On “Ferocity” – A conversation with Nicola Lagioia
One of Italy’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists, Nicola Lagioia has been the recipient of the Volponi, Straniero, Viareggio and Strega awards. He has been a jury member of the Venice Film Festival and is the program director of the Turin Book Fair. At once an intimate family saga, a history of an entire region, […]
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John Banville and Claudio Magris – On Danube and other rivers
Two masters of European literature in conversation on rivers, cities, walls, and European identities. William John Banville, who sometimes writes under the pen name Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2005. Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator, journalist and professor of German Literature. […]
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Scienza o fantascienza? “From the Earth to the Moons”- with Piergiorgio Odifreddi
The book is the diary of a cosmic journey to the moon and beyond, among the planets and satellites of our Solar System. Piergiorgio Odifreddi drives the spaceship in the company of Plutarch, the great ancient historian and philosopher; Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy, and Huygens, the main scientist of the late […]
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Scienza o fantascienza? “Bad dreams in short story form”: Primo Levi and Science Fiction – with Francesco Cassata
Storie naturali, the first collection of Primo Levi’s science fiction stories, was published in September 1966, under the pen name Damiano Malabaila, wrapped in a paper band by the Einaudi publishing house proposing an attractive and engaging question: «Science Fiction?». Much has been written about the origin of that pen name, but perhaps it is […]
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From Earth To Fire – Exhibition by Carmel Mooney
This exhibition of oil paintings, lithographs and glass sculptures shows how internationally acclaimed Irish artist, Carmel Mooney, in a unique way, creates an artistic vision bringing her early roots in rural Ireland to her long-standing experience and love of Italy in Tuscany, Sicily and Venice. Works include from Celtic mystical landscapes to the colour explosions […]
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International Music Day – “Bambini, matti e solitari. Chasing Faber in Dublin”
Make Music is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 800 cities in 120 countries. On this occasion, the IIC will host the musicians selected as part of the […]
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An Italian Bloomsday at the National Library of Ireland – part II
In the second part of the Bloomsday event dedicated to the presence of James Joyce in Italian culture and hosted by the National Library of Ireland, writer Barry McCrea and singer Simon Morgan will present a selection of Joycean songs in English, Irish, and Italian, with some short explanations on the meaning of these songs […]
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An Italian Bloomsday at the National Library of Ireland
The “untranslatable” Finnegans Wake finds plenty of Italian voices: from translators to actors, from passionate readers to singers and performers. Translators Fabio Pedone and Enrico Terrinoni will talk with journalist Edoardo Camurri about the joys and sorrows of translating Finnegans Wake into Italian – and having plenty of fun in the process. Following this, Edoardo […]
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“Genoa-Mediterranean and back: a comics journey through Crêuza de mä” – Exhibition on Fabrizio De André
The exhibition “Genoa-Mediterranean and back: a comics journey through Crêuza de mä”, is the outcome of an educational project promoted in 2014 by Coop Liguria and designed by film-maker Matteo Valenti, who, together with six art institutes and one artist, has turned the album’s songs into animated illustrations. Among panels and silhouettes depicting De André, […]
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Scienza o fantascienza? Filming the infinitely small – with Massimo Altarelli
What do atoms actually look like? Is there a way to see them? What sort of light, microscopes, and physical conditions do we need to explore the smallest conceivable structures of matter? And is there a way to observe, as in a “molecular movie”, chemical reactions, and biochemical processes and transformations? The answers to these […]
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