(August 5, 2016) ‘The Italian city- urban space and representation’ is the title of the interdisciplinary conference organised by professor Marco Gargiulo from the department of Italian studies of the University of Bergen in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Oslo. Three days, from Monday September 12 to Wednesday September 14, to investigate the city and linguistic, literary and cinematic representation of the Italian urban space, leading to a discussion on urban and social sciences. Nicoletta Marascio, president of the Accademia della Crusca, Pietro Trifone, teniored professor of History of the Italian language at the Tor Vergata University of Rome and Giulio Giovannoni, researcher at the University of Florence in the Department of Architecture, will host the conference. (Red)