Translating Anne Enright
Full Price 5 EUR, Concession (Student, retired, unemployed) 3 EUR, Members of the Academy contact info@ria.ie Anne Enright in conversation with four of her European translators To mark the European Day of Languages and International Translation Day, Irish writer Anne Enright will join four of her European translators in a conversation about the translation of […]
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Monday at the Cinema
Director: Giorgio Diritti with Thierry Toscan, Alessandra Agosti, Dario Anghilante, 110’In Italian with English subtitles The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in […]
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Gianni Celati: Traduzione, tradizione, riscrittura
***EVENT IN ITALIAN*** A day dedicated to the Italian writer and to his work as a translator. Gianni Celati is one of the major figures of contemporary Italian literature and culture. His works intersect with some of the key moments and figures in recent history and have had a strong influence on successive generations of […]
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Stefano Benni!
Stefano Benni is widely considered one of Italy’s foremost novelists. His trademark mix of biting social satire and magical realism has turned each of his books into a national best-seller. His many novels include: Bar Sport, The Company of Celestini, The Cafe Beneath the Sea, and the remarkably successful Margherita Dolce Vita.Benni is also the […]
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Music and Mathematics in J.S. Bach
With Professor Benedetto Scimemi. Did you know that a melody can be represented as a plane graph where the heights of the notes are plotted as a function of time? If proper geometrical transformations (displacements, reflections etc.) are applied to the graph, a new melody is created, which a clever composer can overimpose to the […]
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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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