“Salone EXTRA”, the Turin Book Fair arrives online
The Turin Book Fair, the most important Italian publishing fair, will organize a series of online conferences from the 14th to the 17th of May, in place of the event that was supposed to be held during the same period at the Lingotto in Turin and which was postponed to a date to be determined […]
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Cinzia Zuffada: Reflections on the Earth Viewed from Space
Journalist Maria Teresa Cometto in conversation with Cinzia Zuffada, Associate Chief Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tuesday May 5, 2020, 7:30pm Registration required: Register here. Dr. Zuffada explains how new sustainable remote sensing techniques help us understand dynamic processes of the terrestrial hydrology typical of complex ecosystems like wetlands. She also talks about […]
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#WeAreItaly #StayTuned On It
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs just launched the campaign #WeAreItaly #StayTunedOnIt to promote the most creative and vital Italy in the world during Coronavirus. Andrea Bocelli, Uto Ughi, Tiziano Ferro, Paolo Fresu, Ada Montellanico, Nek, Andrea Griminelli, Rita Marcotulli, Fabrizio Bosso and many others joined the initiative and created video messages to spread abroad the […]
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Music and work, the Italian Song Portal for May 1st
With a playlist of songs dedicated to the theme of “Work”, purposely created by the musical historians Luciano Ceri and Paolo Prato, the Portale della Canzone italiana celebrates the Festa del Primo Maggio. Stories of work and workers to the rhythm of music and words told by the voices of the characters of the songwriter and […]
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The exhibition “Fellini 100. Immortal genius” is revealed online
The exhibition “Fellini 100. Immortal genius” virtually opens its doors for a walk inside some of the historic rooms of Castel Sismondo, accompanied by the narration of Marco Bertozzi, one of the two curators, together with Anna Villari, of the exhibition created by Studio Azzurro, as part of the project by the Federico Fellini International […]
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First season of “Italy tout court”!
Thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, Le Petit Septième is pleased to announce the first season of “Italy tout court!“, a short film broadcast event. On the occasion of the Montreal’s Italian Week Festival, in August, five films will be screened on site, including the trilogy on the topic of immigration “3 […]
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ITALIAN INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES: Tomaso Montanari, “The first of three meditations. Holy Thursday: all humanity “, Diary of the crisis (13 April 2020)
The prestigious Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, founded in Naples in 1975 by Enrico Cerulli, Elena Croce, Pietro Piovani, Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli and Gennaro Marotta, began last February 23 with Attilio Scarpellini (Frammenti di diario) to narrate in a Diario della crisi the recent days of our time, starting from some questions: “Is it possible […]
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ANTINOMIES: Marie Rebecchi, “Metamorphosis. A point of vi (s) ta”, April 10th 2020
Emanuele Coccia, one of the most disruptive young Italian philosophers and already a guest of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal at the end of October 2019, comes out with another work: Métamorphoses (Paris 2020). After three other books – La vita sensibile (ed. it. 2011), Il bene nelle cose. La pubblicità come discorso morale […]
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Valentina Paganelli, “The subjunctive crisis? Another fake news. Why we can sleep soundly if we talk about subjunctive “, Il Chiasmo Magazine (April 6, 2020)
The appropriate use of the subjunctive mode has always been one of the worries of our language, both for Italians and for Italian speakers. “If I knew it, I wouldn’t come: with this provocative title – writes the young Valentina Paganelli – Marco Mazzoleni became the standard-bearer of the linguistic thesis in 1992 about the […]
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“Le radici dell’alba. La luce della poesia e il suono della melodia”, concert by Valérie Curro Khayat, poet and songwriter
“CANCELED due to epidemiological emergency Covid-19“ As part of the program dedicated to contemporary poetry and music, the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present a concert by Valérie Curro Khayat, poet and songwriter. Friday April 3rd 2020, 7pmIstituto Italiano di Cultura1200, Av. du Dr. PenfieldMontrealConcert in Italian, French and English Valerie Curro Khayat launches […]
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