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CIRN sends out a termly bulletin of research events in Cambridge related to Italy, with supplementary bulletin for extra events or events of special interest. This page presents a compilation of all these bulletins running in reverse chronological order (i.e. most recent bulletins first):
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Easter Term 2018
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
1. CIRN Annual Symposium on 'Stereotypes'
Friday, 25 May 2018, Webb Room, Jesus College, 10.30am - 5.00pm
Please contact Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridg
The following is a list of Italian-related events taking place next week in Cambridge:
1. Erudition, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Rome, 7 June
2. Book launch: Paolo Heywood, After difference: Queer activism in Italy and anthropological theory, 8 June
3. Petrarch and Portraiture, 8 June
4. 'What Remains?' Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar to the Post-War Era, 8 June.
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1. Erudition, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Rome, c.1600-c.1800, 7 June
'Erudition, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Rome, c.1600-c.1800'.
A one-day conference on this theme will be held in St John’s College, Cambridge on 7 June 2018.
Participants in the conference include Alexander Bevilacqua, Piet van Boxel, Maria Pia Donato, Theo Dunkelgrün, Jan Machielsen, Kirsten Macfarlane, Scott Mandelbrote, Timothy Twining, John Robertson, Daniel Stolzenberg, Felix Waldmann, and Joanna Weinberg.
Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. Please register on the conference Eventbrite page.
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2. Book launch – Paolo Heywood, After difference: Queer activism in Italy and anthropological theory, 8 June
A book launch will be held to mark the publication of Dr Paolo Heywood’s After difference: Queer activism in Italy and anthropological theory.
Edmund Leach Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, Cambridge, 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Please RSVP to jcb213@cam.ac.uk (for catering purposes).
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3. Petrarch and Portraiture, 8 June
A conference on this theme will be held in The Old Library, Pembroke College, 8 June, 9 am - 6.30 pm.
Attendance is free. For more information please email Nicolò Morelli (nm505@cam.ac.uk) or visit this link.
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4. 'What Remains?' Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar to the Post-War Era, 8 June.
'What Remains?' is an interdisciplinary workshop of international experts, organized by Helen Roche, Flaminia Bartolini, and Tim Schmalz, and including historians of Germany and Italy, classicists, archaeologists and art historians.
For a programme of the workshop, please visit this link. Speakers include Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Joshua Arthurs, Aristotle Kallis, and Hannah Malone.
The workshop will be held in The Old Library, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 8 June, 10 am - 6 pm.
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CIRN Committee:
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
The following events were omitted from the Research events, Easter 2018 e-mail of 25 April:
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1. Political Thought and Intellectual History Graduate Workshop, 15 May
David Ragazzoni (Columbia): ‘Parts, Parties, and Factions: An Overlooked Theme in the Thought of Norberto Bobbio (1940s-1990s)’.
15 May, 5 pm, Room 9, History Faculty.
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2. Imaginative Things: Curious Objects 1400–2000 Seminar Series, 13 June
Dai Rees (UAL) and Irene Galandra Cooper (CRASSH): ‘Re-examining the Renaissance Object’.
13 June, 12-2 pm, SG1, Alison Richard Building.
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CIRN Committee:
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
The following is a list of Italian-related events taking place this term:
1. Adriana Cavarero, Cambridge AHRC DTP Annual Lecture and Workshop, 30 April, 2 May
2. Languages of Injury in Late Medieval Italy: Legal Ethical, Visual and Literary Perspectives, 30 April-1 May
3. MML Graduate Research Seminar, 2 May
4. Cultural History Graduate Workshop, 2 May
5. Wolfson Humanities Society, 8 May
6. The Making of the 'Making Classes', 8 May
7. Sykes Annual Lecture, Gabriele Finaldi, 10 May
8. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and the 19th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Symposium, 11-12 May
9. Venetian Seminar, 12 May
10. Helena Phillips-Robins, CRASSH, 14 May
11. Drawing in ‘600 Milan, 15 May
12. Giuseppe Ledda, Graduate Conference Lecture, 18 May
13. CIRN Annual Symposium, 25 May
14. Erudition, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Rome, 7 June
15. Petrarch and Portraiture, 8 June
16. 'What Remains?' Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar to the Post-War Era, 8 June.
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1. Adriana Cavarero, Cambridge AHRC DTP Annual Lecture and Workshop, 30 April and 2 May
The Cambridge AHRC DTP Annual Lecture will be delivered by Adriana Cavarero:
'Political Phonospheres: Plurality and Crowds'.
30 April, Lecture Room 1, 8 Mill Lane, 5.15 pm - 6.45 pm.
The workshop 'Perspectives on the work of Adriana Cavarero' (in Italian) will take place on 2 May in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College, 1 pm - 2.30 pm. To participate, please email Robert Gordon: rscg1@cam.ac.uk
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2. Languages of Injury in Late Medieval Italy: Legal Ethical, Visual and Literary Perspectives, 30 April-1 May
The Old Library, Pembroke College.
