Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
Spring Term: 20th Century
Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
Autumn Term: 19th Century
25 August 2010. XIX Convegno dell’Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano
Insularità e cultura mediterranea nella lingua e nella letteratura italiane
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 25-28 agosto 201025 August 2010
Il comitato organizzatore è coordinato dal Prof. Maurizio Virdis (Dipartimento di Filologie e Letterature Moderne, Università degli Studi di Cagliari virdis@unica.it
Segretaria dell’associazione: Leonarda Trapassi ltrapassi@us.es
31 July 2010. SIS Postgraduate Essay Prize, 2010
Deadline 31 July 2010
Follow link for details.
8 July 2010. A Study Day on the Classical Tradition for Undergraduate Students (in any year), interested in pursuing postgraduate
studies in the Classical Tradition.
Durham University, 8 July 2010
There are c. ten places available. The application deadline is 21 June
Applications should be mailed to Ingo Gildenhard (Director, Durham Centre for the Study of the Classical Tradition) or, preferably, be sent electronically:ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk
7 July 2010. Dante: The Author and His Image
Durham University, 7 July 2010
Conference Venue (daytime): Leech Hall, St John’s College
Concert Venue (evening): University Music School, Palace Green
For further information, please contact Dr Ingo Guldenhard ingo.gildenhard@durham.ac.uk
28 June 2010. Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
The Taylor Institution, St Giles', Oxford, 28-29 June 2010
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) and Elena Lombardi (Bristol)
Funded by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford, and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Keynote speaker: Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge)
To register or for further information, please contact Tristan Kay tristan.kay@queens.ox.ac.uk
25 June 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS: Alberto Moravia: nuovi approcci per il terzo millennio
University College Cork, Ireland. 16 October 2010.
Proposals for 20-minute papers in English or Italian are invited on topics that offer fresh approaches to the study of Moravia’s works.
Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words, along with a short biography stating background and research interests, should be sent by 25 June 2010 to moraviaconference2010@gmail.com.
Further information from Emma Keane (e.keane@ucc.ie, emmakeane@libero.it) or Mark Chu (MChu@italian.ucc.ie).
24 June 2010. Language, Space and Otherness in Italy Since 1861
British School at Rome, 24-25 June 2010
Confirmed speakers include John Agnew, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, John Foot, Mia Fuller, Robert Gordon, and Alessandro Portelli.
Organizer: David Forgacs d.forgacs@bsrome.it
19 June 2010. Award Ceremony of the first Edinburgh Gadda Prize
The prize is in 4 categories, one of them for Best Published Work on twentieth-century Italian narrative (closing date 31 March 2010)
University of Edinburgh, 19 June 2010
Prize Committee Chair: Prof Federica G. Pedriali (Edinburgh University) F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
19 June 2010. The Blackwell Gadda Workshop
University of Edinburgh, 19 June 2010
Finalists Workshop of The Edinburgh Gadda Prize - event conducted by Annie Griffin, with the participation of prominent Scottish actors
Event organiser: Prof Federica G. Pedriali (Edinburgh University) F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
18 June 2010. Second International EJGS Conference: City effects, city defects
University of Edinburgh, 18-19 June 2010
Speakers include: Remo Ceserani, Franco Farinelli, Giorgio Ficara, Paola Italia, Niva Lorenzini, Emilio Manzotti, Jeffrey Schnapp and Giuseppe Stellardi
Conference organiser: Prof Federica G. Pedriali (Edinburgh University) F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
16 June 2010. ASMI Postgraduate Conference 2010
Department of Italian Studies, University of Birmingham, 16 June 2010
Organising committee: Luca Malici, Alex Standen, Susanne Thuermer and Clare Watters.
The conference is FREE for all members of ASMI, including those who register on the day. A limited number of travel bursaries of up to £50 are available and will be decided on the basis of geographical need.
For more information contact the organisers at: asmi.pg.conference.2010@gmail.com
5 June 2010. SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2010
University of Warwick, 5 June 2010
Programme can now be downloaded in PDF format. Follow these links to the conference website and details of registration.
28 May 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS: Enhancing the Italian Studies Curriculum: Innovation and Development Conference
City Inn, Manchester, 17 September 2010
Keynote speakers: Marina Orsini-Jones (Coventry University); Dr. Marina Mozzon-McPherson (The University of Hull)
The deadline for receipts of abstracts is Friday 28 May 2010. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words.
For any queries and for submitting your abstract, please contact Dr. Elena Polisca: Elena.polisca@manchester.ac.uk
15 May 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS: ASMI Annual Conference 2010
Italy and its Pasts: an interdisciplinary conference
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, 19-20 November 2010
Conference organisers: Martin Brown (Staffordshire) m.t.brown@staffs.ac.uk; Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge) mtc12@cam.ac.uk; Paola Filippucci (Cambridge) pf107@cam.ac.uk
Papers can be in Italian or English and should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Paper proposals of 250 words maximum should reach the conference organisers by 15 May 2010
30 April 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS: International Symposium ‘TU SE’ LO MIO MAESTRO E ’L MIO AUTORE’: Fostering Collaboration across Generations of Italianists
University of Edinburgh, 23-24 September 2010
Keynote speakers: Martin McLaughlin (University of Oxford), Anthony Oldcorn (Brown University)
Conference Organizers: Matteo Brera, Federica Pedriali, Carlo Pirozzi, Daniela Sannino
The deadline for receipts of abstracts is 30 April 2010. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words.
For any queries and for submitting your abstract, please contact the organizers: edicis@gmail.com
22 April 2010. Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
The Taylor Institution, Oxford, 22-24 April 2010
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) and Elena Lombardi (Bristol)
Funded by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford, and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Keynote speakers: Christian Moevs (Notre Dame) and Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge)
To register or for further information, please contact Tristan Kay: tristan.kay@queens.ox.ac.uk
16 April 2010. SIS Interim Conference, 'Religion, Mysticism and Heresy in Italian Culture'
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, 16-17 April 2010.
Organizers: Fabrizio De Donno (Royal Holloway) and Simon Gilson (Warwick).
Keynote Speakers: Stephen Milner (University of Manchester), Mary Laven (University of Cambridge), Emilio Gentile (University of Rome)
Programme (download in PDF format)
8 April 2010. Orality, Language, and Communication in the Early Modern World
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Venice, 8-10 April 2010
Organizers: Liz Horodowich lizh@nmsu.edu and Filippo de Vivo f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk
2 April 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS: ASMI Postgraduate Conference 2010
Department of Italian Studies, University of Birmingham, 16 June 2010
Organising committee: Luca Malici, Alex Standen, Susanne Thuermer and Clare Watters.
Proposals are invited from postgraduates for papers on any aspect of modern Italian culture, history, politics or society from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century from whatever discipline. Papers can be in Italian or English and should be no more than 20 minutes in length. Abstract of 250 words maximum should be sent to the conference organisers by Friday 2 April 2010. The conference is FREE for all members of ASMI, including those who register on the day. A limited number of travel bursaries of up to £50 are available and will be decided on the basis of geographical need.
For more information contact the organisers at: asmi.pg.conference.2010@gmail.com
31 March 2010. Call for papers: SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2010
University of Warwick, 5 June 2010
Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words, together with a short biography indicating academic background and research interests should be sent by 31 March 2010 to Dominic Holdaway, Mariarita Martino Grisà, Clea Rivalta and Caterina Sinibaldi at SIS.PGC.Warwick@warwick.ac.uk.
31 March 2010. The Edinburgh Gadda Prize: Closing date
31 March 2010.
The prize is in 4 categories, one of them for Best Published Work on twentieth-century Italian narrative (closing date 31 March 2010)
Prize Committee Chair: Prof Federica G. Pedriali (Edinburgh University) F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
19 March 2010. SIS - Annual General Meeting
Senate House, University of London (Room 102), Friday 19 March 2010, 2.30 p.m.
As well as elections to the Executive Committee, the AGM will elect a Chair for the Society. Nominations to the Chair and to the Executive Committee are invited from any member. Nominations should be proposed and seconded, and the acceptance of the nominee assured. Nominations should be sent to the Honorary Secretary (see below), to arrive no later than 15 March.
A provisional agenda will be sent out in hard copy to all members, and is also available electronically by contacting Matthew Treherne M.Treherne@leeds.ac.uk
15 March 2010. First MOSAICI Conference: Poetry in Conflict
University of St Andrews, 15-17 March 2010
Keynote speakers will include Valerio Magrelli and Alberto Bertoni (Bologna)
Organisers: Dr Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews); Dr Eanna Ó Ceallacháin (Glasgow); Professor George Talbot (Hull)
27 February 2010. Graduate Conference in Italian Studies
University College Cork, Ireland, Saturday, 27 February 2010
For information please contact Dr Silvia Ross, Head of Organizing Committee s.ross@ucc.ie.
22 January 2010. Da Sodoma a Gomorra: Framing Crisis and Rebirth in Italian Cinema
University of Warwick, 22-24 January 2010.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Peter Bondanella (Indiana University) and Prof. Vito Zagarrio (Roma Tre).
Confirmed Roundtable Panel: Guido Bonsaver (Oxford), Robert Gordon (Cambridge), Alan O’Leary (Leeds), Catherine O’Rawe (Bristol).
Confirmed an electronic link with Cinemonitor: Osservatorio Cinema >http://www.cinemonitor.it/index.asp (Rome 'La Sapienza').
Organizers: Mariarita Martino Grisà Mariarita.Martino@warwick.ac.uk and Dom Holdaway D.F.G.Holdaway@warwick.ac.uk(Warwick).
18 January 2010. Anglo-Saxon Historiography, the Republic and the Perception of Italian Democracy from Abroad: Difficulties and Ambiguities
Queen Mary, University of London, Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought (Room 3.28), 18 January 2010, 5.00 p.m.
First round table, part of the AHRC-funded Seminar Series 'Democracy in Italy: from the End of Fascism to Berlusconi'
Prof. Donald Sassoon (Queen Mary, London); Prof. Stuart Woolf (Venice); Mr Guy Dinmore (Financial Times correspondent from Rome)
Organized by the doctoral students at the University of Reading, the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London
15 January 2010. "Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa. Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino"
Organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (IGRS, London) and the University of Bath.
15-16 January 2010, IGRS, London.
Follow link for registration and information.
11 December 2009. Call for Papers: Graduate Conference in Italian Studies
University College Cork, Ireland, Saturday, 27 February '10
Research graduate students (from Irish universities as well as from abroad) are invited to submit a 300-word abstract including title of paper, name, affiliation, and brief bio by Friday, 11 December 2009. Papers are to be 20 minutes in length (maximum).
For information please contact Dr Silvia Ross, Head of Organizing Committee s.ross@ucc.ie.
1 December 2009. Futurisms: precursors, protagonists, legacies”
Utrecht, 1-3 December 2009
Confirmed keynote speakers are Günter Berghaus (Bristol University), Giovanni Lista (CNRS, Paris), Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) and Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford University); confirmed invited speakers are Walter Adamson (Emory University, Atlanta), Timothy Campbell (Cornell University), Silvia Contarini (Paris-X Nanterre) and Luca Somigli (Toronto University).
Email: futurisms@uu.nl
30 November 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: XIX Convegno dell’Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano
Insularità e cultura mediterranea nella lingua e nella letteratura italiane
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 25-28 agosto '10
Il comitato organizzatore è coordinato dal Prof. Maurizio Virdis (Dipartimento di Filologie e Letterature Moderne, Università degli Studi di Cagliari virdis@unica.it
Le proposte di comunicazione e i riassunti (max. 10 righi) dovranno pervenire entro il 30 novembre 2009 all'indirizzo della segretaria dell’associazione, Leonarda Trapassi ltrapassi@us.es30 November 2009
Il comitato scientifico comunicherà l’accettazione delle proposte alla fine di febbraio '10.
