Free Writing Workshops: I Write with More than One Voice! May 2015 Do you use words or phrases to describe an important experience or feeling or person which you cannot express in another language? Are there subjects you talk or write more easily about in…
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Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices University of Warwick Campus – Room LIB 2 20 February 2015 The first workshop of the project invites both local and international policy-makers, practitioners and leading experts to discuss the activities that local communities, institutions and universities undertake…
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Laura Pasetti, Theatre Director and Drama Teacher at Accademia del Teatro alla Scala and Piccolo Teatro of Milan and Artistic Director of Charioteer Theatre in Scotland, starts the first development of the new play ‘A Bench on the Road’ about the Italian migration in Scotland…
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Barbara Spadaro has been awarded a three-months Visiting Fellowship at the IMLR, and is currently developing in London part of her research on the memories of Italian-speaking subjects from the former colonies of North Africa. During her stay at the Centre for the Study of…
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Three films, a trilogy, on Italian migration by the Italian film-maker Alberto Cima: Una vita altrove (2004) Il giardino di Lucia (2005) Angelo in Francia (2011) Link to free eBook in Italian or Spanish version of: Il cinema di Alberto…
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The Italian Department of the University of St Andrews hosts a few special events as part of the UK-wide Being Human Festival of the Humanities. There will be workshops on photography and translation in the morning. In the afternoon representatives of the Rome-based Archivio Memorie…
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[iframe src=”//player.vimeo.com/video/80279910?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”70%” class=”vimeo-video” frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen][/iframe] NO EXISTE EL TIEMPO Buenos Aires & Sicily timelapses by Eugenio Battaglini, 2013 No existe el tiempo, / no la distancia, / no la muerte; / existe la vibración, / el movimiento, / el incesante cambio: / ser, dejar…
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[iframe src =”//www.youtube.com/embed/jMoe0xBzsaw” width=”70%” class=”vimeo-video” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] Interview by Italian-Ghanaian producer-writer-director, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, which examines the law that denies citizenship to young people born in Italy of immigrant parents, because they have no Italian blood is riveting.
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Pop Paolozzi! A series of prints based on the life and work of Edinburgh’s most renowned transnational artist. Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures Tuesday 27 May, 12 – 1.30pm, Arts Lecture Theatre Foyer, University of St. Andrews. The Proctor, Professor…
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