Responsible Technology: are we ready for it?
Technology is at the heart of the world where we live providing food and drinking water, electricity, goods and services. Emerging technologies rise fast carrying the potential to deliver economic and social benefits to a world that is challenged to sustain 10 billion people. Engineering and technological and scientific achievements pose challenges and opportunities; the […]
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Federico Fellini 100
One of world cinema’s most exuberantly playful filmmakers, Federico Fellini’s career stretches from post-war neorealism to the MTV era. Although best known for his epochal early 60s films La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, he first came to international prominence as a director in the mid-1950s, thanks to back-to-back Oscar® wins for La Strada and […]
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Patrizia Caraveo | The Lunar Renaissance
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing, the Scientific Office of the Embassy of Italy in the UK and the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh are pleased to present an event where Science meets Society with Patrizia Caraveo who will present her book Conquistati dalla Luna in conversation with Marialuisa Aliotta. […]
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Brexit Blues: Marco Varvello in conversation with Joseph Farrell
Brexit Blues, by Marco Varvello, published in Italian by Mondadori, is a collection of short stories about Great Britain at the time of Brexit, but also Europe and Italy at the time of the “Third Republic”: a former Minister who organises terror attacks, a fight between next door neighbours, a Chinese nuclear power plant on […]
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Silent City | European Capital of Culture Matera 2019
Silent City is a story that starts with people, whose unique voices are those of children and senior citizens – silent generations which lend their voices to the opera, together with composers, musicians, writers, singers, actors, drama tutors and international artists. The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to support this artistic collaboration which […]
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Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana
A Lectura Dantis is a public reading and explanation of all 100 cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy canto by canto. Each canto of the Commedia is discussed by a different scholar, and we have a wide range of expert speakers coming to St Andrews for each meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (LDA). 29th […]
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Il Veneto e il suo Lago: Incontri Alimentari
The closing event for the fourth World Week of Italian Cuisine will delight our audiences. Starting with an informative talk by qualified chef and budding gastronomer Lucia Ortisi, the evening will continue with products presentations from Allegrini Wines, Consorzio Tutela del Vino Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco, Pastificio Felicetti and Loison Pasticceria. Thew evening will be closed by […]
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A Cena con Leandro Luppi, variazioni alimentari su lago di Garda.
To celebrate the fourth World Week of Italian Cuisine, Michelin starred Chef Leandro Luppi will fly from the banks of Garda Lake to Edinburgh for a dinner that promises to offer the very best of the Lake area’s food and the best wine and Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore from the Veneto region, all within a classy […]
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A look back at the 4th World Week of Italian Cuisine | IV Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo
The fourth World Week of Italian Cuisine whose theme this year was “Food Education: The Culture of Taste” has taken place from 18th to 24th November. Here in Scotland, the Consulate General of Italy, the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh and the Scottish Branch of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the UK, organised […]
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AIRITalks, Where Science Meets People
The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to host the second event of Airitalks, where science meets people. AIRItalks are informal seminars held by Italian academics living in Scotland on topics spanning from medicine, immunology, psychology, art, engineering, literature, philosophy and much more. In this second appointment with AIRItalks we will host Patrizia Sambuco (Fellow of […]
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