International partnership_ seminar in New York
February 24, 2026
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Library, Italian Academy (1161 Amsterdam Av, NYC 10027). In-person only
This seminar in collaboration with
@italianacademy at
@columbia looks at genealogies of performance pedagogies and perspectives in blue dramaturgy. The talks will touch on interdisciplinary pedagogies and the emerging current of studies of “blue humanities” which engages with complex questions surrounding ocean and sea imaginaries.
Opening Remarks:
Barbara Faedda - executive Director, Italian Academy
Speakers:
@roberta__ber “Threading Knowledges: Genealogies of Performance Pedagogies”
@br_bona “Offshore dramaturgy: How to Spin a Yarn”
Moderator and Organizer:
@piers_dima , current Fellow at Columbia University’s Italian Academy
credits
first pic: Students at Black Mountain College during the 1930s, Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina, Asheville, NC;
second pic: flag for myctoforme
@sal.mastra made by
@elie_chon 
