Riunione lettura e ricordo di Seamus Heaney presso l’IIC di Dublino
Due libri su Seamus Heaney sono stati recentemente pubblicati in Italia: il saggio di Paolo Febbraro Leggere Seamus Heaney e la traduzione di Marco Sonzogni in italiano di Death of a Naturalist. Sia Paolo Febbraro che Marco Sonzogni considerano il loro incontro con Seamus Heaney come un punto di svolta nelle loro vite. Così è […]
Leggi di piùA Dante Quartet- IV Daragh O’Connell – Dante’s Disco Inferno: Popolar Culture and the Commedia
a lecture by Dr Daragh O’Connell Dante’s text still exerts a powerful hold on the western imagination today. This lecture will examine how this influence is manifest in decidedly popular forms of culture: from comic books, computer games, crime novels, tv shows to Hollywood blockbusters – Dante is re-appropriated, adapted, refashioned and in many ways […]
Leggi di piùA Dante Quartet – III Cormac O Cuilleanain -Rivers of Dante (On the Banks of my Own Lovely Styx)
a lecture by Professor Cormac O Cuilleanain Dante leaves us with many haunting images of this world and the next. With the aid of some PowerPoint slides, tonight’s lecture will explore a significant “family” of water imagery that flows through the Comedy, in both real and metaphorical forms. From the classical rivers of the underworld […]
Leggi di piùA Dante Quartet – II John Barnes – “Guerre convien surgere”: Dante and War
a lecture by John Barnes This lecture will first consider Dante’s views on war as a principle and then move on to his direct experience of warfare. Its main purpose, however, will be to explore ways in which those views and that experience are reflected in his literary works, particularly in the imagery of the […]
Leggi di piùA Dante Quartet – I Corinna Salvadori Lonergan – Dante, Florence and the Florin
“Bewitched by greed and blinded ‘neath its sway” a lecture by Professor Corinna Salvadori Lonergan From the opening of Dante’s Commedia, with the pilgrim’s ascent towards light blocked by a she-wolf, symbol of insatiable greed, the entire work can be read as one great condemnation of this powerful motivation of human action. In opposition to […]
Leggi di piùSpoglia di Sillabe
by Aurora Coppola Immergersi con tanta dedizione nell’esistenza fino a perdersi quasi nel suono di pensieri e trasformare questo suono in parole che segnano immancabilmente il percorso emotivo, fino a ritrovarsi nudi, spogli di tutti, eppure ricchi, puri.Ecco quello che ha fatto Aurora Coppola nella sua prima silloge, Spoglia di sillabe, una raccolta nella quale […]
Leggi di piùQui, Ora
Compagnia Claudia Catarzi “The work is divided into three parts, dialectically marked by auditorystimuli that dictate the proxemics ad hoc. The extended time, thesilence, the rustle of a grey raincoat – which she slowly puts on – markthe rhythm of the micro scores of the actions: the impromptu brokengestures evoke a metaphysical puppet led by […]
Leggi di piùWords on the street
European Literature Night Dodici Paesi, Dodici VociDodici Sedi – Una grande SerataUn assaggio della migliore letteratura europea contemporanea con lavori provenienti da 12 paesi letti da famose personalità irlandesi in 12 insolite sedi nell’area di Parnel Square.La prima lettura in ogni sede inizierà alle 18:30 e sarà ripetuta ogni 30 minuti. L’ultima lettura verrà svolta […]
Leggi di piùEx-designer
As part of Irish Design 2015’s programme of events leading designers from Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain will give public lectures and hold masterclasses throughout 2015 organised by EUNIC Ireland. Instituto Cervantes Dublin and ID2015 are pleased to be presenting Spanish designer Martí Guixé in the second event in the EUNIC series.Ex-designer is a conference […]
Leggi di piùLove, Italian Style
Changing Customs and Ideas and Love and Marriage in Italy between 1945 and 1974 The idea of the ‘Latin lover’ is one of the most familiar images of Italians and Italian culture. This exhibition, curated by Dr Niamh Cullen (University College Dublin) aims to uncover the reality behind the stereotype, exploring how ideas about courtship, […]
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