Roma - "L'educazione dei giovani attraverso il cinema": Convegno che si terrà lunedì 28 maggio 2012, alle ore 17.00, presso la Sala Peppino Impastato della Provincia di Roma. Interverranno alla tavola rotonda, organizzata dalla Federazione FIDAPA (Federazione Italiana Donne Arti Professioni e Affari), Sezione di Roma, e dalla Federazione Internazionale IFBPW (International Federation of Business and Professional Women), in collaborazione con la Provincia di Roma, l'On. Patrizia Prestipino (Assessore per le Politiche Giovanili, Provincia di Roma) e l'On. Claudio Cecchini (Assessore alle Politiche Sociali e per la Famiglia e ai Rapporti Istituzionali, Provincia di Roma). Dario Edoardo Viganò affronterà in particolare i modelli educativi che le narrazioni cinematografiche, italiane, europee e d'oltreoceano, offrono agli spettatori. A margine verrà presentato il libro di Viganò "Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" (Cittadella Editrice 2011).

Benevento - Si terrà presso il Seminario Arcivescovile di Benevento, domenica 27 maggio 2012 alle ore 16.30, l'incontro di formazione tenuto da Dario Edoardo Viganò sul ruolo dell'animatore della comunicazione e della cultura, promosso dall'Ufficio Catechistico e dall'Ufficio Comunicazioni sociali della diocesi. La relazione in particolare si concentrerà sulla figura dell'animatore, sul suo ruolo all'interno della comunità diocesana dinanzi alle sfide educative schiuse dal nuovo millennio, come sottolineano gli Orientamenti pastorali della CEI 2010-2020, Educare alla vita buona del Vangelo. Viganò approfondirà, per l'occasione, gli strumenti e i linguaggi a disposizione dell'animatore, in particolare il guadagno del cinema per le attività formative e culturali a livello pastorale, nelle dimensione della Sala della Comunità.

Rome - "Communicate science, communicate life" is the title of the IX National Conference Science &Life, which will be held in Rome, at the congress centre in via Aurelia 796, 4-5 May 2012. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a talk on Saturday 5 May at 09.30, entitled "Communicate with the cinema". Viganò will deal with some of the main issues concerning bioethics, euthanasia and abortion, through the eyes of the cinema, the sensations of the authors of the seventh art. An analytical view at some of the most significant yet problematic cinematographic works of the twenty-first century: Million Dollar Baby (Id., 2004) by Clint Eastwood, Mare Dentro (Mar adentro, 2004) by Alejandro Amenábar, Il segreto di Vera Drake (Vera Drake, 2004) by Mike Leigh, Juno (Id., 2007) by Jason Reitman and 4 months, 3 weeks, 2days (4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile, 2007) by Cristian Mungiu.

Rome - In the Sala degli Affeschi in the Monastery Trinità dei Monti (piazza Trinità dei Monti,3), on 3 May 2012 at 19.30, the conference "Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization ", organized by the Vicariato di Rome, with the Pontifical Lateran University and Paulines, will be held on occasion of the 46th World Day of Social Communications. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been called to give the closing talk at the event, after talks by Walter Insero (Social Communications Office of the Vicariato di Roma), Daniella Iannotta (Teacher of Philosophy of language, University "Roma Tre"), Matteo Briozzi (Monastery Trinità dei Monti) and Stefano Albertazzi ("Comunità dei figli di Dio"). The event will also be an opportunity to award the Pauline communications and culture Award 2012, which will be given to Fabio Rosini (Director of the Diocesan Vocation Service of the Vicariate of Rome).

Milan - On Friday 27 April 2012 at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Dario Edoardo Viganò will give a lesson on the market and film industry in Italy in the twenty-first century. Viganò , who has been invited to give a lecture at the first-level Masters course in "Communications and marketing of Cinema" at the Catholic University in Milan, will tell the students about his experience at the head of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and the magazine "Rivista del Cinematografo", the oldest cinema magazine in Italy, which was founded in Milan in 1928.

Lecce- The round table session on cinema and education, will take place on 20 April 2012 at the Education department of the University of Salento. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a lecture concerning family life and education models which have been represented by the cinema throughout the history by the masters of the seventh art: from Pier Paolo Pasolini to the Dardenne brothers, from Pietro Germi to Susanne Bier, from Clint Eastwood to Carlo Verdone. Viganò will base his talk on his latest book "Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" (Cittadella Publisher 2011). The event will also be an opportunity to sign a memorandum of understanding between the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, whose President is Viganò, and the University of Salento.

Rome - For the Master course "Bioethics and formation" organised by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 4, Vatican City), Dario Edoardo Viganò will give a lecture on the subject "Bioethics and cinema", Tuesday 17 April 2012 at 08.30-11.00. Viganò will offer an in-depth examination on the principle bioethical issues through the fascination of the seventh art and the films from Italian and International directors. An analytical journey, with a socio-semiotic methodology, on the topics of euthanasia and abortion, using fertile and problematic films such as The Descendants, 2011 by Alexander Payne, Million Dollar Baby (Id., 2004) by Clint Eastwood, Mar adentro, 2004 by Alejandro Amenábar, 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days (4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile, 2007) by Cristian Mungiu and the comedy Juno (Id., 2007) by Jason Reitman.

La Spezia - Christological re-figurations shown on the big screen and meetings dedicated to study during the holy week in La Spezia. In preparation for Easter the Film club Controluce Don Bosco (via Roma, 128), with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Cultural Project of the Italian Episcopal Conference, has organized for Tuesday 3 April 2012 at 21.15 a round table session "Our contemporary Jesus. The face of Jesus in cinema and in culture", where Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a talk which will chronicle the large and varied film heritage on the life of Jesus. There will also be talks by Egidio Banti (President of the Training and cultural Centre "Niccolò V") and Giovanna Riu (Art Critic), and the meeting will be chaired by Riccardo Sottanis (Journalist, former editor- in- chief of "Il Secolo XIX"). The event will be preceded, at 16.30, by the screening of the film Il villaggio di cartone (2011) by Ermanno Olmi; the cultural activities of the holy week will end with the screening of the film Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) by Pier Paolo Pasolini on Saturday 7 April at 16.30. For further information: www.cgscontroluce.it

Gioia del Colle - At Theatre Rossini in Gioia del Colle, on Friday 30 March 2012 at 20.30, the award ceremony of the XV Magna Grecia Awards, acknowledgements created by the writer from Puglia Fabio Salvatore, will take place. The honorable committee will be chaired by Dario Edoardo Viganò, who for the occasion will present the special award to the film director Alessandro D'Alatri. Other award winners are Alessio Vinci (Journalist and TV presenter of Matrix), Savino Zaba (Radio and TV presenter of Unomattina Storie Vere), Carlo Vulpio (Journalist and correspondent of the Corriere della Sera), the actress Giorgia Wurth (Actress), Dario Cirrone (President of the Association ANSABBIO), Roberto Milone (Journalist and Vice Director of Raidue). For information: www.magnagreciaawards.com

Gubbio - The Caritas diocese of Gubbio, in collaboration with the Diocesan office for the Pastoral care of Families, the cooperative Sicomoro and with the patronage of the City of Gubbio, has organised a day of study, Friday 23 March 2012, concentrating of the topic of education, the role of the main educative influences (family, school and Church); a project which is in line with the Pastoral Orientations of the CEI for the ten year period 2010-2020, Educare alla vita buona del Vangelo . For the occasion Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a lecture on cinema and education, on how the cinema has managed to take in and represent the family, school and Church universe and its different faces. Viganò, starting from his latest book "Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" (Cittadella Publisher 2011), will offer a rich and fruitful path of charm and cinematographic visions: from Mamma Roma (1962) by P. P. Pasolini to Un mondo migliore (2010) by S. Bier, from L'attimo fuggente (1989) by P. Weir to La scuola (1995) by D. Luchetti, from Alla luce del sole (2004) by R. Faenza to Corpo celeste (2011) by A. Rohrwacher.

