation of Rome Conference The definitive event about the liberation of Italy’s capital and the end of the siege of Vatican City in June 1944 On June 4, 1944, the Eternal City of Rome was liberated from Nazi occupation. To discuss…

March 12, 2024 New Partnership with the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook UniversityIn the first week of March 2024, the Sorbello Foundation and the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University signed a memorandum of understanding, formalizing a partnership between the two…

Announcing the Recipient of the 2023 Sorbello Fellowship Grant The 2023 Sorbello Fellowship Grant has been awarded to Giorgio Bertellini from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The funded research project is titled The Poverty of Others: New Deal Photojournalism to Italian Neorealism (and Back). Bertellini’s research will explore…

October 18, 2023 Dr. Antonella Valoroso, senior researcher at the Sorbello Foundation, has been invited to speak at the Inauguration of the 23rd “International Week of the Italian Language” held at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City. The ceremony was held at the…

The first Biennial International Conference organized by the Sorbello Foundation and the Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello in partnership with the University for Foreigners of Perugia and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute was held in Perugia, Italy, on 20 and 21 March. The two-day…

The 2022 Sorbello Fellowship Grant has been awarded to Amanda Swain (IES Abroad, Milan). The title of the funded research project is “Friends, of whom I have not got the equal anywhere”: Nicola Chiaromonte and the New York Intellectuals, 1947-1972. This research project aims at producing an annotated collection of Italian intellectual Nicola Chiaromonte’s unpublished…

On June 10, 2022, Dr Antonella Valoroso presented the paper "Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (1906- 1969). A Constructor of Cultural Bridges between Italy and the U.S.” at the international conference "Translation, Modernity, and Cultural Transfer Between Italy and the United States”, which took place on June 9-11 at…

We proudly announce the release of the June 1st episode of the Italian Innovators series presenting a portrait of Romeyne Robert, American expat in Umbria at the turn of the 20th century, pioneering female entrepreneur, educator, and founder of one of the first schools adopting the…

We proudly announce the release of the latest episode of the Italian Innovators series presenting a magnificent and poetic profile of Uguccione Ranieri. Italian Innovators is a YouTube show exploring the Italian way to innovation through presentations, interviews, and lessons. A very special thanks to…

The 2021 Sorbello Fellowship Grant has been awarded to the following projects Literary and artistic exchanges between Italy and the U.S. This research project proposed by Carla Francellini (University of Siena) and Sabrina Vellucci (Roma Tre University) aims at investigating the activity in the field of literary promotion of…