GLOBAL GRAMSCI #1 A Global Perspective. Donald Sassoon and Salvatore Cingari in conversation with Marzia Maccaferri
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker, whose theorisation of the role of the intellectuals has added a new dimension to the cultural and political understanding of current society. The most important of Gramsci’s writings, Prison Notebooks, were written during his imprisonment by the Italian Fascist regime. Published after his death, Gramsci’s Notebooks […]
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Passo Falso – Come cambia l’Inghilterra fuori dall’Unione Europea by Marco Varvello
RAI correspondent in the UK Marco Varvello presents his latest book, recently published by RAI Libri, in conversation with author Simonetta Agnello Hornby and journalist Paola de Carolis. IN ITALIAN Is the United Kingdom changing, and in what way? Is it already different, and how, following the split from the European Union? How are the […]
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European Writers Festival. The Stories We Tell: Viola Di Grado
ICI supports the first European Writers’ Festival at the British Library, taking place on 20-21 May 2023, which will gather many of Europe’s greatest storytellers for one remarkable and unmissable weekend, to perform and debate the literature and big ideas defining their countries and Europe today. Italian author Viola di Grado will be joining the […]
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Don Rodrigo in Purgatory. Gothic patterns in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi. By Prof. Fabio Camilletti
ISLG – Italian Studies Library Group presents The Mario Casalini Lecture 2023 A damsel in distress, a dissipated nobleman, and a bandit secluded in his gloomy castle; murders, nightmares, a cloister full of secrets, the shadow of the Devil… This could be a perfect abstract of Manzoni’s I promessi sposi, which appropriates and bends – […]
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Sulla morte senza esagerare (On Death Without Exaggeration)
11- 13 May Extra date added! Saturday 14 May at 2.30pm, matinée performance, with special 20% discount with the code ICIFRIENDS Sulla morte senza esagerare (On Death Without Exaggeration) By Teatro dei Gordi Creator and Director: Riccardo Pippa. With Giovanni Longhin, Andrea Panigatti, Sandro Pivotti and Matteo Vitanza At the Coronet […]
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FASHION DIALOGUES #1 Lucia Savi in conversation with Matteo Augello
FASHION DIALOGUES is a series of conversations that will explore the centrality fashion has for Italian culture and society. Fashion historian Matteo Augello will present unique voices in the industry, covering topics such as journalism, modelling, curation, styling and emerging talents. This first event is with Lucia Savi, curator at the Design Museum, London. In […]
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Open Dialogo: a series of webinars and artist residencies to open up dialogue about dance and disability between artists, producers and venues based in England and Italy
A project by Arts Council England, the Italian Ministry of Culture (The Performing Arts Department), the Italian Cultural Institute in London, and the British Council. Curated by the Farnham based Stopgap Dance Company, the series promotes a bilateral cultural exchange through sharing of knowledge and experiences between disabled and non-disabled artists and influencers working in […]
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HGO presents: Agrippina – The coronation that goes wrong!
Friday 28 April, 6.30pm HGO presents: Agrippina – The coronation that goes wrong! A talk by David Conway (HGO) about Handel’s opera, composed in 1709 to Cardinal Grimani’s libretto, and opera theatre in Venice in his period, on the occasion of the forthcoming production of Agrippina, to be performed in the original Italian and with a […]
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FILL – Festival of Italian Literature in London 2023
Saturday 22 April, from 10.30am FILL – Festival of Italian Literature in London is back at the Coronet Theatre, Notting Hill Supported by ICI London Aptly titled ‘Safe words’, the new edition of FILL is faithful to its vocation as an observatory of the big issues of our time, but there are changes as well. […]
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The Art of Collecting and the Futurist Avantgarde
Friday 21 April, 6pm The Art of Collecting and the Futurist Avantgarde A round table about Futurist books, with Dr Günter Berghaus (University of Bristol) and Giacomo Coronelli (Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli, Milan). Introduction and chair by Valentina Mirabella (British Library). The book was an extraordinarily powerful object for the Italian Futurists: a medium to convey radical […]
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