Each year, the International Symposium seeks to bring to the public forum the most interesting studies and current debates on the writings of Primo Levi. Through performances, roundtables, and films, the program connects scholars and practitioners
from the many fields of the humanities and sciences that defined Levi's intellectual horizon. What continues to emerge is the extraordinary inspirational capacity of his work and the creative power of his journeys across disciplines. This year, the day devoted to "Primo Levi in Translation" features discussions on the German, Arabic, and Farsi editions of his books.
The performance of Tzvi Avni's song cycle If This Is a Man inaugurates a series of opening concerts that will continue, in forthcoming years, to present new works by renowned contemporary composers. See program

While Italy's recent policies against immigrants take ever more disheartening directions, a new trend of popular revisionism risks to obscure the documents and responsibilities of one of the darkest pages in Italian history. The racial laws and the deportation of over 8,000 among Italian and foreign Jews residing in Italy, the brutal political murder of Giacomo Matteotti in 1924, and the massacres perpetrated by the Italian Army in the colonial campaigns of Africa and Albania seem to carry little weight in the evaluations of those who seek to revamp the myth of the good Italian. In reviewing for I-Italy Elisabeth Bettina's It Happened in Italy, Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust, Alessandro Cassin reconstructs the missing historical context of  her story and sheds light on its ideological frame. Read more