This two-day symposium brings together international experts working at the crossroads of disciplines including Philosophy, Law, Art History and Literature, to provide an assessment of the use and regulation of languages of injury in late medieval Italy (e.g. insults, offensive paintings, injurious poems, satirical writing, beffe, tenzoni, libelli famosi, and others). Particular attention will be paid to moral doctrines (e.g. the sins of the tongue), legal theories and practices connected to non-physical violence in Italian communes and city states (e.g. jurisdiction on the crimes of insult and of lèse-majesté, pitture infamanti, libel writs, and others). The symposium will include presentations on art and social control, censorship, gender and insults, contested images, and defamation laws.
For further information, and to register, please visit iniuria.eventbrite.co.uk or email Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja (ac654@cam.ac.uk).
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3. MML Graduate Research Seminar, 2 May
Donato Pirovano (Turin): 'Vita Nuova: un libro nuovo'.
Christopher Smart Room, Pembroke College, 2 May, 5.15 pm.
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4. Cultural History Graduate Workshop, 2 May
Marina Inì (Cambridge): 'Lazzaretti and the Early Modern Notion of Contagion'.
Green Room, Gonville and Caius College, 2 May, 5 pm.
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5. Wolfson Humanities Society, 8 May
Robert Gordon (Cambridge): 'Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American century'.
Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College, 8 May, 6.00 pm.
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6. The Making of the 'Making Classes', 8 May
A conference on this theme will include the following talk:
Beatrice Zucca-Micheletto (Cambridge): 'What's the artisans' job? Some thoughts about female and male work from the Italian case'.
Please visit this link for more information and to register.
Room 11, Faculty of History, 8 May, 10 am - 5 pm.
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7. Sykes Annual Lecture, Gabriele Finaldi, 10 May
The Sykes Annual Lecture will be delivered this year by Gabriele Finaldi (Director, National Gallery):
'Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780): An Italian Artist Travels North'.
The Old Library, Pembroke College, 10 May, 6 pm.
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8. 19th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Symposium, 11-12 May
The 19th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Symposium will include the following talks on Italian themes:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU): Keynote Lecture.
Flaminia Bartolini (Cambridge): 'Dealing with Dictatorial Past: Fascist Monuments and Conflicting Memories in Contemporary Italy'.
Malcolm Angelucci and Stefano Kerschbamer: 'One Monument, One Town, Two Ideologies: the ''Monument to Victory'' of Bolzano-Bozen between Fascism and Democracy.'
The symposium will be held in the McDonald Institute. For further information, please visit cambridgeheritageseminar.github.io/chs
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9. Venetian Seminar, 12 May
The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji (Leeds), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), and Mary Laven (Cambridge). The Seminar brings together established scholars, early career researchers, and postgraduate students in a format designed to promote awareness of the latest research in the field, and to maximise discussion.
There is no registration fee, but numbers are limited due to the size of the venue. Please email a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk to reserve a space.
This year’s seminar will take place in the Lightfoot Room, St John’s College, with the following programme of events:
10.30 am – Coffee
11 am – 12.30 pm – Session 1
Jo Wheeler (Central St Martins) – Revealing trade secrets: A new source of Murano glassmaking
Zoe Farrell (Cambridge) – The worldly goods of the wives and daughters of artisans in sixteenth–century Verona: Evidence from dotal inventories
Discussion
Chair: Lydia Hamlett (Cambridge)
12.30 – Lunch break
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm – Session 2
Sandra Toffolo (St Andrews) – Venice as city, Venice as state. Descriptions of the Venetian terraferma in the fifteenth century
Celeste McNamara (Warwick) – Misbehaving priests and the problem of scandal in seventeenth–century Padua
Discussion
Chair: Simone Maghenzani (Cambridge)
3.00 – Tea
3.30 pm – 5.00 pm – Session 3
Giulia Zanon (Leeds) – Cittadini families and social bonds in early modern Venice
John Foot (Bristol) – Closing the asylum. The radical psychiatry movement and Venice’s psychiatric hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s
Discussion
Chair: Robert Gordon (Cambridge)
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10. Helena Phillips-Robins, CRASSH, 14 May
CRASSH Fellows Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Helena Phillips-Robins (CRASSH): 'Medieval Practices of Weeping: Penitential Function of Late Medieval Italian Poetry'.
CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 14 May, 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm.
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11. Drawing in ‘600 Milan, 15 May
Following the highly successful Cambridge International Study Day ‘Drawing in ’500 Milan’ (5 July 2016), the conference ‘Drawing in ’600 Milan’ is planned to continue the scholarly debate on the theme of Milanese draughtsmanship of the Renaissance and Early Modern period. This conference will focus on the topics of Milanese draughtsmanship of the seventeenth century and master draughtsmen native to Milan or active in that city.
For further information and a full programme see: https://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/aboutthedept/events/drawing-in-2019600-milan-international-study-day
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12. Giuseppe Ledda, Graduate Conference in Italian, Keynote Lecture, 18 May
Giuseppe Ledda (Bologna): 'Interpreting Dante’s Bestiary: Nature, Allegory, Literature'.
Walters Room, Selwyn College, 18 May, 10.45 am - 11.45 am.
