Thursday at the Opera – Lecture II
Our series Thursday at the Opera is back at the Institute from February 15th until March 29th. The series will be presented by Deirdre O’Grady, Emeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies of University College Dublin. The illustrated lectures she presents will consider Puccini’s works and their sources, influences, great performers in specific roles in […]
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Audi Dublin International Film Festival
Established in 2003, this festival is the largest film festival in Ireland. It has built a formidable reputation for delivering the very best in international film and film talent to enthusiastic Dublin audiences each year. The Italian films that will be shown this year are: Hannah, The Ciambra, A Sicilian Ghost Story. The director of […]
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Monday at the Cinema: Le cose belle
Monday at the Cinema is a series of screenings dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema promoted in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Le cose belle – Directed by: Agostino Ferrente and Giovanni Piperno. A ‘film of the real’ shot over 13 years, recounting the hardship – and the beauty – of […]
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Thursday at the Opera – Lecture I
Our series Thursday at the Opera is back at the Institute from February 15th until March 29th. The series will be presented by Deirdre O’Grady, Emeritus Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies of University College Dublin. The illustrated lectures she presents will consider Puccini’s works and their sources, influences, great performers in specific roles in […]
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Book Launch: “Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy 1470-1900: Prescribing and Describing Life”
The volume Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy 1470-1900: Prescribing and Describing Life (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2016) offers a fascinating insight into the changing role of women across the centuries. The book aims to trace some of the main features of conduct texts in the Italian tradition, from the last decades of the […]
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Carmen Consoli in concert – Eco di Sirene European Tour 2018
The popular Italian singer-songwriter will bring on stage the same “Eco di sirene” show she successfully performed in Italy in 2017. The artistic set up of this concert is really powerful: just three musicians on stage – a violist, a cello player and Carmen with her acoustic guitar. Carmen’s music is as charming and seductive […]
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Performative Arts Today
A cross-meeting with poets, translators, art critics, land art creators, film makers, composers, musicians and singers. Special guests: Antonio Presti, president, arts promoter and creator of Fiumara d’arte Foundation; Giuseppe Sterparelli, film-maker and arts scholar; Eiléan Nì Chuillenáin, Irish poet and Professor of Poetry; Antonella Anedda Angioy, Italian scholar and poet; Maurizio Boldrini, theatre expert; […]
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Comics, what a passion! – Exhibition about the Masters of the Italian comic strip from the 1950s to today
After more than one century from their birth, comic books are still one of the most popular narrative languages in the world. They unite drawing and literature, image and communication. In Italy, comic books and newspapers have enchanted different generations, with diverse education and social background. The exhibition shows many original drawings of the Italian […]
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Monday at the Cinema: Terramatta
Monday at the Cinema is a series of screenings dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema promoted in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. TerramattaDirector: Costanza QuatriglioWith: Roberto NobileRunning Time: 74′Genre: DocumentaryYear: 2012 This documentary tells the story of the diary that Vincezo Rabito (born in 1899), a semi-literate man from Sicily, wrote […]
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Book Launch: Italian Women’s Autobiographical Writing in the XX Century – By Ursula Fanning (UCD)
Dr Ursula Fanning is Associate Professor in Italian Studies at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in University College Dublin. She is a member of the Boards of Doctoral Studies for Italian and for Comparative Romance Literatures at the Istituto Orientale, Naples, as well as of the editorial board of the Women and Gender […]
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