Milan - On the occasion of the World Poetry Day and the first year of the award "Primaveradellapoesia" supported by Francesca Parvizyar, in collaboration with the City of Milan, Dario Edoardo Viganò will give a speech at the evening in honor of the poet of the Navigli (Canals), at the House Museum Alda Merini. During the evening the national award "Milano Primaveradellapoesia" dedicated to Alda Merini and Antonia Pozzi will be launched: the works will be selected during 2012 by a jury of qualified critics and representatives of the world of culture, among which Stefano Boeri, Silvio Bordoni, Ambrogio Borsani, Alberto Casiraghy, Maurizio Cucchi, Tomaso Kemeny, Franco Loi, Giancarlo Majorino, Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori, Stefano Raimondi, Antonio Riccardi, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Dario E. Viganò, Maria Alberta Viviani. "She used to go into her much loved Church on the town path of the Naviglio Grande"- says Viganò - "and begin gifting us with the music of words. She would walk through the areas Alzia and Ripa, and she would return every time she published one of her poems or aphorisms: if she didn't find me, the publication was a sign of her visit". Viganò was an occasional but attentive listener of Merini during his time at the Office for Communications of the Cardinal Martini in Milan. Merini would present one or two of her famous aphorisms to Viganò, which she would attempt to get acknowledged, and then she would disappear and reappear in what Viganò describes as "flying visits, rich in meaning". "Merini's poems" - concludes Viganò - "bring with them richness, pain transformed into the sublimity of words which accompany tomorrow without forgetting the days of the tragic experience of marriage, of the electric shocks and of the loves which were too bourgeois for a woman who loved freedom. To a point of madness. Or sanity".

Catania - Another new presentation of Dario Edoardo Viganò's latest book. "Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" (Cittadella Pubblishers) will be presented in Catania, in the city council hall, Saturday 17 March 2012 at 10.00. The event, with greeting by S.E. Mons. Salvatore Gristina (Archbishop of Catania), Sen. Raffaele Stancanelli (Mayor of Catania) and On. Raffaele Lombardo (President Sicily Region), will be opened by Marco Consoli (President of the City Council of Catania). Speakers taking part in the round table session are: Giuseppe Vecchio (Full Professor of Private Law University of Catania), Rosario Sapienza (Full Professor of International Law of the University of Catania), as well as the author. The event will be chaired by Piero Maenza (RAI journalist).

Milan - In preparation of the VII World Meeting of Families (30 May-3 June 2012), the cinema exhibition "Family Italian Style", created and organized by Dario Edoardo Viganò and the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo will be presented in Milan, at Palazzo Reale, Thursday 1 March 2012 at 18.00. The event will be inaugurated by Dario E. Viganò and S.E. card. Angelo Scola (Archbishop of Milan), Giuliano Pisapia (Mayor of Milano), Stefano Boeri (Councillor for Culture, fashion and design), Marcello Di Capua (President Fondazione AEM), mons. Erminio De Scalzi (President Fondazione Famigli 2012) and Gianni Amelio (film director) will also take part. The exhibition "Family Italian Style" offers a cinematographic path from the 1910s to the twenty first century, telling the story of the country through images of the family. «From Assunta Spina (1915; Gustavo Serena)» - explains Viganò - «to the nienteenth century family drama in Piccolo mondo antico (1941; Mario Soldati). From the misery of the years during the war (Ladri di biciclette; 1948, by Vittorio De Sica), to a mother's dreams, played by Anna Magnani in Bellissima (1951,by Luchino Visconti). Through the photos from film sets, we reach the heart of the family institution, from when in spite of problems and misunderstandings it becomes a united and cohesive clan (from La famiglia; 1987, by Ettore Scola to Il cuore grande delle ragazze, 2011 by Pupi Avati), to when it is hit with the loss of values, something which is evident in the films from recent years (from La bestia nel cuore, 2005, by Cristina Comencini to Anche libero va bene, 2006, by Kim Rossi Stuart). The exhibition is one of the preparatory events for the VII Meeting of Families, a fundamental moment for believers and their families and at the same time it is an opportunity to remember those actors and actresses who made Italian cinema famous worldwide and to emerge ourselves in the universe of family, which, with its ever changing tradition, has always marked our existence». Further information is available on the website: www.entespettacolo.org

Milan - The presentation of the latest book by Dario Edoardo Viganò, "Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" (Cittadella Publishers 2011 ) continues. In preparation of the VII World Meeting of Families (Milan, 30 May-3 June 2012) the Fondazione Ambrosianeum of Milan and the ACEC (Associazione Cattolica Esercenti Cinema) have organized a round table session for the presentation of the book by Dario E. Viganò, Wednesday 29 February 2012 at 18.00 at the Ambrosianium. As well as the author, the following will also take part: Carlo Faccendini (Episcapal Vicar for School Education), Marco Garzonio (journalist), Innocente Pessina (Head teacher of Berchet High School) and Riccardo Ripani (actor). The conference will be opened by Davide Milani (head of social communications for the archdiocese of Milan). Further information is available on the website: www.ambrosianeum.org

Barcelona - In February Dario Edoardo Viganò will be a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona, Blanquerna URL - Ramon Llull University. Viganò has been invited to give a lecture on 8 February at 12.00 in the Auditorium of the Communication faculty. The title of the seminar is "Contemporary spiritual cinema", a reflection on cinema and spirituality with a sociosemiotic approach, using films by important authors from the European and American cinema scene, such as Robert Bresson, Carl T. Dreyer, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Clint Eastwood, Jessica Hausner, Terrence Malick.

Vatican City- From 26-28 January 2012, the VI International Forum "Mysterium Christi. La riflessione in cristologia da Optatam totius alla perenne dialettica tra fides e ratio" , organised by the Pontifical Academy of Theology, will be held in the Aula Paolo VI at the Pontifical Lateran University. On the morning of the 27 January, during the session presided over by card. Gianfranco Ravasi, Dario Edoardo Viganò will give a talk entitled "Between cinema and novels… the great cultural stories surrounding the figure of Jesus Christ", an in-depth study on the numerous and varied christological reconfigurations, starting from the seventh art. An analysis which will look at the unusual media fields, such as fictional television, adverts (from billboards to TV commercials) and publications concerning religion. Further information about the event is available from: http://www.pul.it/?p=11383

Rome - In preparation for the VII World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Milan in the month of May 2012, the conference "Which family for which society", has been organised for the 11 January in the Auditorium Giovanni Paolo II in the Pontifical Lateran University (piazza San Giovanni in Laterano,4), a conference on the subject "Cinema and family". Dario E. Viganò will chair the round table session, opened by talks from mons. Enrico Dal Covolo (Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University) and Livio Melina (Dean of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and Family). Speakers at the event are Don Davide Milani (Head of Social Communications Diocese of Milan), José Noriega Bastos (Pontifical Institute John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and Family) and Chiara Palazzini (Vice President of the Pontifical Pastoral Institute Redemptor Hominis). Alessio Boni (Actor), Cristiana Capotondi (Actress) and Guido Chiesa (film director) will also participate. The closing of the event will be entrusted to Card. Ennio Antonelli (President of the Pontifical Council for the Family)

Taranto - As part of the refresher course for Catholic religion teachers, organized by the Diocese of Taranto, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited, on 11 January 2012, to give a talk on the relationship between cinema and education, starting from his recent publication "Cari Maestri. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" (Cittadella Publishers 2011). The reflection on the educational emergency, sterns from Benedict XVI's warning in 2008 and from the commitment made by the Italian Episcopal Conference with the pastoral orientations for 2010-2020, Educate on the life of the good Gospel. "Cinema - says Viganò - is certainly a precious ground for reflection, an influential look at the principal education agencies of our society: family, school ,church and social dimensions. Cinema has become witness of the changes that family and educational models have gone through".

Rome - Dario Edoardo Viganò kicks off the Tertio Millennio Film Fest, organised by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, which will be held from 6 to 11 December at the Sala Trevi (vicolo del Puttarello 25, Trevi Fountain area), the cinema of the Cineteca Nazionale del Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. "The Tertio Millennio Film Fest" - explains Viganò, President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, also President and Artistic Director of the Festival - "by tradition is a time for reflecting on the conditions of man in the modern world, using the cinema as a way of discussing and examining present day problems and distress, but it is also an opportunity to think about the unspeakable. The title of this year's event is Love, death, the miraculous. A study of contemporary society, emphasizing how man has always wavered between life, rationalism and mysticism. In this world, where there seems to be little space for miracles, the cinema finds itself taking on the role of evoking its power, wonder and sacral glow without reducing it to a special effect, a visual "superfetation" or one of many magic tricks". Amongst the most awaited previews, "Breathing" by Karl Markovics and "Attack the Block" by Joe Cornish , "Seven Acts of Mercy" by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, "S.O.S/State of Security" by Michèle Ohayon, "Hors Satan" by Bruno Dumont. Among the special events, the screening of the film "I giorni contati" by Elio Petri, a restored film by the National Film Museum in Torino in collaboration with the Cineteca of Bologna, the meeting with Thierry Frémaux Diretctor of the Institut Lumière and delegate general of the Cannes Film Festival, who will receive the Special Cinema Award from the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, are not to be missed. That is not all, the round table session with Francescao Patierno and the protagonist of his film "Cose dell'altro mondo", and the event "Cinema is a dream" with the actors Cristiana Capotondi and Antonio Catania. In addition, during the Festival, there will be the yearly RdC Awards, a gala evening which will take place on Friday 9 December. Further information on the Festival is available from: www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org

Rome - Dario Edoardo Viganò has been reconfirmed for the next five years, from 2011 to 2015, as President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo (FEDS), as well as Director of the "Rivista del Cinematografo" and of the web portal www.cinematografo.it. Viganò has obtained his second mandate as President of the FEDS, which was decided by the new Administration board, made up of the academics Michele Sorice (University LUISS "Guido Carli") and Ruggero Eugeni (University Cattolica di Milano), Don Antonio Ammirati (National Office for Social Communications CEI) and Loris Salamon (accountant), with Viganò President.

