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The Jews confined in compulsory domicile in Milzano were deported to Auschwitz in the same convoy as Primo Levi; among them there was Julius Flesh, the interpreter in If This a Man.

The event is organized by the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi with the Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi.

The conference is organized by Master Internazionale di II livello in Didattica della Shoah with Colloquium di Roma Tre “Tra Occidente e Oriente”

With Alberto Cavaglion, Marino Ruzzenenti (Fondazione Luigi Micheletti, Brescia) and the pianist Alberto Dalla Volta.

The composition for narrator and strings based on the text of Primo Levi opens the season of Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra at Auditorium Parco Della Musica.

The planet 4545 stays in the asteroid belt and now its name is Primolevi.

The University of Zurich and the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaf of Basel host the events.

The conference is organized by the Embassy of Italy in Luxembourg and the University of Luxembourg, in collaboration with the International Primo Levi Studies Center of Turin.

The event will take place at the bookshop Koob in Rome. The book is published by Rubbettino.

The dramatic reading presented by the International Primo Levi Studies Center opens the season "Parole d’artista" at Teatro Alfieri.

Opening night of  "The Mark of the chemist", dramatic reading featuring John Turturro and Joan Acocella.

This year's speaker is Stefano Bartezzaghi. The event takes place in the Great Hall of the School of Natural Sciences, Physics, and Mathematics of the University of Turin.

A journey through the images of Primo Levi and the words of those who knew him.

Among the speakers, Pietro Cielo (Milan-Bicocca University and Ca’ Foscari University) and Valeria Buonuomo (L’Orientale University) talk about translating into sign language poetry through detailed analysis of the poem of Primo Levi, Shemà.

Dr. Smadar Shiffman, University of Tel Aviv, will relate on Primo Levi.

The event is free and open to all.

The event takes place on July 3rd at the Fontanafredda Natural Reserve in Serralunga d’Alba (CN).

The noted Italian writer and journalist will talk about prominent Italian writers of Jewish descent, among which Primo Levi.

Robert S.C. Gordon, author of the first Primo Levi Lecture, is among the Keynote Speakers.

Luigi Dei and Robert Gordon will relate on Primo Levi.

The reading, curated by Giorgio Cevasco, is part of the program ofthe International Year of Chemistry.

On May 19th, within the cycle of seminars for teachers organized by the Officina Memoria studies center from Brescia, Anna Bravo discusses on the Grey Zone theme.

The theatrical reading, cured by the International Primo Levi Studies Center and produced by the Stabile Theater is again on stage for the students and professors of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Torino University.

On Thursday May 12th, on the occasion of the 2011 Torino International Book Fair, the International Primo Levi Studies Center and Einaudi publishing house present "The Auschwitz Experiment", by Massimo Bucciantini.

The event is taking place on Sunday, March 27th, with a conference entitled "Primo Levi and Work".

The International Primo Levi Studies Center joins the Organizing Committee for Piedmont and Aosta Valley.

The reading curated by Giorgio Cevasco is one of the events selected for the opening of the scientific program for Italy.

The interview was realized by Anna Bravo and Federico Cereja, editors of the book, in 1983.

«Our language lacked words to express this offense». “If This Is a Man” by Primo Levi will be read in ten languages on the occasion of the Day of Memory, during an evening organized by the Villa Emma Foundation-Jewish Kids Saved from the Shoah, in Nonantola (MO).

On the occasion of the Day of Memory, the Press Museum and Archive (Archivio Museo della Stampa) in Genova commissioned a special matrix of the poem "Shema", assembled from a Linotype machine.

The other as the judge. Testimony and Rethoric in Primo Levi's 'Se questo è un uomo', a lecture by professor Franco Baldasso (New York University) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm, on the occasion of the Day of Memory.

He inspired Primo Levi for the characters of Piero Sonnino in If This is a Man and Cesare in The Truce and Moments of Reprieve.