27 November 2009. ASMI Annual Conference 2009: Italy and Emotions. Perspectives from the 18th Century to the Present
IGRS, London, 27-28 November 2009
Keynote speakers: Professor Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa) Second speaker to be confirmed
Conference organizers: Penny Morris (Glasgow); Francesco Ricatti (University of the Sunshine Coast); Mark Seymour (Otago)
6 November 2009. Leonardo Sciascia’s Defiance: Literature, History, Politics
University College London, 6-7 November 2009
Keynote speakers: Prof. Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde); Prof. Salvatore Lupo (Università di Palermo)
Conference organizers: Lucia Rinaldi (UCL) L.Rinaldi@ucl.ac.uk and Florian Mussgnug (UCL) f.mussgnug@ucl.ac.uk
23 October 2009. International Conference: Leonardo Sciascia: vent’anni dopo
University College Cork (Ireland), 23-24 October 2009
Keynote Speakers: Vincenzo Consolo (Writer); Prof. Claude Ambroise (Université Stendhal Grenoble III)
Conference organisers: Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork) and Dr Mark Chu (University College Cork)
Conference email address: sciasciacork2009@gmail.com
23 October 2009. Colloquium: The Muses and their Afterlife in Post-Classical Europe
Warburg Institute, London, 23-24 October 2009
Colloquium organisers: Dr Kathleen Christian (University of Pittsburgh); Dr Clare Guest (University of Agder, Kristiansand); Dr Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute, London)
17 October 2009. The Society for Pirandello Studies: Clothing the Naked: Pirandello and Pirandellismo
IGRS, London, 17 October 2009
Email: infopirandellosoc@yahoo.ie
15 October 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS. Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
University of Oxford, 22-24 April '10
Keynote speakers: Bill Burgwinkle (King's College, Cambridge) and Christian Moevs (Notre Dame)
Papers will be limited to 30 minutes. Please email an abstract of maximum 500 words and a short bio-bibliographical profile (no more than 1 page) to Manuele Gragnolati manuele.gragnolati@some.ox.ac.uk and Elena Lombardi elena.lombardi@bristol.ac.uk by 15 October 2009. For any other information, please contact Tristan Kay: tristan.kay@queens.ox.ac.uk
9 October 2009. Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture, from Dante to the Present
CRASSH, Cambridge (UK), 9-10 October 2009
Organized by Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge) Florian Mussgnug (UCL) Heather Webb (Ohio State, USA)
For information, programme, speakers, and on-line registration: >http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/953/
9 October 2009. Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (Inferno I-III)
Parliament Hall, St Andrews - First meeting 9 October 2009
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Robert Hollander (Princeton), Prof. Zygmunt Baranski (Cambridge), Prof. Douglas Dunn (St Andrews), Dr. Robert Wilson (St Andrews).
For further information, please contact Claudia Rossignoli
cr41@st-andrews.ac.uk or Robert Wilson rpw@st-andrews.ac.uk
1 October 2009. British-Italian Society Rooke Memorial Postgraduate Prize
Please note that the deadline for submission for the postgraduate prize only has been extended until 1 October 2009.
30 September 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS. First MOSAICI Conference: Poetry in Conflict
University of St Andrews, 15-17 March '10
Keynote speakers will include Valerio Magrelli and Alberto Bertoni (Bologna)
Organisers: Dr Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews); Dr Eanna Ó Ceallacháin (Glasgow); Professor George Talbot (Hull)
500-word abstracts of 20-minute papers are invited on the broad theme of Poetry in Conflict, whether conflicts of translation, textual tension, war, social strife, etc. They should be submitted to the organising committee by a deadline of 30 September 2009. Abstracts should be sent to mosaici.journal@gmail.com
25 September 2009. The European Avant-Garde 1890-1930
An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
University College Dublin, 25-26 September 2009
Organizers: Selena Daly selena.daly@ucd.ie and Monica Insinga monica.insinga@ucdconnect.ie
24 September 2009. Metamorphosing Dante
Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 24-26 September 2009
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford/Berlin), Fabio Camilletti (Berlin), Fabian Lampart (Freiburg)
email: dante@ici-berlin.org
24 September 2009. Translating America
Conference of the Italian Association of North American Studies (AISNA)
Turin, 24-26 September 2009
18 September 2009. Exoticizing Vesuvius? Formations of Naples c1500-present
AHRC-funded Workshops at the Universities of Cambridge and York
Third workshop: Cambridge, 18 September 2009
If you have any questions, please e-mail Simon Macdonald sjsm2@cam.ac.uk
8 September 2009. Metropolitan Desires. Cultural Reconfigurations of the European City Space
Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-9 September 2009
Organizers:Nicoletta DiCiolla; James Scorer; Edmund Smyth (Department of Languages, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Email: metdesires@mmu.ac.uk
6 September 2009. Synapsis 2009: Shadows/Ombre
European School for Comparative Studies, jointly hosted by the Universities of Bologna and Siena.
Castello di Bertinoro (Forlì), 6-13 September 2009
For further details and information please visit our web-site or contact us at: synapsis2009@gmail.com
1 September 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference: 21st-Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends
St Andrews University, 15-17 September '10
Organising body: St Andrews University School of Modern Languages
Convenor: Professor Margaret-Anne Hutton, Department of French
Subject convenor for Italian literature: Dr Rossella Riccobono rmr8@st-andrews.ac.uk
Submissions for papers and panels on any aspect of 21st-century literature are welcome. This includes prose, drama and poetry. Submission date for proposals (individual and panels): 1 September 2009
30 August 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Da ‘Sodoma’ a ‘Gomorra’: Framing Crisis and Rebirth in Italian Cinema from the 1970s to the present
University of Warwick, 22-24 January '10
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Gian Piero Brunetta, Peter Bondanella.
Titles and abstracts (max 300 words) for proposed papers should be sent in either English or Italian to the conference organizers Dominic Holdaway D.F.G.Holdaway@warwick.ac.uk and Mariarita Martino Mariarita.Martino@warwick.ac.uk by 30 August 2009
15 August 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS. International Conference: Leonardo Sciascia: vent’anni dopo
University College Cork (Ireland), 23-24 October
Keynote Speakers: Vincenzo Consolo (Writer); Prof. Claude Ambroise (Université Stendhal Grenoble III)
Conference organisers: Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork) and Dr Mark Chu (University College Cork)
Papers may be given in either English or Italian. Please send a provisional title and abstract (circa 250 words) to the conference email address no later than 15 August 2009: sciasciacork2009@gmail.com
31 July 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Leonardo Sciascia’s Defiance: Literature, History, Politics
University College London, 6-7 November
Keynote speakers: Prof. Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde); Prof. Salvatore Lupo (Università di Palermo)
Conference organizers: Lucia Rinaldi (UCL) and Florian Mussgnug (UCL)
Titles and abstracts (max 300 words) for proposed papers (approximately 20 minutes) in either English or Italian should be sent to Lucia Rinaldi at L.Rinaldi@ucl.ac.uk by 31 July 2009.
15 July 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Society for Pirandello Studies
Clothing the Naked: Pirandello and Pirandellismo
IGRS, London, 17 October 2009
Abstracts of c. 200 words (in English) for papers of 20 minutes should be sent to: infopirandellosoc@yahoo.ie
The deadline for abstracts is 15 July 2009.
4 July 2009. Handle with Care: Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Spenser
Liverpool Hope University, 4-5 July 2009
Keynote Speaker: Professor John Watkins (University of Minnesota)
Organizer: Dr Will Rossiter rossitw@hope.ac.uk
3 July 2009. ASMI Postgraduate Conference
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 3 July 2009
For further information, please send an email to the conference organiser Guy Puzey at g.puzey@ed.ac.uk
2 July 2009. Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009
Queen Mary, University of London, 2-4 July 2009
Organizers: Prof. Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary) e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk; Dr John Goodby (Swansea) j.goodby@swansea.ac.uk; Prof. Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) e.robertson@rhul.ac.uk; Prof. Andrew Rothwell (Swansea) a.j.rothwell@swansea.ac.uk; Dr Simona Storchi (Swansea) s.storchi@swansea.ac.uk in collaboration with The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London.
30 June 2009. British-Italian Society Rooke Memorial Prizes
In conjunction with the SIS, these prizes are awarded for undergraduate and postgraduate essays and dissertations, which should be submitted in the first instance to students' departments by 30 June 2009.
26 June 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Language, Space and Otherness in Italy Since 1861.
British School at Rome, 24-25 June '10
Confirmed speakers include John Agnew, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, John Foot, Mia Fuller, Robert Gordon, and Alessandro Portelli.
Send a provisional title and abstract (max 500 words) of your proposed paper in English or Italian by email to the conference organizer, David Forgacs d.forgacs@bsrome.it by 26 June 2009. Accepted proposals will be confirmed by 24 July
26 June 2009. Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre
The Third Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of Universities (NUI Galway, UL, UCC), Crime Genre Research Group
University College Cork, 26-27 June 2009
Keynote Speakers: Katharina Hall, Nicoletta Vallorani (Eva (Einaudi, 2002), Visto dal cielo (Einaudi, 2004)), Simone Sarasso (Confine di Stato (Marsilio, 2007)).
Programme and registration details now available via link. For information and enquiry email corkcrime@gmail.com.
19 June 2009. Teaching Film in Modern Languages
University of Bristol, 19 June 2009
15 June 2009. Dante's Divine Comedy and the Medieval World: Literature, History, Art
Prato, Italy, 15 June-10 July 2009
National Endowment for the Humanities in association with Monash University Prato Centre through the Medieval Academy of America
For information and applications: Christopher Kleinhenz (Director); Paul E. Szarmach (Project Coordinator). E-mail: ckleinhe@wisc.edu
15 June 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: The European Avant-Garde 1890-1930
An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference
University College Dublin, 25-26 September
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers from postgraduate students. Papers should be in English. Abstracts (maximum 300 words), together with a short biography indicating your academic background and research interests should be emailed to the organizers at the addresses below by 15 June 2009.
Organizers: Selena Daly selena.daly@ucd.ie and Monica Insinga monica.insinga@ucdconnect.ie
15 June 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Futurisms: precursors, protagonists, legacies
Utrecht, 1-3 December
Proposals are invited for 20 minute-papers. Proposals should include a brief description of the paper (maximum 250 words), name, mail and postal address, academic affiliation. Please submit only by mail at: futurisms@uu.nl
Deadline for submission: 15 June 2009. Notification on acceptance will be given by July 1.
10 June 2009. Synapsis 2009: Shadows/Ombre
Castello di Bertinoro (Forlì), 6-13 September 2009
Synapsis, European School for Comparative Studies, jointly hosted by the Universities of Bologna and Siena, now invites applications for its 10th edition: "Shadows/Ombre". The deadline for applications is Wednesday, 10 June 2009.
For further details and information on how to apply please visit our web-site or contact us at: synapsis2009@gmail.com
5 June 2009. Scribal Culture in Italy, 1450-1650: Science, Medicine and Philosophy
A Half-Day Workshop
Wellcome Institute, London, 5 June 2009
To reserve a place or for more information, please contact Filippo de Vivo f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk or Brian Richardson b.f.richardson@ leeds.ac.uk http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/about/conferences/scribalculture
30 May 2009. Reading by Paolo Giordano
The author will be reading from his first novel La solitudine dei numeri primi (Premio Strega, '08)
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London, 30 May 2009, 1.00pm
29 May 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: ASMI Annual Conference 2009: Italy and Emotions. Perspectives from the 18th Century to the Present
IGRS, London, 27-28 November
Keynote speakers: Professor Alberto Mario Banti (University of Pisa) Second speaker to be confirmed
We invite proposals from a wide range of disciplines and approaches. Please send an abstract of about 250 words, along with a brief biographical statement, to Francesco Ricatti, fricatti@usc.edu.au by 29 May 2009
Papers may be presented in either English or Italian
Conference organizers: Penny Morris (Glasgow); Francesco Ricatti (University of the Sunshine Coast); Mark Seymour (Otago)
29 May 2009. Call for Papers: SIS Interim Conference, 'Religion, Mysticism and Heresy in Italian Culture'
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, 16-17 April '10.
Organizers: Fabrizio De Donno (Royal Holloway: fabrizio.dedonno@rhul.ac.uk) and Simon Gilson (Warwick: s.gilson@warwick.ac.uk).
Proposals of individual 20-minute papers are invited. Please submit a title and 150-word abstract, including speaker's name and affiliation, to reach the organizers by Friday, 29 May 2009.
27 May 2009. Popular Italian Cinema: an international conference
King's College, University of London, 27-29 May 2009
Keynote speakers: Richard Dyer (King's College, London), Rosalind Galt (Sussex), Elena Mosconi (Cattolica, Milan), Federica Villa (Turin), Christopher Wagstaff (Reading).
Louis Bayman, King's College, London: louis.bayman@kcl.ac.uk
Sergio Rigoletto, University of Reading: s.rigoletto@rdg.ac.uk
26 May 2009. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Reading Group
Stewart House (ST 276), 26 May 2009, 6pm
23 May 2009. SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2009
University of Oxford, Saturday, 23 May 2009
Organisers: Tristan Kay, Eleanor Parker and Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (sispostgradcolloq09@hotmail.com).
Programme and registration details now available.
15 May 2009. Gladys Krieble Delmas Grants 2009-2010
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation announces its 2009-2010 programme of grants (predoctoral and postdoctoral) for travel to and residence in Venice and the Veneto. Grants will be awarded for historical research specifically on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for study of contemporary Venetian society and culture.
Applications for the British and Commonwealth Programme are due by 15 May 2009.