The XV season of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest, a Festival directed by Dario E. Viganò, President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and President and Artistic Director of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest, opens with the important International Conference of studies Film and Faith, on 1 and 2 December 2011 at the Pontifical Lateran University. The conference, which was conceived and developed by Viganò in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Pontifical Council for Culture, the National Office for social communications of the CEI, the Cultural Project of the CEI, the Pontifical Lateran University and the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo. It is a precious moment to analyze the significance of Faith and its stories in the present day world, to deeply examine the sacred essence of cinema images. A moment of choral dialogue between workers of the sector, academics and film directors from different parts of the world, to think about the past, the present and the future possibilities of a fellowship which has always been able to transform the powerful Christian message into images and words. The two days of study have been divided into five sessions, and there will be speeches, as well as by Dario E. Viganò, by di S.E. mons. Enrico dal Covolo (Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University), S.E.mons. Claudio Maria Celli (President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications), S.E. card. Gianfranco Ravasi (President of the Pontifical Council for Culture), mons. Domenico Pompili (Head of the National Office for social communictions CEIJ), Emilio Carelli (Sky Journalist), Jessica Hausner (Director/Austria), Milcho Manchevski (Director/Macedonia), Pablo Moreno Hernández (President Contracorriente Producciones SLU/Spain), Maurizio Fontana (Coordinator Cultural Service «L'Osservatore Romano»), Miguel Pereira (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro), Carlo Chatrian (Film Critic, «Duellanti»), Gianluca Arnone (Film Critico, «Rivista del Cinematografo»), Enrico Magrelli (Curator of the Cineteca Nazionale, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia), Paolo Benvenuti (Director), Padre Virgilio Fantuzzi (Film Critic, «La Civiltà Cattolica»), Alessandro Zaccuri (Journalist «Avvenire»), Chris Deacy (University of Kent), Vitali Liubetski (director/ Byelorussia), Father Peio Sánchez Rodríguez (Member of ADSIS), Michele Sorice (Head of CMCS "Massimo Baldini" LUISS "Guido Carli"), Paolo Peverini (LUISS "Guido Carli"), Emiliana De Blasio (Pontifical Gregorian University), Enrique Fuster (Pontifical University della Santa Croce), Claudia Di Giovanni (Delegate of the Vatican Film Library), Davide Zordan (President Religion Today Film Festival), Suor Domenica Dipio (Director/Uganda), Aleksei Fedorchenko (Director/Russia), Pavel Lounguine (Director/Russia). Futher information is available from: www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org

Rome - Dario Edoardo Viganò will take part in the round table session "Building bridges. The ethical challenges of communication", a day dedicated to study on the occasion of the presentation of the latest book by Adriano Fabris "La scelta del dialogo. Breviario filosofico per comunicare meglio". The event, will take place on Thursday 24 November 2011 at 12.00, at the University "Roma Tre" in the Arts and Philosophy faculty (Aula 2, via Ostiense 234), as well as Dario E. Viganò and the author of the novel Adriano Fabris (University of Pisa) the following will take part in the round table session: Paolo Nepi (University "Roma Tre"), Adriano Roccucci (University "Roma Tre") and Ugo Sartorio (Edizioni Messaggero di Padova). The works will be moderated by Elio Matassi (University "Roma Tre")

Rome - On 23 November 2011 at 11.00, at the Pontifical Council for Culture(via della Conciliazione 5), the press conference of the presentation of the XV Tertio Millennio Film Fest (6-11 December) will be held, the festival is centered on the subject of the Spirit and the comparison with the Other. Organized by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and with the support of the Pontifical Council for Culture and Social Communications. Dario Edoardo Viganò, President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and editor of the «Rivista del Cinematografo», will open and moderate the press conference, presenting the schedule for the festival: The International Convention of Studies "Film and Faith" (1-2 December at the Pontifical Lateran University), the Tertio Millennio Film Fest event (6-10 December) which will be full of surprises, the night of the prestigious RdC Awards (9 December) and the second season of the competition "i-father Short Film Award" (9 December), a competition aimed at young filmmakers. Talks will also be given by Mons. Claudio Maria Celli (President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication), who will present the "Revelation of the year Award", previously awarded to Margareth Madè for the film Baarìa (2009) by Giuseppe Tornatore and to Luca Marinelli for La solitudine dei numeri primi (2010) by Saverio Costanzo; Mons. Paul Tighe (Pontifical Council for Social Communication); Mons. Franco Perazzolo (Pontifical Council for Culture). Further information is available from: www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org

Rome - on the occasion of the customary, residential meeting of the ANICEC course, an advanced of training course in e-learning for promoters of culture and communication, that will take place from 18 to 20 November 2011 at the Pacis Torre Rossa Park (via Torre Rossa 94, Roma), Dario Edoardo Viganò (Scientific Director of ANICEC course) will give the opening speech entitled "The digital media and the new audience". During these three days, there will also be talks by: Antonio Spadaro (Director of «La Civiltà Cattolica»), Silvano Petrosino (University Cattolica of Milan), Chiara Giaccardi (University Cattolica of Milan), Ruggero Doronzo and Arianna Prevedello (Cultural promoters). The works of the convention will be closed by mons. Domenico Pompili (Under-secretary of the Italian Bishop's Conference, Head of the National Office for Social Communications), with a talk entitled "Promoters of which service?". For further information: www.anicec.it; http://www.chiesacattolica.it/comunicazione

Rome - Dario Edoardo Viganò and Roberto Cicutto (President of Cinecittà Luce SpA) will introduce the works of the round table session, "D-Cinema: A Digital Trip", on Tuesday 1st November at 10.30, at the Studio 3 Auditorium Parco della Musica. The convention, organized on the occasion of the VI International Rome Film Festival by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, in collaboration with ANICA and the Mercato Internazionale del Film di Roma "The Business Street", will focus on the reality and opportunities of the different ways of looking at the digital cinema. There will also be talks given by: Nicola Borrelli (Director General for Cinemaof the Ministry for cultural heritage), Elisabetta Brunella (Secretary General MEDIA Salles), Valter Casini (CEO of Circuito Cinema, President ANEC Lazio), Cristiano Gerbino (President Kino), Nicola Maccanico (Director General Warner Bros. Pictures Italy), Mimmo Calopresti (Director and screenwriter), Luciano Sovena (CEO Cinecittà Luce SpA) AND Andrea Purgatori (100Autori). The meeting will be moderated by Giuseppe De Filippi (Journalist of TG5), while the closing speech will be given by Riccardo Tozzi (President ANICA).

Rome - Presentation of the new book by Dario E. Viganò "CARI MAESTRI. Da Susanne Bier a Gianni Amelio i registi si interrogano sull'importanza dell'educazione" with a round table, on Tuesday 25 October 2011 at 17.30, in the hall Paolo VI at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome (piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 4). Talks by S.E. mons. Enrico dal Covolo ( Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University), On. Patrizia Prestipino (Member of council of the Rome district for Youth politics) and the author of the book, Dario E. Viganò. In addition there will be actors and film directors. The moderator for the event will be Paolo Rodari (Vaticanist of the newspaper "Il Foglio"). "The book" - explains Viganò - is aimed not only for those who have a privileged, immediate and daily relationship with young people, but also for filmmakers who have a fundamental role in the educative universe today, it goes through the history of the cinema attempting to take in the ways of representation of the three educative universes: school, family and territory. It is not a collection with the expectations of encyclopedias; but simply of a review with the objective to present the main cinema works which have looked at these topics, films full of reflections and analysis. The intent behind the book is to give an agile and functional tool to those who are interested in deepening their knowledge in the educative field; those who want to reflect on the educative emergency and on the main actors of the educative system of the new generations, starting from the fundamental role of the media, specifically in the cinema world. The book is therefore addressed to experts and those who work in the world of communication and culture, from communication and culture promoters to various levels of school teachers (especially middle school and high school), but also to pastoral operators, to those who animate the Community halls, the cineforums".

