III Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo | Da 1926 con Giuseppe Pignalosa
This event is now fully booked, sorry! Pizza, when made with the right ingredients and perfectly cooked, presents in itself a perfect example of Mediterranean Diet. It’s for this reason that pizza chef Giuseppe Pignalosa is flying all the way from Naples bringing the best possible ingredients and baking his pizzas at Pizzeria 1926 in Edinburgh. Pizza Chef […]
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III Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo | Le vie della Dieta Mediterranea
The Week of Italian Cuisine in the World 2018, this year for its third edition, aims to promote regional enogastronomic and tourist itineraries, high-quality Italian cuisine around the world, products that are ‘Italian tasting’ rather than ‘Italian sounding’. Le Vie della Dieta Mediterranea will be the opening event of what promises to be an extremely enticing week. This conference will […]
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Fake News, Truth and the Media
Fake news, or rather “disinformation”, have became a viral phenomenon over the last couple of years and have possibly had a significant impact on major voting decisions, notably including the 2016 US presidential election and the Brexit referendum. As concern spreads at the global level, what kind of legal measures can be devised to tackle […]
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Poetry and Film in Palliative Care | Reflections on Holistic Approaches to End of Life Care
This inspiring event will host a number of select invited speakers and specialists in palliative care and art therapy, an acting company who work with medical humanities, a film director, a poet and educator, postgraduate students working on poetry and the sick body, and a selection of academics to debate the validity of the project ‘Poetry […]
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L’italiano (e le sue varietà) nella rete: problemi descrittivi e aspetti di carattere generale
Quali sono le caratteristiche dell’italiano utilizzato online? E’ possibile elencare tali caratteristiche o la varietà di testi che si trovano in rete ne rende l’analisi un compito estremamente complicato? Se permangono comunque dei tratti comuni identificabili quali sono? In che maniera l’italiano usato in rete differisce da quello insegnato a scuola? In che maniera e misura […]
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Pirandello and Translation: Transfer, Transformation and the Transcultural
2018 Annual Society for Pirandello Studies Conference 10 a.m. John C. Barnes (UCD): Welcome 10.05 a.m. Susan Bassnett (Glasgow and Warwick): Opening remarks Introduced by Eanna O’Ceallachain (Glasgow) 10.30 a.m. Joseph Farrell (Strathclyde): Pirandello in His Own Right: Is Translation Possible or Desirable? 10.50 a.m. Eanna O’Ceallachain (Glasgow): Sanguineti’s Sei personaggi.com: A Travesty […]
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Science in Culture. Arts of Welfare and European Cultures of Care. The Role of the Arts in the Evolution of Health Care and Education (1752 – 1948)
The social history of the welfare state has been studied in depth before, however, the role that art and artists played in the conception of traditional caring cultures and state-action in the healthcare of citizens has received considerably less critical attention, and remains sketchy to this day. Furthermore, while national programmes of welfare, and accompanying […]
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Amour-montage: A talk on Pasolini by Davide Messina
In an exciting collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture, the Institut français d’Ecosse, and the University of Edinburgh, Dr Davide Messina will present his book Pasolini et son chant du signe: Écriture, cinéma, musique (L’Harmattan, 2018). With an introducction by Professor Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh). The book delves into the poetics of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s […]
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2018 European Day of Languages
Come and celebrate the diversity of languages in Europe with tasters of French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish and more… Throughout Europe, 800 million Europeans represented in the Council of Europe’s 47 member states are encouraged to learn more languages, at any age, in and out of school. Being convinced that linguistic diversity is a […]
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Claudio Magris & Francis Spufford
The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to announce the participation of Claudio Magris at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018. LIFE IS A JOURNEY Wandering and wondering simultaneously, acclaimed cultural and literary philosopher Claudio Magris has drawn on countless voyages to write a collection of essays, Journeying. He’s joined by Francis Spufford whose novel […]
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