14 May 2009. Professor Donna Gabaccia at Warwick
14 May 2009, 3-5pm
Seminar: Do Words Matter? The History of Ideas meets the Digital Archive
Venue: Ramphal Building. Rooms R0.03/4
Please email any inquiries to P.Toninato@warwick.ac.uk
13 May 2009. Professor Donna Gabaccia at Warwick
13 May 2009, 5-7pm
Public lecture: Imagining Nations of Immigrants
Venue: Humanities Building. Room H0.52
Please email any inquiries to P.Toninato@warwick.ac.uk
11 May 2009. Professor Donna Gabaccia at Warwick
11 May 2009, 5.30-7pm
Seminar: Gender and Theory in an Interdisciplinary Field: International Migration Studies
Venue: Ramphal Building. Room R3.25
Please email any inquiries to P.Toninato@warwick.ac.uk
8 May 2009. Professor Donna Gabaccia at Warwick
8 May 2009, 1-6pm
Workshop: Interrogating the usefulness of the diaspora paradigm for the study of migrant, transnational and postcolonial cultures and literatures
Venue: Humanities Building. Room H0.60
Please email any inquiries to P.Toninato@warwick.ac.uk
8 May 2009. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Italian Research Training Seminar
Stewart House (ST 273), 8 May 2009
5 May 2009. Professor Donna Gabaccia at Warwick
5 May 2009, 10.30-12.30
Symposium: Diaspora Studies and Diasporic Identities: Italians and Others
Speakers: Donna Gabaccia (Minnesota), Stefano Luconi (Florence). Main discussant: Robin Cohen (Oxford)
Venue: Social Studies Building. Room S0.13
Please email any inquiries to P.Toninato@warwick.ac.uk
5 May 2009. Le strategie del comico nelle opere di Gianni Celati
Università di Copenaghen, 5-7 maggio 2009 5-7 May 2009
1 May 2009. CFP: Metropolitan Desires. Cultural Reconfigurations of the European City Space
Manchester Metropolitan University, 8-9 September
Organizers: Nicoletta DiCiolla; James Scorer; Edmund Smyth (Department of Languages, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Proposals for individual papers and for panels should be addressed by email by 1 May 2009 to: metdesires@mmu.ac.uk
1 May 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Handle with Care: Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Spenser
Liverpool Hope University, 4-5 July
Keynote Speaker: Professor John Watkins (University of Minnesota)
Proposals are invited for a conference which will examine the interrelated roles of the author and the diplomat in the late medieval, early modern and Renaissance periods. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Dr Will Rossiter rossitw@hope.ac.uk by 1 May 2009.
30 April 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Metamorphosing Dante
Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 24-26 September
Papers will be limited to 30 minutes. Please email an abstract of maximum 500 words and a short bio-bibliographical profile (no more than 1 page) to dante@ici-berlin.org by 30 April 2009.
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford/Berlin), Fabio Camilletti (Berlin), Fabian Lampart (Freiburg)
30 April 2009. CFP: Translating America
Conference of the Italian Association of North American Studies (AISNA)
Turin, 24-26 September
The full call for papers is now available here: >http://www.aisna.net/aisnatorino/callforpapers.pdf
Deadline: 30 April 2009
28 April 2009. Visual and Verbal Synergies: The Italian Case
University of Warwick, 28 April 2009, 5.00 p.m
Speakers:
Remo Ceserani (Università di Bologna): ‘Photography: Semantic and Metaphoric Fields in the Main European Languages’
Florian Mussgnug (UCL): ‘Minimalist Art as a Model for Literature, 1960-1977’
Respondent: Dr. Loredana Polezzi (Warwick)
For further information, please contact the organizer Mariarita Martino Mariarita.Martino@warwick.ac.uk
24 April 2009. Pasolini and Fassbinder: the European legacy between utopia and nihilism
An international conference
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (UK), 24-26 April 2009
Organisers: Fabio Vighi vighif@cardiff.ac.uk and Alexis Nuselovici nuselovicia@cardiff.ac.uk
20 April 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: ASMI Postgraduate Conference
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 3 July
Proposals are now invited from postgraduate students for presentations on any aspect of Italian history,
politics, culture (excluding literature) or society from the late eighteenth century to the twenty-first century.
Presentations may be 10 minutes or 20 minutes in duration. If you are interested in presenting at this event, please send an email to the conference organiser Guy Puzey at g.puzey@ed.ac.uk by 20 April 2009. The conference working languages will be English and Italian
19 April 2009. SIS Biennial Conference
Royal Holloway University of London, 16–19 April 2009
The programme and booking information is now available on the Conference website [20 February 2009].
NB Participants are requested to book as soon as possible, as the organizers need to finalize numbers.
Download delegate welcome and instructions.
11 April 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Orality, Language, and Communication in the Early Modern World
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Venice, 8-10 April '10
The organizers welcome proposals from graduate students as well as more senior scholars of history, language or literature.Papers may be proposed and given in either English or Italian.
Please send a brief abstract, as well as a short CV, to the organizers, Liz Horodowich lizh@nmsu.edu and Filippo de Vivo f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk with the subject line "Venice RSA", by Friday, 11 April 2009. Accepted proposals will be announced by May 2nd.
6 April 2009. Phantasmata. Techniques of the Uncanny
ICI-Berlin, 6-8 April 2009
3 April 2009. Study Day and Poetry Reading
Mosaics of Identity (The Problem of Identity in Recent Italian Literature)
The Italian Department (Trinity College Dublin) and the Italian Cultural Institute in Ireland (Dublin), 3 April 2009
For forther details please contact Roberto Bertoni rbertoni@tcd.ie
3 April 2009. Exoticizing Vesuvius? Formations of Naples c1500-present
AHRC-funded Workshops at the Universities of Cambridge and York
Second workshop: York, 3 April 2009
If you have any questions, please e-mail Simon Macdonald sjsm2@cam.ac.uk
2 April 2009. Dante's Pluringualism: Authority, Vulgarization, Subjectivity
Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 2-4 April 2009.
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati, Sara Fortuna, Jürgen Trabant
28 March 2009. Giornata di formazione per insegnanti di italiano come lingua 2
realizzata con il sostegno del Ministero degli Affari Esteri italiano
University of Leicester, 28 March 2009
For further information and registration, please contact:
Maria Guarnieri mg158@le.ac.uk
Sonia Cunico sc147@le.ac.uk
26 March 2009. The British Academy - Italian Lecture
Professor Martin McLaughlin (Oxford) on 'Leon Battista Alberti and the redirection of Renaissance humanism'
The British Academy,London, 26 March 2009, 5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
Free Admittance
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email: lectures@britac.ac.uk
25 March 2009. Research Seminar: Realismo e finzione narrativa nel noir contemporaneo: querelles e questioni
Prof. Elisabetta Mondello, Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Visiting Felllow in the Department of Italian, UCC, sponsored by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences under the Research Development Initiative.
University College Cork, O'Rahilly Building Room 1.24
Wednesday, 25 March 2009. 14.00-15.00. All welcome.
15 March 2009. SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2009 - Call for papers
University of Oxford, Saturday, 23 May 2009
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2009.
12 March 2009. Conference: Enlightening Encounters: Italian Literature and Photography Through Time
University of Warwick, 12-14 March 2009
This conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussions of various aspects of the dialogue between Italian literature and the photographic medium.
Enquiries and proposals should be addressed to: Jennifer Burns J.E.Burns@warwick.ac.uk and Giorgia Alù giorgia.alu@usyd.edu.au / giorgiaal@virgilio.it.
Updated link with registration form and programme (17 February 2009)
9 March 2009. Hurried Steps. Stories from women by Dacia Maraini
Translated by Sharon Wood; Directed by Nicolette Kay; Produced by Anna Holland
Leicester University, Monday 9 March 2009
7.30 Performance
8.30 Discussion Panel with Dacia Maraini
There is no charge for this event
Enquiries: Anna Holland annabholland@gmail.com
7 March 2009. Women in Ottocento Italy: New Perspectives. A one-day Symposium
Cambridge, Clare College (Latimer Room), 7 March 2009
Organisers: Dr Kate Mitchell (Lucy Cavendish, Cambridge) khm28@cam.ac.uk and Dr Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge) hls37@cam.ac.uk
7 March 2009. Analysing the Poetry of the Commedia: Undergraduate Study Day
Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, in association with the Department of Italian, University College Cork
UCC, Saturday, 7 March 2009 2008: 11.30-4.30
Contact Dr Daragh O'Connell daragh.oconnell@ucc.ie.
4 March 2009. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Prof. Ann Hallamore Caesar (Warwick University) on ‘Changing countries, crossing genres: Richardson, Goldoni and Pamela’.
IGRS (Stewart House, room ST275), 4 March 2009, 6pm
27 February 2009. Migrating Italy. Interdisciplinary Workshop I
Media and Narrative Representations of Immigration in Contemporary Italy
SAÏD Business School (Oxford), 27 February 2009
Organizers: Dr Guido Bonsaver (ISO Humanities Co-ordinator), and Ms Emma Bond (ISO Research Co-ordinator)
For information please contact: emma.bond@chch.ox.ac.uk
27 February 2009. A New Berlusconi Era: Lessons for Italy and Europe?
University of Birmingham, 27 February 2009, 2 – 5.15 p.m.
SPEAKERS: Clodagh Brook, Charlotte Ross and Daniele Albertazzi (Birmingham); Jim Newell (Salford); Maurizio Carbone
(Glasgow)
27 February 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Con(tra)vention: Crime and the Boundaries of Genre
The Third Interdisciplinary Conference of the Atlantic Alliance of Universities (NUI Galway, UL, UCC), Crime Genre Research Group
University College Cork, 26-27 June 2009
Keynote Speakers: Katharina Hall, Nicoletta Vallorani (Eva (Einaudi, MMII), Visto dal cielo (Einaudi, MMIV)), Simone Sarasso (Confine di Stato (Marsilio, MMVII)).
Papers will be welcomed from a range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) modern languages, film studies, literary and cultural studies, gender studies, history, geography, sociology, and political science. Abstracts (of 300 words maximum) and a short biography should be sent to corkcrime@gmail.com to reach us no later than Friday, 27 February 2009. Papers should be no more than twenty minutes in length.
23 February 2009. Prof. Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto) on 'When the Saints Come Marching In: Civic Religion in Renaissance Italy'
University of Warwick, 23 February 2009, 5pm .
23 February 2009. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Reading Group
Stewart House (ST 273), 23 February 2009, 6pm
21 February 2009. L’Italia nella Grande Migrazione
V Convegno biennale dell’ ACIS (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies)
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 - 21 February 2009
All enquiries can be directed to conf@acis.org.au
21 February 2009. Graduate Conference in Italian Studies
University College Cork, 21 February 2009
For information please contact: Dr Silvia Ross, Head of Organizing Committee s.ross@ucc.ie
20 February 2009. Scribal Culture, Literature, Music and Theatre in Renaissance Italy
A Half-Day Workshop
Trinity College, Cambridge (Old Combination Room), 20 February 2009
To reserve a place or for more information, please contact Filippo de Vivo f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk or Brian Richardson b.f.richardson@ leeds.ac.uk
17 February 2009. Prof. Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto) on ‘The Art of Executing Well: Comforting the Condemned in Renaissance Italy’
University of Warwick, 17 February 2009, 5.00pm
15 February 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS - Popular Italian Cinema: an international conference
King's College, University of London, 27-29 May 2009
Keynote speakers: Richard Dyer (King's College, London), Rosalind Galt (Sussex), Elena Mosconi (Cattolica, Milan), Federica Villa (Turin), Christopher Wagstaff (Reading).
Proposals are invited for papers which deal with any aspect of popular Italian film culture from early silent film to contemporary cinema. Titles and abstracts (350 words) for proposed papers should be sent in English to the conference organizers by 15 February 2009
Louis Bayman, King's College, London: louis.bayman@kcl.ac.uk
Sergio Rigoletto, University of Reading: s.rigoletto@rdg.ac.uk
13 February 2009. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Italian Research Training Seminar
Stewart House (ST 273), 13 February 2009
11 February 2009. Department of Italian Research Seminar, University College Cork
‘From Venice to Damascus in Eighty Days: Texts in Transit in the Early Modern World’
Brendan Dooley, Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Graduate School of CACSSS and in the Texts, Contexts and Cultures Programme, UCC
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
2.00-3.00 p.m., O'Rahilly Building, Room 1.24
11 February 2009. Giacomo Leopardi's Zibaldone di pensieri: Meaning, Aim(s), Readings
Study day organized by the Leopardi Centre in Birmingham
University of Birmingham, 11 February 2009
11 February 2009. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Prof. Ann Hallamore Caesar (Warwick) on 'Changing countries, crossing genres: Richardson, Goldoni and Pamela'
IGRS (Stewart House, room ST274), 11 February 2009, 6pm
23 January 2009. SIS Workshop: Preparing Funding Bids
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London - room 273 on the second floor of Stewart House, 2pm on Friday, 23 January 2009.
20 January 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Le strategie del comico nelle opere di Gianni Celati
Università di Copenaghen, 5-7 maggio 2009
La lingua del convegno è l'italiano. Le relazioni saranno di 30 minuti seguite da una breve discussione. Si è pregati di mandare un riassunto di max. 200 parole e un breve CV entro e non oltre il 20 gennaio 2009 a Pia Schwarz Lausten lausten@hum.ku.dk. 20 January 2009
15 January 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009
Queen Mary, University of London, 2-4 July 2009
Organizers: Prof. Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary) e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk; Dr John Goodby (Swansea) j.goodby@swansea.ac.uk; Prof. Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) e.robertson@rhul.ac.uk; Prof. Andrew Rothwell (Swansea) a.j.rothwell@swansea.ac.uk; Dr Simona Storchi (Swansea) s.storchi@swansea.ac.uk; in collaboration with The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London.