Rome - Dario Edoardo Viganò has been chosen to take part in the jury panel for the XIX season of the International "Empedocle" Award for Human Sciences, this award was instituted by the Academy of Mediterranean Studies of Agrigento in 1989, in memory of Paolo Borsellino. For the award, which is given to experts, academics of the international and national world of culture and to well-known figures from political, civil, military and religious institutes, the field of " Sociology and Communication Science" has been chosen for the XIX season. The panel will be presided over by S.E. Mons. Enrico dal Covolo (Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University) and, on the panel with Dario E. Viganò; Angela Ales Bello (Professor of History of contempaoary Filosophy Pontifical Lateran Univerrstiy), Romano Lazzeroni (Lincei academic, Professor of Glottology University of Pisa), Antonio Preziosi (Director of Giornale Radio 1).

Turin - the national training course on the media "The fifth power? Digital culture and new, real scenarios", will take place in the Sala Sangalli in the Salesian Institute Valdocco, from 6th to 8th October 2011, organized by AIART, an ONLUS association, in collaboration with the National Office for social communications of the Italian Episcopal Conference and the Social communications office of the diocese of Turin. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited, on Saturday 8th October , to give a talk entitled "The media revolution and the future of man". The convention intends to make one think about the educational risks and gains unlocked by the digital culture, starting from the publication by the Pastoral orientations of the Italian Episcopal Conference for the ten year period 2010-2020 "Educare alla vita buona del Vangelo". The training course is mainly for experts and professionals from the world of communications, leaders of communication and culture, teachers and educators. Further information is available on the site: http://www.aiart.org/ita/web/item.asp?nav=3621

The International Convention of Studies "The New German Cinema. History, key figures, legacy", organized by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, will be held at the the Institute for German Studies in Rome, in Villa Sciarra-Wurts, on the 6-7 October 2011. The event will be opened and coordinated by Dario Edoardo Viganò, who since 2007, with the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, has organized similar academic meetings dedicated to the most important periods for Italian and international cinema. The speakers at the two days of study on the German cinema are: Paolo Bertetto (University La Sapienza of Rome), Alessia Cervini (University of Messina), Simone Costagli (University of Ferrara), Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam), Roberto De Gaetano (University of Calabria), Daniele Dottorini (University of Calabria), Ruggero Eugeni (Cattolica University of Milano), Luisella Farinotti (University of Milano), Matteo Galli (University of Ferrara), Norbert Grob (Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz), Paolo Jedlowski (University of Calabria), Giovannella Rendi (Istituto Luce) and Giovanni Spagnoletti (Tor Vergata University of Roma). Further information is available from: www.entespettacolo.org; www.cinematografo.it

This year Dario Edoardo Viganò, after being a jury in the section Controcampo in 2010, is jury for the 2nd annual "Equal Opportunity" Prize at 68th Venice Film Festival. The prize is organized by the Ministry for Equal Opportunities and it will be assigned to the movie from the official selection which better delivers a message of denunciation or hope with regards to the issues of discrimination, intolerance, social or gender inequalities. This year Rosalba Veltri (General Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity) is at the head of the jury composed by Dario Edoardo Viganò, Arnaldo Colasanti (writer and cinema critic), Donata Pizzi (photographer), Laura Delli Colli (President of Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani), Anselma Dell'Olio (journalist), Lorena Bianchetti (journalist, TV presenter and author) and Serafino Murri (director and cinema critic). The awarding ceremony will be September 9, 2011, in the presence of Minister Mara carfagna. Last year the award was won by French movie "Vénus noire" by Abdel Kechiche.

Thessaloniki Greece - On the occasion of the XXI inter Christian Conference "The story of the Church in a contemporary world", organized by the Theology faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from 30 August to 2 September 2011, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a speech entitled "The story of the Church in mass media". The conference, with the participation of international and Greek academics and experts, organized by the Theology Department of the Theology Faculty of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Spiritual Pontifical Institute (Antonianum) in Rome. "Understanding how the Italian Church" -underlines Dario E. Viganò - "and by analogy in the area of Europe with Latin traditions, at first registered the end of geographical Christianity, with the opening between the experience of believers and society, and subsequently formulated the decision for a world media intervention, investing human and economic resources in the possible spaces for cultural dialogue, is only possible if one rereads the history of Italy, that calls upon and challenges the Church. Five decades of great changes for Italy and the Italian Church, fifty years of socio-political, cultural, media and religious history, that changed the relationship between the country and the catholic culture, important decades for an analytical reading of the Italian contemporary reality".

Rome - On 26 July 2011 at Palazzo Giustiniani, Senate of the Italian Republic in the Sala Zuccari, the presentation of the "Report on the strategic trend (2006-2010)" by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo will take place. The President Dario Edoardo Viganò will outline the growth of the Fondazione in the last five years, the Fondazione that is going through an important transformation, not only concerning its position in a market - the cinema market - that is in continuous evolution, but also its growing incidence in the cultural, academic and institutional world. The Report will highlight, the steps that turned the Associazione Ente dello Spettacolo, founded in 1946, into a Foundation, and the events and key figures that have marked the path. Speeches will also be given by On. Renato Schifani, President of the Senate of the Italian Republic, and mons. Claudio Giuliodori, President of the Episcopal Commission for culture and social communication of the Italian Episcopal Conference.

Rome - for the customary summer reunion of the Centro Universitario Cattolica (CUC) of the Italian Episcopal conference, that will take place as usual at the Clarhotel in Rome (Largo Lorenzo Mossa,4) from 18 to 21 July 2011, Dario Edoardo Viganò will hold a spiritual retreat for the fellows. The CUC, a structure of the Secretary General of the CEI, provides study scholarships for young Catholic scholars who attend university in Italy and has also created units of research involving scholarship holders who have already obtained a doctorate concerning themes of particular interest. The areas of research referred to amount to nine: art, economics, philosophy, law, literature, medicine, science, socio-politics and history. For scholarship holders this summer reunion is an occasion to illustrate, in the presence of supervising professors, the results obtained in the research they are conducting.

Rio de Janeiro - From 17 to 22 July 2011, the VII Brazilian Assembly of communication("Mutirão Brasileiro de Comunicação") will be held, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (PUC) and by the Brazilian Episcopal Conference. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to hold an inaugural lecture on 17 July 2011 at 18.00. The central subject matter of the "Mutirão" 2011 is "Comunicação e Vida: Diversidade e Mobilidades". The meeting that is held every two years, is to make one think about the main changes and developments in the communication field of the Church and of the society in general. The participation of academics and communication experts from Brazil together with academics and experts from the international scene are forecasted for the event. Together with Dario E. Viganò, also mons. Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for social communication will give a speech, during the open forum "Concepção, filosofia, estruturas e modalidades da Comunicação na Igreja e a imagem da Igreja na mídia", organized for 18 July 2011. Further information is available from : www.muticom.com

Orvieto - For the VI season of the International Art and Faith Festival, that will take place in the small town in Umbria, from 11th to 26th June, Dario Edoardo Viganò will take part on Friday 17th June at 17.30 at the Cinema Corso, at the meeting with film director Alice Rohrwacher , author of the film "Corpo Celeste" who was at the Festival of Cannes 2011 in the Quinzaine section, and with Rai TV presenter Pino Strabioli. The International Art and Faith Festival, directed by Alessandro Larani, and sponsored by the Associazione Culturale Iubilarte di Orvieto and by the Orvieto-Todi Diocese ,in collaboration with the Gordon College University (USA). For further information about the event: www.festivalartefede.it

Turin - The VI season on the film critics work experience will take place in Turin from the 6th to 10th June 2011, at the Cineporto of the Torino Piemonte Film Commission, organised by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and the magazine "Rivista del Cinematografo", in collaboration with the Torino Piemonte Film Commission and the Cinema Museum. The title of the IV work experience is: "It's (not) the usual comedy: from Hollywood to Italy, from Wilder to Zalone, a journey in time of a timeless genre". The work experience, offered to fifty young aspiring film critics, chosen by a commission, will have theoretical lessons, screenings and writing labs, that will all be guided, together with the editing staff of the "Rivista del Cinematografo", by national and international film experts, important academics and important journalists and critics. At the end of the week, Friday 10th June, Dario Edoardo Viganò will give out certificates to the young critics.

On Friday 3rd June, from 9.00 am to 18.00 pm, at the Palazzo della Cancelleria Apostolica of Rome, the convention "Originality and continuity of Saint Bridget's Order 100 years since its founding (1911 - 2011). Bridget, a European woman" will take place. The talks that will be given during the convention, starting with the analysis of the historical key figures and the leadership of Saint Bridget and the blessed Elisabetta Hesselblad will outline the religious, political and social features of the Order, its capability to renew itself and to move with the times while still remaining faithful to its original spirits. The convention will be moderated by Mons. Dario E. Viganò, President of the Redemptor Hominis Institute at the Pontifical Lateran University. The programme for the day includes greeting from several religious and civil authorities and talks by Card. Walter Brandmuller, Mons. Mario Russotto, Madre Elisa Famiglietti, P. Marko Rupnik, Card. Angelo Amato. The meeting will be concluded by the MP Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister.

