Events Detail

• Roberto Saviano and Nouriel Roubini: Two Perspectives on the Crisis

• Date:
  December 08, 2011
• Time:
  7:00 pm
• Description:
  New York University's Department of Italian Studies
  

  
  Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

   

  Global and Joint Program Studies at the
  Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

   

  present
  
  

    Italy and the U.S.
  

   Two Perspectives on the Crisis
  

  
  Featuring:
  
  

  Roberto Saviano and Nouriel Roubini

   

   

   Moderated by:

   Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Chair, NYU Department of Italian Studies

   

  This event is in ITALIAN and ENGLISH

  with simultaneous English translation 

   

   

  Saviano is a journalist best known for Gomorrah (Mondadori, 2006), which exposed the economic and financial dealings of the Neapolitan Camorra. His latest book is Vieni via con me (Feltrinelli, 2011), which draws on his 2010 television show with Fabio Fazio. During the fall semester 2011, Saviano was in residence at the Department of Italian Studies, teaching a graduate seminar on the Mafia as the Vivian G. Prins Global Scholar Fellow funded by Scholars at Risk, with additional support from the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education. In October 2011, he won the PEN/Pinter Writer of Courage Award.     

   

   

  Roubini is the co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics and Professor of Economics at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has been the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. He is an expert on global financial crises, and his latest book is Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (Penguin Press, 2010).

   
  Thursday, December 8, 2011 

  7:00PM
  NYU's Stern School of Business
  Tisch Building, Paulson Auditorium
  40 West 4th Street
  10012 
  

  Anyone wishing to attend must RSVP

   

   

  
  

  Please keep in mind that no packages will be allowed in the theater and bags will be subject to inspection.

  All events are open to the public unless otherwise specified.

• Location:
  NYU Stern School of Business, Paulson Auditorium, 40 West 4th Street, Tisch Building

» Back to Events