Close Encounters with Italian Science Fiction
With Roberto Bertoni (Trinity College Dublin) and Concetto La Malfa (Italvideonewstv.net). A journey through Italian sci-fiction from Calvino to Primo Levi and Stefano Benni. Fantastic planets, utopic or dystopic worlds, moon and sun, nature and human technology.Professor Roberto Bertoni will explore the work of different Italian writers with readings in Italian and English. “We have […]
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The Never Ending Road and Walkabout Italia: an evening of travelling tales with Darinka Montico
Darinka is an Italian writer, photographer and blogger who, after living abroad for 15 years, in 2014 decided to go back to Italy and devote herself to her passions: travelling, writing, dreaming and photography. She walked 3,000 km from the very bottom of Italy to the top, with a diary, a camera, no money and […]
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Aquileia Crossroad of the Roman Empire – Opening
Aquileia was founded by the Romans in the year 181 B.C. Due to its strategic position and its port, Aquileia soon became an important centre of cultural and commercial exchange between North Europe and the Mediterranean Sea and grew to become the ninth city in size and importance of the Roman Empire. This exhibition was […]
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Incontri con la Scienza – The Garden of Biodiversity, with Telmo Pievani
The co-evolution of humans and plants THE GARDEN OF BIODIVERSITY: THE CO-EVOLUTION OF HUMANS AND PLANTS The new Garden of Biodiversity at the Historical Botanical Garden of Padua (the most ancient University Garden in the world and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List) is an interactive and multimedia science centre dedicated to the […]
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Incontri con la Scienza – The Boundaries of Babel, with Andrea Moro
The brain and the enigma of impossible languages One of the major discoveries of modern linguistics is that languages cannot vary unboundedly: every grammar must meet a common set of principles which generate an enormous but not infinite number of combinations in a modular way, admitting a some intertwined degree of freedom. The system […]
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Incontri con la Scienza – A mathematical bloomsday walk with Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Event in Italian Join us for a mathematical journey (in Italian) through the Dublin pathways of Ulysses. Italian mathematician and writer Piergiorgio Odifreddi returns to Dublin for an evening dedicated to the pursuit of numbers in Joyce’s work. With particular reference to the Ithaca chapter in Ulysses, Odifreddi will discuss Mr Bloom’s fascination for […]
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The Invention of Italy – 1960: The economic miracle and “La dolce vita”
With Simona Colarizi The Invention of Italy – Lifestyle In just over a decade Italy had emerged from the material and moral ashes of the Second World War and a searing civil war that spelled the end of Fascism. A new democratic and republican State had been born, but the changes with respect to the […]
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The Invention of Italy – Garibaldi and the Expedition of the Thousand
With Lucy Riall The Invention of Italy – Unification The story of Garibaldi and the Thousand is emblematic of the Risorgimento and Italian unification. It is a story of passion and courage, of heroic deeds, of idealism and of sacrifice. Above all, it is a story of great communicative strength: even before assuming form as […]
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The Invention of Italy – 1982: Pertini and the world champions
With John Foot The Invention of Italy – Football In 1982 Italy won the World Cup in a 3-1 victory over West Germany. The Italian President, the diminutive anti-fascist ex-partisan Sandro Pertini, celebrated in the stands. On the way back from the match an intrepid photographer captured an impromptu game of cards involving Pertini, Dino […]
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Dublin Dance Festival – Jessica and Me
Choreographed and performed by Cristiana Morganti €22 full price / €18 conc. 70 mins (no interval) Post–Show Talk: Sat 21 May “Do you want me to dance, or do you want me to talk?” In Jessica and Me, the long-standing soloist of the iconic Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal does both with irresistible charm, talent and […]
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