Istituto Di Cultura - Londra

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Preview: Saturday 10 October 2020, 12-5pmExhibition: 11 October – 13 December 2020Venue: Auto Italia Southeast, London PICO is a new programme of sonic inquiry led by artists Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi) & Jim C. Nedd plus contributions from Don Alirio, Axis Arkestra, Deborah Pacini Hernand...

What is there in (and beyond) a map? What do we talk about when we talk of borders? How do we define territories? Google maps and maps of wonderlands. Cartography and strategies of war. Mapping ideologies and pandemics, continents, countries and counties, languages and races. Never ending fights over borders and identit...

A podcast series of five episodes, a journey through Italy in the 60s and 70s bringing together design and children, doodles, teaching, fairy tales and imagination Listen to the podcast and get more information on www.playtolearnpodcast.co.uk A project by Corraini Edizioni for ICI London with the collaboration of R...

In the following weeks, we will publish some unedited extracts, in Italian, from the personal notebooks of painter Leonetta Cecchi Pieraccini. The student of one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli group in Florence, Giovanni Fattori, Leonetta moved to Rome in 1910 when she married literary critic Emilio Cecchi. Emilio...

A series of online talks and an international conference on the occasion of the fifth edition of the Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo, curated by Patrizia Sambuco (Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute for Modern Language Research of the University of London) and Katia Pizzi (Director,...

Tim Parks in conversation with John FootChaired by Nicol Degli Innocenti (Il Sole 24 Ore)Introduced by Katia Pizzi (Director, ICI London) How does Italy really work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer the big questionFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian...

The author in conversation with Anna Lisa Tota and Monica Massari Please note: this event will be held IN ITALIAN "Possiamo ricordare il passato. Possiamo immaginare il futuro. Ma cosa avviene quando ricordiamo un futuro che in passato abbiamo immaginato? Quando ricordiamo un'aspirazione irrealizzata, per esempio? O quando...

Wednesday 2 December, 5,30pmItalian Poetry Day: Valerio Magrelli The Queen's College, University of Oxford and ICI London host an online conversation between poet Valerio Magrelli and Roberto BInetti (St Anne's College, University of Oxford) Drawing from his experience in London in 2014, Valerio Magrelli will analyse...

Renowned architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo in conversation with NYT architecture critic Michael Kimmelman and translator Will Schutt. A virtual journey around the world and an afternoon conversation about the book, Renzo Piano’s career and legacy, translation, architecture, and places. Hosted by Europa Edit...

This year's conference series considers the relation between Italy and the Mediterranean against the grain of methodological nationalism and transnationalism. The Mediterranean waxes and wanes as a region of scholarly investigation. In recent years it has reasserted itself in public debate: popular uprisings unsettled long-standing...

Tuesday 8 December 2020, 5.30pm  A panel discussion with: Tom Henry (University of Kent), Claudia La Malfa (Loyola University, Chicago and University of Kent in Rome), Adam Lowe (Factum Arte), Arnold Nesselrath (Humboldt University, Berlin), Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). In the last few years, a plet...

Gianni Celati in Context    Giornate di Studi    Italian Cultural Institute, London, 9-10 dicembre 2020    a cura di Eloisa Morra e Katia Pizzi     The conference languages are Italian and English 9 dicembre 2020 15.00 Celati e il 'narrar breve' Presiede: Nunzia Palmi...

Fith meeting. The Warburg Library       This regular seminar and reading group is devoted to the work of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), a prominent German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, which later become the Warburg Institute. A ...