Rome - The presentation of the Report by the Fondazione Ente Dello Spettacolo, "The market and industry of cinema in Italy. Report 2010", will be held at the University LUISS "Guido Carli", on Thursday 26th May 2011 at 11.30 (aula 203, Campus LUISS, viale Romania 32, 00197 Rome), a study carried out in collaboration with the Cinecittà Luce S.p.A. Dario Edoardo Viganò (President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo), Nicola Borrelli (Director General for Cinema of MIBAC), Luciano Sovena (CEO of Cinecittà Luce S.p.A.), Giampaolo Letta (CEO Medusa Film), Paolo Del Brocco (CEO Rai Cinema), Emiliana De Blasio (Lecturer at LUISS, Coordinator CMCS "Massimo Baldini"), Riccardo Tozzi (President ANICA), Redento Mori (Journalist, scientific editor of the Report) will take part in the Open Forum session, presented by the Fondazione Ente Dello Spettacolo and the Centre for Media and Communication Studies "Massimo Baldini". The meeting will be introduced by Michele Sorice (Lecturer at LUISS, Director of CMCS "Massimo Baldini") and moderated by Giuseppe De Filippi (Journalist TG5). Further information is available on the site: www.cineconomy.com; info@entespettacolo.org

Rome - In light of the Pastoral Orientations of the Italian Episcopate for the 10 year period 2010-2020 "Educate on the life of the good gospel", the Provincia Romana dei Frati Minori Cappuccini has organized a training course "The educational issue. Or rather: a constant provocation in life" that will be divided into two sessions from 23rd to 28th May 2011(the first from 23rd to 25th May and the second from 26th to 28th May), in via Vittorio Veneto 27. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a speech in both sessions of the course (Tuesday 24th May at 16.00 and Saturday 28th May at 9.00), entitled "Cultural and social turning point of the Church". Apart from the speech by Dario E. Viganò, the following will also give speeches; mons. Romano Rossi (Bishop of Civita Castellana), Paolo Martinelli (Pontifical University Antonianum), Filippo Belli (Theology Faculty of Italia Centrale). The course will opened with talks by Carmine De Filippis (Ministery of the Provincia Romana dei Cappuccini) and Mario Cucca (Pontifical University Antonianum). For further information: pr.romana@ofmcap.org

Rome, LUISS University - The International Convention of studies "Leadership. Leaders and new trends in political communication" will take place at the LUISS university "Guido Carli" in Rome on the 20th and 21st May 2011, organized by the Centre for Media and Communication Studies "Massimo Baldini", directed by Prof. Michele Sorice, in collaboration with the British Council and the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo. Dario Edoardo Viganò will take part in the convention on Friday 20th May at 15.30, giving a speech entitled "Film and Political Leadership", about the different ways that politics and political leaders are represented by the cinema. Along with Dario E. Viganò, other speakers include; Brian McNair (Queensland University of Technology), Sara Bentivegna (Sapienza University in Rome), Nico Carpentier (University of Loughborough), Fausto Colombo (Università Cattolica in Milan), Raffaele De Mucci (LUISS "Guido Carli"), Sergio Fabbrini (LUISS "Guido Carli"), Ivor Gaber (City University London), Matthew Hibberd (University of Stirling), Michael Higgins (University of Strathclyde), Leonardo Morlino (LUISS "Guido Carli"), Edoardo Novelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Jo Silvestre (City University London), Mick Temple (Staffordshire University) e Katrin Voltmer (University of Leeds). Further information is available on the following site: http://www.politicalcommunication.co.uk/2/conference_2011_37671.html (http://communication.blogs.luiss.edu/)

The Vatican City - "Pastoral Theology in Italy" is the name of the convention that will take place at the Pontifical Lateran University, on Monday 17th May 2011, at 10.00. The convention, organized by the Pontifical Lateran Institute Redemptor Hominis, presided over by prof. Dario Edoardo Viganò, in collaboration with the Pastoral Orientation centre, provides the foundations for a reflection on the state and the perspectives of pastoral theology in Italy, with the contribution of experts from various national academic institutes. The two sessions will be opened by mons. Enrico dal Covolo (Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University), followed by an opening speech by Dario E. Viganò (Dean of the Institute Redemptor Hominis). "It's a starting point - Viganò underlined - of comparison between methods and teaching of pastoral theology in the Italian theological faculties. The hard work done by the church is evident ,that uses traditional everyday procedures and also more updated ones."

Salerno - For the occasion of the training course on the media, "Educate free men. From the awareness of the risks, a new educative passion", that will take place in Salerno from 13th to 15th May 2011, Dario Edoardo Viganò will give a talk (Sunday 15th May, at 9.30) entitled "spread the word of the bread that nourishes us. Educate people on its importance". The training course, organized by the Associazione Spettatori Onlus (Aiart), the National Office for Social communication of the Italian Episcopal Conference, the Office for Social communication of the diocese of Salerno and with the patronage of the Campania Region, it intends to make one think, in the light of the pastoral orientation CEI for the 2010-2020 decade "Educate on the life of the good gospel" about the educative possibilities that are offered by the media, the digital media, and on the risks connected with digital culture. The course is for university students of Communications, educators and animators of communication and culture. For further information: http://www.aiart.org/ita/web/item.asp?nav=3222

Vatican City - For the occasion of the XLV World Day for Social Communications, the Pontifical Lateran University, in collaboration with the Nation Office for Social Communications of the Italian Episcopal Conference and with the Pauline, has organized, on Wednesday 18th May 2011 at 15,30 at the Aula Pio XI(piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 4), the Convention "Truth, proclamation and authenticity of life in the digital age" re using the title of the message of Benedict XVI. Dario Edoardo Viganò (Full Professor and President of the Redemptor Hominis Lateran Institute) will moderate the Open Forum, where mons. Domenico Pompili (Under secretary IEC, Director of the National Office for Social Communications), Emiliana De Blasio (Pontifical Lateran University, LUISS "Guido Carli"), Giuseppe Cereda (Sapienza, University in Rome), Paolo Scuderi (General Librarian, Pontifical Lateran University) will take part. The session will be introduced by mons. Enrico Dal Covolo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University. Andrea Melodia (President of the Unione Cattolica Stampa Italiana, UCSI) will also take part, and will be given the Pauline Communication and Culture 2011 award.

Piacenza - The convention "This is my body" will take place in Piacenza, from 13th to 15th May 2011, organized by the Fondazione Piacenza Teologica, with the support of the city and the districts of Piacenza. Dario Edoardo Viganò will give a talk, on Saturday 14th May 2011 at 17.30 at the cinema "M. Orsola" in Roveleto di Cadeo (Piacenza), on the subject "prisoner of appearances, liberator of emotions, the eloquent body: words of the cinema", dealing with the subject of the body in the cinema. Viganò will talk about cinema bodies of the works by Pier Paolo Pasolini in the seventies. The convention wants to give a deeper interdisciplinary look at the topic of the body, involving philosophers, theologians, teachers and experts of cinema, music, dance, and doctors. Further information about the convention are available on the site: www.piacenzateologia.org

Palermo - Dario Edoardo Viganò and Prof.ssa Emiliana De Blasio (Sociology, University LUISS "Guido Carli"), have been invited to the open forum Fides quaerens. The Church in the modern day: self referential or communicative language?" that will take place in Palermo, on Tuesday 12th April 2011 at 16.30, in the lecture theatre in the Faculty of Theology of Sicily "S. Giovanni Evangelista". The convention, organized by the Faculty of Theology, in collaboration with the Cultural Office, Catholic Education, the School and University (UDESU) of the Archdiocese of Palermo, started with the idea of offering an interdisciplinary consideration on the language used by the Church to communicate the experience of faith. The event will be moderated by prof.ssa Anna Pia Viola (Professor Faculty of Theology of Sicily) and prof. Alfio M. Briguglia (Director of the UDESU Office).

