Concert with music by B.Britten, J.Rutter, D.Leisner & B.Roe

Barbara Vignudelli, soprano
Monica Paolini, guitar

Saturday 14 May 2011 at 21.00
Biblioteca  della Basilica di San Francesco, Piazza Malpighi 9 - 40123 Bologna

Prof. Vita Fortunati will give a talk on "La creatività femminile in letteratura e pittura: Virginia Woolf e Vanessa Bell".

Vita Fortunati is professor of English Literature at Bologna University. Her main areas of research are utopian studies, modernism, gender and women’s studies.

Friday 15 April 2011 at 18.00
Aula Magna di S.Cristina, Dipartimento delle Arti Visive, Piazzetta G. Morandi,2 - Bologna

Prof. Zachary Lesser will give a talk on "The Other Hamlet and the Dread - or is it the hope? - of Something after Death".

Zachary Lesser is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. He won the Elizabeth Dietz award for his book Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade (2004)

He will be introduced by Kier Elam, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Department of Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne at Bologna University

Wednesday 30 March 2011 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

As part of the Impara l'Arte project, Jeremy Barnard will take children on a guided tour in English of the Museo Davia Bargellini

This event has been organised in collaboration with the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Bologna.

Sunday 20 March 2011 at 16.00 - Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna, Strada Maggiore, 44

In collaboration with the Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica

Thursday 24 March 2011 at 21.00
Mauro Valli (violoncello) & Bruna Bruno (pianoforte) Works by J.S.Bach, L.V.Beethoven, J.Brahms, C.Landuzzi

Monday 28 March 2011 at 21.00
Eco Ensemble: Morena Mestieri (flute), Paola Fundarò (oboe) & Anna Bellagamba (pianoforte). Works by I. Stravinskij, M.Dring, S.Arnold, R.Delanoff, P.Guabert, J.Demerssemann

Monday 4 April 2011 at 21.00
Scilla Cristiano (soprano), Ilaria Sacchi (mezzosoprano) & Paola Alessandra Troili (pianoforte). Works by F.Schubert

Monday 11 April 2011 at 21.00
Massimo Nesi (violino) & Stefano Bezziccheri (pianoforte) Works by W.A.Mozart, F.Schubert and C.Franck

Wednesday 13 April 2011 at 15.00
Concert by the students of the new Accademia Musicale di San Francesco

Monday 18 April 2011 at 21.00
Paola Perrucci (harp) Works by G.Rossini

Biblioteca  della Basilica di San Francesco, Piazza Malpighi 9 - 40123 Bologna

Rita Monticelli ( Bologna University) and Gino Scatasta (Bologna University) present:

La casa di Via Azzurra by Silvia Abertazzi ( Kolibris edizioni)

Silvia Albertazzi is Professore ordinario di Letteratura Inglese at Bologna University

Wednesday 16 February 2011 at 17.30 Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Giovanna Perini will give a lecture entitled "Sir Joshua Reynolds and Bolognese painting"

Wednesday 26 January 2011 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

As part of the Impara l'Arte... la domenica dei Musei Civici d'Arte Antica project, Jeremy Barnard will take children on a guided tour in English

This event has been organised in collaboration with the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Bologna.

Alberta Gnugnoli will give a lecture entitled Thomas Lawrence: Lo splendore della sua arte nell'epoca della reggenza

She will be introduced by Maurizio Ascari, Bologna University

Wednesday 15 December 2010 - ore 17.30
Aula Prodi, pz. San Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna

In a ceremony held on Friday 26 November, Professor Valentina Poggi presented successful Cambridge ESOL candidates with their certificates.

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin will give a talk on Things Fall Apart: A Crime Writer Looks at the State of Ireland

Prof. Ó Cuilleanáin is Professor of Italian at Trinity College Dublin.

He has published on Boccaccio, on Dante and on translation. In recent years he has taken to crime fiction, under the pseudonym Cormac Millar; his second crime novel, The Grounds, set in a fictional Dublin university, was published in 2006.

Introduction by Gino Scatasta, Università di Bologna.

International Conference (Bologna/Ravenna, Bologna University, 27-29 October 2010) organized by Carla Comellini, head of the Centre for Canadian Studies “Alfredo Rizzardi”, Bologna University, in collaboration with the Department of Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Bologna University, the Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Bologna University in Ravenna, the Flaminia Foundation, Ravenna, the Siena-Toronto Centre, Siena University, and the Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Bologna                 

Martin Loeschnigg (Director of the Canadian Centre, Graz University): "’Lest  we forget’: Remembering the First World War in Contemporary Canadian Fiction"

Biancamaria Rizzardi (Director of  the MA in  Translation of  Postcolonial Texts, Pisa  University): "Personal Remembrances through the Words  of a Myth: Sheila Watson's Antigone".

Chair: Silvia Albertazzi (Director of the PhD in  Modern, Comparative and Postcolonial Literature, Bologna University)

Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 17.15
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Presentation of the book Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction and the Forms of Modern Literature by Max Saunders (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Vita Fortunati (Bologna University) and Elena Lamberti (Bologna University) will introduce the author and talk to him about his new book.

