Federico Varese | Boswell Book Festival
From Hong Kong to Moscow, Salford to New Jersey, Tokyo to Sicily, Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology at Oxford University, reveals the essence of Mafia Life in his intense and compelling book. We see mafias as vast, powerful organisations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe, wrapping their tentacles around everything from governments to finance. […]
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Dacia Maraini | Boswell Book Festival
Dacia Maraini, Italian novelist, playwright, poet and orator, has campaigned on a vast number of issues including women’s rights, abuse, emigration, discrimination, politics, the Holocaust, and anti-fascism. Winner of prestigious Italian literature awards, finalist for the Man Booker and nominee for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, her books, such as the best-selling The Silent […]
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The Last Judgement. The Sistine Chapel Immersive Show
The IIC is glad to bring, for the first time to Scotland, the Artainment format. Artainment is the birth of a new genre, an innovative format for the enhancement and promotion of the artistic and cultural heritage. The first Artainment’s project The Last Judgement. The Sistine Chapel Immersive Show became, after more than one year […]
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Book presentation | The Archipelago. Italy Since 1945
Historian John Foot will present his latest book The Archipelago. Italy since 1945 in conversation with Philip Cooke. Italy emerged from World War Two in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed had ceased to exist. By the 1960s, Italy could boast the fastest growing economy in the world, as […]
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Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh
As a tribute to one of the greatest Scottish and European artists of the 20th century, Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005), a poetry reading from Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh (Luath Press, 2018) curated by former Edinburgh Makar Christine de Luca and Dr Carlo Pirozzi (University of Edinburgh). The event will be introduced by the curators of […]
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Dario Fo and Franca Rame, Theatre, Politics and Life
Joe Farrell’s biography of Dario Fo and Franca Rame will be launched by a discussion of their lives and work between the author and the couple’s long-term collaborator, Piero Sciotto, who will also sing some of Fo’s songs. Dario Fo – actor, playwright, theatre director, stage designer, political activist, artist and author who, having attained […]
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Tally’s Blood – 30 Years On
Students from Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, present: Tally’s Blood, 30 Years On Freely adapted and directed by Carlo Pirozzi From Ann Marie Di Mambro’s celebrated play Performed in Italian and English. The play is part of the collaborative events for the Centenary of Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh (1919-2019), coordinated by Davide […]
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Italian Cinema Night: Happy As Lazzaro
Happy As Lazzaro | Lazzaro Felice Dir. Alice Rohrwacher 2h 05min | Italy | 2018 Cast includes: Alba Rohrwacher, Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese With International Women’s Day coming up on the 8th of March, World of Film International Festival (WoFF) is screening the latest film by a great woman filmmaker […]
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Italy and Brexit
A talk and Q&A session with Raffaele Trombetta, Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom. As part of his visit to Scotland, the Ambassador will outline Italy’s perspective on the Brexit process. Ambassador Trombetta was born in Naples in 1960. He obtained a degree in Political Sciences from Federico II University in Naples and a masters […]
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Poetry in Conversation: Taking Poetry Off the Page
Claudio Pozzani and Jay MillAr read and discuss their work The first of three early evening events in our Poetry in Conversation strand brings together poets Claudio Pozzani and Jay MillAr. Claudio Pozzani is the founder and director of the Genoa International Poetry Festival, a leading event in Italian poetry since 1995. Jay MillAr […]
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