Italian identities through war
Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 - Saturday, January 24, 2015 Hours: 10am - 5pm Venue: Herbert Morris Seminar Room 306 Organized by: UCLA dept. of Italian In collaboration with: IIC The conference seeks to examine the experience of war as a seminal factor in the formation of identity within the Italian context and the ways this critical...
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Cinecittà touts Italian tax credits to Hollywood
CEO Giuseppe Basso and Cristina Giubbetti, sales manager international productions, were touting key changes that among other things allow Cinecittà Studios to act as an Italian production service company. The change means the 78-year-old Rome institution has shifted its position to not only provide a range of studio amenities and adviso...
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Stars of Puglia – A special night in Los Angeles
It was a great night the one at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, where the Puglia Center of America awarded Hollywood star Joe Mantegna with the Puglia's Italy Award of Excellence in America – Special Edition. Almost 200 guests attended the evening, together with a delegation of the Comunità Pugliese della California. Several...
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Italian beautiful minds
The Consulate General of Italy - The Italian Cultural Institute And The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation Cordially invite you to meet ITALIAN BEAUTIFUL MINDS Latest Italian contribution to medical technology and environmental health Wednesday June 4 2014 - Italian Cultural Institute -&n...
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West Coast Premiere: Emergency Exit by Brunella Fili'
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 At 6:30 pm Organized by: IIC in collaboration with Italian Film Festival USA Entrance: Free Location: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles - 1023 Hilgard Avenue - Los Angeles, CA 90024 - USA Six stories of ordinary separation, one question: What happened to Italy? Emergency Exit (2014, 66 min, in...
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L’ENIT presenta Expo Milano 2015: prima tappa Los Angeles
A un anno dall'inaugurazione, tra polemiche e scandali che sembrano inevitabilmente accompagnare eventi di questa portata, l'Expo di Milano 2015 debutta all'estero per farsi conoscere e per attrarre ancora di più su di sé l'interesse del pubblico internazionale. L'ENIT (Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo) parteciperà a tale missione in veste di...
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A Venetian in Los Angeles: Ugo Mamolo on Cakes, Bakes and Benê’s Bakery
by Elisabetta Santi Walking into Gelson's Market, on Laurel Canyon Blvd., the first thing that greets the eye is the 'Coffee & Pastries' sign. The man behind these pastries is Trieste-born, Ugo Mamolo, who owns Viktor Benês Bakery. His creations are some of Los Angeles' favorite pasticcini, hence their availability at 15 Gelson's...
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A Conversation With Francis Ford Coppola
The cement was barely dry from the hand- and footprint ceremony in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theater (Grauman's Chinese) in Hollywood where director Francis Ford Coppola had just been enshrined before he took the stage to talk about some of his seminal 1970s films with TCM Classic Film Festival host Ben Mankiewicz. Ostensibly, Coppo...
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Umberto Eco, the Middle Ages, and The Name of the Rose
When: Thursday, January 26, 2017 a Friday, January 27, 2017Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Organized by : UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies - In collaboration with : IIC - Entrance : Free A symposium dedicated to the Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, and semiotician, also featuri...
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Marianna Gatto (Executive Director - Italian American Museum of Los Angeles)
L'emigrazione italiana toccò moltissime città statunitensi. Se è vero che la maggior parte degli italiani si stabilì sulla costa est, per ovvi motivi geografici, e se è vero che molti tra coloro che arrivarono fino alla costa ovest andarono a San Francisco, non furono pochi i nostri connazionali che si stabilirono nell'area di Los Angeles. Proprio...
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