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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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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