SIS – The Society for Italian Studies presents Turning Points
Culture della transizione, della trasformazione e della trasmissione in Italia This “Turning Points” conference, with over 80 speakers, presents a rich and challenging panorama of the vitality of Italian cultural life, past, present and to come. Among the themes being highlighted are issues of gender, migration, memory, modernity, technology and history. Some sessions question disciplinary […]
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Writing Down the Rising. James Stephens and “The Insurrection in Dublin”
Launch of the First Italian Translation Enrico Terrinoni, translator, and Riccardo Michelucci, editor, will present the book along with the philosopher Giulio Giorello. Screening of a documentary (10’) on the GPO by Concetto La Malfa. Special participation of Muriel McAuley, Cumann Gaolta 1916.“James Stephens has the most vivid senses of any Irishman now writing. He […]
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Queens amused and abused: the Orlando Furioso and Ireland
Illustrated lecture, in English, by Eric Haywood, UCD Of all the knights in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, there is only one who does not put a foot wrong when coming to the rescue of a damsel in distress: the King of Ireland! And of all the tourist attractions in the big wide world that is the […]
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Monday at the Cinema – Girl with a Suitcase
A movie by Valerio Zurlini. Starring Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin Lorenzo, who’s 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do […]
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Settima conferenza di archeologia italiana
The conference will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in April 2016, as a successor to previous meetings held in Lancaster (1977), Sheffield (1980), Cambridge (1984), London (1990), Oxford (1992), and Groningen (2003). We invite participants interested in the archaeology and cultural history of Italy from prehistory to the modern period. The […]
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James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship
Launch of the book by Stanley Price James Joyce left Dublin in 1904, bound for Trieste and a job teaching English at the Berlitz School. He was to live there for the next eleven years. Italo Svevo, born and bred in Trieste, worked there for his family’s marine paint company. In 1907, wanting to improve […]
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Calvino Cavaliere Inesistente – Calvino, Pino Zac, il Cinema, l’Animazione
Event in Italian. Incontro con Massimo Denaro (regista)Tommaso Pomilio (Università La Sapienza, Roma)Roberto Silvestri (critico cinematografico) Silvia Tarquini (edizioni Artdigiland)e presentazione del volume: L’avventura di uno spettatoreItalo Calvino e il Cinema a cura di Lorenzo Pellizzari (Artdigiland 2015)Il libro ripercorre le poche ma fruttuose relazioni di Calvino con il cinema italiano ma soprattutto sviluppa il […]
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Calvino Cavaliere Inesistente – Calvino e l’Orlando Furioso
Event in Italian. Calvino introduce i canti dell’Orlando Furioso, puntata n. 12 – Il Palazzo incantato (trasmissione radiofonica, Rai, 1968)a seguire incontro conEric Haywood (University College Dublin) Enrica Maria Ferrara (Trinity College Dublin)Tommaso Pomilio (Università La Sapienza, Roma)in mostra estratti video dall’Orlando Furioso di Luca Ronconi (Rai, 1974)In collaborazione con Rai TecheFin dagli anni ’40 Calvino […]
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Calvino Cavaliere Inesistente – Il Cavaliere Inesistente
film di animazione a tecnica mista di Pino Zac Event in Italian. Ispirato all’omonimo romanzo di Italo Calvino del 1959 e prodotto dall’Istituto Luce, il film combina attori in carne ed ossa e personaggi di animazione utilizzando la tecnica dello stop-motion. Stravagante e originalissima fiaba, ricca di fantasia e umorismo, si rifà all’immaginario dell’Orlando Furioso […]
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Knights in distress and damsels in shining armour:celebrating 500 years of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
Illustrated lecture, in English, by Eric Haywood, UCD Travelling to the moon, lopping off heads, wooing damsels, criss-crossing the world on flying horses, fighting duels, visiting Ireland and, if absolutely necessary, defending Christendom against the forces of Islam: it’s all in a day’s work for the paladins of Emperor Charlemagne. But with such a packed […]
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