Events Jan - Dec 2003
	NEXT EVENT If you are interested in Italy, its culture and politics you should join today.	Christmas Drinks Party Christmas Drinks Party for members of the Society and attended by HE The Italian Ambassador and Mrs Amaduzzi. THE LECONFIELD LECTURE HERCULANEUM. Andrew Wallace Hadrill BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The films of Sergio Leone. This illustrated lecture, by Sir Christopher Frayling, Leone's biographer, will explore Sergio Leone's films, and especially his Westerns al'Italiana. It will argue that the films have been seriously under-rated for all sorts of reasons, and that it is the Italian elements that make them so interesting. THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT A Neapolitan Introduction to Slow Food. Atraditional Neapolitan dinner hosted by Slow Food at the Jolly Hotel St Ermin in St James where their Neapolitan chef prepared dishes from his beloved city. The evening included an introduction to Slow Food - the eco-gastronomic movement founded by the charismaticjournalist, Carlo Petrini, in 1986 in order to preserve and to promote our gastronomic heritage. The movement now has over 75,000 members in 50 countries throughout the world - including Britain. AGM AGM - followed by an illustrated lecture on the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Piazza di Spagna, Rome; a joint presentation with slides by the curator, Catherine Payling and Architetto Roberto Einaudi. A MUSICAL EVENING An evening of music and singing of popular European classics from Opera and Folk music. Performed by young artists from the Trinity School of Music. FROM MANTUA TO LONDON CHARLES I's ACQUISITION OF THE GONZAGA COLLECTION. A lecture by Lucy Whittaker (The Queen's Collection). This illustrated talk described the most famous episode in British collection of Italian art - the arrival and dispersal of the Gonzaga Collection. EVENING RECEPTION AT ST JAMES' PALACE A joint UK-EU Societies' Reception, attended by Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, to mark the 50th Anniversary of Her Majesty's Coronation. CAN VENICE BE SAVED? A lecture by Anna Somers Cocks (Chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund) An examination of the restoration work done by Venice in Peril and other bodies; the flooding; the proposed solution. Venice in Peril's research project on the flooding at Cambridge. The wider question of whether the city is doomed to become just a tourist attraction. The Underglobe of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tour of the Globe Theatre and then RECREATING EDEN a lecture given by Tim Smit CBE, founder of the Eden Project in Cornwall. (This was an Anglo-Netherlands Society Event that British-Italian Society members weren invited to). DANTE: THE POETICS OF CONVERSION An examination of Dante's life and thought through La Vita Nova and The commedia to be given by Dr Jordan Lancaster; Italianist and translator, fellow of the Instituto de Italiano di Studi Storici email: jordan@parthenope.com. Past Events Jan - Dec 2003Jan - Dec 2002Jan - Dec 2001 Jan - Dec 2000
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