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America Settentrionale

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12 December 2016
United States – Andrew Viterbi guest at the Italian Cultural Institute

Andrew James Viterbi is an Italian engineer and entrepreneur naturalised American. Born in 1935, Viterbi is the co-founder of Qualcomm – one of the major communication companies in the world – and the inventor of the algorithm that bears his name, the groundwork of a large part of the mobile telephony. He will be hosted […]

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5 December 2016
Canada – Artecinema Festival at the IIC in Montreal

‎The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Montreal, in cooperation with Artecinema and the University of Montreal, presents the ARTECINEMA festival, featuring a selection of Italian art films. The festival, directed by Laura Trisorio, will be held on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 of December, from 1 to 5 p.m. It will be attended by Guy […]

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Interviews
6 November 2016
Article by Minister Gentiloni “A leader’s vision” (L’Unità)

Barack Obama is closing his eight-year mandate at the White House reaping a high level of popularity. He found an America affected by the most severe economic crisis since the end of the two world wars, and involved, with thousands of soldiers on the ground, in conflicts increasingly difficult to be justified. He is leaving […]

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Press Releases
5 November 2016
Foreign Minister Gentiloni and Libyan Prime Minister Al-Serraj discuss release of hostages with a telephone conversation

The Prime Minister of Libya, Fayez Al-Serraj, had a telephone conversation with the Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, to express the satisfaction of the government of Tripoli over the release of two Italian hostages seized on 19 September in southern Libya.Minister Gentiloni informed Prime Minister Renzi about the message received from Prime Minister Serraj and […]

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4 November 2016
Canada: “Grandi Degustazioni in Canda 2016”, Italian wine lands in Montreal

It seems wine was first imported to Canada apparently by French colonisers 400 years ago, but today Italy is the first supplier in terms of quantity (almost 50 million litres) and second in terms of value (over 300 million Canadian dollars), after the United States. These figures were mentioned by the Italian ambassador to Canada, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, […]

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21 October 2016
Washington – Six Italian scientists receive awards in the United States

Six researchers, aged between 30 and 40, have become the pride and glory of Italy in North America. Six talents, six prizes, and the winners are  Ilaria Iacobucci, who received the  Paola Campese Award for research in leukemia;  Gaetano Santulli and Silvia Balbo who received the Hogan Lovells Award in Medicine, Biosciences and Cognitive Science; […]

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18 October 2016
Canada – Montreal, Conference “Language and creativity: costumes, fashion and design”

Designer Alessandro Guerriero will talk about Italian as the “language of creativity” in a conference organised by the Italian Cultural Institute at the University of Quebec. He will illustrate how language grows out of the vivacity of the multifarious, of everyday life, when every element grows out of contrasting and reciprocal ties or through transformation. […]

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18 October 2016
United States – Chicago, Dressing the Past: Outfits, Dreams and Memories of a 20th Century Italian Writer

The Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago focused on the original connection between fashion and literature in presenting the book Album di vestiti (“Dress Album”), written by Paola Masino at the end of the ‘50s and remained unpublished until 2015. The editor, Marinella Mascia Galateria, from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, will illustrate the memories […]

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