(November 3, 2016) By awarding the International Literary Franz Kafka Prize to the writer Claudio Magris, on October 27 at the City Hall of Prague’s Old Town, it closed the cycle of events organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in the Czech Republic and the Italian Embassy on the occasion of the XVI edition of the “Week of the Italian language in the world”, which was also held this year under the patronage of the President of the Republic. Particularly dense calendar of events realized. Tuesday, October 11, the Department of Italian Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy, University Karlová hosted a lecture of linguist and language philosopher Raffaele Simone, professor emeritus of the University Roma Tre and Professor of General Linguistics. On October 12 were held in the Italian Institute of Culture Chapel the conference and the inauguration of the exhibition dedicated to Italo Balbo, which was attended by, among others, the project manager of the Czech Ministry of Defense and some representatives of the Historical Office of the Italian Air Force. On October 19 the Redmont Consulting presented in the conference hall of the Institute magazine “CiaoPraga”, an online art magazine, culture and lifestyle in the Italian language is becoming established as a form of aggregation and communication of the local Italian community. On Thursday, October 20, with a concert of Michael Fenati and his band, it was the turn of poetry in music with the execution of the great successes of Italian singers. The evening was organized by the Institute, the Dante Alighieri Society – Prague Committee and by the Cultural Beatrice, in collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna Region. Saturday 22 and Sunday, October 23 with the concerts of Fabrizio Bosso Quartet, the great Italian jazz has conquered the scene of Reduta Jazz Club and the Great Hall of the Prague Municipal Library, with considerable feedback from audiences and critics. Among fans attending the opening night, the former President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus. On October 24 the Prague Linguistic Circle, in the framework of the activities planned for the international conference “The experience and the future of structuralism,” presented during a formal sitting in the Chapel of the Institute the progress of ” Atlas of European structuralism, “a web project dedicated to the mapping of the different national interpretations of the structuralist model. During the “Language Week”, the champion of the Italian Language Olympics 2016 – Section senior professional institutes, Gaia Vettori, and Professor Simon Bucciantini of Professional Institute Luigi Einaudi of Pistoia, were on a visit in Prague, guests of the Czech-Italian Bilingual Ústavní High School and the Italian Institute of Culture. (Red)
