MapsBordersTerritories #8: Maps of Paradise: A Visual History of Heaven on Earth
With Alessandro Scafi Where is Nowhere? Scholars and mapmakers from the Middle Ages to Modernity rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. The history of how the unmappable has been mapped is also a mirror of the universal dream […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #6: Envisioning borders: thinking across border spaces with and through comics
What is there in (and beyond) a map? What do we talk about when we talk of borders? How do we define territories? Google maps and maps of wonderlands. Cartography and strategies of war. Mapping ideologies and pandemics, continents, countries and counties, languages and races. Never ending fights over borders and identities. Maps of perceptions […]
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“Benvenuti negli anni Venti!”: in Conversation with Paolo di Paolo and Enrico Terrinoni
“Un secolo fa, con una guerra mondiale e una grande epidemia alle spalle, il mondo ruggiva festoso, ignaro delle nubi che si addensavano all’orizzonte. Gli anni Venti arrivavano carichi di promesse e di minacce. Ecco che tornano, in un paesaggio stravolto e indecifrabile.” An excerpt from the latest book by Paolo Di Paolo, Svegliarsi negli […]
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Audiolibro “Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso. Un percorso nella Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri in trentatré lingue”
The Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin is pleased to present “From the dark forest to Paradise. A journey through Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in thirty-three languages”, an audiobook produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the occasion of Dante’s centenary celebrations, presents a wide selection of passages from the poem in […]
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Book Presentation – ‘Miniature Campianesi’ by Ermanna Montanari
A conversation on Miniature Campianesi with Ermanna Montanari, Leila Marzocchi and Igort. Marco Belpoliti will chair the event. The event will be in Italian and will be recorded. The webinar is related to the theme chosen for the XX Week of the Italian Language in the World: “Italian Between Word and Image: Graffiti, Illustrations, Comic […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #5: Fulvio Tomizza and geo-linguistic borders.
Marianna Deganutti and Sandra Parmegiani in conversation What does writing from a borderland mean? What are the challenges borderland writers are subjected to? Trieste, a key European borderland, located at the intersection of the Latin, Germanic and Slavic civilizations, offers a literary scenario characterized by complex borderland dynamics. Among them stand out the linguistic challenges […]
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MapsBordersTerritories #4: Frontaliers and protection of the Italian language in Switzerland.
Gabriele Paleari and Sergio Savoia in conversation. The border between Switzerland and Italy has been almost unchanged, except for minor tweaks, since Italy’s unification in 1861. However porous, the border divides two countries with very different political systems and, to paraphrase Churchill, the two countries are divided by a common language. The relationship that Swiss Italians […]
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What Shall We Eat to Save the World?
Curated by Agnese Codignola and Fabio Bruni Register here. Climate’s fever is destroying the world – but we can save it – with a revolution that involves healthy, sustainable and fair food.. and the courage, scandalous at times, of science. Agnese Codignola, PhD in pharmacology at Università di Milano, turned into journalism after 7 […]
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Supercool Kitchen
Facts and misdemeanors in the kitchen: from Pellegrino Artusi to curdled mayonnaise.Reflections on science, traditions and costumes in the kitchen. Marco Malvaldi and Fabio Bruni in conversation. Q&A session to follow. In English. Q&A session in Italian. Register here Marco Malvaldi is an Italian chemist and novelist, who began his writing career in 2007 with […]
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Le geografie di Franco Farinelli: istruzioni per l’uso.
Vittorio Giacopini interviews Franco Farinelli – In Italian. Earth is a sphere. That’s why everything, sooner or later, comes back.”. Globalization, web, pandemic: all these phenomena can be read as stages of what Franco Farinelli calls the crisis of “cartographic reason”. The present shows us that no map can define the geographic and political complexity […]
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