Eco acupuncture, urban interventions will held October 1, 2012 at Palazzo Strozzi Sala Altana (9,15 am-6pm).  Let’s imagine Florence in 2035: it has become a global model for a low con- sumption, high prosperity and high quality life based on renewable resources – it is a city of ideas for the future.

How Americans elect their president or what exactly is the electoral college? Prof. Joshua Tucker Professor of Politics, New York University answers to these questions. In the fact, On November 7, 2000, American voters went to the polls to choose their next president. Al Gore, the nominee of the Democratic Party, received 543,895 more votes than his Republican Party challenger, George W. Bush.

This is the New York University season at Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy. Friday, June 15 – 10:15 AM Cinema Odeon Auf Wiedersehen, ‘Till We Meet Again, a Documentary followed by a special dialogue with Chelsea Clinton and Linda G. Mills. With La Pietra Dialogues. Thursday, June 21 – 7:30 PM Villa La Pietra – Shakespeare – Macbeth – The Continuum Company.

From Madrid to Cairo, Tel Aviv, Rome and New York, protests have erupted across the globe against economic instability, political unaccountability and corruption, and characterized by a prevailing sense of disillusionment. What are the defining characteristics of these movements? Where are the ideas coming from and how are they being expressed? How influential is social media in their structure and philosophy? In what direction are they going?

Civilian control of militaries has been a vital component of democratization in the Middle East. Samuel Huntington’s ‘Third Wave of Democratization’, which, he argued, began in 1974, is now washing up on Arab shores, thereby opening up the possibility that militaries may be subordinated to representative civilian governments. Robert Springborg will assess the prospects for an consequences of such civilian control in various Arab countries.

“Xenophobia urban responses” will be held in Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy. The third annual transatlantic dialogue on immigration will see the participation of Dario Nardella, deputy major of the city of Florence, Badara Seck, singer, Izzedin Elzir, imam in Florence, Muzaffar Chishti, director of MPI office at NYU school of law, Nicola Solimano, Fondazione Michelucci and Fatima Shama, NYC commissioner of immigrant affair.

James Ferragamo and Gel Egger Ceccarelli from Salvatore Ferragamo spa will launch the “green fashion” series in conversation with students of New York University in Florence. This meeting, February 22 (6pm), is part of the “La Pietra Dialogues-New York University Florence” at Villa La Pietra, Via Bolognese, 120, Florence, Italy. 

Next Thursday February 9th, NYU’s La Pietra Dialogues presents Imma Vitelli (at 6 pm, Villa La Pietra), International correspondent for Vanity Fair, who has been reporting from the ground in the Middle East.