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Photography Masterclass with Sabiha Çimen and Jason Eskenazi

Magnum Photos and the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities at Fondazione Giorgio Cini are inviting applications for the third workshop organized on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, offering participants the opportunity to work on their projects in an immersive and intimate group setting.

Join Magnum photographer Sabiha Çimen for a three-day workshop where you will participate in discussions about documentary photography and how to develop personal long-term projects. During the course, Sabiha accompanied by the guest course tutor, Jason Eskenazi – photographer and founder of Red Hook Books, will talk at large about their work and give you critical feedback about your practice.

Organized into intensive sessions of lectures, editing and sequencing exercises, and group portfolio reviews, this workshop will help you to develop strategies and set individual project objectives. Whether you want to keep shooting, publish your project in a book or exhibit it, through a round table discussion on the contemporary editorial environment, this workshop will contextualize and shape the vision of each involved photographer.

This workshop is open for 15 participants and suitable for photographers with a large body of work who are looking for guidance in the final stage of their projects or photographers starting a new project and are at a research stage. Each participant will have an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the editing process of long-term projects and on choosing the right format for displaying them.

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47th International Advanced Culture Course RESOURCES OF THE ESSENTIAL

The words describing the world are taking on new connotations: the terms “globalisation” or “internationalisation” have assumed negative overtones. Often pronounced with resigned passivity, they evoke images of individual impotence, driving people to defensive localism, giving rise to the illusion of “controllable identities”. The war in Europe is an alarming cultural regression for humanity. It also calls for a survey to establish and safeguard the primary values of a free existence: from energy to bread. This means working in various disciplines and social spheres towards defining the “essential”. Not only in the sense of what is indispensable but more importantly of what enables us to reach the essence or the core of a problem, an attitude or a value. Both logical and ethical, this process involving economics and ecology, thought and action, and describing and living may lead to more incisive modes of shared rationality.

Lectio magistralis di:

Marco Alverà, autore di Hydrogen Revolution, imprenditore nell’energia, fondatore zhero.net

Luigino Bruni, Università di Roma, LUMSA

Paola Cattani, Università di Roma Tre

Francesco Dal Co, Professore emerito IUAV

Gabriele Lolli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Carlo Ossola, Collège de France, Parigi, Direttore del Corso

Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School

Rob Riemen, Nexus Instituut, Amsterdam

Jean-Marie Tarascon, Collège de France, Parigi

Olivier-Thomas Vénard, École Biblique et Archéologique française de Jérusalem

Return to Monselice

In 1979, over forty works of art were stolen from Monselice Castle, a residence where Vittorio Cini used to enjoy leisure activities and house part of his historic art collection. Thanks to investigations by the Venice Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit, three of these works were fortunately recovered and, between 2001 and 2015, returned to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, which owned the castle at the time of the theft. The works are: a Po Valley artist (Cremona ?) from the last quarter of the 16th century Adoration of the Shepherds, a 17th-century St Luke the Evangelist attributed to Pietro Bellotti, both oil on panel, and a late 15th-century Lombard School polychrome wood bas-relief with the Adoration of the Child. Thanks to an agreement between the Veneto Region, which now owns Monselice Castle, and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the works recovered by the Carabinieri will be returned to the splendid setting chosen for them by Vittorio Cini.

The three works will be handed over at an official ceremony with the following speakers:

Francesco Calzavara

Councillor for Planning, Programme Implementation, Relations with the Regional Council, Budget and Heritage, General Affairs, Local Agencies, Veneto Region

Francesca Scatto

Chairman of the Sixth Standing Council Committee (Education, Training and Labour Policies; Research Policies; Culture, Tourism and Sports Policies), Veneto Regional Council

Cristiano Corazzari

Councillor for Territory, Culture, Security, Migratory Flows, Hunting and Fishing, Veneto Region

Giorgia Bedin

Mayor of Monselice

Aldo Rozzi Marin

Sole Director, Marco Polo Ltd.

Renata Codello

General Secretary, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Christian Costantini

Commander, Venice Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit

Luca Massimo Barbero

Director, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of Art History

Study Symposium: Venice the Second Byzantium

On June 21, 2022, the “Venice the Second Byzantium” Study Seminar will gather top scholars to reflect on the link between Constantinople and Venice.
To all those who for centuries landed there, Constantinople appeared a wonder, sublime city, an unforgettable enchantment. Of it remains an unquenchable nostalgia. Venice was born and formed Byzantine, became what it is in a complex relationship with the motherland, the imperial polis on the Bosporus. The wonder of Constantinople, after the fall of its civilization in 1453, is as if it had been translocated into the wonder of Venice. There is something familiar between these two cities, something that eludes but is felt in the suspended atmospheres. Not so much the details, but the whole, a certain idea, a being between West and East. The “Venice the Second Byzantium” Study Seminar gathers top scholars to reflect on this famous formula that evokes the ties between the two cities and their histories. It is also a way of recalling a formula dear to Vittore Branca, longtime Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, who considered that of Venice a unique civilization.

