ILICA - Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance

SAVE THE DATE
Friday, September 25, 2009

ILICA CE
Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance
5^th Annual Cultural Event

SAVING VENEZIA & PROTECTING NEW ORLEANS

The
MOSE
Project

The Debate Surrounding Italy’s Most Innovative Technology

St. John’s University
Saval Auditorium
Manhattan Campus – 101 Murray Street – New York City

Prof. Anthony Julian Tamburri
  Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY



Prof. Ing. Patrizio Cuccioletta
  President of Venice Water Authority (Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation)
  The safeguarding of the Venice Lagoon: from Paleocapa to present times

Ing. Maria Teresa Brotto
  Head of Dept. Design Mose Project, Consorzio Venezia Nuova.
  Measures for safeguarding of Venice and its lagoon: the General Plan of Interventions

Prof. John W. Day, Jr.
  Prof. Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University
  Climate change, energy scarcity, and the future of New Orleans and Venice

Ing. Giampietro Mayerle
  Head of Dept. Venice Water Authority
  The Mose System: main features and status of implementation

Prof. Fabio Carrera
  Prof. Interdisciplinary & Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Saving the venetians

Prof. Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli
  Prof. Oceanography in Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Focus on Mose System: Global Change and Sea Level Rise

Award winning filmmakers Bongiorno Productions
present film project WATERMARK (Venezia & New Orleans)

Please visit our web-site at www.ilicait.org
or e-mail us mailto:ilicait@aol.com
for further information.

A taste of culinary delights (Mare/Monti) from
Asiago and Chioggia will be served at lunchtime

Event is FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC