‘Family Portrait: The Scots Italians 1890 – 1940’
Scots Italians Exhibition at NRS A new archive exhibition, ‘Family Portrait: The Scots Italians 1890 – 1940’, opens next week at National Records of Scotland, created in partnership with the Italian Consulate General of Italy in Scotland. The exhibition features a hidden archive of Italians living in Scotland in the years before the Second World […]
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2015 Italian Ambassador Guest Lecture
The Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Anton Muscatelli, is delighted to invite you to our upcoming lecture with guest speaker His Excellency Pasquale Terracciano, Italian Ambassador to the UK.During the course of his Lecture, Ambassador Terracciano will focus on Immigration and the refugee crisis, the EU reaction to the unfolding situation, and the causes and outcomes.Following […]
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RECITAL: MYRIAM DAL DON (VIOLIN); MARIA GRAZIA BELLOCCHIO, PIANOFORTE
PROGRAMME Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in fa maggiore K 376 (Allegro, Andante, Allegro grazioso) Franz Schubert: Rondò in si minore D 895 Eugène Ysaye: Sonata n. 4 in mi minore per violino solo Allemanda, Sarabande, Finale Sandro Gorli: Novellette per pianoforte (1984) Claude Debussy: Sonata, Allegro vivo, Intermède. Fantasque et léger, Final. Très animé Maria Grazia Bellocchio […]
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Mediterraneo: Bang the Drum!
with The Badwills, Bristol Branch and The Winter Drummers. Edinburgh’s very own celebration of Mediterranean and world music, Mediterraneo, is back at Summerhall! Mediterraneo: Bang the Drum gets right to the heart of rhythm with a carnival of percussion. We have three brilliant bands, The Badwills (Pizzica & Tarantella from Italy), Bristol Branch (Forro – […]
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The Versatility of Primo Levi
The publication of the Complete Works of Primo Levi (edited by Ann Goldstein, Penguin Classics, £120) gives an opportunity to re examine the writer’s works in their impressive range. Levi is and will remain best known as a writer of witness literature and author of a searing account of his experiences in Auschwitz, If this […]
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Black Souls (Anime Nere)
In rural Calabria, Southern Italy, the ‘Ndrangheta organisation operate a vast and lucrative network of drug trafficking, extortion and money laundering. Based on Gioacchino Craico’s novel, Black Souls is a fictionalised morality tale that leads us into the dark and sinister world of this very real mafia world, in which violence and vendetta are inherited […]
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Lampedusa Calling: Understanding Human Flows from Africa to Italy/Europe
Round Table Debate & Documentary The Centre of African Studies of the University of Edinburgh, with the kind support of the Italian Cultural Institute and Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, is pleased to announce the round table debate on Lampedusa calling: understanding human flows from Africa to Italy/Europe.The island of Lampedusa has been […]
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le immagini della fantasia
Curated by Monica Monachesi – Fondazione Šteˇpán Zavrˇel 32nd International Exhibition of Illustration for Children An amazing panorama of original illustrations and recently published books, featuring Giovanni Manna as Guest of Honour, and a magical thematic section dedicated to Scotland, in collaboration with the Edinburgh College of Art, the Scottish Storytelling Centre and the Edinburgh […]
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Dante & Scottish Culture
Public Colloquium at the University of Edinburgh To celebrate the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth, Professor Nick Havely (York) and Dr Davide Messina (Edinburgh), in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, have organised a day of events at the University of Edinburgh. Invited speakers from Italy and the UK will highlight some of the […]
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Pirandello: Performativity and Role-Playing
The University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, will host the 2015 general conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies. This year’s conference investigates Pirandello’s quintessential theme of role-playing across different works as well as media and within the theoretical framework of performativity, a theory that has had a profoundly transformative impact […]
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