Proposals for papers: please email a 300-400 word abstract in English to Professor Elza Adamowicz e.adamowicz@qmul.ac.uk by 15 January 2009
15 January 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS: Phantasmata. Techniques of the Uncanny
ICI-Berlin, 6-8 April 2009
Please send an abstract (maximum 400 words), together with a short bio-bibliographical profile to uncanny@ici-berlin.org before 15 January 2009
17 December 2008. Call for Papers: Graduate Conference in Italian Studies
University College Cork, 21 February
Research graduate students (MPhil/PhD) working on Italian topics (in literature, film, linguistics, history, art history etc.) are invited to present papers at this Italian Studies conference. The aim is to promote dialogue and discussion of current research within the Italian Studies community in Ireland (and beyond).
Research graduate students (from Irish universities as well as from abroad) are invited to submit a 300-word abstract including title of paper, name, affiliation, and brief bio by Wednesday, 17 December 2008.
For information please contact: Dr Silvia Ross, Head of Organizing Committee s.ross@ucc.ie
15 December 2008. SIS Research Collaboration Fund
The next deadline is 15 December 2008.
15 December 2008. SIS Postgraduate Student Bursary Fund
This fund is designed to support Postgraduate students by facilitating their attendance at UK and ROI conferences. The next deadline is 15 December 2008.
6 December 2008. Analysing the Poetry of the Commedia: Undergraduate Study Day
Leeds Centre for Dante Studies
Saturday, 6 December 2008: 11.30-4.30
1 December 2008. Round Table on Italian Film: Bicycle Thieves and Beyond
Italian Cultural Institute, London, 1 December 2008
28 November 2008. Mosaics of Words. In occasion of Cesare Pavese’s Centenary
The National Library of Scotland, 28 November 2008, from 10am
26 November 2008. Fascism and the Jews: Italy and Britain (Academic Workshop)
Italian Cultural Institute, London, 26 November 2008, 10 am - 5 pm
Organised by: Salvatore Garau (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Daniel Tilles (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Free event but booking essential on Tel 020 7396 4430 or rsvp.icilondon@esteri.it
25 November 2008. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Reading Group. Vitaliano Brancati, Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1941)
Stewart House (ST 273), 25 November 2008, 6pm
25 November 2008. An Evening with Rosario Palazzolo
University of Liverpool (Rendall Building - Lecture Theatre 5), 25 November 2008, 5.30pm
For further details please contact Marco Paoli at M.Paoli@liverpool.ac.uk
24 November 2008. Research Seminar: 'L’occhio di Verga. La pratica fotografica nel Verismo italiano'
Prof. Giuliana Minghelli, Harvard University
University College Cork, O'Rahilly Building Room 2.55
Monday, 24 November 2008. 13.00. All welcome.
22 November 2008. The Performances of Power or the Powers of Performance
Loughborough University, 21 – 22 November 2008
This interdisciplinary workshop will discuss the relations between power and the performing arts.
For further details please contact Raffaella Bianchi r.bianchi@lboro.ac.uk
21 November 2008. ASMI Annual Conference
In association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh and the Stirling Media Research Institute
The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 21-22 November 2008
Organizer: Dr Matthew Hibberd (Stirling) m.j.hibberd@stir.ac.uk
15 November 2008. Call for papers. Pasolini and Fassbinder: the European legacy between utopia and nihilism
An international conference
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (UK), 24-26 April
Organisers: Alexis Nuselovici, Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University)
Proposals for papers (approx 150 words) are invited on any comparative aspect of Pasolini’s and Fassbinder’s work. Please send your proposals to Fabio Vighi vighif@cardiff.ac.uk and Alexis Nuselovici nuselovicia@cardiff.ac.uk by 15 November 2008.
14 November 2008. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Italian Research Training Seminar
Stewart House (ST 273), 14 November 2008
13 November 2008. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Coffin Reading. Professor Boris Novak (Lubljana) on ‘Two moments in life when poetry is necessary’
Stewart House (ST 274/5), 13 November 2008, 5.30pm
31 October 2008. Call for Papers and Panel Proposals: SIS Biennial Conference
Royal Holloway University of London
All proposals should be submitted not later than 31 October 2008
25 October 2008. The Society for Pirandello Studies 'A Hundred Years of Pirandellian "Umorismo"'
Saturday, 25 October 2008: Italian Cultural Institute, London
To mark the centenary of Luigi Pirandello’s Umorismo, the annual conference of The Society for Pirandello Studies will be dedicated to approaches to ‘umorismo’ and the implications of ‘umorismo’ in Pirandello’s oeuvre. We welcome interdisciplinary and extra-literary approaches to the topic.
24 October 2008. Current Trends and Directions in Medieval Italian Studies
A meeting of the Network for the Study of Medieval Italian Culture
Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, 24 October 2008, 2-5 pm
Simon Gilson (Department of Italian, University of Warwick) and Beth Williamson (Department of History of Art, University of Bristol) will offer presentations suggesting some of the methodological, theoretical, content-based and practical issues raised by their current research. The meeting will not be a research seminar as such, but rather aims to establish a fruitful dialogue between scholars working on a range of areas in medieval Italian Studies.
If you plan to attend, it would be helpful if you could let us know at m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk or c.e.honess@leeds.ac.uk
For directions to the LHRI, please visit
23 October 2008. Research Seminar: Hearing Voices in Isabella d'Este's Correspondence
Prof. Deanna Shemek, University of California, Santa Cruz
University College Cork, O'Rahilly Building Room 1.24
Thursday, 23 October 2008. 17.00. All welcome.
22 October 2008. Togliatti Event
School of European Studies, Cardiff University, 22 October 2008, 4.15pm
On the occasion of the publication of the English edition of his biography of Palmiro Togliatti, Professor Aldo Agosti (Turin University) will present the paper: "Togliatti, a man between two worlds".
Dinner will follow at 7.00 o’clock at the Park Plaza Cardiff Restaurant and we would be very grateful if you would let us know your attendance at least 2 weeks in advance.
For confirmation and any further information please contact: Giuseppe Vatalaro vatalarog@Cardiff.ac.uk
22 October 2008. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Dr Ben Thomas (Kent) on ‘Noble or commercial? The early history of Mezzotint’
Strang Print Room, South Cloisters, UCL Gallery Talk, 22 October 2008, 1pm
21 October 2008. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Coffin Reading. Professor Giuseppe O. Longo (Trieste) on ‘The dynamics of Beauty’
Stewart House (ST 274/5), 21 October 2008, 5.30pm
21 October 2008. A talk by Aldo Agosti, in conjunction with the publication in English of his biography of Palmiro Togliatti. 'Togliatti: A Man Between Two Worlds'
University of Warwick (room H4.02, Humanities Building), 21 October 2008, 1-2.30pm
20 October 2008. Italy and Communism. The role of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party (1926-64)
Professor ALDO AGOSTI (Turin University, author of 'Togliatti: A Man Between Two Worlds') in conversation with Professor STEPHEN GUNDLE (Warwick University)
Oxford, Taylor Institution, St Giles' (Voltaire Room), 20 October 2008, 5pm
17 October 2008. The Tradition of the Actor/Author in Italian Theatre
University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde, 17-18 October 2008
Organizers: Dr Donatella Fischer (University of Glasgow), Prof. Joe Farrell (University of Strathclyde)
Keynote speakers will include: Professor Paolo Puppa (University of Venice), Professor Roberto Cuppone (University of Genoa), Professor Ronald Ferguson (University of St Andrews) and Emeritus Professor Richard Andrews (University of Leeds)
17 October 2008. Professor Aldo Agosti (Turin), 'A Man Between Two Worlds? Palmiro Togliatti, the PCI and the Making of Post-War Italy'
University of Manchester (Samuel Alexander Building, Room A7), 17 October 2008, 3-5pm
Further details from David.Laven@manchester.ac.uk or Kevin.Morgan@manchester.ac.uk
16 October 2008. Technology and the Printed Media in Italy between 1870 and 1914
Seton Hall University (14 miles from New York City in South Orange, NJ), 16-17 October 2008
Organisers: Ann Caesar (A.H.Caesar@warwick.ac.uk) and Gabriella Romani (romaniga@shu.edu)
1 October 2008. Technologies for Cultural Heritage: Leonardo and Beyond
Oxford, 1-2 October 2008
Organized by the Italian Embassy in London and Italian Studies at Oxford
Keynote speaker: Professor Martin Kemp (History of Art Department, Oxford University)
30 September 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: Enlightening Encounters: Italian Literature and Photography Through Time
University of Warwick, 12-14 March
This conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussions of various aspects of the dialogue between Italian literature and the photographic medium.
Proposals for twenty-minute papers in English or Italian by 30 September 2008.
Enquiries and proposals should be addressed to: Jennifer Burns J.E.Burns@warwick.ac.uk and Giorgia Alù giorgia.alu@usyd.edu.au / giorgiaal@virgilio.it.
19 September 2008. Renaissance Keywords
European Research Institute, Birmingham, 19 September 2008
A one-day conference at the European Research Institute in Birmingham sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies and the Heritage Collaborative Research Network at the University of Birmingham.
The conference offers as a point of departure the suggestion that Renaissance Keywords have a distinctive role in the making of the European Renaissance. Words like 'ingenium' and 'grace' – to take two major examples – are as hard to define as they are ever-present in Renaissance discourse, yet they are central to understanding the literature, art, politics and thought of the period. This conference brings together scholars interested in offering new interpretations of these and other terms and in tracing interdisciplinary encounters that the terms make possible.
The Society for Renaissance Studies have sponsored student bursaries for travel costs and fees to attend the conference.
Further information from Dr Ita Mac Carthy i.maccarthy@bham.ac.uk
31 August 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: L’Italia nella Grande Migrazione
V Convegno biennale dell’ACIS (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies)
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 18-21 February
Proposals for Panel Sessions and/or Papers (20 minutes) within the broad areas of Italian History, Literature, Cinema, Language Teaching and Acquisition, Linguistics and Socio-Linguistics, Sociology and Anthropology including Italian Migration Studies, Italians in Australia, History of Art, Politics, Economics and Business are welcome. For proposals please download the form and submit it by 31 August 2008 to abstracts@acis.org.au
Confirmation of acceptance of the proposals will be sent out to authors via e-mail on or before 30 September 2008.
All enquiries can be directed to conf@acis.org.au
1 August 2008. Call for Papers: The Performances of Power or the Powers of Performance
Loughborough University, 21 – 22 November 2008
This interdisciplinary workshop will discuss the relations between power and the performing arts. We welcome papers focusing on the performing arts in their widest definition such as theatre, dance, music (from opera to street music) as well as the visual arts. We encourage papers from different disciplines and from both post-graduates and established academics.
Please submit a 300 word abstract by 1 August 2008 to Raffaella Bianchi r.bianchi@lboro.ac.uk stating ‘workshop’ in the subject heading. Proposals should also include institutional affiliation along with a brief biographical note.
31 July 2008. SIS Postgraduate Essay Prize, 2008
Deadline 31 July 2008
Follow link for details.
17 July 2008. Roscoe and Italy
A day conference sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies, to be held at The Athenaeum, Church Alley, Liverpool L1 3DD. 17 July 2008
This conference weaves together the various Italian threads in the life and work of William Roscoe (1753-1831). As a celebration of his manifold Italian interests, it will focus on his biographies of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Pope Leo X, analyse his significance among the historians of Renaissance Italy, place him in a community of Italophiles in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Liverpool, and focus on his collections of Italian books, prints and paintings. The speakers will be Dr David Chambers (Warburg Institute, University of London), Dr Cecil Clough (University of Liverpool), Martin Hopkinson, Dr John Law (University of Wales, Swansea) and Dr David Rundle (University of Oxford), and the day will conclude with a tour of Roscoe’s Italian paintings in the Walker Art Gallery.
Further information from Dr Stella Fletcher, School of History, University of Liverpool, 9 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ (stella@ravenna123.freeserve.co.uk).
15 July 2008. DANTE IN THE 19th CENTURY. Reception, Canonicity, Popularization
A two-day conference at King’s Manor, University of York, 15-16 July 2008
15 July 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Society for Pirandello Studies 'A Hundred Years of Pirandellian "Umorismo"'
Saturday, 25 October 2008: Italian Cultural Institute, London
To mark the centenary of Luigi Pirandello’s Umorismo, the annual conference of The Society for Pirandello Studies will be dedicated to approaches to ‘umorismo’ and the implications of ‘umorismo’ in Pirandello’s oeuvre. We welcome interdisciplinary and extra-literary approaches to the topic.
Abstracts (c. 200 words – in English) should be sent to infopirandellosoc@yahoo.ie
The deadline for abstracts is 15 July 2008.
