Mappillai. An Italian son-in-law in India
MAPPILLAI tells the story of European journalist Carlo Pizzati, who moves to Tamil Nadu in India for love. With wry humour, wisdom and acceptance, this memoir offers an intimate capsule of contemporary Indian history, of the associated Hinduisation and Westernisation of India, intertwined with the Indianisation of a European. After a four-day wedding celebration where […]
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La più bella del mondo – The most beautiful in the world #8
12 talks on the Italian language “The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the expression is more often than not used to define Italian language. Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? It is commonplace, due to either italophilia or nationalism, but is […]
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Haemostasis: the Surgical, Anaesthetic and Medical Perspectives
The Italian Medical Society of Great Britain is pleased to invite you to the Scientific Symposium “Haemostasis: the Surgical, Anaesthetic and Medical Perspectives” Symposium Programme 18:00 – Registration 18:25 – 18:30 – Introduction (Mr Giuseppe Kito Fusai MS FRCS, Consultant HPB Surgeon at Royal Free Hospital – London ) Scientific session Chairpersons: Prof. Sergio […]
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Molti – Photographic exhibition by Antonio Biasiucci
“Molti” by Antonio Biasiucci On the occasion of Photo London Exhibition Opening Antonio Biasiucci was born in Dragoni (Caserta) in 1961. In 1980 he moved to Naples starting a project focused on urban suburbs together with a research on personal memory, taking photos of rituals and settings of his native village. In 1984 he started […]
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Maradona – Photographic exhibition by Sergio Siano
“Maradona” by Sergio Siano On the occasion of Photo London Exhibition Opening Curated by Yvonne de Rosa for Magazzini Fotografici Sergio Siano was a photo reporter in the 80s, in the San Paolo stadium in Naples. His reportage depicts the Argentinian champion for what he really was: a great athlete, a funny jester, the icon […]
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I am the Revolution by Benedetta Argentieri
I am the Revolution by Benedetta Argentieri is a docu-film about the courage of three women who fight for women’s rights in the most conflictual countries in the world. Female leaders that lead armies in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, who grew up among wars and fundamentalism, are the ones supporting other women’s escape from slavery, […]
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The Kaufmann case
Presentation of the book with the author Giovanni Grasso In conversation with Professor Federico Varese Based on a true story, the novel “Il caso Kaufmann” by Giovanni Grasso, published by Rizzoli, tells the story of a Jewish business man who was convicted to death during Nazism in Germany, accused of “racial contamination” felony. He was […]
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Wunderkit – London series with Gianluigi Ricuperati and Elisa Talentino
A talk with the artists Gianluigi Ricuperati and Elisa Talentino and curators Lea Iandiorio and Giulia Capodieci. Chaired by Emiliano Paoletti. Format by BASE Milano Elisa Talentino and Gianluigi Ricuperati. An illustrator and a writer, both from Turin, known for their multifarious creative processes: writing, illustration, motion pictures, essay writing and art curatorship. Many paths, many forms and the possibility to […]
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La piú bella del mondo – The most beautiful in the world #7
12 talks on the Italian language “The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the expression is more often than not used to define Italian language. Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? It is commonplace, due to either italophilia or nationalism, but is […]
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Massimo Recalcati presents: “The Mother’s Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal”
Massimo Recalcati presents his latest book “The Mother’s Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal“, on the occasione of the publication of the English translation (Polity Press) In Italian with simultaneous translation in English Massimo Recalcati is well-known Lacanian psychoanalysts in Italy. He teaches at the University of Pavia and Verona. He is […]
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