Following is the day’s program:

10 a.m.

Peter Schreiner, Universität zu Köln

What does alterum Byzantium mean?

Caterina Carpinato, Ca’ Foscari University Venice

The Fall of the Polis in the Άλωσις της Τροίας of Nikolaos Lukanis (Venice, Nicolini da Sabbio, 1526)

Sandra Origone, University of Genoa

Genoa and Venice in the confrontation with Byzantium

Beatrice Daskas, Ca’ Foscari University Venice

Βασίλεια πόλις / Civitas regia.

Reflections around a topos between Constantinople and Venice

Niccolò Zorzi, University of Padua

The gaze of the other.

Venice in the mirror of Byzantine sources

3:00 p.m.

Silvia Ronchey, University of Roma Tre

Escape from the First Rome. Bessarion and the legacy of Byzantium.

Eleftherios Despotakis, Johannes Guttemberg-Universität Mainz

Byzantium and Venice in the Perspective of Archival and Manuscript Sources.

A case-study of the library of the monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai

Gianmario Guidarelli, University of Padua

Venetian Renaissance architecture and Byzantium.

Problems and perspectives of research

Egidio Ivetic, Institute for the History of the Venetian Society and State – Giorgio Cini Foundation

The sea of Venice as a Byzantine legacy

Ermanno Orlando, University for Foreigners of Siena

“And here it seems to them that they are entering a second Byzantium.”

Venice and the Diaspora from the Balkans in the xv century

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International Conference Goldoni Avant la Lettre: Evolution, Involution, and Transformation of Theatrical Genres (1650-1750)

The Institute of Theatre and Opera, in collaboration with the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, has organised an international conference on changes in theatrical genres between 1650 and 1750. The event is part of the research activities of the Archivio del Teatro Pregoldoniano (ArpreGo), which has selected Italian plays between 1650 and 1750 with characteristics that may have influenced Carlo Goldoni’s reformed theatre in terms of all his highly varied historical and artistic production. This project has also led to a significant number of editions of period plays with links to Goldoni’s production and to the creation of several databases which, together with the texts of the plays, can be freely consulted on the project’s official website (www.usc.gal/goldoni).

The conference will be an opportunity for scholars in the field to meet and discuss the subject and, in particular, dramaturgical developments that influenced Goldoni’s formative process. In addition to the organisers of the event, Maria Ida Biggi (Institute of Theatre and Opera, Fondazione Giorgio Cini; Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice), Javier Gutiérrez Carou (Universidade Santiago de Compostela) and Piermario Vescovo (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice), the members of the Advisory Committee include Beatrice Alfonzetti (Università La Sapienza, Rome), Camilla Cederna and Lucie Comparini (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Francesco Cotticelli (Università di Napoli), Emanuele De Luca and Andrea Fabiano (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Paologiovanni Maione (Conservatorio di Napoli), Marzia Pieri (Università di Siena) and Anna Scannapieco (Università di Padova).

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Conference New Concepts of Harmony in Musical Composition 1945-1975

The last stage of a three-year project, this conference has been organised by Gianmario Borio, Pascal Decroupet and Christoph Neidhöfer and funded by the Ernst von Siemens-Musikstiftung. The focus will be on a key issue in 20th-century music theory: the principles and characteristics of the harmonic dimension in post-tonal composition. This part of the project explores the compositional techniques and theoretical elaborations of the three decades after the Second World War. It follows on from an initial meeting of the research group in 2019, the starting point for a panel held by the coordinators and some members of the group at the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (2019).

The monographic conference papers will deal with Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey, György Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur and Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

Participants: Jonathan Bernard, David W. Bernstein, Paolo Dal Molin, Pascal Decroupet, François-Xavier Féron, Oliver Korte, Catherine Losada, Christopher Brent Murray, Christoph Neidhöfer, Susanna Pasticci, Cordula Pätzold and Ingrid Pustijanac.