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13. CIRN Annual Symposium, 25 May
The CIRN Annual Symposium will take place this year on 25 May in the Upper Library, Jesus College, 10.30 am - 5 pm.
This year’s theme will be 'Stereotypes' and it will include talks from Chris Bickerton, Bill Burgwinkle, Peter Burke, Amparo Fontaine, John Gallagher, Sarah Goldsmith, Lucy Hosker, Alan O’Leary, and Emma Spary.
Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. Please register on the symposium Eventbrite page.
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14. Erudition, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Rome, c.1600-c.1800, 7 June
'Erudition, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Rome, c.1600-c.1800'.
A one-day conference on this theme will be held in St John’s College, Cambridge on 7 June 2018.
Participants in the conference include Alexander Bevilacqua, Piet van Boxel, Maria Pia Donato, Theo Dunkelgrün, Jan Machielsen, Kirsten Macfarlane, Scott Mandelbrote, Timothy Twining, John Robertson, Daniel Stolzenberg, Felix Waldmann, and Joanna Weinberg.
Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. Please register on the conference Eventbrite page.
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15. Petrarch and Portraiture, 8 June
A conference on this theme will be held in The Old Library, Pembroke College, 8 June, 9 am - 6.30 pm.
Attendance is free. For more information please email Nicolò Morelli (nm505@cam.ac.uk) or visit this link.
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16. 'What Remains?' Fascist and National Socialist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar to the Post-War Era, 8 June.
'What Remains?' is an interdisciplinary workshop of international experts, organized by Helen Roche, Flaminia Bartolini, and Tim Schmalz, and including historians of Germany and Italy, classicists, archaeologists and art historians.
For a programme of the workshop, please visit this link. Speakers include Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Joshua Arthurs, Aristotle Kallis, and Hannah Malone.
The workshop will be held in The Old Library, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 8 June, 10 am - 6 pm.
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CIRN Committee:
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Lent Term 2018
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
The following research events are taking place in Lent term 2018, in addition to the events advertised in our bulletin of 14 January:
1. CFP – Approaches to Women’s History Symposium
2. Central and Late Medieval Workshop
3. Economic and Social History Workshop
4. Political Thought and Intellectual History Workshop
5. CFP – Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition
6. Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore at West Road Concert Hall
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1. CFP – Approaches to Women’s History Symposium
Reaching Through Time: Approaches to Women’s History Today
Friday 16 March 2018
Keynote speakers:
Dr Lucy Delap, Reader in modern British and gender history.
Sarah Dunant, award-winning historical novelist.
To mark Women’s History Month, we invite proposals for twenty-minute papers from a variety of disciplines on any aspect of women’s history, 1200-1800. The Symposium looks to discuss both a selection of women’s cultural works and our theoretical approaches to them in scholarship today. We welcome papers exploring women’s cultural output and how they interact with the socio-political structures that define their society. At the same time, we invite papers to reflect on how we approach women's history in scholarship today. Should it be a separate subject, or have we reached a point where it can be incorporated into the general curriculum without getting lost, and how might this be done? How can we think about women in the past and make them visible without reinforcing divisions between genders?
Suggested topics might include, but are by no means limited to: women’s works; women and the law; women in public and private space; representations of women in art and literature; methodological approaches to women’s history.
We welcome the submission of individual papers as well as proposals for complete panels. Individual paper proposals should consist of a title, an abstract (max. 250 words), list of keywords, a short biography (max. 200 words). Each panel proposal should consist of three individual proposals.
Proposals should be submitted to writingwomeninhistory@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 24 January 2018.
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2. Central and Late Medieval Workshop (CALM)
Jesse Harrington (Cambridge)
‘Anselmiad?: Aeneas, Saint Anselm, and Pope Urban II at the 1098 Council of Bari’
Thursday 25 January, History Faculty, Room 12, 4 pm.
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3. Economic and Social History Workshop
Raffaele Danna (Cambridge)
‘The diffusion of Hindu-Arabic numerals, practical mathematics, and economic practices: thirteenth-sixteenth centuries’
Monday 5 February, History Faculty, Room 5, 12.30 pm.
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4. Political Thought and Intellectual History Workshop
Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)
‘Hegel in Italy: the rise of the ethical state (1840-1862)’
Tuesday 6 February, History Faculty, Room 5, 5 pm.
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5. CFP – Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition
Organiser: Dr Helena Sanson.
Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
Guest of honour: Dacia Maraini, internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, playwright, and translator.
This conference intends to explore women’s roles in the circulation of ideas and the dissemination of knowledge in the Italian tradition, across the centuries, by means of translations. It focuses on the role of women as translators, as well as, more broadly, agents of all kinds (e.g. translations for women, commissioning of translations by women) in the production and circulation of translations.
In the last few decades an expanding corpus of scholarly works and research activities have greatly contributed to extending our knowledge of women’s roles in the history and cultures of translation, especially with reference to England, France, and Germany, whereas in the Italian tradition, the topic has so far not received the scholarly attention it deserves.
Crossing linguistic and cultural boundaries, women have translated a variety of genres, from poetry, novels, and plays, to history, biography, conduct literature, economic and legal texts, religious and devotional writings, scientific and philosophical works.
