Food memories – Tasty discoveries. How food never lets you down.
A conversation between author Simonetta Agnello Hornby and Diego Zancani, Emeritus Oxford professor and author of How we fell in love with Italian food How come that a huge plate of steaming macaroni helped the great Giacomo Casanova escape from the Leads, Venice most famous and guarded prison? And were Casanova’s macaroni our kind of […]
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Aby Warburg Reading Group. The Afterlife of Classical Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance #5
Fifth 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 lover of Italian art and culture, he called himself: “Amburghese di cuore, ebreo […]
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Gianni Celati in Context
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 Registrazione disponibile qui 15.00 Celati e il ‘narrar breve’ Presiede: Nunzia Palmieri (Università di Bergamo) • Elisabetta Menetti (Università Modena- Reggio Emilia), Celati, […]
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RAPHAEL 500 #3 – New Perspectives on Raphael
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 plethora of international events, books, articles and exhibitions have […]
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LEONETTA CECCHI PIERACCINI (1882-1977) – EXTRACTS FROM HER NOTEBOOKS
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 and Leonetta’s house became […]
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Il Circolo di Lettura – Serie autunnale 2020: IL TERZO GIORNO, di Paolo Nelli
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. Tre noir sono stati proposti per per le discussione degli incontri autunnali del circolo di […]
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Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Roundtable – Italian Mediterraneans, 1800 – Present
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 political regimes; economic crises generated widespread precarity and insecurity, nationalist […]
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“Atlantis”: a conversation about beauty, architecture, and travel – Book Presentation
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 Editions in partnership the Italian Cultural Institutes in London, Los […]
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Tra prosa e poesia, Valerio Magrelli (IPT, Oxford)
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 his transition from poetry to prose, which culminated in […]
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Memorie del Futuro by Paolo Jedlowski
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 ricordiamo le promesse del “progresso”? Possiamo cadere […]
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