On the occasion of the conference, on 12 July at 7:00 PM, there will be a concert in the Auditorium ‘Lo Squero’ (free admission) by the mdi Ensemble composed of:

Sonia Formenti flute

Paolo Casiraghi clarinet

Lorenzo Derinni violin

Paolo Fumagalli viola

Giorgio Casati cello

Valentina Messa piano

The Ensemble will play:

Niccolò Castiglioni Gymel (1960), per flauto e pianoforte

Elliott Carter Esprit rude/esprit doux (1985), per flauto e clarinetto

Luigi Nono “Hay que caminar” soñando (1989), per due violini

Giacomo Manzoni Frase (1988), per clarinetto e pianoforte

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Intercomunicazione (1967), per violoncello e pianoforte

Pierre Boulez Improvisé – Pour le Dr. Kalmus (1969), per flauto, clarinetto, viola, violoncello e pianoforte

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Accademia Vivaldi Advanced Workshops on Performing the Music of Antonio Vivaldi

The Accademia Vivaldi advanced courses will continue in 2022 with five workshops for singers and instrumentalists on performing practice of Vivaldi’s compositions. The courses will be devoted to singing (sacred vocal music, vocal chamber music, and dramas for music with a special focus on Griselda in the June workshop) and performing basso continuo. A maximum of ten selected students will be admitted to the workshops through a call for applications. The students will have the opportunity to work on performing technique but also to further their knowledge of the musicological aspects of the chosen compositions, thanks to lessons to be given by the musicologists who edit the Vivaldi Institute’s critical editions. There will be a public concert at the end of each workshop.

International Conference Il Teatro delle riviste (1870-2000). Periodicals as objects and tools of theatrical historiography

This conference represents the culmination of the work conducted over the past ten years by the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur les Revues de Théâtre (GRIRT), and is organized in synergy with the Institute for Theatre and Melodrama of the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice and the program Theatre and Photography in France and Europe
in the 19th and 20th Centuries of the Institut Universitaire de France. The goal of the meeting is to deepen the studies on the journals of the field, valuable documentary sources for theatrical historiography. The focus of the conference is on the period from the 1870s-1880s to the to the last years of the 20th century with the emergence of new digital media.

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Comitato organizzativo
Maria Ida Biggi (Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma, Fondazione Giorgio Cini; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Marianna Zannoni (Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma, Fondazione Giorgio Cini; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Sophie Lucet (Université de Paris); Marco Consolini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle); Romain Piana (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle); Arnaud Rykner (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Comitato scientifico
Paul Aron (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Marion Denizot (Université Rennes 2); Mathieu Duplay (Université de Paris); Mark Evans (Coventry University); Roberta Gandolfi (Università degli Studi di Parma); Gerardo Guccini (Università degli Studi di Bologna); Jan Lazardzig (Freie Universität Berlin); Lorenzo Mango (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale); Evanghelia Stead (Université Paris-Saclay); Armelle Talbot (Université de Paris); Piermario Vescovo (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia); Jean-Claude Yon (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)

Conference Oral-Tradition Music as a Cultural Heritage

A fast-growing issue for Italian ethnomusicology, and for musicology as a whole, is the absence of the term “music” in the Italian cultural heritage code. Music is thought of and regulated only as live performance, while the protection and preservation of musical heritage is not contemplated in the Italian legal system. Hence the need for ethnomusicology, as a new discipline straddling musicology and demoethno-anthropology, to engage in defining music assets, be they material or intangible, also in the light of recent UNESCO legislation. This means recognising and defining what can be considered cultural heritage in the sphere of oral-tradition music, including audiovisual recordings and documentation, musical instruments, archives and knowledge handed down orally.

The Institute for Comparative Music Studies has invited various professionals to discuss these issues in order to gain recognition for musical heritage and the role of the “musicologist” within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism: experts in the field of ethnomusicol- ogy; lecturers from the University of Bologna School of Specialisation in Musical Heritage and the University of Perugia School of Specialisation in Demoethno-anthropological Heritage; ethnomusicologists from the conservation agencies; and members of ministerial institutions responsible for managing musical heritage, such as the Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi and the Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali.

Study Day Giacomo Manzoni and literature: Celebrating the Composer’s Ninetieth Birthday

In conjunction with the concert and round table devoted to Giacomo Manzoni on 3 June at the Teatro Verdi, Padua, the Institute of Music will hold a study day on the composer’s relationship with the literary world. Even when a student, Manzoni was particularly interested in 20th-century literature, especially German literature. In 1955 he graduated in foreign languages and literature from Bocconi University with a thesis on the presence of music in the works of Thomas Mann. The Lübeck writer’s important influence on him is demonstrated by the opera Doktor Faustus (1989). Manzoni’s vocal and theatrical compositions are based on a peculiar technique of reassembling and elaborating texts, revealing a marked aptitude for literary creation. Starting from the materials preserved in the Institute of Music archive, Giacomo Albert, Pietro Cavallotti, Giorgio Panizza and Elena Polledri will deal with paradigmatic cases concerning the setting to music of texts by Hölderlin, Beckett, Ginsberg and various Italian poets (Caproni, Zanzotto, Leonetti, Fortini and Raboni).