Questions to be considered when submitting proposals, include, but are not limited to:
Women’s access to the study of classical and foreign languages; the metalinguistic tools and resources available to assist translators in their task, as well as practices of language learning; women translators and their access to and use of the Italian language, and their contribution to its development by means of translations; the multilingual and multicultural contexts of the Italian peninsula, and therefore the linguistic and cultural contexts in which translations took place and were received; women as patrons, printers, and readers of translations, and their role in the circulation of translations among countries; individual and collaborative translations; the ‘authorship’ of translations (e.g. published anonymously/under initials/full name); women translators’ reflections on translation; translation practices and attitudes; tactics of intercultural negotiations of ideas and meanings, and of adaptation of the original texts; modes of production and distribution of translations; influence and reception of translations for and/or by women; intended audiences and readerships; material aspects of works translated; manuscript and print translations. Contributions that discuss translations of Italian women writers’ works into other languages are also welcome.
Presentations in English are strongly encouraged. Papers should be 20 minutes in length (+10 minutes of discussion). Proposals should be submitted in a single Word/Pdf document to the organiser Dr Helena Sanson (hls37@cam.ac.uk), and should contain the following information:
Name, Institutional affiliation (if any), Email, Title of the proposal and abstract (250-300 words), a short CV, with a list of your main publications (no more than 2 pages).
Proposals by postgraduate students and early career researchers are encouraged and particularly welcome.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 23 February 2018. Notification of acceptance will be made at the beginning of April 2018.
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6. Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore at West Road Concert Hall
The CUOS mainshow is the operatic highlight of the Cambridge calendar. Sung in Italian (with English surtitles), and with full orchestra and chorus, this year’s show stars many of the University's finest singers, including Anna Wagner, Henry Websdale, Olivia Brett, Louis Wilson and James Quilligan, under the baton of Edward Reeve. This is a fully-staged production, suitable for all the family, directed by Gareth Mattey and Judith Lebiez.
7:45pm on Thursday 22 February, Friday 23 February, and Saturday 24 February 2018.
1:30pm on Saturday 24 February 2018.
https://www.camdram.net/shows/2018-lelisir-damore-the-elixir-of-love
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CIRN Committee:
Melissa Calaresu
Robert Gordon
Mary Laven
Felix Waldmann
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy–related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
The following research events are taking place in Lent term, 2018:
1. CIRN Annual Lecture: Professor Nadia Urbinati
2. Early Modern World History
3. MML Italian Graduate Research Seminar
4. Cambridge Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion
5. Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars
6. Wolfson College Humanities Society
7. Modern European History Seminar
8. Cultural History Workshop
9. The Eighteenth–Century Seminar
10. History of Art, Graduate Research Seminars
11. Modern European History Workshop
12. Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar
13. Cambridge Film and Screen Studies Research Seminars
14. CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar
15. Cambridge Science Festival
16. Venetian Seminar
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1. CIRN Annual Lecture, 23 January 2018
A reminder that our Annual Lecture for 2017–2018 will be delivered by Professor Nadia Urbinati of Columbia University on the topic:
‘Anti–Party. A Continuum in Italian Democracy from 1945 to the Present’
The lecture will be held on 23 January 2018 at 5 pm in the Webb Room, Jesus College. The Lecture will be moderated by Dr Chris Bickerton, Reader in Modern European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIS).
The lecture is free to attend and pre–registration is not required. A map of Jesus College is available here; directions to the event will be posted inside the College.
Professor Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy, Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government, Le civili libertà: Positivismo e liberalismo nell'Italia unita, Individualismo democratico, and Ai confini della democrazia: opportunità e rischi dell'universalismo democratico. She has also edited Carlo Rosselli, Liberal Socialism and Piero Gobetti, On Liberal Revolution.
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2. Early Modern World History
Dr Jean Boutier and Dr Arundhati Virmani (EHESS, Marseille)
Wednesday 17 January, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius, 5 pm.
Dr Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge), Dr Filippo De Vivo (Birkbeck), Dr Brigitte Marin (EHESS, Marseille), and Dr Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge)
Roundtable on Mutability and Movement in Early Modern Urban Space.
Thursday, 1 March, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius, 1 pm – 2.30 pm.
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3. MML Italian Graduate Research Seminar
Dr Beatrice Sica (UCL)‘Gianfranco Contini's Italie magique / Italia magica’
Wednesday 17 January, Thomas Grey Room, Pembroke College, 5.15 pm.
Dr Scott Annett (Cambridge)
TBC
Monday 12 February, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College, 5.15 pm.
Dr Irene Ceccherini (Oxford)
‘Merchant Hands in the Bodleian’s Canonici Collection’
Monday 26 February, Thomas Grey Room, Pembroke College, 5.15 pm.
Professor Federico Varese (Oxford)
'Mafia Life. Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime’
Thursday 15 March, Nihon Room, Pembroke College, 5.15 pm.
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4. Cambridge Seminar in Early Modern Scholarship and Religion
Roundtable discussion on the topic ‘Beyond Christian Hebraism: Recent Contributions to the Christian Study of Judaism’.
