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1 February 2016
Melbourne – University, Turin Polytechnic cooperates with Australia

“The collaboration between universities is one of the fundamental building blocks on which the mutual understanding of two nations sharing ideals is based. At the same time, it enables a great many young men and women to better understand a new context, building a baggage of knowledge, relations and experience that will last for many […]

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1 February 2016
Italy-Mexico: Heritage Science takes centre stage in Mexico

The “Study, conservation and restoration of cultural and archaeological heritage: technologies and research infrastructure for Heritage Science” will be discussed during a conference by the same title on Feb. 2 and 3 in Mexico City. The event is the second of three scientific meetings organised by the Italian embassy in partnership with the National Research […]

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1 February 2016
Stockholm – “City of Soul”, the image of Rome in travel literature

There is an immense quantity of literature on the city of Rome, its history and beauty. The “Cittá Eterna”, or Eternal City, that is Rome, as it is experienced and told by writers, is at the centre of a meeting scheduled for Thursday February 4 (at 6pm) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. Organised […]

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1 February 2016
De Luca new Director-General for the Promotion of the Italian Economic System

Vincenzo De Luca took office on 1 February 2016 as Director-General for the Promotion of the Italian Economic System after having served in the same Directorate General as Deputy Director-General and Central Director for the Internationalisation of the Italian Economic System and of the autonomous local authorities (since January 2014). He has been a career […]

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29 January 2016
New York – Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli draw “An American Story”

“Una Storia Americana” (“An American Story”) is the title of an exhibition hosted from 30 January to 11 March at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The show will focus on a selection of works produced over the past five years by Italian illustrators Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli. These artists are two of […]

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29 January 2016
Lisbon – “Ithaca”, the art of Enzo De Leonibus in Portugal

Luisa Violo, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon, presented the exhibition “Ithaca” by the artist Enzo De Leonibus: “The image chosen as the emblem of the exhibition presents us with a question: Who is really in the cage? What is the cage for? To stop the birds from flying off or rather so […]

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29 January 2016
Buenos Aires holds exhibition in celebration of Matera

“Matera…. south of Eboli. Photographs by Victoria Troiani” is the title of an exhibition hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) of Buenos Aires from Feb. 29 to Mar. 8. The event coincides with Matera’s designation as European Capital of Culture 2019 (together with Plovdiv) and the annual meeting of the regional committee of “Lucanians […]

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28 January 2016
Sudan – Italo-Russian archaeological mission “sets an example”

The discoveries made by an Italo-Russian archaeological mission in the Abu Erteila site in Sudan have aroused great interest. The mission at the site, about 200 kilometres north of Khartoum, is headed by Professor Eugenio Fantusati of the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (IsMEO). Among the finds, of particular significance is a […]

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27 January 2016
Los Angeles – Head of Hades returned to Italy

The Head of Hades, a work of exceptional artistic value that had been looted from the area of Enna, Sicily, during the late 1970s and illegally exported to the United States, where it was sold to the Getty Museum in 1985 for 500,000 dollars, will be returned to Italy. The return was made possible thanks […]

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27 January 2016
Guatemala – ‘Avant-Garde XXI’ Exhibition opens

“Avant-garde XXI: Art and fashion in Italy and Guatemala” is the title of an exhibition organised and hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Guatemala City, which will run from Feb. 9 to 23. This collective exhibition is a preview of a show that Guatemalan artists and fashion designers will hold in March at […]

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