Organised in collaboration with the Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica

Wednesday 23 June 2010 - 17.00 - Sala della Giunta, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Via Cartoleria 5, 40124 Bologna

In collaboration with the Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica

Concerto N.2 OP 21 by F.Chopin (version for piano and five string instruments) with CLAUDIA D'IPPOLITO Piano

L.V Beethoven: Quartetto OP.18 N.5 con
Marco Polizzi - Violin
Stefano Mengoli - Violin
Michele Maria Costantini - Viola
Sorayya Russo - Cello
Luigi Borgogno - Bass

Monday 17 May 2010 - 21.00 - Biblioteca  della Basilica di San Francesco, Piazza Malpighi 9

Rosemary Sullivan talked about Narrating History and her book Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a house in Marseille. She was introduced by Carla Comellini of Bologna University.

Rosemary Sullivan writes poetry, short stories, biographies and literary criticism. She teaches English Literature at the Toronto University.

The talk was followed by a screening of the short The Road Out directed by Juan Opitz and produced and narrated by Rosemary Sullivan.

Wednesday 12 May 2010 - 18.00
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Enoch Brater will give a lecture on "Arthur Miller's Last Four Plays"

Enoch Brater is Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan and author of Beyond Minimalism, The Drama in the Text e The Essential Samuel Beckett.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Kier Elam will give a lecture entitled "Shakespeare's pictures"

Keir Elam is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Department of Language and Modern Foreign Literatures at Bologna University. He is the author of The semiotics of theatre and drama (1980) and Shakespeare's universe of discourse: Language-games in the comedies (1984).

Prof. Elam has very kindly offered to substitute Prof. Gordon McMullan who cannot be with us because of the disruption caused to air traffic by the volcanic ash cloud.

Thursday 22 April 2010 - 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Presentation of “I segni a margine” by Harri Pritchard Jones translated by Andrea Bianchi & Silvana Siviero (MOBYDICK).


Gino Scatasta of the University di Bologna will talk to the author about his work.

Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

As part of the Impara l'Arte project, Jeremy Barnard will take children on a guided tour in English of the Museo Davia Bargellini

Sunday 25 October at 16.00 - Museo Davia Bargellini

This event has been organised in collaboration with the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Bologna.

Talk by Donald Beecher entitled "Forgeries in the Name of Shakespeare "

Donald Beecher is Professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa

He will be introducted by Maurizio Ascari of Bologna University

Wednesday 21 October 2009 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

In collaboration with the Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, the Associazione AGLMUS and the Associazione A.M.I.C.I di L.Boccherini present

EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM OP.45 by Johannes Brahms
Soprano: Roberta Pozzer
Baritone: Giuseppe Guidi
Pianoforte a quattro mani: Raffella Zagni & Marina Marchese
Camerata Polifonica G.B.Martini with the participation of the soprano Scilla Cristiano

Conductor: Bruno Zagni

Monday 5 October 2009 at 21.00
Biblioteca Storica della Basilica di San Francesco, Piazza Malpighi 9, 40123 Bologna

An exhibition of the work of the artist Cesare Cesarini in collaboration with the Istituto di Studi Canadesi and Bologna University

From Friday 11 September 2009
Urban Center Bologna, Salaborsa - Piazza Nettuno, 3 Bologna

Presentation of “Re delle Bettole” (Barrelhouse Kings) by Barry Callaghan (Cosmo Iannone Editore, 2009)

Giovanna Franci, Università di Bologna and Carla Plevano Pezzini will talk to the author about his work

This meeting has been organised in collaboration with the  Centro di Studi Canadesi Alfredo Rizzardi

Wednesday 13 Mayl 2009 at 18.00
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Nicholas Brownlees will give a lecture entitled "Reporting England’s inglorious defeat at the Battle of Leghorn 1653: pamphlets, newsletters, avvisi and secret correspondence"

Nicholas Brownlees is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Florence

Wednesday 22 April 2009 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

As part of the Impara l'Arte project, Jeremy Barnard will take children on a guided tour in English of the Collezioni Comunali d'Arte

Sunday 8 March at 16.00 - Collezioni Comunali d'Arte, P.zza Maggiore 6

This event has been organised in collaboration with the Musei Civici d'Arte Antica di Bologna.

Enoch Brater will give a lecture entitled "The Seated Figure on Beckett's Stage"

Enoch Brater is Professor of English and Theater at the University of Michigan and is the author of Beyond Minimalism, The Drama in the Text and The Essential Samuel Beckett.

Wednesday 11 March 2009 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Silvia Albertazzi will give a lecture entitled Geografie della memoria: l'album di famiglia come atlante personale nella narrativa inglese contemporanea.

Silvia Albertazzi is Professor of English Literature at Bologna University

Wednesday 21 January 2009 at 17.30
Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Conversation with Edgarda Pesci Battaglia on “Lady Sackville West: the life and opinions of a scandalous gardener”

Flower arrangements by Fiorella Falavigna De Leo and Elisabetta Galli Pincherle

This event has been organised in colaboration with Garden Club Malvasia

Wednesday 18 February 2009 - 17.30, at the Associazione Culturale Italo Britannica, Via Farini 35, Bologna

Alberta Gnugnoli will give a lecture entitled An Englishman in the Garden of Europe: J.M.W. Turner and Italy.

She will be introduced by Maurizio Ascari, Bologna University

Wednesday 3 December 2008 - ore 17.30
Aula Prodi, pz. San Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna