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4 August 2026
”Medicine and Charity – Art, Medicine, and Miracles: Images in the French Hôtels-Dieu and Italian Hospitals” – Lecture by Fannie Caron-Roy

The lecture  “Art, Medicine, and Miracles: Images in the French Hôtels-Dieu and Italian Hospitals,” presented by art historian Fannie Caron-Roy, explores the relationship between art, medicine, and spirituality in the early modern period. The tradition of hospital care extends far beyond the French-speaking world. From the Middle Ages onward, hospitals across Europe played a fundamental social […]

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3 July 2026
“Viva Vittorio” – Conference by Marc H. Choko, accompanied by an exhibition of posters by Vittorio Fiorucci.

For its 33rd edition, ItalfestMTL, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, presents the Viva Vittorio conference, featuring the works of Vittorio Fiorucci—a talented illustrator, photographer, and Canada’s most renowned poster artist from the 1960s to the early 2000s, by Marc H. Choko, accompanied by an exhibition of posters by Vittorio Fiorucci. […]

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27 May 2026
“Conspiracies, Intrigues, and Betrayals in the Italian Renaissance.” Featuring Arianna Capirossi and Giacomo Ventura (University of Bologna), in conversation with Dario Brancato (Concordia University).

The Italian Renaissance produced some of the greatest artistic and literary achievements in European history, but it was also shaped by conspiracies, betrayals, and bloody episodes vividly portrayed in novels, theatrical works, and more recently in television series such as The Borgias. In this conversation, the speakers will explore the darker side of the Renaissance, […]

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13 April 2026
“Respecting Languages and Linguistic Diversity. From Orality to Writing: Preserving, Transmitting, and Living Language” Fabio Scetti and Anna Maria Farabbi

A profound reflection on respect for languages and linguistic diversity in Italy, as well as within the context of the Italian community in Canada, will be at the heart of a talk exploring dialectal and neo-dialectal poetry as a space for expressive research and cultural reflection. Through the analysis of works by authors such as […]

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9 March 2026
Conference “Color: the fourth dimension of sculpture” curated by Paolo Liverani

The conference presents research on polychromy in ancient sculpture, which has profoundly changed the way we view these works. Although the reconstructions remain partly hypothetical, they help us to better understand the role and function of art in ancient societies. The conference in English, organized alongside the exhibition The Collection Torlonia. Masterpeces of Roman Sculpture, will […]

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9 March 2026
X edition of Italian Design Day in the World: “Classic Design”

On the occasion of Italian Design Day around the world, the Consulate General of Italy in Montreal, in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Italian Trade Agency, and the Italian Cultural Institute, presents Classico Design, a conference organized alongside the exhibition. The collection Torlonia. Chefs-d’œuvre de la sculpture romaine. The event will be […]

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7 October 2025
“What About the Media? Gramscian Perspectives on Media in a Counter-Revolutionary Epoch”

Can Antonio Gramsci’s ideas still help us make sense of—and perhaps change—the contemporary media landscape? Since the 1980s, the Western media world has undergone profound shifts: growing concentration of media outlets among a few oligarchs, the spread of authoritarian narratives, the rise of far-right influencers and the increasing subordination of journalism to market forces have […]

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24 September 2025
Convergences in Art, Science, and Technology – SCI_ART Montreal

This roundtable, with Brian Chen (Associate Professor – McGill University – Neurology & Neurosurgery and Medicine), Teresa Almeida (Portugal), Jacob Kirkegaard (Denmark), Felix Lenz (Austria), Luca Spano (Italy) and Swamp_Matter (Netherlands – Slovenia), brings together international artists who work at the intersection of art and science. The discussion will focus on the artists’ collaborations with […]

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