Friday 19 January, Old Combination Room, Trinity College, 12.30 – 2 pm.
Please contact Tim Twining (tn243) for a list of the suggested reading.
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5. Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars
Dr Stefania Gerevini (Bocconi)
‘Transmission and Communication: Artistic interaction as visual politics in San Marco, Venice, in the fourteenth century’
Monday 22 January, Lecture Room 2, History of Art Department, 2, 5.30 pm – 7 pm.
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6. Wolfson College Humanities Society
Professor Daniela L. Caglioti (University of Naples, ‘Federico II’)
‘Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World War’
Tuesday 23 January, Gatsby Room, Wolfson College, 5.45 pm – 7.15 pm.
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7. Modern European History Seminar
Professor Aristotle Kallis (Keele)
'Fascist, modernist, cosmopolitan: Pier Maria Bardi’s journey through fascism, 1928–1946’
Tuesday 6 February, Old Library, Sidney Sussex, 12.45 pm – 2 pm
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8. Cultural History Workshop
Tessa Peres (Faculty of English)
‘Erotic Inspirations in Ovid, Botticelli, Shakespeare’
Wednesday 14 February, Green Room, Gonville and Caius, 5 pm.
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9. The Eighteenth–Century Seminar
Dr Barbara Naddeo (CUNY)
Tuesday 20 February, Upper Hall, Jesus College, 5 pm.
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10. History of Art, Graduate Research Seminars
Graduate Research Seminar Series, Lent Term 2018: ‘Art and the Senses’
Professor Evelyn Welch (KCL)
‘Touching the Renaissance: The Material Culture of Skin in Europe, 1450–1700’.
Wednesday 21 February, History of Art Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington Street, 5 pm
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11. Modern European History Workshop
James Fortuna (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
Tuesday 27 February, Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex, 4.45 pm – 5.45 pm
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12. Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar
Dr Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja (Cambridge)
‘Cato, Alexander the Great, Ulysses: One Hero of Medieval Literature’
Thursday 8 March, Audit Room, King's College, 5 pm.
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13. Cambridge Film and Screen Studies Research Seminars
Dr John David Rhodes (Cambridge)
‘Disembowelled Vision: Fascism, Rome, Cinema’
Wednesday 7 March, Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College, 5.15pm
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14. CRASSH Fellows Work in Progress Seminar
Dr Miriana Carbonara (CRASSH)
‘The Frontier between Bologna and Modena in the Early Modern Period’
Monday 12 March, CRASSH Meeting Room, Alison Richard Building, 12:30 pm – 2 pm
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15. Cambridge Science Festival
Professor Andrew Wallace–Hadrill (Cambridge, Classics)
‘Getting up close and personal in Herculaneum: a story of sewers and corpses’.
Thursday 16 March, Faculty of Classics/Museum of Classical Archaeology, Room G.19, 6.30pm – 7.30pm
Dr Alessandro Launaro and Professor Martin Millett (Cambridge, Classics)
Wednesday 22 March, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, 6 pm – 7 pm.
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16. Venetian Seminar, 12 May 2018
The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one–day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji (Leeds), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), and Mary Laven (Cambridge). The Seminar brings together established scholars, early career researchers, and postgraduate students in a format designed to promote awareness of the latest research in the field, and to maximise discussion.
There is no registration fee, but numbers are limited due to the size of the venue. Please email a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk to reserve a space.
This year’s seminar will take place in the Lightfoot Room, St John’s College.
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CIRN Committee:
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Michelmas Term 2017
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
Further events this term:
1. Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar
2. Wolfson College Humanities Society
3. Philosophy Faculty Lecture
4. Public Lecture — Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science
5. Writing Women in History — Graduate Reading Group
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1. Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar
Valentina Mele, Cambridge
‘Guido Cavalcanti’s Rhetoric of Absence’.
Thursday 9 November 2017, King’s College, Audit Room, 5 pm.
Michelle Bolduc, University of Exeter
‘The Rhetorics of Brunetto Latini: Translation, Politics, Exile’.
Thursday 23 November 2017, Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, 5 pm.
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2. Wolfson College Humanities Society
Caroline van Eck, Cambridge
‘Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny’.
Tuesday 14 November 2017, Gatsby Room, Wolfson College, 5.45 pm.
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3. Philosophy Faculty Lecture
Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin
‘Doing things with records’.
Thursday 19 October, Philosophy Faculty, Board Room, 1pm.
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4. Public Lecture — Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University
‘Five Shades of Gray: Galileo, Goltzius, and Astronomical Engraving’.
Wednesday 1 November 2017, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, 5 pm.
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5. Writing Women in History — Graduate Reading Group
On Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua and renowned patron of the arts.
Reading: Lisa K. Regan, ‘Ariosto's Threshold Patron: Isabella d'Este in the "Orlando Furioso"’, MLN, 120, 2005.
Tuesday 17 October, Graduate Board Room (third floor, room 336), Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site, 5.30 pm – 7pm.
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CIRN Committee:
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
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CIRN Annual Lecture — 23 January 2018
The CIRN Annual Lecture for 2018 will be delivered Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University.
Further details of Professor Urbinati’s talk will follow.
