Places and spaces in women’s writing – with Simona Storchi, Sharon Wood and Ursula Fanning
Simona Storchi and Sharon Wood (University of Leicester) discuss the Festschrift for Professor Wood Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. This volume examines the multifaceted relationship between women and the public sphere from the mid-19th to the early 21st century and offers a wide-ranging investigation both of the changing nature of […]
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Italian Research Day // Everyday Chemistry
Why is chemistry so relevant in our daily life? What are the most challenging opportunities of today’s chemistry? What are young and promising Italian researchers doing in Dublin under the guidance of Professor Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson? Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Bruno D’Agostino and Emanuele Cappello are part of the TG Supramolecular and Medicinal Chemistry Research Group, based in […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Italo
Italo, a stray dog, befriends Meno, a young boy from the Sicilian village of Scicli who is living a lonely childhood after his mother’s death. Unfortunately the boy’s father Antonio, Mayor of Scicli, has a zero-tolerance policy on stray dogs in town. While Antonio is stuck between trying to find a connection with his son […]
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“Questa sera è già domani”: a conversation with Lia Levi
Lia Levi, born in Pisa in 1931 to a Jewish family of Piedmontese origins, is a journalist, founder of the magazine Shalom and author of several works of fiction largely dedicated to Jewish history and themes. Her novels provide insight into the trials and tragedies facing Italian Jews during the 20th century, as well as […]
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How much of Pompeii is Pompeii? Restoration, musealization, and reception of the Vesuvian City – with Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino
Buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and later brought back to light, Pompeii is not only the world’s most complete surviving ancient city, but is also constituted of the overlapping of a large number of restorations, reconstructions, and museological reconfigurations carried out from 1748 to the present. Using a variety of examples, […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Acqua e Zucchero. Carlo Di Palma: i colori della vita
Cinema’s magic is the running theme of this warm documentary about the life and works of visionary cinematographer Carlo Di Palma, whose working maxim was “la luce, la luce, la luce” (light, light, light). Di Palma collaborated with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen: his innovations in colour with Antonioni’s Red Desert and […]
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World Poetry Day: “Poetare e cantare sono sinonimi” – with Marco Ramelli and Antonio Cascelli
Poetry reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, everywhere in the world, share the same questions and feelings. Poetry is the mainstay of oral tradition and can communicate the innermost values of diverse cultures. For this reason, a decision to proclaim 21 March as World Poetry Day was adopted during UNESCO’s 30th […]
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Italian Design Day 2019 // Italian Design: five perspectives
The Italian Design Day, an integrated promotion project launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to highlight the excellence and peculiarities of Italian design around the world, reaches its third edition. The Italian Institute, in collaboration with Milano Design Film Festival, presents L’Eredità dei Maestri. This series of short films and documentaries, selected from the […]
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“Ciao amore ciao”: recital on Luigi Tenco – with Nino Racco
Ciao amore ciao was the last song and the “suicide note” of the legendary singer- songwriter Luigi Tenco, who took his own life in 1967, shortly after performing at the Sanremo Festival. Tenco subsequently became an icon of love and despair and his artistic legacy lives on to these days. The actor Nino Racco incorporates […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Visioni Sarde
Sponsored by Regione Sardegna, Visioni Sarde is a collection of short films, documentaries and avant-garde films by young Sardinian filmmakers. The five shorts selected for our screening show a hidden side of Sardinian culture, where traditions merge with modernity, urban landscapes blend with rural scenery, and reality and fantasy collide. Deu ti amu! (Jacopo Cullin, […]
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