Eating Ideas, Educating the Senses through Images. The Magazine “La Gola” in 1980s Italy
Eating Ideas, Educating the Senses through Images. The Magazine “La Gola” in 1980s Italy A Lecture by Professor Margherita D’Ayala Valvais, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa Presented on the occasion of the 2018 Year of Italian Food, as declared by The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food […]
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Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “Friends by Chance” (2017)
Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “Friends by Chance” (2017) 106 min. Directed by Francesco Bruni Northwestern University (NWU), McCormick Auditorium in Norris Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL Alessandro, an irascible 22-year-old, and Giorgio, an 85 year-old poet, live within a stone’s throw from each other, but their paths have never crossed. That […]
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The Neuroscience Behind Creative Ideas
The Neuroscience Behind Creative Ideas We often imagine ideas as a lightbulb illuminating above our heads, or perhaps most iconically, as Archimedes’ exclamation “Eureka!” Neuroscientific research has recently distinguished two brain processes activated when we solve problems. The first is a step-by-step methodical process where we achieve the solution gradually, often through trial […]
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Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “The Order of Things” (2017)
Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “The Order of Things” (2017) 112 min. Directed by Andrea Segre. UIC – Lecture Center Building 2LCA, Room A001, 805 S. Morgan, Chicago, IL Corrado is an agent for the Italian Ministry of the Interior, specialized in international missions against illegal immigration. During the inspection of a Libyan […]
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Cineclub at the Institute: “At War with Love”
Cineclub at the Institute: “At War with Love” New Comedy Italian-Style Introduced by Professors of Italian from Universities throughout Chicago, the six films included in this series belong to the genre Comedy Italian style and approach contemporary social issues with a humorous touch. A discussion in Italian will follow the screening. Screening of “At […]
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Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “Easy” by Andrea Magnani: Director in Attendance!
Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “Easy” by Andrea Magnani: Director in Attendance! Isidoro is lonely and depressed. His career as a race car driver ended when he gained too much weight and could no longer fit into his car. He is offered an “easy” job: drive a coffin to Ukraine. Can he […]
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Carlo Fierens: A Guitar Tribute Concert to Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Carlo Fierens: A Guitar Tribute Concert to Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitarist Carlo Fierens will perform a special recital featuring two masterpieces written by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), one of the foremost Italian composers of the 20th century, who found shelter in the United States after the infamous racial laws of 1938. Presented in commemoration of the 50th […]
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Two Donizetti Rarities: A Conversation with Conductor Francesco Milioto
Two Donizetti Rarities: A Conversation with Conductor Francesco Milioto On the occasion of the upcoming performances of two rarely-heard Donizetti works by the Chicago Opera Theater, il Pigmalione & Rita, musicologist Jesse Rosenberg, Northwestern University, will summarize the historical background of these operas, followed by a wide-ranging interview with Francesco Milioto, who will […]
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Italian Film Festival USA – Screening of “Friends by Chance” (2017)
Screening of “Friends by Chance” (2017) 106 min. Directed by Francesco Bruni Alessandro, an irascible 22-year-old, and Giorgio, an 85 year-old poet, live within a stone’s throw from each other, but their paths have never crossed. That is, until Alessandro unwillingly takes a job as the elegant gentleman’s walking companion. Over time, the poet’s failing […]
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Laboratorio didattico: “La motivazione in pratica: proposte per la classe di italiano”
Laboratorio didattico: “La motivazione in pratica: proposte per la classe di italiano” Edizioni Edilingua e l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, in collaborazione con l’Ufficio Scolastico del Consolato d’Italia a Chicago, vi invitano al laboratorio didattico per insegnanti di italiano LS: “La motivazione in pratica: proposte per la classe di italiano” Materiali, tecniche e […]
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