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Wolfson College Humanities Society
Giulia Albanese, University of Padua
‘Italian, male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime’.
Tuesday 10 October, Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College, 6 pm (refreshments from 5.45 pm).
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Living with Earthquakes: towards a model for Amandola and the Marche Region
24 October — 25 October 2017
Lecture Hall, West Court, Jesus College.
A provisional programme is available here:
https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/events/living-earthquakes-towards-model-amandola-and-marche-region
Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite.
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Jan-Jonathan Bock, Cambridge
‘Truth and Power — The Politics of Expertise and Behaviour after the L’Aquila Earthquake’
Sunday 29 October, Woolf Institute Building, Madingley Road, CB3 0UB, 2 pm
Further details are available here:
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MML — Italian Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2017
Talk – Barth David Schwartz
On Pasolini Requiem (Chicago University Press, 2017).
Author of the definitive biography of Pasolini, now revised and reissued in a second edition
Thursday 12 October, Harley Mason Room, Corpus, 5.15 pm.
Talk – Dr. Fabio Camilletti, University of Warwick
‘Ghosts in the Parlour: Italian Culture and Spectrality’.
Monday 30 October, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke, 5.30pm.
Talk – Dr. Cristina Dondi, University of Oxford
‘Material Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy’.
Monday 6 November, Christopher Smart Room, Pembroke, 5.15pm
Talk – Dr. Paul Howard, University of Cambridge
‘Genetic translation and the British reception of G.G. Belli’
Monday 13 November, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke, 5.15pm
Event – Roundtable discussion
‘10 Years of Italian Modernities: Book series and the future of academic publishing’.
Thursday 30 November, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke, 5.15pm
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Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network
Lavinia Maddaluno, Rome Fellow, British School at Rome
‘Mines, soil, and the origin of wealth in the eighteenth-century Habsburg State of Milan’.
Tuesday 7 November, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, 5 pm
https://camhabsburgstudies.wordpress.com/graduate-seminar-on-political-economy/
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Music Faculty Colloquium Series
Valeria De Lucca, University of Southampton
‘Roman heroes as Roman patrons: constructing aristocratic identity in seventeenth-century Rome’.
Wednesday 25 October, Recital Room, Faculty of Music.
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Early Modern European World Seminar
Peter Burke, Cambridge
‘Academies at Work and Play in Early Modern Italy’.
Thursday 19 October, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
Alex Bamji, Leeds
‘Sudden Death in Early Modern Venice’.
Thursday 16 November, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
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Early Modern European World History Workshop
Nicholas Mithen, EUI, Florence
‘Political Theology and Interconfessional Networks in Early Eighteenth-Century Europe: Francesco Bellisomi between Naples, Halle, England, and Vienna’.
Thursday 12 October, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
Victoria Bartels, Cambridge
‘‘These many weapons [worn] by the bravi or by the belli in piazza’: Violence, Arms and Armor, and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Medicean Tuscany’.
Thursday 9 November, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
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Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar
Grace Allen, Manchester
‘A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts’.
Monday 13 November, Old Combination Room, Trinity College, 5 pm.
https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/michaelmas
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Centre for English Legal History Annual Lecture
Alain Wijffels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
‘Why civil lawyers? Alberico Gentili’s commitment to legal scholarship and public governance’.
Thursday 30 November, Law Faculty, 5.15 pm
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History Faculty, Graduate Early Medieval Seminar
Javier Martínez Jiménez, Cambridge
‘Nulla provincia est, quae peritos et ingeniosos homines habeat: Building experts in the post-Roman world’
Thursday 16 November, Faculty of History, Room 5, 4 pm.
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History Faculty, Political Thought and Intellectual History – Graduate Workshop
Eloise Davies, Cambridge
‘From caritas to libertas: The Religious Legitimisation of Florentine Republicanism in the Age of Salutati and Bruni’.
Tuesday 10 October, Faculty of History, Room 5, 5pm.
Anya Ciccone, Cambridge
‘Politics and education in Restoration Naples, 1821-1848’.
Tuesday 7 November, Faculty of History, Room 5, 5pm.
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CIRN Committee:
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
Further events this term:
1. Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar
2. Wolfson College Humanities Society
3. Philosophy Faculty Lecture
4. Public Lecture — Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science
5. Writing Women in History — Graduate Reading Group
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1. Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar
Valentina Mele, Cambridge
‘Guido Cavalcanti’s Rhetoric of Absence’.
Thursday 9 November 2017, King’s College, Audit Room, 5 pm.
Michelle Bolduc, University of Exeter
‘The Rhetorics of Brunetto Latini: Translation, Politics, Exile’.
Thursday 23 November 2017, Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, 5 pm.
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2. Wolfson College Humanities Society
Caroline van Eck, Cambridge
‘Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny’.
Tuesday 14 November 2017, Gatsby Room, Wolfson College, 5.45 pm.
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3. Philosophy Faculty Lecture
Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin
‘Doing things with records’.
Thursday 19 October, Philosophy Faculty, Board Room, 1pm.