Rome - Presentation of the book "Chiesa e pubblicità. Storia e analisi degli spot 8x1000" - The Church and advertising. History and analysis of the advertising campaigns for Church contributions through the " 8x1000" tax scheme (Publisher Rubbettino 2011) with an open forum, on 16th March 2011 at 11,00, at the Pontifical Lateran University in the aula Paolo VI ( Paul VI hall). Talks will be given by; S.E. mons. Enrico dal Covolo (Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University), mons. Mauro Rivella (Under-secretary of the CEI), Aldo Grasso (Professor Università Cattolica di Milano and television critic for the newspaper "Corriere della Sera"), Matteo Calabresi (Head of the Service for the promotion of the financial support for the Italian Catholic Church) and Stefano Palombi (Director of the television commercials for the 8x1000). The meeting will be moderated by Emilio Carelli (Director of Sky Tg24). The book was started - explains Viganò - "from the passionate and long standing tradition, with the work of the National Service for the financial support of the Catholic Church. In particular it was, an almost forced moment of analysis and comparison with the colleagues of the LUISS university, the opening speech that the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janerio asked me, for the XIX annual Compòs meeting, a national convention of communication experts and researchers in Brazil, that took place on 8th June 2010" During the meeting a film segment from 1929 will be shown about the signing of the Lateran Treaty, and at the end, the short films produced by the winners of the first "I-father"contest.

Rome - For the occasion of the presentation of the book Spot 2.0. L'uso di YouTube come mezzo pubblicitario (Commercial 2.0. YouTube as a means of advertising) by Americo Bazzoffia and Marco Cherubini (Publisher Franco Angeli 2010), that will take place on Friday 4th March 2011 at 17.30 at the Frentani congress centre (via Frentani 4), Dario Edoardo Viganò has been called to give a talk on advertising communication, from television commercials to Youtube, closely examining social advertising and the new unconventional strategies. As well as Viganò, Lucio D'Ubaldo (Senator of the Italian Republic), Dario Marcucci (President of the III city hall in Rome) and the authors of the book, Americo Bazzoffia and Marco Cherubini will also take part in the open forum.

Rome - 28th February 2011, on the occasion of the training course theological-pastoral for the priests of the diocese in Rome, organized by the Pontifical University Lateran, Dario Edoardo Viganò will be present to coordinate the theoretical-practical works of the day, together with Antonio Sabetta and mons. Arturo Aiello, Bishop of Teano-Calvi. The meeting represents the closing appointment of the course, following the lessons held by the card. Mauro Piacenza(Prefect of the Congregation for the faith), mons. Enrico dal Covolo (Rector of the Pontifical University Lateran), da mons. Lorenzo Leuzzi (Head of the Pastoral office university diocese in Rome) and mons. Antonio Staglianò (theologist and bishop of Noto).

A prestigious recognition for his commitment in the field of theology. This acknoledgement was given to the President of the Pastoral Institute "Redemptor Hominis" of the Pontifical Lateran University Mons. Dario Edoardo Viganò who has become a"corrispondent" member of the Pontifical Theological Academy. The academy, founded in 1695, organizes many initiatives such as conferences, international forums and edits the publications of the magazine PATH and the series ITINERARIA.

Rome - For the XIV National convention of the appointed diocesans, the Service for the promotion for the economic support of the Catholic Church of the Conferenza Episcopale italiana has organized a convention, from 15th to 18th February at the Holiday Inn in Rome, called "Educating to help others: responsibility and transparency in the church of today". Dario Edoardo Viganò, author of the recent book Chiesa e pubblicità. Storie e analisi degli spot 8x1000 (Rubbettino publisher, February 2011), has been invited on Wednesday 16th February to introduce the works on the second day of the convention, after the first speaker S.Em card. Angelo Bagnasco, President of the CEI, and the talk by Matteo Calabresi, Head of the Service for the promotion for the economic support f the Catholic Church.

Rome - Wednesday 16th February 2011, at 21.30 at the hotel Domus Mariae di Roma, Dario Edoardo Viganò moderates the meeting with Guido Chiesa, director of the film "Io sono con te", presented at the Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma in 2010, he is also the author of many films like come "Il partigiano Johnny" (2000) and "Lavorare con lentezza" (2003), but also for documentaries like "Un altro mondo è possibile" (2001) and tv series like"Quo vadis, baby?" (2008). The reason for the meeting is for the National convention of the diocesan and parish assistants for Catholic Action, and the theme of the meeting is "Young people ask for justice"(from 14th to 17th February at the Domus Mariae Hotel)

Genova - A new presentation of the Dizionario della comunicazione. After the University LUISS "Guido Carli" in Roma, the Università di Pisa, the Università di Padova and the Fondazione Donat-Cattin di Torino, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to Genova, on Saturday 12th February at 10.00 at the Sala Quadrivium in piazza Santa Marta, to present once again the Dizionario della comunicazione (Publisher Carocci, December 2009). The reason for the meeting, is the open forum "Teach, study and practice communication", organized by the AIART (Associazione Italiana Ascoltatori Radio e Televisione), by the Social communications office of the Archdiocese in Genova and the Unione cattolica della stampa italiana. As well as Dario E. Viganò, creator and editor of the Dizionario della comunicazione,there will also be talks by: Luca Borgomeo (Presidente nazionale AIART), Pietro Schenone (Presidente Provinciale AIART Genova), Carlo Arcolao (Head of the Social Communications Office), Mario Bottaro (Professor Università di Genova), Bruno Sopranzi (Head of the Diocesan Office for Education and School.), Antonio Zannoni (journalist), Gianfranco Calabrese (Catechetical Diocesan Office). "The work" - underlines Viganò - "uses the precious collaboration of over one hundred authors, academics of the most important Italian Universities and the major international Universities, as well as experts of the sector. A work that took over two years and that was created with the intent of giving those who study communication an easy read and working tool, that is at the same time precise and thorough, thanks to its ten disciplinary approaches to communication (history, media, economic, semiotics, sociology, psychology, education, theology, ethics and politics) ".

The chairman of the Italian Episcopal Conference, during the work of the Permanent Council of Bishops, that was held in Ancona from the 24th to the 27th of January 2011, reconfirmed Mons. Dario Edoardo Viganò as President of the Commissione Nazionale Valutazione Film (CNVF) of the CEI for the three year period 2011-2014

Verona, Venice - "Three winter days of Clergy. Faith pedagogy today" in two sessions (Verona 10th-13th January and Venice 18th-21st January), organized in collaboration with Faculty of Theology of Emilia Romagna during which Dario Edoardo Viganò will make a report entitled "Between who tells and who listens: communication-comprehension problems". "On second thoughts about a new pastoral - underlines Viganò anticipating his speech - the attention theologically given to the rhetoric public communication and to the media system becomes qualifying element to avoid both the bulimic claim of techniques as evangelization panacea and the anorexia of thought as irenic anesthesia facing the complexity of the situations. A reflection that wants to help to rethink about the execution of the duty of the ministry itself , ministry of evangelization and education, called on once again to promote spaces and forms of sociality spurred by desire, because, as Guy Debord says, if people don't find what they desire they will end up being satisfied with what they find".

Venue CEI, Rome - At the annual meeting of the National Film Evaluation Commision (CNVF) of the Italian Episcopal Conference, that will take place on the 13th of December 2010 at the residence of the CEI in via Aurelia 468, Dario Edoardo Viganò, President of the Commission, will present the new website www.cnvf.it. "The Commission website" - highlighted Viganò - "the organization of the contents will be improved and the graphics renewed, making it easier to access and work for the users. The site will contain as well as the already known moral reports on pastoral objectives of films, other useful elements for the various pastoral initiatives. Above all the presence of the path of the film themes thought about for the various national days for the Italian Church. The new site of the CNVF offers itself as a tool for daily use for all users, from families to the animators of communication and culture, that work in a creative way on the territory between community halls and parishes.

Trevi Cinema, Rome - Opening event of the 14th edition of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest (7th-12th December 2010), festival organized by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, in collaboration with the Culturale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, with the Pontifical Council for Culture and Social Communication, the International Convention of Studies "Fathers and sons, culture battles between the past and the present: what does the future hold?" will take place on the 1st of December 2010 at the Trevi Cinema in Rome (vicolo del Puttarello 25, Fontana di Trevi). The scientific curator and artistic director of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest event together with Marina Sanna (Chief editor of the magazine "Rivista del Cinematografo"), is Dario Edoardo Viganò, that this year has decided to look at the relationship between generations, between fathers and sons, through the cinema. There will be two sessions at the convention. An Open Forum in the morning (09.30-13.00), "WORK time of fathers and time of sons", moderated by Luigi Rancilio (Journalist of "Avvenire"), discussions by Dario E. Viganò, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi (President of the Pontifical Council for Culture), Flaminia Saccà (Sociologist, Sapienza University in Rome), Pupi Avati (director, scriptwriter and writer) and Mariantonia Avati (director). The afternoon session of the Open Forum (14.30-17.00), "WAR: the vision of fathers and sons", moderated by Paolo Petrecca (journalist of Rainews24), once again it will be opened by a discussion by Dario E. Viganò, followed by mons. Claudio Maria Celli (President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication ), Emiliana De Blasio (Sociologist, LUISS Guido Carli), Aureliano Amadei (director, scriptwriter and writer), author of the film "20 sigarette", about the massacre at the Italian Military Base in Nassirya in 2003. All the cast of the film will be present, a film that won the Controcampo Italiano Award at the 67th eition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia 2010. For further information about the onvention and Festival contact the website: www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org.