14 July 2008. Re-envisioning the Child: New Perspectives on Children and Childhoods in Italian Film from Early Cinema to the Present
University of Exeter, 14-15 July 2008
Keynote speakers: Áine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University), Jaimey Fisher (University of California, Davis), Robert Gordon (Cambridge), Paul Sutton (Roehampton), Emma Wilson (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), Mary Wood (Birkbeck College)
All enquiries should be addressed either to Danielle Hipkins or Roger Pitt via email at itfilm2008@exeter.ac.uk
9 July 2008. IGRS, Friends of Italian Studies: Summer Menu
Gallery Talks at the Strang Print Room: The Paradox of Mezzotint
Strang Print Room, South Cloisters (UCL), 9 July 2008, 1 pm
7 July 2008. Nature and Grace in Dante
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July 2008
7 July 2008. IGRS, Friends of Italian Studies: Summer Menu
Private View of the Exhibition: The Paradox of Mezzotint
Strang Print Room, South Cloisters (UCL), 7 July 2008, 5 pm
Places are limited: booking essential. katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
4 July 2008. WORKSHOP: Cultural Institutions in Early Modern Italy
Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading, UK, 4 July 2008
This interdisciplinary workshop will evaluate the significance of lay cultural institutions such as universities, schools and the emerging academies in the production, mediation and reception of the arts in Italy from c.1400 to 1650.
Keynote speaker: Prof. Robert Black (Leeds); round-table chaired by Prof. Virginia Cox (New York University).
For further information, please contact the organizer: Dr Lisa Sampson l.m.sampson@reading.ac.uk
3 July 2008. Gender and Sexuality Studies Italian Style
Monash Centre Prato (Italy), 3-5 July 2008
Organisers: Dr Charlotte Ross (Birmingham), Dr Susanna Scarparo (Monash University) and Ms Angela Donahoe (Monash University)
Opening address by Luisa Muraro. Keynote speakers: Liana Borghi (Firenze), Daniela Danna (Milano), Áine O’Healy (Layola Marymount University in Los Angeles) Rebecca West (University of Chicago)
Inquiries should be sent to the organisers at the following address: angela.donahoe@arts.monash.edu.au.
27 June 2008. CONFERENCE: New Authors/Auteurs: into the New Millennium
University of Salford (UK), 27-29 June 2008
For further information, please contact: G.Ania@salford.ac.uk (Narrative); W.Hope@salford.ac.uk (Cinema).
23 June 2008. IGRS, Friends of Italian Studies: Summer Menu
Work in Progress Seminar: Dr Hyunseon Lee: ‘The Metamorphoses of Madam Butterfly’
IRGS, Stewart House (ST >275), 23 June 2008, 5.45 pm
18 June 2008. IGRS, Friends of Italian Studies: Summer Menu
Reading group: Vitaliano Brancati, Don Giovanni in Sicilia
IRGS, Stewart House (ST 276), 18 June 2008, 6 pm
15 June 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: 2008 ASMI Annual Conference
In association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh and the Stirling Media Research Institute
The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 21-22 November 2008
ASMI is now soliciting 500-word abstracts of papers, including postgraduate student papers, for presentation at the 2008 conference. Proposals should be based on current theoretical or empirical research relevant to the conference themes, and may be from any disciplinary perspective. For further details and draft programme please visit ASMI website.
Submissions are due by 15 June 2008 and should be sent to Dr Matthew Hibberd m.j.hibberd@stir.ac.uk
13 June 2008. Meneghello: Fiction, Scholarship, Passione Civile
Reading Museum of English Rural Life and the Italian Cultural Institute in London, 13-14 June 2008
9 June 2008. IGRS, Friends of Italian Studies: Summer Menu
Work in Progress. Seminar: Dr Katia Pizzi: ‘Futurist Machines’
IRGS, Stewart House (ST 275), 9 June 2008, 5.45 pm
6 June 2008. SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2008
University of Reading, Friday, 6 June 2008
31 May 2008. Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies
University of British Columbia,Vancouver, B.C. 31 May-2 June 2008 (+ excursion on June 3rd)
"Thinking Beyond Borders / Global Ideas. Global Values" / "Pensare al di là dei confini / Idee globali. Valori globali"
31 May 2008. CONFERENCE: Languages at Play: Theatre Translation as Cultural Transfer
31 May 2008, Theatre Studies Studio and Writers Room, Millburn House-University of Warwick
Organizers: Alessandra De Martino-Cappuccio and Dr Silvija Jestrovic, The Italian Department and The School of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick.
This event will explore issues of writing, translating, adapting, and staging performance texts between languages and cultures. It will combine academic approach and practical demonstrations, involving playwrights, translators, and academics.
21 May 2008. IGRS, Friends of Italian Studies: Summer Menu
Dr. Andrea Rizzi (University of Melbourne) will talk on 'Tel me, I praye you, howe like you the Citie of London? Translating Aliens at the Court of Elizabeth I: Petruccio Ubaldini (circa 1524-1600) and John Florio (1553-1625)’
IRGS, Stewart House (ST 276), 21 May 2008, 5 pm
19 May 2008. Giornata di studi in onore di Eduardo Saccone
Monday, 19 May 2008
New Council Room, North Wing, University College Cork
Sponsored by the Department of Italian and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC.
For further information contact Dr Silvia Ross: s.ross@ucc.ie
15 May 2008. Convegno internazionale: Quale memoria per il noir italiano? Un'indagine pluridisciplinare.
Louvain-La-Neuve, 15-16 maggio 2008. 15-16 May 2008.
15 May 2008. Gladys Krieble Delmas Grants 2008-9
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation announces its 2008-9 programme of grants (predoctoral and postdoctoral) for travel to and residence in Venice and the Veneto. Grants will be awarded for historical research specifically on Venice and the former Venetian empire, and for study of contemporary Venetian society and culture.
Applications for the British and Commonwealth Programme are due by 15 May 2008.
7 May 2008. Workshop: The Dynamics of Contemporary Immigration to Italy: Sociological and Literary Perspectives
University of Warwick (Social Studies, Room S0.11), Wednesday 7 May 2008, 3-6pm
Speakers: Prof. Enrico Pugliese (University of Naples): The Mediterranean Model of International Migration: The 'Italian Case'; Prof. Derek Duncan (University of Bristol): The Cultural Visibility of Migrants in Italy: The Demands and Limits of Testimony; Prof. Robin Cohen (University of Oxford): Principal discussant
Attendance to the workshop is free. However, you are kindly required to register by sending an email to Paola Toninato: P.Toninato@warwick.ac.uk
6 May 2008. Architecture, Languages, and Style in Fifteenth-Century Italy
University of Warwick, Humanities Building (Room 403), 6 May 2008, 5pm
Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Italian Department at Warwick are happy to announce, as part of the STVDIO series, a talk by Georgia Clarke, Reader in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
All are welcome. Enquiries to David Lines d.a.lines@warwick.ac.uk
The full schedule of STVDIO talks may be viewed at the link above.
1 May 2008. Languages in Contact in Italian Culture
University of Toronto, 1-2 May 2008
30 April 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: The Tradition of the Actor/Author in Italian Theatre
University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde, 17-18 October
Organizers: Dr Donatella Fischer (University of Glasgow), Prof. Joe Farrell (University of Strathclyde)
Keynote speakers will include: Professor Paolo Puppa (University of Venice), Professor Roberto Cuppone (University of Genoa), Professor Ronald Ferguson (University of St Andrews) and Emeritus Professor Richard Andrews (University of Leeds)
Proposals (about 250 words, in English or Italian) for twenty-minute papers should be sent to Donatella Fisher D.Fischer@italian.arts.gla.ac.uk by 30 April 2008
30 April 2008. Research Event: Re-thinking the Night
University of Warwick, the Writers’ Room, Millburn House, 30 April 2008, 6-8pm
This workshop will explore engagements with the night in modern Italian film and literature. It will seek to posit and discuss key ideas and questions related to artistic figurations of night-time, and particularly of the city at night-time, and in turn to identify ways of developing an understanding of the changing uses and practices related to the nocturnal hours in the context of cultural and social change in Italy.
29 April 2008. Project Presentation. The Italian Academies 1530-1650: a themed collection database
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Main Library User-Ed Room, Oxford Road, 29 April 2008, 2.30pm
Presented by Prof. Jane Everson (RHUL); Mr Denis Reidy (BL); Dr Simone Testa and Dr Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Research Assistants RHUL/BL)
For information about the project and the on-line catalogue, please visit: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/italian/Research/ItalianAcademiesPortal.html
For information about how to find the Library and the seminar room please see: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/librarysites/main/
25 April 2008. Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference
'Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture'
London, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, 25-26 April 2008
See these pages for the programme and abstracts (PDF format).
Follow link to IGRS website for details of registration.
25 April 2008. Pedagogy and Power: the Purposes and Provision of Gender Studies in the UK. An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Birmingham, 25 April 2008
For further information, please contact Charlotte Ross: c.e.ross@bham.ac.uk
25 April 2008. SIS AGM 2008
The AGM of the Society will be held during the Interim Conference at the IGRS on Friday, 25 April 2008, at 4.15 p.m. Follow link for the Agenda.
25 April 2008. Agendas for research in modern languages
British Academy, London, 25 April 2008
During 2006 the AHRC commissioned a Review into Modern Language Research undertaken by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and the University Council of Modern Languages. The Review concluded that research in Modern Languages in UK HEIs is in remarkably good health.
Beginning with a presentation of the Review from Professors Michael Kelly and Roger Woods, this major strategic event will examine new and continuing agendas for research in Modern Languages, considering the impact of a changing support base; how we can raise the international profile of UK research; and how we can continue to make an impact through publications and the utilisation of new research methods.
More information, a programme and registration details are available via the link above.
24 April 2008. Ugo Betti Today; L’attualità di Ugo Betti
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 24-25 April 2008
Organiser: Prof. Joseph Farrell j.farrell@strath.ac.uk
18 April 2008. 18 April 1948: Italy between continuity and rupture
University of Reading. 18-19 April 2008.
18 April 2008. Study Day on Elio Vittorini: 'A Hundred Years After His Birth'
Trinity College Dublin, Room 2.026 (ARTS FACULTY), 18 April 2008
Colleagues who may wish to attend are welcome to contact Roberto Bertoni rbertoni@tcd.ie or italian@tcd.ie.
17 April 2008. Memories of 1968: International Perspectives
An international conference organized by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds. 17-18 April 2008.
Venue: Hinsley Hall, Leeds.
15 April 2008. Dante and Contemplation
Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, 15 April 2008, 4-5.30 p.m.
Speakers: Matthew Treherne (University of Leeds): 'Contemplation and the Created World in the "Commedia"'; Vittorio Montemaggi (University of Cambridge; 2008 Visiting Fellow in the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies): 'Charity and Contemplation in the "Commedia"'
For more information on the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, please follow link above.
11 April 2008. THE RISORGIMENTO REVISITED
Italian Academy of Columbia University, New York, 11-12 April 2008
Organisers: Silvana Patriarca (patriarca@fordham.edu) and Lucy Riall (l.riall@history.bbk.ac.uk)
11 April 2008. Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference: Postgraduate Bursaries
We are pleased to announce that the Society for Italian Studies has made available a limited number of bursaries to cover registration fees and contribute towards travel expenses for postgraduate students who would like to attend the above conference. Applications by 11 April 2008 at the latest.
11 April 2008. The Power of Disturbance: Around Elsa Morante's Aracoeli
Institute for Cultural Inquiry / ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, 11-12 April 2008
11 April 2008. Presentazione (11 April 2008): Maurizio Vitale: L'officina linguistica del Tasso epico. La "Gerusalemme Liberata" (Milano: Led, 2007)
Università degli Studi di Milano, Sala Napoleonica, 11 aprile 2008, ore 17.30. Interverranno Francesco Bruni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Claudio Scarpati, Francesco Spera.
5 April 2008. International Conference: Italian Thought Today: Biopolitics, Nihilism, Empire
University of Kent, 5-6 April 2008
Conference Organiser: Dr Lorenzo Chiesa L.Chiesa@kent.ac.uk
4 April 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2008
Proposals for the Colloquium, to be held at the University of Reading on Friday, 6 June 2008, should be sent to the organizers by Friday, 4 April 2008.
31 March 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: Languages in Contact in Italian Culture
University of Toronto, 1-2 May 2008
The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars interested in examining phenomena of languages and dialects in contact in Italian culture, both in Italy and in Italian communities outside of Italy.
Papers should be approximately 25 minutes in length and may be either in Italian or in English. Deadline for Submissions: 31 March 2008. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Acceptances will be notified by 7 April 2008.
Proposals and inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Mirella Pasquarelli Clivio mpasquar@chass.utoronto.ca Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto.
15 March 2008. Venice & the League of Cambrai: Politics - Art - Architecture
A one-day conference at St John's College, Oxford. 15 March 2008.
For further details contact Dr S. P. Oakes, St John’s College, Oxford, OX1 3JP (simon.oakes@sjc.ox.ac.uk)
6 March 2008. Convegno internazionale: Il romanzo poliziesco, la storia, la memoria. Italia e America Latina.
Centre Aixois d'Études Romanes, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 6-8 marzo 2008. 6-8 March 2008.