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4. Public Lecture — Genius Before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science
Eileen Reeves, Princeton University
‘Five Shades of Gray: Galileo, Goltzius, and Astronomical Engraving’.
Wednesday 1 November 2017, Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, 5 pm.
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5. Writing Women in History — Graduate Reading Group
On Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua and renowned patron of the arts.
Reading: Lisa K. Regan, ‘Ariosto's Threshold Patron: Isabella d'Este in the "Orlando Furioso"’, MLN, 120, 2005.
Tuesday 17 October, Graduate Board Room (third floor, room 336), Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site, 5.30 pm – 7pm.
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CIRN Committee:
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Dr Felix Waldmann (few23@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
CIRN is now on Twitter! Follow us @CIRNCambridge
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CIRN Annual Lecture — 23 January 2018
The CIRN Annual Lecture for 2018 will be delivered Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University.
Further details of Professor Urbinati’s talk will follow.
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Wolfson College Humanities Society
Giulia Albanese, University of Padua
‘Italian, male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime’.
Tuesday 10 October, Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College, 6 pm (refreshments from 5.45 pm).
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Living with Earthquakes: towards a model for Amandola and the Marche Region
24 October — 25 October 2017
Lecture Hall, West Court, Jesus College.
A provisional programme is available here:
https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/events/living-earthquakes-towards-model-amandola-and-marche-region
Tickets can be booked via Eventbrite.
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Jan-Jonathan Bock, Cambridge
‘Truth and Power — The Politics of Expertise and Behaviour after the L’Aquila Earthquake’
Sunday 29 October, Woolf Institute Building, Madingley Road, CB3 0UB, 2 pm
Further details are available here:
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MML — Italian Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2017
Talk – Barth David Schwartz
On Pasolini Requiem (Chicago University Press, 2017).
Author of the definitive biography of Pasolini, now revised and reissued in a second edition
Thursday 12 October, Harley Mason Room, Corpus, 5.15 pm.
Talk – Dr. Fabio Camilletti, University of Warwick
‘Ghosts in the Parlour: Italian Culture and Spectrality’.
Monday 30 October, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke, 5.30pm.
Talk – Dr. Cristina Dondi, University of Oxford
‘Material Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy’.
Monday 6 November, Christopher Smart Room, Pembroke, 5.15pm
Talk – Dr. Paul Howard, University of Cambridge
‘Genetic translation and the British reception of G.G. Belli’
Monday 13 November, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke, 5.15pm
Event – Roundtable discussion
‘10 Years of Italian Modernities: Book series and the future of academic publishing’.
Thursday 30 November, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke, 5.15pm
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Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network
Lavinia Maddaluno, Rome Fellow, British School at Rome
‘Mines, soil, and the origin of wealth in the eighteenth-century Habsburg State of Milan’.
Tuesday 7 November, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, 5 pm
https://camhabsburgstudies.wordpress.com/graduate-seminar-on-political-economy/
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Music Faculty Colloquium Series
Valeria De Lucca, University of Southampton
‘Roman heroes as Roman patrons: constructing aristocratic identity in seventeenth-century Rome’.
Wednesday 25 October, Recital Room, Faculty of Music.
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Early Modern European World Seminar
Peter Burke, Cambridge
‘Academies at Work and Play in Early Modern Italy’.
Thursday 19 October, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
Alex Bamji, Leeds
‘Sudden Death in Early Modern Venice’.
Thursday 16 November, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
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Early Modern European World History Workshop
Nicholas Mithen, EUI, Florence
‘Political Theology and Interconfessional Networks in Early Eighteenth-Century Europe: Francesco Bellisomi between Naples, Halle, England, and Vienna’.
Thursday 12 October, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
Victoria Bartels, Cambridge
‘These many weapons [worn] by the bravi or by the belli in piazza’: Violence, Arms and Armor, and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Medicean Tuscany’.
Thursday 9 November, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 1 pm.
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Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar
Grace Allen, Manchester
‘A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts’.
Monday 13 November, Old Combination Room, Trinity College, 5 pm.
https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/michaelmas
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Centre for English Legal History Annual Lecture
Alain Wijffels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
‘Why civil lawyers? Alberico Gentili’s commitment to legal scholarship and public governance’.
Thursday 30 November, Law Faculty, 5.15 pm
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History Faculty, Graduate Early Medieval Seminar
Javier Martínez Jiménez, Cambridge
‘Nulla provincia est, quae peritos et ingeniosos homines habeat: Building experts in the post-Roman world’
Thursday 16 November, Faculty of History, Room 5, 4 pm.
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History Faculty, Political Thought and Intellectual History – Graduate Workshop
Eloise Davies, Cambridge
‘From caritas to libertas: The Religious Legitimisation of Florentine Republicanism in the Age of Salutati and Bruni’.
Tuesday 10 October, Faculty of History, Room 5, 5pm.
Anya Ciccone, Cambridge
‘Politics and education in Restoration Naples, 1821-1848’.
Tuesday 7 November, Faculty of History, Room 5, 5pm.
