special event (online) > Food and Culture: An Italian Perspective
A thought-provoking celebration of Italian food culture featuring talks by influencers, scholars, and chefs. FREE to all, but registration is required. Reserve your ticketn from here Flyer ProgramOpening Remarks:Dr. Federico Pacchioni, Sebastian P., and Marybelle Musco, Chair in Italian Studies; Silvia Chiave, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles “The Soul of Italian Food,” a conversation […]
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webinar > Dante’s Inferno: a Discussion with Sandow Birk & Sean Meredith
The well-known Los Angeles artist and illustrator Sandow Birk and the director and screenwriter Sean Meredith will present their Dante’s Inferno (2008, 76 ‘- MoMA Film Archive permanent collection), a film adaptation of the homonymous volume illustrated by Birk with texts by Marcus Sanders (Chronicle Books, 2004), a modern adaptation of Dante’s Inferno. Almost one […]
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online screening > TRASH (2020, 88′)
Join us on Earth Day and in the year of the UK-Italy presidency partnership of the UN Climate Change COP26 Conference, for the online screening of the animated feature TRASH (Italy 2020 88′) directed by Luca Della Grotta and Francesco Dafano. Special pre-recorded video introduction by the directors Della Grotta and Dafano.In English. Boxes, bottles, […]
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online lecture > The Doctor Prescribed Dante’s Inferno: Reading, Thinking, Justice and Community Health
Stephanie Jed, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego will explore Dante’s Inferno as a roadmap for understanding how we might, in today’s world, strengthen our communities and relations of justice through responsible reading and thinking. REGISTER HERE
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virtual exhibit and game > TRASH
Travel through the exhibition with the fabulous characters of the film TRASH and learn more about what we can all do to protect our environment. The virtual exhibition consists of over 200 works, including drawings, storyboards and a selection of video material from the movie. It is a journey into the creative universe of 3D […]
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webinar > Botticelli and Dante. The Drawings from the Divine Comedy
Considered one the Renaissance highest achievements in the field of graphic arts, Sandro Botticelli’s cycle of ninety-three drawings illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy constitutes also one of the great master’s most mysterious endeavors. Learn more with Dr. Dagmar Korbacher, Director of the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin State Museums and Dr. Furio Rinaldi, Curator, Fine Arts Museums of San […]
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webinar > Strumenti digitali per l’internazionalizzazione – l’esperienza italiana a los angeles
Questo webinar, oltre a presentare l’ampia panoramica dei strumenti a disposizione dell’impresa esportatrice, nonche’ le diverse iniziative pubbliche a sostegno dell’Export Digitale, si pone l’ambizioso obiettivo di voler contribuire a rafforzare la diffusione della cultura digitale presso le PMI e le Istituzioni italiane interessate alla promozione di beni e servizi in quest’area, in particolare nei […]
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film festival > Los Angeles Italia 2021
The 16th edition of the Festival will pay tribute to the legendary Maestro Ennio Morricone, and honor directors Matteo Garrone and Marco Pontecorvo, and musicians Diane Warren and Laura Pausini. More information at www.losangelesitalia.com
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webinar > Language, Mind and Brain. A Conversation with Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Over 60 years ago, a radically new approach to language and mind called Generative Grammar was initiated by Noam Chomsky. In 1974, at MIT, Chomsky and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini opened a convergent field: biolinguistics. This field has witnessed an impressive development ever since, in terms of experiments, dedicated journals, books, articles, conferences and teaching. In this […]
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webinar > Montage on Dante with Alessandro Marianantoni
Alessandro Marianantoni, Director of Mediars and M Accelerator, will illustrate Dante’s influence in cinema and television through some intriguing collages of images, videos and music, in conversation with Massimo Ciavolella, Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies, UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and former director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. […]
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