Dante at Royal Holloway
ICI London supports a study-day to commemorate the seventh centenary of the death of the author of the Divine Comedy, organised by Royal Holloway University with the HARI Humanities and Arts Research Institute and UCML University Council of Modern Languages.Programme: 10am-12pmWorkshop for students from state schools 1.30pmWelcome First session. Chair: Professor Sarah Wright1.50pm: Welcome address from […]
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Ernesto de Martino, Decolonisation, and Translation
A conversation with Dorothy Louise Zinn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and Roberto Dainotto (Duke University). Chaired by Joseph John Viscomi (Birkbeck, University of London). Recorded on 1 March 2021 as part of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) 2020-21 conference series, Italian Mediterraneans.
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Il Circolo di Lettura – Serie “In Prima Persona”, 2021: La Straniera, di Claudia Durastanti
ATTENZIONE! Date le circostanze eccezionali che stiamo attraversando a causa della pandemia dovuta al COVID 19, per motivi di sicurezza, l’incontro non avrà luogo presso la Biblioteca del nostro Istituto, ma sarà gestito online, tramite il programma per videoconferenze ZOOM. Per la serie di quest’anno leggeremo romanzi tutti scritti in prima persona. L’io narrante in genere […]
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Frolics in the Face of Europe Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel, and the Tradition of the Grand Tour
Book launch of Frolics in the Face of Europe Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel, and the Tradition of the Grand Tour by Dr Iain Gordon Brown on the occasion of the commemoration of Sir Walter Scott 250th birth anniversary in 2021. A webinar with Iain Gordon Brown and Joseph FarrellIntroduced by Katia Pizzi, Director, ICI LondonOn Webex Sir Walter […]
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MARCELLO – The Highlights
ICI London was pleased to support MARCELLO, back in January, the first Film Festival dedicated to Italian cinema in the city of Birmingham, home to the second largest Italian community in the UK. Family, comedy, gender and life outside geographical boundaries were the main themes of the festival – all details HERE Many of the […]
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Performing Italy: ICI London Director Katia Pizzi interviewed by UK News Correspondent for RAI TV Marco Varvello
Our ongoing series Performing Italy, seven video interviews with theatre-makers of migrant heritage on contemporary Italian stages, is proving very popular with the public and the media: watch Marco Varvello‘s interview with ICI London’s Director Katia Pizzi The series, curated by Margherita Laera, is a project commissioned by ICI London in collaboration with Suq Genova […]
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The Society of Authors Translation Prizes 2020
Thursday 11 February, 10 am The Society of Authors Translation Prizes 2020 ICI London is proud to support the John Florio Prize, part of the Society of Authors Translation Prizes, which will be celebrated with a series of six short online videos. The John Florio Prize is a biennial award of £2000 for translations into […]
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Italian Poetry Today Poetry Prize
IPT Poetry Prize is dedicated to a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry in Italian. We aim to provide authors, especially young emerging poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work. The prize is in collaboration with The Queen’s College at the University of Oxford, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, […]
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Leonardo Sciascia 1921-2021
This year is the 100th anniversary of Leonardo Sciascia’s birth and on 28 January last we were delighted to invite you to a live event organised by the Committee for the Celebrations of Sciascia’s birth centenary in collaboration with the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani and the Associazione Amici di Leonardo Sciascia to commemorate the important novelist, […]
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La Scuola di Mazzini a Londra presents the monographic section of: Annali di Storia dell’educazione e delle Istituzioni scolastiche
Tuesday 2 February, 3.30pm GMT (4.30pm Italian time) La Scuola di Mazzini a Londra presents the monographic section of: Annali di Storia dell’educazione e delle Istituzioni scolastiche The authors Fabrio Pruneri (Universita’ di Sassari), Rossella Bonfatti (Universita’ di Verona), Nick Carter (Australian Catholic University), Andrea Del Corno’ (The London Library), Michele Finelli (Associazione Mazziniana Italiana) […]
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