Istituto Di Cultura - Melbourne

Each year American, Australian and British publishers choose just a handful of Italian novels for translation. The majority of those novels are written by men. This year the Italian Cultural Institute has chosen to make Italian women writers the theme of the 2019 bookclub. Many people, whether they are Italian enthusiasts...

On the occasion of the first centenary of the birth of Primo Levi, a series of initiatives will be presented by the Italian Cultural Institute and partner organisations: Jewish Museum of Australia, the Jewish Holocaust Centre, CO.AS.IT. Museo Italiano, under the MMV banner (Multicultural Museums of Victoria). The various...

A programme of talks, documentaries and short films exploring the history of Modern Italian Art from the audacity of the avant-gardes to the anxieties of the 21st Century. This exciting new series consists of 7 sessions that will be presented in English by Dr Roberta Crisci-Richardson, Lecturer in History and Theory of...

A talk presented by Prof. Rodney Lokaj, Associate Professor of Italian Philology, Università degli Studi di Enna, "Kore" (Sicily, Italy). Prof Lokaj will be looking at the position of absolute privilege Dante affords certain female figures in the Divine Comedy. It will be based on Paradiso III, a canto featuring Pic...

'Non tutti i ladri vengono per nuocere' [The Virtuous Burglar], a one-act farce by Dario Fo performed by a group of students (Italian 6) from Melbourne University directed by Prof. Matthew Absalom. On the occasion of the XIX Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo - L'Italiano sul palcoscenico. In collaboration with the...