5 March 2008. Rome Lecture Series 2008-09
Jacopo Benci (Assistant Director, British School at Rome) on ‘Pasolini’s ‘other’ Rome: the Ghetto, Monteverde Vecchio, EUR’
University College London, 5 March 2009, 6pm
Followed by a drinks reception. Admission is free but places are limited, if you wish to attend please contact Patrizia Oliver in the UCL Italian Department patrizia.oliver@ucl.ac.uk
1 March 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: Portal, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies: special issue on Italian cultural studies.
This special issue aims at updating existing scholarship and scoping the proliferation of interests in this growing field. It recognizes that cultural studies practitioners write multiple Italies within Italy itself and from provincialized Italies, with a perspective that is both global and informed by specific local knowledge. In particular we seek articles that map how processes of social change and identification are negotiated, imagined, explored and contested in relation to the following (but not exclusively) themes: Belonging, Body, Cinema, Consumption, Design, Digital cultures, Everyday, Fashion, Food, Language, Media (new and old), New writing, Place, Sport, Visual cultures. If you are interested in submitting a paper please read the Author’s guidelines and information about the submission process Portal’s homepage. Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2008.
1 March 2008. Graduate Conference in Italian Studies
University College Cork, Ireland: 1 March 2008
Keynote address: Prof. Eduardo Saccone
For further information, contact Dr Silvia Ross s.ross@ucc.ie
23 February 2008. Homage to Antonioni. A one-day symposium dedicated to the work of Michelangelo Antonioni
Sussex University (Bramber House, Room 255), 23 February 2008, 2-6pm
For further information contact: John David Rhodes j.d.rhodes@sussex.ac.uk
9 February 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies
University of British Columbia,Vancouver, B.C. 31 May-2 June 2008 (+ excursion on June 3rd)
"Thinking Beyond Borders / Global Ideas. Global Values" / "Pensare al di là dei confini / Idee globali. Valori globali"
Proposals are invited on all subjects relating to Italian studies for individual 20-minute papers, complete sessions, or panel discussions, which may be presented in Italian, English, or French. The title with a 125-word abstract should be sent, along with a brief bio, to the session organizer indicated below not later than 9 February 2008.
1 February 2008. CALL FOR PAPERS: Re-envisioning the Child: New Perspectives on Children and Childhoods in Italian Film from Early Cinema to the Present
University of Exeter, 14-15 July '08
Keynote speakers: Áine O'Healy (Loyola Marymount University), Jaimey Fisher (University of California, Davis), Robert Gordon (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge), Paul Sutton (Roehampton), Emma Wilson (Cambridge), Mary Wood (Birkbeck College)
All enquiries or abstracts (300-500) words should be addressed either to Danielle Hipkins or Roger Pitt via email at itfilm2008@exeter.ac.uk no later than 1 February 2008.
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration.
29 January 2008. National Histories, National Identities: the Force of Destiny in Italy and Scotland.
Professor Tom Devine (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Christopher Duggan (University of Reading)
Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 29 January 2008, 6 p.m.
25 January 2008. Italian Film Study Day
Queen Mary, University of London, 25 January 2008
Keynote Speaker: Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)
For further information, and to register for the day please contact Pauline Small at p.p.small@qmul.ac.uk
23 January 2008. SYMPOSIUM: Memory and the City
University of Warwick, 23 January 2008, 9am–4pm
16 January 2008. Italian Writers in Leeds
University of Leeds (Baines Wing, Miall Lecture Theatre), 16 January 2008, 6pm
Italy, Fiction, and Crime. In conversation with Giancarlo De Cataldo
Info: g.sulis@leeds.ac.uk
15 January 2008. Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino (1936-2008): 'Non sto a Napoli sicura di casa'
IGRS, (London), 15-16 January 2010
Organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing (Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies) and the University of Bath
Conference organiser: Adalgisa Giorgio a.giorgio@bath.ac.uk
7 January 2008. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Word on the Street: Reading, Writing & Inhabiting Public Space
Peer-reviewed Collection of Essays to be published by the IGRS in association with the AHRC-funded Research Training Network in Modern Languages.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted in English by 5 pm on 7 January 2008. Those shortlisted will be contacted by the end of January and invited to submit a paper. From these a final ten essays will be selected for inclusion in the collection. An Editorial Workshop for all contributors will be held in early July 2008. Please note that the final paper should be no more than 5,000 words including notes. All quotations should be accompanied by English translations. Obtaining permission to use images in the final publication will be the responsibility of the author.
Please send proposals to both Sophie Fuggle sophie.fuggle@kcl.ac.uk and Elisha Foust e.foust@rhul.ac.uk
Please include your full name, email address and any institutional affiliation.
31 December 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: 18 April 1948: Italy between continuity and rupture
University of Reading, 18-19 April
The organisers welcome the submission of proposals and panels on any aspect of Italian history and culture and which relate to the issues highlighted above. Please send a 300-word proposal, including your name, position and academic affiliation via email to Dr Linda Risso (l.risso@reading.ac.uk) by Monday, 31 December 2007.
31 December 2007. CALL FOR SUBMISSION: From Terrone to Extra-Comunitario: the New Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema - Edited Volume (Troubador Italian Studies Series)
Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to Grace Russo Bullaro, City University of New York- Lehman College at: gracerbullaro@msn.com
Deadline: 31 December 2007.
17 December 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: SIS Interim Conference
'Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture'
London, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, 25-26 April
Submissions to the organizers, Dr Guyda Armstrong, guyda.armstrong@manchester.ac.uk and Dr Rhiannon Daniels, r.j.daniels@leeds.ac.uk by 17 December 2007.
15 December 2007. Postgraduate Conference Bursaries 'Writing Royal Entries in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)'
IGRS, 13, 14 & 15 December 2007
Anyone who is interested in applying for a bursary to attend the conference should contact Dr Marie-Claude Canova-Green at els01mcg@gold.ac.uk.
15 December 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: Technology and the Printed Media in Italy between 1870 and 1914
Seton Hall University (14 miles from New York City in South Orange, NJ), 16-17 October '08.
Those interested in participating are invited to submit a 250-word abstract with name and, where applicable, professional affiliation and a brief biography by 15 December 2007 to Ann Caesar (A.H.Caesar@warwick.ac.uk) and Gabriella Romani (romaniga@shu.edu).
13 December 2007. BOOK LAUNCH: Vested Voices II. Creating with Transvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio.
edited by F.G. Pedriali & R.M. Riccobono
The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 13 December 2007
introduced by a paper by Remo Ceserani: 'Disguise and Travesty in Ariosto'
10 December 2007. Election of SIS Postgraduate Representative to the Committee
The SIS Executive Committee is currently seeking a willing and enthusiastic postgraduate to be the new Postgraduate Representative on the Committee from January onwards. Expressions of interest by 10 December 2007. Follow link for details.
10 December 2007. Modern Languages Training Day for Research Postgraduates
In collaboration with the AHRC Research Training Network in Modern Languages (RTN) and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (IGRS), University of London, a Modern Languages Training Day for Research Postgraduates will be held the British Library on Monday, 10 December 2007, 10.00-17.00. To ensure that the scheme is accessible to research postgraduates from across the UK, students outside London can apply for travel bursaries of up to £20 per student. There are a maximum of 40 bursary places available on a first come first served basis. For more information, and to register a place, please contact Denis Reidy at denis.reidy@bl.uk.
10 December 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: Gender and Sexuality Studies Italian Style
Monash Centre Prato (Italy), 3-5 July '08
Organisers: Dr Charlotte Ross (Birmingham), Dr Susanna Scarparo (Monash University) and Ms Angela Donahoe (Monash University)
Opening address by Luisa Muraro. Keynote speakers: Liana Borghi (Firenze), Daniela Danna (Milano), Áine O’Healy (Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles) Rebecca West (University of Chicago)
Interested parties are invited to submit by 10 December 2007:
· a proposed paper title and abstract of 200 words in length along with a short bio
· proposals for panels including bios
Proposals (as a Word document email attachment) and inquiries should be sent to the organisers at the following address: angela.donahoe@arts.monash.edu.au
4 December 2007. Italian Renaissance Talks
University of Warwick, 4 December 2007
Rhiannon Daniels (Leeds): 'Rethinking the History of the Decameron'
Humanities Building, H4.03, at 5pm, accompanied by refreshments
30 November 2007. DANTE IN THE 19th CENTURY. Reception, Canonicity, Popularization. CALL FOR PAPERS
A two-day conference at King’s Manor, University of York, 15-16 July
The plenary speaker will be Professor Michael Caesar, editor of Dante: the Critical Heritage. There will be 6 other sessions over the two days, with space for approximately 18 papers of 20 mins each. Proposals for papers (max. 300 words) are now invited and should be sent by 30 November 2007 to Nick Havely, Dept of English & Related Literature, University of York, Heslington, YORK YO10 5DD, UK
30 November 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: New Authors/Auteurs: into the New Millennium
University of Salford, UK, 27-29 June
The aim of this conference is to shed light on new developments and working practices in Italian Narrative and Film from the 1990s to the present. Abstracts in Italian or English (approximately 200 words) should be sent to Dr Gillian Ania for narrative or Dr William Hope for cinema, to arrive by 30 November 2007. For further information, please also contact: G.Ania@salford.ac.uk (Narrative); W.Hope@salford.ac.uk (Cinema).
29 November 2007. Literary history, cultural history and the study of modern Italy: A round table
In discussion with Robert Lumley (UCL), Franco Marenco (Turin), and Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol). Chair: Peter Hainsworth (Oxford).
University of Warwick, 29 November 2007
Ramphal Building, Rooms R0.03/4, 5.30-7pm followed by wine reception.
If you would like to stay for dinner could you please let us know by 19 November.
For further information please contact K.J.Drakeley K.J.Drakeley@warwick.ac.uk
23 November 2007. Garibaldi: The Politics of Radical Fame
Italian Cultural Insitute, 23-24 November 2007
The programme and registration form for the ASMI Annual Conference are now available on the website.
21 November 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
21 November. Alberto Banti (University of Pisa): How to study nationalism in the
Risorgimento, followed by round table discussion with Maurizo Isabella, Axel Korner and Lucy Riall
16 November 2007. 16 November 2007. Lecture and reception to launch the Network for the Study of Medieval Italian Culture.
Piero Boitani: 'Letteratura e vita'
Leeds Humanities Research Institute (University of Leeds), 4pm
16 November 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: Venice & the League of Cambrai: Politics - Art - Architecture
A one-day conference, St John's College, Oxford, 15 March
Proposals of approximately 500 words should be sent to arrive no later than 16 November 2007 to Dr S. P. Oakes, St John’s College, Oxford, OX1 3JP or by email to simon.oakes@sjc.ox.ac.uk, from whom further details may also be sought. It would be helpful if graduate students, and others without academic or related positions, could include a brief curriculum vitae. Accommodation will be provided in College for speakers.
14 November 2007. Italian Cultural Studies Research Seminars
Department of Italian Studies, Reading University, 14 November 2007, 2.30pm (Humanities and Social Sciences Building: room 72)
Daniela Treveri-Gennari (Oxford Brookes): ‘Endemic Propaganda: Vatican intervention in postwar film industry in Italy'
7 November 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
7 November. John Robertson (St Hughs College, Oxford): Feudalism and Political
Economy. Chair Maurizio Isabella
31 October 2007. Italy's Three Crowns: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
19 June - 31 October 2007
Bodleian Library, Oxford: Monday - Friday, 09.00 - 17.00; Saturday, 09.00-16.30
A journey in time celebrating the impact of Italy's 'three crowns', Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, on western culture.
31 October 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
31 October. Lucy Turner-Voakes (EUI, Fiesole): Risorgimento fictions. Chair Lucy Riall
31 October 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: Quale memoria per il noir italiano? Un'indagine pluridisciplinare.
Louvain-La-Neuve, 15-16 maggio.
Tappa 2a de “Il romanzo poliziesco, la storia, la memoria”, Université de Provence, 6-8 marzo.
Le proposte (non più di 300 parole con chiara indicazione delle discipline adottate e della rilevanza dell’argomento per il tema del seminario, corredate di breve bibliografia essenziale e dati personali) devono pervenire a Monica Jansen (Monica.Jansen@ua.ac.be) e Yasmina Khamal (Yasmina.Khamal@uclouvain.be) entro e non oltre il 31 ottobre 2007. 31 October 2007. Una copia della proposta deve anche essere mandata alla segretaria del convegno “Il romanzo poliziesco, la storia, la memoria” (absa@up.univ-aix.fr)
31 October 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: Il romanzo poliziesco, la storia, la memoria. Italia e America Latina.
Centre Aixois d'Études Romanes, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 6-8 marzo.
Gli organizzatori del Convegno sono Claudio Milanesi per la parte italiana e Dante Barrientos Tecun per l'America Latina.
Questo convegno sarà seguito dalla seconda parte del progetto "Giallo e storia", un workshop che si terrà all'Università di Lovanio, nel mese di maggio. Le proposte di intervento devono essere inviate alla Segreteria del Convegno (absa@up.univ-aix.fr) al più tardi entro la fine di ottobre 2007. 31 October 2007. Per ogni ulteriore informazione su questa seconda iniziativa, ci si può fin d'ora rivolgere a Monica Jansen, dell'Università di Anversa (Monica.Jansen@ua.ac.be).
