Monday at the cinema – La meglio gioventù
Monday at the cinemaLa meglio gioventù Director: Marco Tullio Giordana.With Alessio Boni, Luigi Lo Cascio, Jasmine Trinca, Fabrizio Gifuni, 384’.In Italian with Italian subtitles La meglio gioventù is a 2003 Italian film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The title is inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s collection of poems of the same name. The film traces […]
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The Diary of Kaspar Hauser
The Diary of Kaspar Hauser – book launch Italian Institute of Culture 6:30 pm Followed by the screening of “The enigma of Kaspar Hauser” by Werner Herzog at 8:00 pm The Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Goethe-Institut are pleased to invite you to an evening dedicated to the mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, […]
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Negated Institutions. Franco Basaglia and Radical Psychiatry in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.
With John Foot. In English. In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Basaglia, the new Director, was […]
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From invisible to visible: new data and methods for the archaeology of infant and child burials in pre-Roman Italy
International Conference24-25 April 2017Organised by Jacopo Tabolli (Trinity College Dublin) The archaeological record of infant (up to 2 years) and child (c. 2–11/12 years) burials remains elusive. In recent years the topic of infant and child burials in antiquity, and especially in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, has been increasingly addressed in international […]
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Afterhours in concert
One of the most iconic Italian indie rock bands is getting ready to cross international borders to perform on European stages in April 2017. Afterhours will bring their intense sound to Dublin by presenting their new studio album “Folfiri o Folfox” in the Opium Rooms on Sunday 23rd of April. Organised by Tij Events in […]
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Incontri con la scienza – Massimo Ammaniti. La famiglia adolescente
***Event in Italian*** Massimo Ammaniti, one of the most well-known Italian developmental psychoanalysts, was born in Rome in 1941. Graduated in medicine, trained in Child Psychiatry at La Sapienza University of Rome, Honorary Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and Previous Chairman of the Infant and Adolescent Clinical Psychology Faculty at La Sapienza University, he is […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Il Giovane Favoloso
Directed by Mario Martone. Con Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, 137’.In Italian with English subtitles. The film is based upon the short but fruitful life of the legendary 19th century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. Director Mario Martone’s film, a scrupulously researched and cinematically staged period biopic, gives us the full sweep of the […]
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Encounter with Domenico Starnone
Introduced and moderated by Enrica Maria Ferrara (TCD). In Italian and English. Born in Naples in 1943, Domenico Starnone is an Italian writer of international standing whose works have consistently provided material for contemporary Italian film directors. He combined a long teaching career with an editing role in the cultural section of the Italian […]
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Giro-giro-tondo. 100 Giri d’Italia with miniature theatres and books
Giro-giro-tondo 100 Giri d’Italia with miniature theatres and books Artworks by Fernanda Pessolano Texts by Marco Pastonesi Books by Biblioteca della Bicicletta Lucos Cozza In 2017 the 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia will take place (the first edition took place in 1909 but four editions were cancelled during the First World War and five […]
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The lullaby of the tomb looters – with Jacopo Tabolli
The lullaby of the tomb looters – With Jacopo Tabolli (TCD) In English Leaving the excavation after a long and hard day of work, getting some rest at night and being back early in the morning results dramatically in discovering that tomb looters have ‘visited’ your site. It is always true: “excavation is destruction”, but […]
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