To stay or to go? Reflections on travel and the inward journey
Dr Gregoria Manzin interviews Simonetta Agnello Hornby in Italian Dr Gregoria Manzin, Cassamarca lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Melbourne, will interview Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Italian writer living in London, about the eternal dilemma “to stay or to go?The interview will be conducted in Italian.For more information about the writer please visit her […]
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3 Writers – 3 Readings
Readings by Simonetta Agnello Hornby with Angela Savage and Garry Disher Proudly supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Simonetta Agnello Hornby will read with Angela Savage and Garry Disher selected passages from their work. The authors are guest writers from the MWF.For more information about the Festival please visit the official website MWF
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Politics in the novel
Simonetta Agnello Hornby and Suchen Christine guests of the Melbourne Writers Festival In conversation with Antoni Jach International novelists Simonetta Agnello Hornby and Suchen Christine Lim talk about how their work exposes the political underbellies of Sicily and Singapore. In conversation with Antoni Jach.For more information please click here MWF – POLITICS IN THE NOVEL
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Older & Bolder
Simonetta Agnello Hornby special guest at the MWF supported by the Istituto italiano di Cultura How do different societies deal with ageing in general and ageing women in particular? Shobhaa De (India), Simonetta Agnello Hornby (Italy) and Sarah Winman (UK) will talk about this matter with Renata Singer.Special offer for current IIC Members and Students: only […]
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Simonetta Agnello Hornby at the 2015 MWF
Internationally acclaimed Italian writer Special guest at the Melbourne Writers Festival 2015 For bookings and tickets please visit the official website of the MWF
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Miracolo a Milano? Space, Politics and History from the Economic Boom to EXPO2015
Seminar in English by John Foot, Professor of Italian Modern History at the University of Bristol, UK Inserire qui il sottotitolo 2 dell’evento (seconda lingua) Professor John Foot will look at the way Milan has developed and grown in the post-war period, and analyses the contradictory background to the EXPO. In collaboration with RISM, Research in Italia […]
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Florence, Capital of the Italian cultural modernity
The Florentine milieu between 1861 and 1915 Inserire qui il sottotitolo 2 dell’evento (seconda lingua) Dr Luca Somigli is currently Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. His area of research include Modernism and the avant-garde in Italy, UK and France, and Italian contemporary fiction, with a special interest in the detective […]
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“Italia Romantica”
Arias and Romantic Italian songs By young Australian Opera singers Four artists will be performing rarely heard gems from the Italian repertoire:Soprano Morgan Balfour; mezzo-soprano Jade Moffat; bass-baritone Daniel Carison; and pianist Stefan Cassomenos.
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RISM – Research in Italian Studies in Melbourne presents: “Writing Colonisation:
Violence, Landscape and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian & Australian Literature” A seminar in English by Dr Sabina Sestigiani RISMA seminar in English by Dr Sabina Sestigiani, Lecturer in Italian Studies, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University This paper will focus on Ennio Flaiano’s novel Tempo di uccidere (A Time to […]
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Stefano Bollani at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2015
Star Italian Jazz Pianist! Stefano Bollani at the piano and Hamilton De Holanda with the bandolim Stefano Bollani, Guest of Honour at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2015, proudly supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Melbourne.Please contact the Institute to obtain the promo code for the special offer exclusively for IIC Members.
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