Auditorium of the rector's office, University of Catania - It will take place on 26th November 2010, at 9.00 a.m ,the university meeting at the auditorium at the University of Catania, where, after the interventions of Prof.Antonio Recca(Rector of the Universityof Catania) and mons.Salvatore Gristina(Metropoliton Bishop of Catania) ), Dario Edoardo Viganò will talk about the cinematography transpositions of the sacred readingss: stories of history, history of stories, parable. The event is organized by the Pastoral Office of the university of the arcidiocesi of Catania in collaboration with the university on Catania. "The built in vocation of cinema"- explains Viganò - "as a storytelling device has made the encounter between biblical history and the history of Jesus possible and fertile: starting from the works of the Lumière Brothers and of Méliès in France, from the first historical productions as Christus by Antamoro in Italy, to the period of the colossal Hollywood biblical, then moving the attention to Pasolini or to the suggestiveness of Zeffirelli, to the voyeurism of Gibsonin in the year 2000, not forgetting of course the original transpositions like Jesus Christ Superstar or provocative ones like L'ultima tentazione di Cristo. In front of the heterogeneity of the audio-visual transpositions about the events of Christ, it is possible to give an analytical taxonomy, three paths of reflection: stories on the history of Jesus, history of the stories of Jesus; and the parable cinema, the cinema of figurae Christi".

Vatican - It will take place on the 24th November 2010, at 11.00 a.m , at the office of Pontifical Council for Culture, the presentation of the press conference of the 14th edition of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest (7-12 December 2010), the festival focuses on Spiritual matters and on the comparison between the Other organized by the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, in collaboration with the Progetto Culturale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, with the Pontifical Council for Culture and Social Communication. Dario Edoardo Viganò, President of Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo and Director of the magazine "Rivista del Cinematografo", will introduce and moderate the press conference, presenting the calendar of appointments of the festival: the International Convention of Studies (10th December), the review of the Tertio Millennio Film Fest (7-12 December), the evening of the RdC Awards (10th December) and the competition "i-father Short Film Award" (10th December). Interventions by the Card. Gianfranco Ravasi (President of the Pontifical Council for Culture) who on the occasion will present the "Award for the discovery of the year" previously awarded to the emerging actress Margareth Madè for the film Baaria (2009) by Giuseppe Tornatore, by mons. Paul Tighe (Secetary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications) and by mons. Theodore Mascarenhas (Pontifical Council for Culture) and by Vittorio Sozzi (Progetto Culturale CEI). For further information contact the web site: www.tertiomillenniofilmfest.org.

Palazzo Bo, Università degli Studi di Padova - On the occasion of the meeting at Palazzo Bo (at which, during 2010, there have also been discussions held by Massimiliano Fuksas, Patrice Leconte, Roberto Vecchioni, Maurizio Ferraris, Alessandro Gassman), Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to hold a series of talks titled 'La comunicazione, tra pertinenze disciplinari e sguardo olistico' ('Communication: between subject relevance and a holistic viewpoint'). The talks will also include the participation of Prof. Renato Stella, professor of General Sociology at the faculty of Political Science, Università degli Studi di Padova, and are to present the 'Dizionario della comunicazione', a work of which Dario E. Viganò was both a contributing author and editor and which was published by Carocci in December 2009. The 'Dizionario della comunicazione' is the result of a massive amount of editorial work which lasted over two years and saw the involvement of 106 separate authors including international and Italian academics, as well as professionals from the world of communication. The work presents ten individual approaches to communication studies: historical, media, economic, semiotic, sociological, psychological, educational, theological, ethical and political; all of which have been carried out scientifically without losing sight of clarity and ease of consultatio

Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican - 'Cultura della comunicazione e nuovi linguaggi' ('The culture of communication and new languages') is the theme chosen for the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Culture, directed by mons. Gianfranco Ravasi. The encounter is due to take place at the site of the Vatican department from 10th to 13th November 2010 after the official inauguration which is to take place in the 'Sala della Protomoteca' in Campidoglio, Wednesday 10th November. On the occasion of the plenary assembly, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to participate in the round table talks titled 'In dialogo con un artista' (In dialogue with an artist) together with the Oscar winning composer Ennio Morricone and the English film director Roland Joffé, creator of the film 'The Mission' (1986). The meeting is due to take place on Thursday 11th November 2010 at 15:00. The location is the site of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Museo Diocesano, Terni - On the occasion of the sixth Festival 'Popoli e Religioni' ('Peoples and Religions') - Umbria International Film Fest, which is due to take place from the 7th to the 14th November 2010, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited as a speaker at the round table talks titled 'Il sacro nella cinematografia contemporanea' a convention organized by the Festival and to be held at the Museo Diocesano in Terni on Wednesday 10th November at 16:00. Along with Dario E. Viganò, other participants include mons. Vincenzo Paglia (bishop of Terni, Narni and Amelia), Andrea Piersanti (journalist), Krzysztof Zanussi (film director), Arnaldo Colasanti (literary critic) and Davide Rondoni (poet). The talk by Dario E. Viganò, titled 'Il sacro nel cinema. Ri-figurazioni paraboliche nel cinema europeo e statunitense da Pier Paolo Pasolini a Clint Eastwood' ('The sacred in cinema. Parabolic re-figurations in European and United States cinema from Pier Paolo Pasolini to Clint Eastwood'), provides an occasion to reflect on the heterogeneous nature of audio-visual re-figurations of the life of Christ, giving particular attention to so-called "parabolic films which, in the rhetoric of narration" - explained Viganò - "maintain the force of 'reference' treating personalities as 'figurae Christi'. This involves those films in which the principle personalities are deliberately presented as 'figurae Christi', as figures who within a different time and context from that through which Jesus lived nevertheless assume aspects of the experience of Christ". Starting with the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the 1960s and the films which preceded 'The Gospel According to St.Matthew' (1964): 'Accattone!' (1961), 'Mamma Roma' (1962) and 'La ricotta' (1963) Viganò proposes a cinematic-parabolic analysis which compares European cinema with that of Hollywood arriving at the present day and such films as 'Breaking the Waves' (1996) by the Danish director Lars von Trier and 'Gran Torino' (2008) by the Hollywood film director Clint Eastwood.

Hotel Majestic, Rome - On the occasion of the fifth version of the Rome International Film Festival (28th October - 5th November 2010), Dario Edoardo Viganò, as President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, has organized a Study Convention on the market and cinema industry in Italy for the 31st October at the Hotel Majestic as part of the Rome International Film Festival. The conference, 'Cinema: Innovation, Territoriality and Resources. From Production to Consumption. The Prospectives for the Cinema Industry in a Continually Evolving Market' will start out with the relevant data from the annual Report carried out by the Study Centre of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo in collaboration with Cinecittà Luce (cf. The Market and the Cinema Industry in Italy. 2009 Report. Published by Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo 2010 and available on: www.cineconomy.com). As well as Dario E.Viganò, who will inaugurate and chair the opening session, the conference will also include the participation of Roberto Cicutto (President of Cinecittà Luce), Luciano Sovena (AD Cinecittà Luce), Steve Della Casa (President of the Torino-Piemonte Film Commission), Fabiana Santini (Councillor for Lazio region), Gianni Canova (Consulting President of Universitaria Cinema), Redento Mori (journalist and ex-chief editor of 'Il Mondo'), Cecilia D'Elia (Councillor for the Province of Rome), Nicola Borrelli (General director for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activity), Giorgio De Vincenti (Director of the Faculty of Communication and Performing Arts Studies, Università Roma Tre), Paola Mazzaglia (AD Camelot), Maria Teresa De Gregorio (Regional manager UP Cultural Activity and Performing Arts, Regione Veneto), Umberto Croppi (Councillor for Rome Council), Paolo Peverini (Lecturer at LUISS "Guido Carli" university), Emiliana De Blasio (University lecturer at LUISS "Guido Carli"), Michele Sorice (Director of Research Centre CMCS, LUISS "Guido Carli" University).

