Italian Traditional Games
Giochi italiani tradizionali [Italian Traditional Games] is a day dedicated to Italian families, organised to celebrate the Festa della Repubblica Italiana (Italy’s National Day). While sharing Italian history and traditions, kids and adults will take part in a remarkable afternoon of old and new games, from il salto con la corda (skipping rope) to tiro […]
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A Female Pastor in Italy – Women and Religion
Giuseppina Bagnato, Waldensian Pastor in Rimini, will offer an interesting insight into the role of women in religion in Italy. Starting from the issue of patriarchal society and female roles within it, Giuseppina Bagnato will outline the path of women through religions, from a state of invisibility to becoming preachers within the Waldensian Church.
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Memoria per l’Europa – An encounter with Paolo Rumiz
Contemporary European societies have been celebrating the centenary of the First World War from the standpoint of the demanding process of European integration: while only apparently freed from conflicting backlashes, contemporary memories of the wartime resonate with the ways national communities conceive themselves, re-tell their own history, and project their own image against the backdrop […]
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Fighting the World’s deadliest animal
Speaker Dr Francesco Baldini – University of Glasgow (Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine) In 2015, malaria killed 429 000 people, mainly children under the age of five. Controlling the mosquitoes that transmit the disease is the most practical and efficient way to prevent the infection. Indeed, the use of insecticides has been […]
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Viva Picinisco 1017 – 2017
“Viva Picinisco” A gala dinner to be held at the Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh on 1 May 2017. This will be a major fundraising event organized by the Millennium Foundation, which was set up to raise funds to celebrate the Millennium of the ancestral village of Picinisco in Italy. There will be live music performed by […]
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Meeting Gramsci
Speakers Gian Luigi Deiana and Gabriella Cuccu – Casa Museo di Antonio Gramsci, Ghilarza, Sardinia. Italian theorist and politician Antonio Gramsci was born in Ales, Sardinia in 1891. Historical figure of fundamental importance in 1920-1930’s Italy, his work – considered a seminal contribution to 20th century thought – is now studied by sociology, linguistics and […]
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Italia Moderna – Reload 017
An exhibition of art works from some of Italy’s most prominent contemporary artists, curated by In-Art. Italia Moderna was initiated by In-Art in 2011 as a programme of institutional promotion and marketing to increase awareness outside Italy of the contribution that the country’s artists are making to the international world of visual communication. Since that […]
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Da Veronese a Tintoretto: Save Venice Inc. e la salvaguardia dell’arte veneziana
Relatore Dr Thomas Dalla Costa – Universita’ di Verona e Save Venice Inc. Sono passati cinquant’anni da quando, il 4 novembre 1966, un’alta marea eccezionale colpì Venezia facendo raggiungere al livello dell’acqua il picco devastante di 194 cm. I danni al patrimonio artistico e culturale, come noto, furono enormi. In seguito a quell’evento e nell’arco […]
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Piero Manzoni’s Artist Shit: ‘would you like to buy it?’
Speaker: Lara Demori – University of Edinburgh, History of Art This talk discusses Milan-born artist Piero Manzoni’s most (in)famous work: the Artist’s Shit. In 1961 Manzoni produced a series of ninety sealed cans containing thirty grams of his excrements and sold them at the same pay rate of the gold, thus comparing the human waste […]
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‘Producing Living Countenances from Marble’: Rhetoric, Technology and Art in Trecento Italy
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Speaker Dr Luca Palozzi – British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh This talk explores Italian poet and intellectual Petrarch’s remarkable involvement with, and understanding of, the technical aspects of stone carving and tomb sculpture in particular. While we traditionally conceive of […]
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