webinar > Dante’s Ulysses Today: A Presentation by Lino Pertile
Ulysses personifies the fundamental moral issue of the use and abuse of human intelligence: What can we do with our intelligence? How far may we go with it? Are we allowed to pursue any intellectual quest regardless of its consequences? Should we resist the temptation to let our intelligence run freely without any moral restraint? […]
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online screening + webinar > The Truth about La dolce vita (2020) by G. Pedersoli
West Coast Premiere Around the end of 1958 Federico Fellini was going through a complicated period in his career. He had already won two Oscars for La Strada and Le notti di Cabiria but nobody wanted to produce his latest project: a story called La dolce vita. It was only Giuseppe Amato, who had already […]
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webinar > DANTE (Laterza, 2020) by Alessandro Barbero
Author and historian Alessandro Barbero a recipient of the prestigious Strega Prize, will presents his latest book in a conversation with Michael Subialka, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at UC Davis. In his groundbreaking book, Dante, Alessandro Barbero examines the life, times and world of the medieval creator of the masterpiece The Divine Comedy. […]
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online screening + webinar > Thou Shalt Not Hate (2020) directed by M. Mancini
Virtual LA Premiere of the award-winning drama THOU SHALT NOT HATE (Non odiare Italy, Poland | 2020, 96′) directed by Mauro Mancini ONLINE SCREENING February 18- 21, 2021 PLUS exclusive LIVE VIRTUAL CONVERSATION February 21, 2021 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm CET with special guests director Mauro MANCINI and lead actor […]
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avaialble online > Francesca da Rimini in American Silent Cinema
Online video presentation by Massimo Ciavolella, Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies, UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies. Introduction by Silvia Chiave, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles image:Francesca Bertini in Francesca da Rimini, 1910.
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webinar > ITAL Career Talk Series: Resources for Future Translators
Presenter: Prof. Giulia Togato, The California State University Long Beach Come and explore with us different study and career paths leading to Italy. ITAL Career Talks’ Meeting ID (Zoom): 872 8814 7966In collaboration with Italian clubs at USC, CSULB, UCLA and Chapman University View the PowerPoint presentation HERE
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webinar > Dante’s Others: A Presentation by Teodolinda Barolini
This year, Italy marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the master poet known as the Father of the Italian language. In this webinar, Prof.Teodolinda Barolini will unveil Dante’s views of “others” in the Divina Commedia and ponder on sexuality issues – his views on women and homosexuality, as well as his […]
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online conference > La Patria di Sciascia
Per Leonardo Sciascia, umanista europeo, la nazionalità non ha a che fare con i confini, l’appartenenza è soprattutto una questione culturale, una scelta di valori. A cent’anni dalla sua nascita, un omaggio alla vera patria di Sciascia, antitesi dell’homo unius libri et unius loci, evocando in questo spirito la memoria dello scrittore, nel nome della […]
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online screening > International Holocaust Remembrance Day: I Only Wanted to Live by Mimmo Calopresti (2006)
This documentary chronicles the Holocaust as experienced in Italy, from the racial laws Mussolini enacted in 1938 through the German invasion in 1943 and the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. The experiences are made personal through the use of testimony from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Nine […]
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audiobook > From the Dark Wood to Paradise. A Journey through Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in thirty-three languages
The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles is pleased to present the audiobook From the dark forest to Paradise. A journey through Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in thirty-three languages, published by Emons Audiolibri. The audiobook, produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the occasion of the celebrations of Dante’s centenary in […]
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