Salon Italia - In Italian with English subtitlesIntroduction and post screening discussion with Nick WalkerWriters: Gilbert Adair (screenplay, based on his novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance)Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva GreenDrama, 115min, 2003 A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship...

  THE CYCLE Following an inspiring comparative exploration of the Italian operatic scene in the late nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth, “Risorgimento strumentale” (Instrumental Renaissance) is a comprehensive series devoted to the valiant composers who succeeded in reinvigorating Italian ...

Performance featuring five dance makers including Roberta RacisIn collaboration with Yorkshire Dance Performing Gender – Dance makes differences is a capacity building programme aimed at enabling a new generation of European dance artists and professionals to develop a new form of narrative for LGBTI identities. Perfor...

Book presentation and discussionOn the occasion of the London Festival of Architecture Fifty years after 1968, dissatisfaction about universities seems today more widespread than ever. Adapting to the logics of neo-liberalism, higher education has been increasingly absorbed into the commodification of human values that...

Con Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute, University of London) e John Took (UCL) Dodicesimo e ultimo incontro del ciclo di conferenze pensato per esplorare alcuni degli aspetti principali dell’opera di Dante, quali l’approccio di Dante all’amore, alla filosofia, alla teologia, al linguaggio, alla ...

With Priyamvada GopalChaired by Andrea Mammone One of the paradoxes of our times is that despite improved rates of literacy and the ease of access to information via technology, the world is becoming increasingly misinformed about what is happening around us. People are now exposed to fake news and government propaganda....

The first in a series of 10 events during June and November 2018 celebrating Europe through song, born of a new partnership between the Academy and the Italian Cultural Institute in London. This concert features the song cycle as a distinct musical form, and includes Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and Schumann...

Presentation of the latest book by renowned historian John Foot. Italy emerged from World War Two in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed had ceased to exist. By the 1960s, Italy could boast the fastest growing economy in the world, as rural society disappeared almost overnight. In...

The Italian-British Constitutional Conversations are annual seminars where the Devolution Club (the Italian cultural association committed to the promotion of dialogue among public lawyers) and the UKCLA (Association of British Constitutional Lawyers) discuss topical issues on current affairs. The referendum, the UK Supreme...

Book Presentation and Talk With Pietro Belli, Francis Russell and Paola Totaro. Emblem of Posillipo and one of the symbols of the entire city of Naples, Palazzo Donn’Anna was constructed for Anna Carafa, the wife of the Spanish viceroy. When her husband returned to Spain alone in 1644, the unfinished palace was ...

Emanuele Trevi, Paolo di Paolo and Marco Delogu will talk about the writing and critic's work of Rocco Carbone (Reggio Calabria, 20 February 1962 - Rome, 18 July 2008), to remember him on the 10th anniversary of his death. Rocco Carbone published seven novels. • Agosto, Roma-Napoli: Theoria, 1993• Il comando, M...

A concert that celebrates the greatest Austrian Lieder composers, including Schubert, Mahler and Wolf, alongside works by 20th-century masters of the Second Viennese School. [BOOK NOW]

Introdotto e moderato da Monica Capuani. Curata e moderata da Monica Capuani, “Contemporary” è una serie di incontri – conversazioni, letture e performance dal vivo – che presenta al pubblico inglese un’autorevole panoramica del teatro italiano di oggi.Attori, drammaturghi e regist...

Lecture by Fulvio IraceOn the occasion of the London Festival of Architecture In the first issue of the magazine Domus, which he founded in 1928 and edited until 1941 (and then again from 1948 to 1979), Gio Ponti wrote an editorial entitled La casa all’italiana [The Italian house]. The features of the Italian ho...