22 October 2007. VII Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo
'L'italiano e il mare'
22-28 October 2007
20 October 2007. Pirandello and the Making of the Modern
University College, London 20 October 2007
18 October 2007. Manzoni and the Historical Novel
University of Toronto, 18-20 October 2007
17 October 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
17 October. Roger Parker (King's College London): Verdi, Italian Opera and the
Risorgimento: The Story So Far. Chair Axel Korner
15 October 2007. Vincenzo Consolo between Sicily and Europe
University of Oxford in association with and hosted by the Maison Française d’Oxford
15 October 2007
The conference will inlcude a lecture by Consolo himself, entitled ‘I muri d’Europa’.
The conference is hosted by the Maison Française d’Oxford and admission is free.
5 October 2007. VIII Incontro di Dialettologia Italiana.
Verdon-Smith room, Institute of Advanced Studies, Royal Fort, Bristol, 5-6 October 2007
Contact: Mair Parry, Professor of Italian Linguistics (m.m.parry@bris.ac.uk)
20 September 2007. Call for Papers: Nature and Grace in Dante
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 7-10 July
In keeping with the '08 IMC's thematic focus on 'The Natural World', proposals are invited for papers to be included in one or more sessions on 'Nature and Grace in Dante'. Papers discussing any of Dante's works will be welcome. Please send abstracts of 150 words, together with contact details and details of institutional affiliation to Matthew Treherne (m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk) or Vittorio Montemaggi (vm217@cam.ac.uk) by 20 September 2007.
14 September 2007. Second International Conference Translating Voices, Translating Regions. Theory and Practice in Translation and Audiovisual Translation of Regionalized Voices
Durham (UK), 14-15 September 2007
10 September 2007. Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Literature and Media
An international and interdisciplinary conference hosted by the MEICAM (Modern European Ideologies, Conflict and Memory) research group
Swansea University, 10-12 September 2007
1 September 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS: Manzoni and the Historical Novel
University of Toronto, 18-20 October 2007
Papers should be approximately 20 minutes in length and may be either in Italian, or English.
Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2007.
5 July 2007. Carlo Goldoni, an International Conference
Theatre N, Newman Building, University College Dublin, School of Languages, Literatures and Film
5-7 July 2007
4 July 2007. SIS Biennial Conference 2007
University of Wales, Bangor
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, to Friday, 6 July 2007
3 July 2007. 10 December 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS.
Gender and Sexuality Studies in Italy
Monash Centre, Prato (Italy), 3-5 July, 2008
Organisers: Charlotte Ross (Birmingham), Susanna Scarparo (Monash University) and Angela Donahoe (Monash University)
Interested parties are invited to submit a proposed paper title and abstract of 200 words in length along with a short bio (as a Word document email attachment) by 10 December 2007. Proposals and inquiries should be sent to the organisers at the following address: angela.donahoe@arts.monash.edu.au
2 May 2007. Letteratura come fantasticazione - a colloquio con Gianni Celati
Literature as 'fantastication' - in conversation with Gianni Celati
2-4 May 2007, University of Leicester
10 March 2007. Information and communication in early modern Europe
An interdisciplinary conversation on Filippo de Vivo’s 'Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics' (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Queen Mary, University of London, 10 March 2009, 6.30pm
Speakers include: Prof. Alain Viala (Oxford); Prof. Renate Pieper (Graz); Dr. David Colclough (Queen Mary, London); Dr Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck, London)
5 March 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
5 March. Patrick Bernhard (German Historical Institute, Rome): The Rome-Berlin
Axis. Perceptions, cooperation, transfer, 1936-1943. Chair Jonathan Morris
13 February 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
13 February. Paul Baxa (Ave Maria University, USA): "A Moral Victory": The Myth of
the Road in Fascist Italy. Chair Jonathan Morris
10 February 2007. Italy On Screen. Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Italy and Cinema
A Postgraduate Conference
Saturday 10 February 2007 at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London
30 January 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
30 January. John Dickie (University College London): Cooking with PoWs: two manuscript sources in the history of Italian food. Chair TBA
16 January 2007. Modern Italian History Seminar Series, 2007-8
Institute of Historical Research, London
Convenors: John Foot (UCL), Axel Korner (UCL), Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire), Giuliana Pieri (RHUL), Maria Quine (QMUL), Lucy Riall (Birkbeck). All meetings will take place on Wednesdays at 5:30pm in the German Room unless otherwise stated. The Institute is located in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Nearest tube stations Russell Sq, Euston and Euston sq. For directions, see webpage.
16 January. Megan Trudell (Department of History, Birkbeck): Radicalism and the
military in Fiume, 1919-20. Chair TBA
10 December 2006. Society for Italian Studies interim conference
Call for Papers: Public and Private Spaces in Italian Culture
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, 21-22 April 2006
Proposals for papers in English or Italian should be 200-300 words long and should include the following information: name, paper title, institutional affiliation, status. Proposals should be sent to the organizer, Simona Storchi (Simona.Storchi@rhul.ac.uk). Deadline: 10 December 2005
19 November 2006. Professor Roger Parker (Cambridge) and Paul Reeve (Royal Opera House) discuss the world of Giovanni Pacini.
Sunday 19 November 2006, 6pm, London Coliseum: free pre-concert event.
19 November 2006. First UK performance of Giovanni Pacini's opera Alessandro nell'Indie
Sunday 19 November 2006, 7pm, London Coliseum: sung in Italian. Tickets £10-£60.
The performance unites the spectacular, mellifluous tunes and relaxed lyricism for which Pacini is best known with singers whose voices match his florid and entertaining style.
17 November 2006. Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Annual Conference
'Consuming Italy'. Consumption in Italy and the Consumption of Italy
17-18 November 2006
Italian Cultural Institute, London
26 October 2006. 'Noir de noir. An interdisciplinary investigation'
International conference on the Italian 'noir'
Universiteit Antwerpen (BELGIUM), 26-28 October 2006
20 October 2006. Women and the Mass Media in 20th Century Italy: Press, cinema, television, radio and the recording industry
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London,20-21 October 2006.
Keynote speakers:Milly Buonanno and Michela De Giorgio
Conference organisers: Penny Morris (p.morris@italian.arts.gla.ac.uk) and Stephen Gundle (s.gundle@rhul.ac.uk)
14 October 2006. The Society for Pirandello Studies Annual Conference
'Each in his own way: considering Pirandello'
14 October 2006. Haldane Room, University College London
5 October 2006. Contemporary Jewish Writers in Italy: a Generational Approach
International Conference
Utrecht University - Italian Cultural Institute, Amsterdam, 5-6 October 2006
15 September 2006. Italy On Screen. Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Italy and Cinema
A Postgraduate Conference
Deadline for call for papers 15 September 2006
The conference will be held on Saturday 10 February 2007 at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London
Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be emailed to italyonscreen@hotmail.co.uk to arrive by 15 September 2006. For further details, please contact the organisers: Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary, University of London) and Christina Siggers Manson (University of Kent) at italyonscreen@hotmail.co.uk
7 September 2006. Image And Identity In Contemporary Europe
Interdisciplinary conference
Department of Modern Languages & Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs (WISCA)
University of Wales, Bangor, 7-9 September 2006
17 July 2006. Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth
Clifton Hill House, Bristol, 17 July 2006
Jointly organised by the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham
27 June 2006. Relief and representation: the framing of honour in Italian art of the early to high Renaissance
Dr Alison Wright. An illustrated talk organised by the Italian Studies Library Group
The British Library, Conference Centre (Meeting Room 4), London,Tuesday 27 June 2006, 6pm
To attend, please register your name and address with Chris Michaelides at the British Library, Tel. 020 7412 7531, chris.michaelides@bl.uk. Attendance is free
3 June 2006. SIS Postgraduate Colloquium
University of Bristol, Saturday 3 June 2006 (note change of date)
1 June 2006. Letteratura come fantasticazione - a colloquio con Gianni Celati - Call For Papers
Literature as 'fantastication' - in conversation with Gianni Celati
Deadline for call for papers 1 June 2006
The conference will be held on 2-4 May 2007 at the University of Leicester
Papers and round table presentations in both English and Italian will be considered. Interested contributors should email/send an abstract of about 300 words, a brief bibliography, and a brief CV to both organizers: Dr Marina Spunta (m.spunta@le.ac.uk) or Dr Laura Rorato (l.rorato@bangor.ac.uk)
25 May 2006. AATI-AAIS Conference
Genova, 25-27 May 2006
Il convegno rappresenta un'occasione importantissima per le due principali associazioni di studi italianistici in nord america
3 May 2006. Birmingham-Warwick Seminar
Wednesday 3 May, 2006 5.15 p.m.
Danielle Hipkins (University of Exeter)
Persiane Chiuse: the closure of the state-run brothel on the Italian screen
venue: University of Warwick, room H.403, 4th Floor Humanities Building, Department of Italian
21 April 2006. SIS Interim Conference
Public and Private Spaces in Italian Culture
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
London, 21-22 April 2006
3 April 2006. PSA Conference
56th Political Studies Association Annual Conference: Liberty, Security and the Challenge of Government
Reading, 3-6 April 2006
3 April 2006. Dante Series 2006: Six Public Lectures
University College Dublin
Monday 3 April, 7.30 pm, Th. O
Claudia Rossignoli (University of St Andrews): "L'lNTENZION DE L'ARTE": INSPIRATION AND POETICS IN DANTE
31 March 2006. Society for Pirandello Studies Annual Conference - Call For Papers
'Each in his own way: considering Pirandello'
Abstracts should be sent to infopirandellosoc@yahoo.ie by 31 March 2006
The conference will be held on 14 October at University College London
24 March 2006. Italian Fiction in the Sixties and Seventies
University of Salford, 24-25 March 2006
For further information please write either to Dr. Gillian Ania (G.Ania@salford.ac.uk) or to Dr. John Butcher(johncbutcher@hotmail.com).
24 March 2006. Call for Papers - SIS Postgraduate Colloquium
The deadline for submission of proposals is now 24 March 2006. Proposals should be sent to Joanne Lee (University of Bristol, Department of Italian, 19 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TE; Jo.Lee@bristol.ac.uk).
22 March 2006. Birmingham-Warwick Seminar
Wednesday 22 March, 2006 5.00 p.m.
Simona Storchi (University of Royal Holloway)
Constructing Modernity: literature, architecture and the visual arts in 1930s Italy
venue: University of Birmingham, Lecture room 6, Muirhead Tower
13 March 2006. Lectureship in Italian, University of Bristol
Applications are invited for a Lectureship (Grade B, £28,829 - £36,959) in the Department of Italian. Applicants should have a completed PhD in some area of Italian (cultural, literary or historical studies) and proven publication potential. Preference may be given to a candidate with research interests in the Medieval or the Modern period, although other areas of expertise are not excluded. Teaching experience at university level is essential. Applicants should be able to teach the Italian language at all levels. The anticipated start date for the successful applicant is 1 September 2006.
The closing date for applications is Monday 13 March 2006.
For any enquiries contact (Department of Italian): Dr. C. F. Burdett, c.f.burdett@bristol.ac.uk, tel. 0117 928 7590; or Professor J. H. Bryce, J.H.Bryce@bristol.ac.uk, tel: 0117 928 7588.
Full details from the above link, or telephone (0117) 954 6947, or email Recruitment@bris.ac.uk (stating postal address ONLY), quoting reference number 11985.
7 March 2006. Oxford Postgraduate Research Seminar
Tuesday 7 March 2006 (week 8), 5pm in LR 1 (first floor), Tom Quad VIII, Christ Church
Work in progress: postgraduate presentations.
6 March 2006. Dante Series 2006: Six Public Lectures
University College Dublin
Monday 6 March, 7.30 pm, Th. O
Paolo De Ventura (University of Birmingham): NATURE AND ART IN THE EARTHLY PARADISE (PURGATORIO XXVIII-XXXIII)
2 March 2006. Oxford Romance Linguistics Seminar
Room 2, Taylor Institution, Oxford, Thursdays 5pm
2 March 2006. Chiara Cappellaro (Exeter College, Oxford)
Aspects of the Italian pronominal system: ESSO and its semantic specialisation
1 March 2006. Birmingham-Warwick Seminar
Wednesday 1 March, 2006, 5.15 p.m.
Sharon Wood (University of Leicester)
Grazia Deledda: Performing Sardinia, Performing the Self
venue: University of Warwick, room H.403, 4th Floor Humanities Building, Department of Italian
1 March 2006. Professor Giuliano Amato (former Italian Prime Minister and Vice-President of the European Convention)
'Italian Europeans and (more or less) European Brits'
Wednesday 1 March 2006, 5.00 pm
Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford
1 March 2006. Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Annual Conference - Call For Papers
'Consuming Italy'. Consumption in Italy and the Consumption of Italy
Abstract should be sent to Jonathan Morris (j.2.morris@herts.ac.uk) or Claudia Baldoli (c.baldoli@herts.ac.uk) by 1 March 2006
The conference will be held on 17-18 November at the Italian Cultural Institute, London
28 February 2006. Oxford Postgraduate Research Seminar
Tuesday 28 February 2006 (week 7), 5pm in LR 1 (first floor), Tom Quad VIII, Christ Church
Work in progress: postgraduate presentations.
