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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ENRICO IV (Henry IV)
To mark the 150th birth of Luigi Pirandello, the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and KIT-Kairos Italy Theater present a reading of Pirandello’s play Enrico IV with a performance by Rocco Sisto. Play translated by Gloria Pastorino and directed by Laura Caparrotti. Meet the King! Or better, meet a man who fell, hit his head […]
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Enrico Fermi, the “Pope of Physics”
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to a conference and exhibit opening with: Fernando Ferroni (INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, President): Introductory Remarks. Nigel Lockyer (Fermilab, Director): Neutrinos, from Fermi to DUNE. Giovanni Organtini (Physics Museum of Rome Univ. La Sapienza, Director): The Uniqueness of Enrico Fermi. On the […]
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Marco Polo and the Global Silk Roads by the artist and book author Lilya Pavlovic-Dear
The Library of Congress’ African and Middle Eastern Division, Asian Division, and European Division, in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC, present a talk and video presentation, Marco Polo and the Global Silk Roads, by artist and book author Lilya Pavlovic-Dear. A collections display will follow at 3:30 – […]
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Archeology of the Future – Exhibit by Fabrizio Plessi
An Installation by Acclaimed Italian Artist Fabrizio Plessi Before the birth of light, When all was ash, motionless and still Before the great arousal of quartz, When the only light was that of the sun, Before the opaque solidity of the earth, When all was mud and damp mire, Before the flow of icy water, […]
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The Autism Spectrum Disorder: Latest Research and Treatment of Autism
The Georgetown University Italian Research Institute, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, is pleased to sponsor a conference and discussion on cutting-edge research on the autism spectrum disorder led by renowned neuroscientists. SPEAKERS: Dr. Luigi Mazzone, Neuropsychiatrist at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy and Dr. Kevin Pelphrey, Carbonell Family […]
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