Social Programme

The social programme of ScreenIt 2010 is open to both participants and their accompanying persons. It will include a Social Dinner on Friday 22 October 2010, with the entertainment of stand-up comic Giacinto Palmieri. Participants wishing to take part in it are kindly requested to register and will have to cover the costs for this meal (€ 40.- per person, see registration section), accompanying people wishing to take part in the social dinner will have to cover the costs for this meal either (€ 40.- per person), but they are kindly requested to book by writing an e-mail to the organization office.
At the end of the Conference, on Saturday 23 October, from 14.30 onwards, the organisers will have the pleasure to invite the participants and the persons accompanying them to visit an important exhibition The unknown face of Egypt held at the City Museum of San Domenico. Please book your free visit, by writing an e-mail to the organization office.

SOCIAL DINNER

Social Dinner with the participation straight from the Edinbugh Festival of the stand-up comic Giacinto Palmieri. Click here and visit the Giacinto's web site.

Giacinto Palmieri send mail to Giacinto

Giacinto Palmieri is Italian. At least according to the media coverage he received during the recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival from the likes of the Guardian newspaper and the BBC World Service, this biographical detail is in what sets him apart from all the other people who do what he does in his adopted country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The fact that the field in which he achieved his Italianness is the traditionally Anglo-Saxon field of "stand-up comedy" makes this result even more remarkable. His reluctance so far to perform his comedy in his native Italy has been unsurprisingly interpreted by some as a sign of his fear to lose this hardly won competitive advantage. Those who know him better, however, know that he is actually looking forward to leaving questions of nationality aside and focus on his favourite subject, language, specifically on the differences between the English and the Italian language. Such is his passion for this field that more than one reviewer remarked that his latest comedy show sounded at moments "more like a lecture in linguistics". He know hopes that an Academic audience might offer a more sympathetic ear, while at the same time bracing himself for the likely criticism: "It's not a lecture in linguistics at all, it contains too many dick jokes".