August 2010


Fear of Islamic Terrorism in European Politics

Best-selling Italian writer Loretta Napoleoni, along with Australian scholars Pascaline Winand (director of European Studies), Natalie Doyle and Greg Barton, all three from Monash University, explored the role played by fear of Islamic terrorism in European politics, at the Melbourne Writers Festival

European playwrights compete for Chilean audience

EUNIC in Chile  launches its programmes at the Festival of Contemporary European Drama in Santiago (27 August - 5 September),  held at the Goethe-Institut, the Cultural Centre Gabriela Mistral and the Italian Institute of Culture.

Santiago: musiciens chiliens et européens échangent dans le Festival Européen de Jazz

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Steve Houben & Marc Lerchs - "By Night". Images courtesy: RTBF

Cinq formations européennes et cinq chiliennes se rencontreront pour dialoguer et créer des liens devant un public de connaisseurs. 
 

European and Chilean musicians meet in first EUNIC Jazz Festival in Santiago

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Wogram & Nabotov play Dança Nova, Amsterdam, March 2010

The lively and ever-growing Chilean jazz scene will get a chance to feature European musicians in the first European Jazz Festival that EUNIC in Chile will be organizing from 22 to 26 September 2010. In addition to concerts in various emblematic jazz clubs throughout Santiago, the European musicians will meet their Chilean counterparts in workshops and jam sessions.

Moving Sounds - a festival devoted to sound and its roles in contemporary music

Moving Sounds is a 4-day festival of music (2-5 September 2010), visual media and aesthetic dialogue, jointly produced  by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the music information center austria (mica), the Czech Center, and the Argento New Music Project.

Memory studies and the Identity problem: an international panel to encompass Canadian and European experiences

EUNIC in Canada launched its activities with an international panel on: Memory Studies and the Identity problem: a Cross Reading of European and Canadian Cultural Traditions, held on Tuesday 7 September at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Thousand years of European Way in a photo exhibition

EUNIC in Brazil  celebrates The European Way  with a photo exhibition on the Way of St. James  (from 9 August to 3 December at Goethe-Zentrum Brasilia). The pictures were taken by amateur and professional photographers in various places along the routes in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Spain.

All Aboard the Multilingual Bus on European Language Day!

Celebrate European Language Day on Friday  September 24 and get a taste of French, German, Italian and Spanish language and culture. Step on board the multilingual bus and enter Europe. The bus will stop at a variety of Sydney’s hotspots where a range of activities highlighting European culture and languages will take place.