28 February 2006. Call for papers. Women and the Mass Media in 20th Century Italy: Press, cinema, television, radio and the recording industry
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 20-21 October 2006
Offers of papers should be sent by 28 February 2006 to the conference organisers, Penny Morris (p.morris@italian.arts.gla.ac.uk) and Stephen Gundle (s.gundle@rhul.ac.uk)
27 February 2006. Dante Series 2006: Six Public Lectures
University College Dublin
Monday 27 February, 7.30 pm, Th. O
Jennifer Petrie (University College Dublin): ART, ARTE, ARTISTRY AND THE ARTIST IN DANTE
25 February 2006. Pinocchio and the Mechanical Body
Saturday 25 February 2006, 10:30 am
The conference will explore Pinocchio and the visual arts, the dichotomy puppet-human, the artificial/mechanical/phantom body, and other themes related to, arguably, the most renowned puppet in the history of humankind.
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
22 February 2006. Birmingham-Warwick Seminar
Wednesday 22 February, 2006, 5.00 p.m.
Federico Faloppa (University College London)
Parole contro: on Linguistic Social Discrimination
venue: University of Birmingham, Lecture room 6, Muirhead Tower
22 February 2006. Painting And Heresy In Sixteenth-Century Italy: Jacopo Pontormo And Lorenzo Lotto
Professor Massimo Firpo (University of Turin, and Isaiah Berlin Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 22 February 2006 (week 6)
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, 5pm
Lecture 4: From Reformation to Counter-Reformation: Images of Heresy and Figurative Nicodemism
20 February 2006. Dante Series 2006: Six Public Lectures
University College Dublin
Monday 20 February, 7.30pm,Th.O
Daragh O'Connell (University College Dublin): "ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND": SMILES, SIMILES, SWIMMING AND SEAFARING IN THE COMEDY
15 February 2006. Painting And Heresy In Sixteenth-Century Italy: Jacopo Pontormo And Lorenzo Lotto
Professor Massimo Firpo (University of Turin, and Isaiah Berlin Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 15 February 2006 (week 5)
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, 5pm
Lecture 3: Lorenzo Lotto: Artists, Jewellers and Heretics in Venice during the Council of Trent
13 February 2006. Dante Series 2006: Six Public Lectures
University College Dublin
Monday 13 February, 7.30 pm, Th. O
Francesca Galligan (University of Oxford): DANTE AND EPIC: THE ARTIST AS HERO
13 February 2006. Book presentation: the Algerian-Italian writer Amara Lakhous in conversation with Federica Mazzara, discussing his 2006 book 'Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza vittorio'
Organized by the UCL Mellon Programme
University College London, 13 February 2009, 5.30pm
The event will be in Italian. Free Entrance
6 February 2006. Dante Series 2006: Six Public Lectures
University College Dublin
Monday 6 February 2006, 7.30 pm, Th. O
Matthew Treherne (University of Leeds): ART AND NATURE PUT TO SCORN: ON THE SACRAMENTAL IN PURGATORIO
3 February 2006. Life and Works of Lucio Colletti
A talk (in Italian) by Professore Pino Bongiorno, Università La Sapienza di Roma (in the presence of Dottessa Fauzia Gavioli vedova Colletti), followed by drinks and a private view of the Colletti exhibition
5 pm Friday 3 February 2006
Taylor Institution, University of Oxford, St Giles, Oxford
Those hoping to attend are asked to contact Liz Baird at: liz.baird@taylib.ox.ac.uk
The exhibition continues at the Taylor Institution until Saturday 18th March (Mon-Fri 9-7, Sat 9-1)
2 February 2006. Oxford Romance Linguistics Seminar
Room 2, Taylor Institution, Oxford, Thursdays 5pm
2 February 2006. Professor Giulio Lepschy (UCL and Reading)
Time in linguistics and language (Italian in particular)
1 February 2006. Italian Performance Workshop
Wednesday 1 February 2006, 3.00 pm
Giorgio Pressburger:
Il Rabbino di Venezia: storia di una regia
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
1 February 2006. Birmingham-Warwick Seminar
Wednesday 1 February, 2006, 5.00 p.m.
Jacqueline Visconti (University of Genova)
La prospettiva testuale
venue: University of Birmingham, Lecture room 6, Muirhead Tower
31 January 2006. Oxford Postgraduate Research Seminar
Tuesday 31 January 2006 (week 3), 5pm in LR 1 (first floor), Tom Quad VIII, Christ Church
Elena Lombardi (McGill University): Emblematic Intertextualities - Lucan's Wood between Tasso and Ariosto.
25 January 2006. British-Italian Society Rooke Memorial Prizes
The British-Italian Society,in conjunction with the Society for Italian Studies,is pleased to announce that the award of the annual Rooke Memorial Prizes for undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations will take place at 6.30pm on the evening of 25 January 2006.
University Women's Club, 2 Audley Square, London W1K 1DB
Prizes will be awarded before the start of that evening's event: a lecture on "Neo-realism in Italian Cinema" by Dr Mark Shiel (KCL)
25 January 2006. Painting And Heresy In Sixteenth-Century Italy: Jacopo Pontormo And Lorenzo Lotto
Professor Massimo Firpo (University of Turin, and Isaiah Berlin Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 25 January 2006 (week 2)
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, 5pm
Lecture 2: The Cultural Context of Pontormo’s San Lorenzo Frescoes: Heresy and Politics in the Florence of Cosimo I
24 January 2006. Oxford Postgraduate Research Seminar
Tuesday 24 January 2006 (week 2), 5pm in LR 1 (first floor), Tom Quad VIII, Christ Church
Angela Tumini (Boston, USA): The Films of Ferzan Ozpetek - When Memories Stop and Dreams Begin
20 January 2006. Narrative Synergies: Cinema and Literature in Contemporary Italy
Oxford, 20-21 January 2006
A forum for discussion on the reciprocal influence between literary and cinematic works by contemporary Italian authors.
Two award-winning authors - film director Gianni Amelio and novelist Niccolò Ammaniti - will be present to discuss their views on the relationship between cinema and literature in contemporary Italy.
Keynote speakers will be Professor Gian Piero Brunetta (Padua), and Professor Millicent Marcus (Yale).
18 January 2006. Opera Symposium: The Making of Nineteenth Century Italian Opera - Private Desire, Nationhood and Stardom
Wednesday 18 January 2006, 4.00 – 7.00 p.m.
4.10 Carlo Caruso (University of Warwick) A Lesser Known Rossini Opera: Zelmira (1822)
4.40 Tiarnan O’Cleirigh (University of Cambridge) title tba
5.15 Break
5.40 Kate Mitchell (University of Warwick) A Heroine’s Demise: Suffering Women on the Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Stage
6.10 Alexandra Wilson (Oxford Brookes University) From Classical Hero to Man of the People: Constructing Puccini as National Composer
6.45 Drinks reception
University of Warwick, room H.403, 4th Floor Humanities Building, Department of Italian
18 January 2006. Painting And Heresy In Sixteenth-Century Italy: Jacopo Pontormo And Lorenzo Lotto
Professor Massimo Firpo (University of Turin, and Isaiah Berlin Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 18 January 2006 (week 1)
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, 5pm
Lecture 1: Pontormo’s Frescoes in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
7 January 2006. Society for Italian Studies Lecture
Marina Warner, "Mediterranean - Mezzogiorno - Mezza-italiana: writing in two worlds"
All members are warmly invited to attend. The lecture follows on from the Society's AGM, with lunch served in between for those who reserve a place by 31 December.
Italian Cultural Institute, London, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X
Saturday 7th January 2006, 2.15pm
7 January 2006. SIS Annual General Meeting 2006
Italian Cultural Institute, London, 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X
Saturday 7th January 2006, 11am
6 December 2005. Birmingham-Warwick Seminar
Tuesday 6 December 2005, 5:15 p.m.
Margherita Ganeri (Univerista' degli Studi della Calabria)
Un caso di scissione: Federico De Roberto e Teresa Uzeda
venue: University of Birmingham, Lecture Room 4, Muirhead Tower
2 December 2005. Scontro/Incontro: the "Hybrid Experience" of Italy and its Colonies
The Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London - 2-3 December 2005
Jacqueline Andall (J.M.Andall@bath.ac.uk), Derek Duncan (d.e.duncan@bris.ac.uk).
2 December 2005. Italian Colonialism Conference
Scontro/incontro: the 'hybrid' experience of Italy and its colonies
Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies London, 2-3 December 2005
25 November 2005. 2005 ASMI Conference
Italy at War 1935-2005 Edinburgh, 25-26 November 2005
25 November 2005. ASMI conference 2005
Italy at War 1935-2005
Edinburgh, 25-26 November 2005
18 November 2005. The Fifth BIRTHA Postgraduate Conference
The Other Woman. Plurality of Female Identities in Italian Cultural Production
The Institute of Advanced Studies, Royal Fort House, Bristol
Friday 18 November 2005
4 November 2005. La nuova gioventù? The intellectual legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini 30 years on
Cambridge CRASSH 4-5 November 2005
15 October 2005. Pirandello: Page, Stage, Image
Annual One-day Conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies
University of Warwick, 15th October 2005
15 October 2005. Translation and Censorship
Trinity College Dublin, Saturday 15 October 2005
Keynote speaker: Maria Tymoczko, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
9 September 2005. Dentro/Fuori, Sopra/Sotto: Feminist Criticism and the Literary Canon in Italian Studies
St Catharine's College, Cambridge 9-10 September 2005
Conference organised by the Department of Italian at Cambridge University
For further enquiries, please contact Alessia Ronchetti ar330@cam.ac.uk
3 September 2005. Cherchez La Femme: the Cinematic Femme Fatale, her History and Transmissions
University of Exeter, Friday 2 - Saturday 3 September 2005
email address: femmesfatalesconf@exeter.ac.uk
19 August 2005. PhD study opportunities in Italian in the fields of Contemporary Italian Literature and Post-1970s Italian cinema.
University of Salford
Closing date: 19 August 2005
31 July 2005. British-Italian Society Rooke Memorial Prizes 2005
Closing date 31 July 2005
7 July 2005. SIS Biennial Conference
Salford, Manchester, and Manchester Metropolitan Universities, 7-10 July 2005
1 July 2005. Level C (Senior Lecturer)/ Level B (Lecturer) in Italian Studies, Monash University
Applications close: 1 July 2005 Lectureship, University of Exeter
30 June 2005. Call for papers - 2005 ASMI Conference: Italy at War 1935-2005 Edinburgh, 25-26 November 2005
Contributions might address the following subject areas:
Italian colonial/military campaigns/occupations 1935-2005
War crimes perpetrated both by and against Italians
The impact of warfare and military (foreign) occupation on the Italian civilian population
The Resistance and its political and cultural legacy
Italy's role in NATO
Anti-war movements
The conference organisers invite short abstracts (300 words) of potential contributions of twenty to thirty minutes duration to be sent by 30 June 2005 to both p.e.cooke@strath.ac.uk, j.dunnage@swansea.ac.uk
Please include a short biographical note and details of institutional affiliation. The overall coherence of the conference will be a factor in the acceptance or otherwise of proposals. Notification of successful proposals will be sent out by 31 July 2005.
24 June 2005. Pirandello e le metamorfosi del testo
Lovanio (Belgio) - Helmond (Olanda), 24-25 June 2005
Segreteria del Convegno: K.U.Leuven, Departement Literatuurwetenschap
isabelle.melis@arts.kuleuven.ac.be, bart.vandenbossche@arts.kuleuven.ac.be
17 June 2005. Call for papers - Pirandello: Page, Stage, Image
Annual One-day Conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies (Warwick)
Abstracts of c. 200 words for papers of 20 minutes should be sent to: Dr Catherine O'Rawe, Department of Italian, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
Email: c.g.o'rawe@leeds.ac.uk
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 17 June 2005
3 June 2005. Call for papers: Translation and Censorship
Trinity College Dublin
Keynote speaker: Maria Tymoczko, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
We would like to invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes that explore aspects of the relationship between translation and censorship, particularly in a literary context. If you would like to offer a paper, please e-mail an abstract of 250 words to enchllnn@tcd.ie (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dean of Faculty of Arts Letters, Trinity College Dublin) to arrive by Friday 3 June 2005.
16 May 2005. Paget Toynbee Lectures 2005
Prof. Peter Hawkins (Boston University)
5 pm in Room 2, Taylorian Institution, Oxford
Monday 16 May
All smiles: poetry and theology in Dante
2 May 2005. Paget Toynbee Lectures 2005
Prof. Peter Hawkins (Boston University)
5 pm in Room 2, Taylorian Institution, Oxford
Monday 2 May
Bottom of the Universe: Dante and evil
18 June 2004. Friends of Italian Studies at the IGRS
Film Screening. ‘Le conseguenze dell’amore’ (2004) directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Stewart House (ST276), 18 June, 6pm