Temple of Hadrian, Rome - On the occasion of the fifth Rome International Film Festival (28th October - 5th November 2010), in the exhibition space titled "Risonanza" on 28th October at 18:30, the Temple of Hadrian, there have been organized a series of round table talks for the presentation of the documentary film 'Matteo Ricci un gesuita nel regno del drago' by Gjon Kolndrekaj. Dario Edoardo Viganò was invited to chair the discussions and opened by reminding us how the Jesuit Matteo Ricci was "an extraordinary priest figure who, despite infinite difficulties, managed to bring Christianity as far as China". Viganò also brought to our attention the fact that "such courage and such visionary spirit is what we also need today." The documentary is dedicated to Matteo Ricci, who, in 1600 left his hometown in Italy of Macerata to begin missionary work in China. The film won the support of the People's Republic of China, the Society of Jesus, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Diocese of Macerata and the Pontifical Council for Social Communication. Already presented at the 66th Venice International Film Festival in collaboration with the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, the documentary by Gjon Kolndrekaj will now be inserted among the inaugural events of the Rome International Film Festival of 2010 with the support of 'Promoroma', the special organization of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Rome for the promotion of the capital through productions of cultural content.

Camposampiero, Padova - On the occasion of the Study Convention for the ANICEC training course for professionals in the fields of communicaton and culture , which will take place in Camposampiero (Padova) from the 22nd to the 24th October 2010, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to act as Scientific Director. This will involve coordinating the activities of the seminar and laboratories as well as chairing round table talks on the first day. The ANICEC course, which was organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Pontifical Lateran University, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the Fondazione Comunicazione e Cultura of the Italian Episcopal Conference, "aims to provide" - explained Viganò in the words of Pope John Paul II - "the future 'workers who, with the gift of faith, know how to interpret the cultural events of the present'. Children of their own time, social animators, who carry out their duties in areas which have lost their univocal profiles and identities. They are, therefore, called upon to use their creativity and intelligence (never far from the need to study) in order to provide a symbolic value to pre-existent areas, and to assume the responsibility of re-semanticizing the form of space in which they are called upon to act".

Biblioteca Alessandrina, Rome University 'La Sapienza' - On the occasion of the book presentation 'Fellini-Satyricon. L'immaginario dell'antico' ('Fellini-Satyricon: The imaginary world of the ancient') is due to take place on Thursday 23rd September 2010 at 16:30 on the site of the Alessandrina University Library. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited to give a talk on the figure of Federico Fellini and the cinematic imagination of the Emilian director and creator of the film 'Fellini-Satyricon' of 1969. The publication, edited and compiled by Raffaele De Berti, Elisabetta Gagetti and Fabrizio Slavazzi, is part of a project of Milan University titled 'Scene di Roma antica' (Scenes of Ancient Rome) and attempts to demonstrate how all art forms have repeatedly looked upon ancient Rome as a reference point. Along with Dario E. Viganò, the discussion will also include the participation of Maria Cristina Di Martino (Director of the Alessandrina Library), Gianfranco Angelucci (film director, author and lecturer in the history of the performing arts) and Paolo Carafa (lecturer in the archaeology and history of Greek art, Rome University 'La Sapienza').

San Francesco Convent, Gubbio - To celebrate the inauguration of the exhibition 'Bibbia viva' ('Living Bible') held in Gubbio from 18th to 25th September 2010 within the 'Chiostro della pace' of the San Francesco Convent, the event organizers - the local Dioceses and the publishers Edizione San Paolo - have put together a series of cultural talks on the Sacred Scriptures. Dario Edoardo Viganò has been invited, Tuesday 21st September at 20:45, to give a talk titled 'Testo sacro e ri-scritture audiovisive' (Sacred texts and audiovisual rewriting). "From its very origins" - stated Viganò - "the cinema has drawn heavily upon Biblical narratives assuming the responsibility, not always successfully, of capturing the power of the Word from which a transposition or a translation, and also sometimes a betrayal, have been made. Thanks to the multiplication of sources and to the completion of the film archives today we can take advantage of some of the more significant historical studies of the cinema. Such studies have opened up new areas of research, not forgetting, obviously, the contributions which have also been made by the small screen." As well as the contribution of Dario E. Viganò there will also be evening discussions with Mons. Fausto Panfili (Vicar General of the diocese of Gubbio), Mons. Nazzareno Marconi (Bible scholar and rector of the Pontifical Seminary of Umbria), Gilberto Gillini and Maria Teresa Zattoni (counsellor of family and vocational pastoral care).

Centro Giovanni Paolo II, Loreto - On the occasion of the IX edition of the 'Agorà dei Giovani del Mediterraneo' '"You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world." Father Matteo Ricci: model of evangelization and intercultural relations' which is to take place in Loreto (Centro Giovanni Paolo II) and in Macerata (Domus San Giuliano) from the 12th to 19th September 2010, Dario Edoardo Viganò has been selected to hold an International Study Laboratory under the title 'Sale e luce nel mondo digitale' (Salt and Light in the Digital World). The 'Agorà dei Giovani del Mediterraneo' is a meeting which has been promoted by the Centro Giovanni Paolo II, the Servizio Nazionale per la Pastorale Giovanile, the Office for Missionary Cooperation of the Church, the Diocesan Committee for the Celebration of the IV Centenary of Father Matteo Ricci and with the support of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, all coming together to constitute an important opportunity for stimulating the young of Christian communities in the Mediterranean area and, of this year, from the orient, to create and consolidate initiatives of cooperation.

Dario Edoardo Viganò has been selected to form part of the panel of judges titled 'Controcampo italiano' a competitive section concerning the tendencies of Italian cinema at the 67th International Venice Film Festival which is due to take place at the Lido of Venice from 1st to the 11th September 2010. The panel of judges will also include the actor Valerio Mastandrea (winner of the David Donatello Award 2010 for Best Actor in 'La prima cosa bella' by Paolo Virzì) and also includes, along with Dario Edoardo Viganò, the film director Susanna Nicchiarelli (winner of the Controcampo italiano 2009 Award for the film 'Cosmonauta'). Viganò will also be present at the International Venice Film Festival Viganò with the staff of Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo (FEdS) and the editorial office of the 'Rivista del Cinematografo', the longest running cinema journal in Italy, of which he has been respectively President and Chief Editor since 2004. They will be present at the FEdS exhibition space of the Hotel Excelsior, Sala Tropicana 1. (For a full calendar of events visit the websites www.cinematografo.it or www.entespettacolo.org).

Ciampino, Rome - Dario Edoardo Viganò is to conduct a report on 31st August 2010 on the occasion of the convention organized by the Service for the Promotion of Financial Sustenance of the Roman Catholic Church of the CEI. The title of the talk will be 'Gli spot come forma di comunicazione sociale nella Chiesa' (Advertising as a form of social communication in the Church). Promotion CEI 8x1000 and offers. "Having recourse to the instruments of semiotics" - explained Viganò - "in particular to the methodology of Greimasian analysis (generative semiotics) which began with the theoretical insights of the French linguist and semiologist Algirdas J. Greimas, an analysis of television commercials for '8x1000', highlighting points of criticality and changes of prospective will be proposed. The idea behind the report is to offer, moreover, a series of suggestions concerning the communicative possibilities of the publicity campaign for '8x1000' through unpublished studies of the latest trends in social publicity in their unconventional formats".

Clarhotel, Rome - On the occasion of the summer reunion for the Centro Universitario Cattolico (CUC) held at the Clarhotel of Rome from 19th to 22nd July 2010, Dario Edoardo Viganò held a day of spiritual retreat for the participating scholarship holders. The CUC, a structure of the Secretary General of the CEI, provides study scholarships for young Catholic scholars who attend university in Italy and has also created units of research involving scholarship holders who have already obtained a doctorate concerning themes of particular interest. The areas of research referred to amount to nine: art, economics, philosophy, law, literature, medicine, science, socio-politics and history. For scholarship holders this summer reunion involves an occasion for illustrating, in the presence of supervising professors, the results obtained in the research they are conducting.

Archdiocese of Diamantina, Brazil - For the week 5th July to 10th July 2010 Dario Edoardo Viganò was invited by the archbishop of Diamantina (Brazil), S.E. Mons. Joao Bosco Oliver De Faria, to preach the spiritual exercises for the priests of the archdiocese. In the spiritual retreat of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), Viganò therefore proposed to the 70 attending priests exercises on the theme of 'The ministry of the priest in light of the style of Jesus in Galilee'.

"Communication and Lies". This is the subject of the talk given by Professor Dario Edoardo Viganò, professor of Communication Studies at the Pontifical Latern University (where he is Dean of the 'Istituto "Redemptor Hominis"') at the international symposium held on January 30th in Torun (Poland) at the "Wyzsza Szkola Kultury Spolecznej i Medialnej" (College of Social Culture and Media).

Tomorrow, on the 10th December, the presentation of the Dizionario della comunicazione (Carocci, 2009) is due to take place at the LUISS Guido Carli University at the site on viale Romania 32 (room 203) at 10:45. The presentation will be given by the dictionary's editor Dario E. Viganò, President of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, lecturer in Communication Studies at the Pontifical Lateran University and member of the directing committee for the "Massimo Baldini" Centre for Media and Communication Studies of the LUISS Guido Carli University.