The International Primo Levi Studies Centers organizes a screening of the theatrical reading for the teachers from Turin and Piemonte area.

This year's relator is Massimo Bucciantini. The event takes place in the Great Hall of the School of Natural Sciences, Physics, and Mathematics of the University of Turin.

On November 5 at 3.30PM the Science Festival in Genoa hosts a reading of pieces from The Periodic Table. Curated by Giorgio Cevasco.

The 4th edition of the Centro Primo Levi International Symposium takes place on October 26th and 28th, 2010.

Samuel was Pikolo, protagonist of the chapter The Canto of Ulysses in If This is a Man.

The British essayist and university professor was author of foundamental works, such as The Burden of Responsibility; he founded and animated for several years the Remarque Institute at the New York University.

The theatrical reading, presented by the International Primo Levi Studies Center and produced by the Teatro Stabile Foundation under the aegis of the City of Turin and with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo, was presented at the Maneggio della Cavallerizza Reale on the occasion of ESOF.

In occasion of ESOF, the Circolo dei Lettori, the Turin readers club, hosts a symposium on Primo Levi, author and scientist.

From June 23 to June 27, Istambul hosted the fourth of a series of meetings, organized by a group of researchers from different countries, among them Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Poland and Australia.

The indiscriminate budget cuts provided by the new financial manoeuvre lay the survival of Italian cultural institutions on the line.

Professor Domenico Scarpa, from the International Primo Levi Studies Center, participates in the XXXI “Mario Farina” Convention. The event, organized by AIM - the Italian Association for Macromolecular Science and Technology - takes place from May 17 to 21, 2010 in Gargnano (BS).

On May 14, the International Primo Levi Studies Center presents the first volume of the Quaderni Primo Levi book series: «Sfacciata fortuna». Luck and the Holocaust.
 

On Thursday, April 22, 2010, the Documentation Center of Cesena organizes a meeting on the the figure of Primo Levi, addressed to citizens and to the school world.

On March 25, the Museum Of Chemistry of La Sapienza University in Rome will be entitled to Primo Levi.

On March 15, the Ministry of National Education has published the first draft of the high schools syllabus.

La stanza delle memorie - giovani artisti e Shoah (The room of memories - young artists and Shoah). Exhibition, Genova, January 27 – February 27, Palazzo Ducale and Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti.

Reading Primo Levi, readings of If This is a Man (or Survival in Auschwitz) in ten cities (Cairo, Rabat, Casablanca, Istanbul, Amman, Tunis, Baghdad, Irbil, Nazareth and Jerusalem) between January 26 and the first week of February 2010.

“Outrageous Fortune”: Primo Levi, Luck and the Shoah, a lecture by Robert Gordon at the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm on the occasion of the Day of Memory on January 27, 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Events connected with Primo Levi on the occasion of the Day of Memory.

The first Primo Levi Lecture takes place at the Great Hall of the School of Natural Sciences, Physics, and Mathematics of the University of Turin on Tuesday November 10. It will be delivered by Robert Gordon, Professor of Italian Literature at Cambridge University on the topic “Outrageous Fortune": Luck, the Shoah and Modernity.

Arabic and Farsi translations of If This is a Man.

"New Voices on Primo Levi", International Symposium organized by the New York Primo Levi Center, October 25—27, 2009.

Primo Levi: writer and chemist, a conference organized in Budapest on October 16 2009 to mark the Ninth Annual Week of the Italian Language in the World.

Of the Basically Human Race, a play at the ex-Siva factory in Settimo Torinese (Turin Province), October 3-7 2009. Theatrical project by Gianni Bissaca, directed by Gianni Bissaca and Andrea Collavino.

La trasparenza della parola, a cantata for Primo Levi at nine stations. Texts by Emilio Jona, freely adapted from Primo Levi. Music, video and electronic effects by Andrea Liberovici.

Conference in homage to Primo Levi on the 90th anniversary of his birth, Tel Aviv, April 21-22 2009.