Fare Scuola – “La maestra e la camorrista” with Federico Fubini
Throughout the last few centuries, the considerable gap between the wealthy and the poor in Italy has barely decreased and those who are born in poverty rarely make it out. Why is this inequality so persistent in time? What role does education play in shaping social order? And how do poverty and lack of education […]
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Exhibition: Small Utopias – Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation
The Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo and the Irish Architectural Archive, are pleased to present Small Utopias, an exhibition on the “new” Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura. The exhibition combines the research of the best Italian architectural energies along three parallel […]
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Fare Scuola – “Il sogno di un’altra scuola” with Eraldo Affinati
Eraldo Affinati is the founder of the first Penny Wirton School in Rome, a volunteer-based educational institution where migrants can learn Italian. His approach to education is inspired by the work of Lorenzo Milani, who in the 1950’s and 60’s denounced the inequalities of an educational system that reinforced the marginalisation of children from poor […]
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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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