The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to a lecture and book presentation. Conference: Luisa Cifarelli (Univ. of Bologna, Società Italiana di Fisica and Centro Fermi President): Enrico Fermi and His First Experiments with Neutrons. Presentation of the volume: The Lost Notebook of Enrico Fermi – The True Story of the Discovery of […]
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Innovation in Italian Programs and Pedagogy
17TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLDUnder the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Join us on October 21, at Georgetown University, for the third iteration of the Italian Language and Culture Conference which this year focuses the discussion on pedagogical innovations to increase enrollments in the Italian classroom. The Keynote […]
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An Italian-Language Excursion into Swiss Cinema – at the Embassy of Switzerland
17TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLD Under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Fasten your seat belt and join us on a time-travel trip to discover the path between images and words. Our time travel will start with some examples, such as Eve by Francis Borghi and Heidi by Luigi Comencini, representing the origin […]
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The Course of Empires: American-Italian Cultural Relations, 1770-1980
This international conference will examine the persistent fascination of American and Italian artists with the cultural achievements of ancient Rome and the Renaissance. In creating national identities, both countries turned to history for similar reasons: to find inspiration for enlightened political practices; to locate models of artistic, political, and economic preeminence; and to seek ways […]
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Il Deserto dei Tartari (The Desert of the Tartars) by Valerio Zurlini
17TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLDUnder the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic On the occasion of the “17th Week of Italian Language in the World”, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden present a rare screening of Il […]
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Italian is a language spoken by dubbers, a lecture on Italian language and cinema by Caterina D’Amico
17TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLDUnder the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Italian cinema relinquished Italian literary language back to the shelf. Its role as a guardian of the language was handed to television, where Italian films in which dialect is prominent are still excluded from programming. Caterina D’Amico, […]
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Screening the Classics: Italian Literary Canon and Cinema
17TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLD Under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic Since its beginnings, cinema has sought inspiration and legitimation in literature. Italian literature, in particular, has given cinema precious ideas, themes and stories. But cinema, in turn, has repaid its debt by disseminating the knowledge of canonical […]
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WAR & ART, WWI – USA in Italy
War & Art. WWI – USA in Italy Join us as we present the catalogue War & Art: WWI – USA in Italy followed by a preview of a previously unreleased documentary about the First World War provided by the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento. Welcome remarks:H. E. Armando Varricchio, Ambassador of Italy to the […]
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Frammenti
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, with the Pratt Institute and Ivy University, invite you to an exhibit exploring the layered themes of memory, continuity, and remembrance as seen through the lenses of several generations of Italians. Artists Kikki Ghezzi and Riccardo Vecchio invest their works with the physical remnants and records of family memories and […]
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Pirandello: A Double Feature Screening
To mark the 150th birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Cultural Institute presents a double feature screening: “Uno Nessuno Pirandello”, a documentary recounting the Nobel prize laureate troubled life and exploring how his work influenced theater and drama during the 20th century, and “Sei Personaggi in Cerca d’Autore” (Six Characters in Search of an Author), […]
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