John Cabot University

John Cabot University

Via della Lungara 233
00165 - Rome, Italy
Telephone: +39-06-6819121
www.johncabot.edu

John Cabot University, an American liberal arts university in the heart of Rome, has been preparing students for graduate programs and demanding international careers since 1972. JCU is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.


Guarini Institute for Public Affairs

The Institute at John Cabot University offers an annual series of lectures, seminars, and encounters aimed at enhancing knowledge and understanding of the key issues and challenges facing the world today, in particular those affecting the United States and Europe.

The Institute's website: johncabot.edu/about_JCU/guarini_home.aspx

Past Events at the Institute

Screening of the film Miracle at Saint Anna by Spike Lee (USA, 2008)
6:30 pm, Aula Magna Regina
April 1, 2009

The Reporter and the Genocide: Gareth Jones and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-3
Co-sponsored with Fondazione Liberal
Panel discussion and screening of the film "The Living" by Serhii Bukovsky.
Speakers include: Franco Pavoncello, JCU President; H.E. Heorhii Chernyavski, Ambassador of Ukraine to Italy; Karel C. Berkhoff, Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences; Ettore Cinella, University of Pisa
Nigel Linsan Colley (UK); Yuri Shevchuk, Columbia University
March 13, 2009

Italy Against Itself
Alexander Stille, San Paolo Professor of International Journalism, Columbia University
A discussion of the institutional and political crisis in Italy, and the future of Italian politics
February 25, 2009

One Month to Go - The US Presidential Election and Europe
A roundtable discussion with the participation of: Silvio Fagiolo, Frank J. Guarini, Giorgio La Malfa, Lucio Martino, Massimo Teodori, Eric Terzuolo
October 1, 2008

"The Politics of Climate Change"
Lord Anthony Giddens
September 26, 2008

After the Italian Legislatives and the Pennsylvania Primaries: A Roundtable Discussion
Giorgio La Malfa, Candidate for Popolo della Libertà
Lucio Martino, Senior Analyst CeMiSS (Centro Militare di Studi Strategici)
Pamela Harris, JCU
Larry Gray, JCU
Francoen Pavoncello, President, JCU
Federigo Argtieri, JCU (chair)
April 23, 2008

A Screening of "Hitler's Journey to Italy - May 1938"
A documentary directed by Piero Melograni
March 31, 2008

The Ukrainian Holodomor and the Denial of Genocides:
An International Conference
Presenters and Panelists:
Rouben Shougarian, Armenia's Ambassador to the Italian Republic
Prof. Taner Akçam, University of Minnesota
Heorhiy Cheriavskyi, Ukrainian Ambassador
Prof. Federigo Argentieri, Guarini Institute of John Cabot University
Prof. Frediano Sessi, of the University of Mantua
Dario Fertilio, Corriere della Sera
Prof. Roman Serbyn, Université du Québec à Montréal
Prof. Georgiy Kasianov, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and Kyïv-Mohyla University
Mykola Ryabchuk, Co-editor of Krityka in Kyïv
L.V. Ferraris, President of AISSECO
Giovanna Brogi, University of Milan
Lucio Caracciolo, Editor of Limes
Renzo Foa, Editor of Liberal
Seta Martayan, President of the Association of the Armenian Community of Rome and Lazio
Nataliya Shulga, Ukrainian Scientific Club
November 9, 2007

The Diplomatic Challenges of Conflict Resolution
His Excellency Daithi O'Ceallaigh, Ambassador of Ireland to the U.N. (Geneva)
October 4, 2007

Civil Religion in America
Emilio Gentile, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
September 27, 2007

Mission Italy
Amb. Richard N. Gardner
June 18, 2007

The Federal Experience: the United States and the European Union Compared
Amb. Silvio Fagiolo
April 11, 2007

Charter 77: The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and Czech Politics Today
Dr. Jiri Dienstbier, writer, journalist and politician
The origins of the of the Velvet Revolution and the current political situation
April 2, 2007

America in Distress
presentation of Limes magazine issue
March 5, 2007

Morocco at 50: Democracy and/or Fundamentalism
Amb. Freck Vreeland
November 29, 2006

European Fiscal Policy and the 2005 Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact:  Too Little Too Late?
Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa
November 15, 2006

Ukraine and Belarus:  The Challenge for the West
conference
July 13 and July 14, 2006

Women's Journalism in the 21st Century: Perspectives for the New Millennium
Katharine Whitehorn, former leading columnist on The Observer
June 15, 2006

The Italian Elections: Issues and Players
roundtable with Larry Gray, Federigo Argentieri and Karim Mezra
March 29, 2006

The Iranian Geopolitical Perception After the War in Iraq
Mahmood Sariolghalam, Associate Professor of International Relations at National University, and Director of the Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran
November 7, 2005

The Inaugural Lecture of the FJ Guarini Forum
Professor David Sawyer, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
February 18, 2005