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CIRN Committee:
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Easter Term 2017
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
The following research events are taking place this Easter term:
1. CIRN Interdisciplinary Symposium 2017 on ‘Crime and Punishment’
2. TOMORROW Lecture and discussion with political thinker Antonio Negri
3. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
4. Workshop: ‘Politicising the social and cultural in the history of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
5. Conference: ‘Virtù, Stato, Sovranità. Political Thought in Italy c. 1300-c. 1800’
6. Cambridge Filmmaker in Residence 2017, Gianfranco Rosi
7. Fitzwilliam Museum lunchtime talks
8. Heritage Research Group Seminar
9. Medieval Economic and Social history seminar
10. Two events in Linguistics
11. International symposium: MAKING CITIES: Economies of production and urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE
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1. Cambridge Italian Research Network
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM 2017
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Friday 19 May 2017, Upper Hall, Jesus College, 10.30am-5.30pm
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2. Lecture and discussion with political thinker Antonio Negri, supported by CIRN
25 April 2017, 5pm, Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Antonio Negri, "Post-operaismo o neo-operaismo?”
Introduced by Ed Emery (Activist and translator, SOAS)
Respondent: Elisabetta Brighi (University of Westiminster)
Antonio Negri is one the leading political thinkers of our time. His most recent collection of essays in English is Marx and Foucault, trans. Ed Emery (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017). The lecture will be in Italian, with translation available. Discussion and questions will be in Italian, French and English
The event is supported by: the Italian Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN), Serena Fund. Advance registration is recommended: c/o ed.emery@soas.ac.uk
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3. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
Monday 8th May, 5.15pm, Pembroke College
Prof. Anna Enrichetta Soccio (University of Chieti and Pescara), 'Before Italo Calvino and After: Paradigms and Hypotheses on the Twentieth-century Italian Short Story'.
Monday 15th May, 5.15pm, Pembroke College
Prof. Eva-Maria Thüne-Taylor (University of Bologna), author of 'Carta da zucchero' (Ravenna: Fernandel, 2015), in conversation with Gioia Panzarella (University of Warwick).
This talk will be in Italian.
Thursday 22th June, 5.15pm, Pembroke College
Dr Paolo Borsa (University of Milan): title to be announced.
Please email Nicolò Morelli (nm505@cam.ac.uk) for further details
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4. Workshop: ‘Politicising the social and cultural in the history of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
Friday 9 June 2017, 14.30-18.00, The Parlour, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Workshop organised by Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester) and Hannah Malone (Magdalene College, Cambridge), sponsored by the German History Society, the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, and the Trevelyan Fund.
2.30-4.00 Panel, chaired by Christian Goeschel (Manchester)
Paul Corner (Siena), ‘Politics, peasants, and popular opinion’
Moritz Föllmer (Amsterdam), ‘Reflections on Culture in the Third Reich’
Helen Roche (Cambridge), “Distant Models?’ Italian Fascism, National Socialism and the Lure of the Classics’
Comments: Hannah Malone (Cambridge) and Christian Goeschel
4.00-4.30 Tea break
4.30-6.00 Roundtable discussion
Chair: Stephen Gundle (Warwick)
Robert S.C. Gordon (Cambridge)
John Pollard (Cambridge)
Christopher Dillon (KCL)
Attendance is free, but places are limited. All those wishing to attend must book a place via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/politicizing-the-social-and-the-cultural-in-the-histories-of-fascist-italy-and-nazi-germany-tickets-31877043094
See attached for full details
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5. Conference ‘Virtù, Stato, Sovranità. Political Thought in Italy c. 1300-c. 1800’
A major conference on this subject will take place in Christ’s College, Cambridge on 20 June 2017 (9.30 am-6.45 pm).
The participants include Melissa Calaresu, Serena Ferente, James Hankins, Jill Kraye, Giorgio Lizzul, John Robertson, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, Nicolas Stone Villani, Filippo de Vivo, and Felix Waldmann.
Please e-mail the conference convener, Felix Waldmann, to pre-register: few23@cam.ac.uk. A fee of £11.50 will be charged for afternoon tea.
The conference has been generously funded by The Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN); The Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge; Christ’s College, Cambridge; and the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund.
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6. Gianfranco Rosi, Cambridge Filmmaker in Residence 2017
14th-28th May, Cambridge University. A series of events that include film screenings, workshops, and a symposium with the Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi.
Screenings:
16th May, 6:30pm - 'Boatman', 1993, 55mins.
18th May, 6:30pm - 'Below sea level', 2008, 110 mins.
21st May, 3:00pm - 'El sicario, Room 164', 2010, 80 mins.
23rd May, 6:30pm - 'Sacro GRA', 2013, 95 mins.
25th May, 6:30pm - 'Fire at sea', 2016, 114 mins.
All screenings at Arts Picturehouse. Gianfranco Rosi in Q&A after each screening.
Symposium: 24th May, 1pm-6pm (rough times).
These events are organised by John David Rhodes (University of Cambridge). Further details to follow.
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7. Fitzwilliam Museum lunchtime talks
Talks are in the Seminar Room. Admission is free, but by token, 1 per person, available at the Courtyard Entrance from 12.45 on the day of the talk.
Wednesday 26 April 2017, 13:15-14:00
Irene Galandra Cooper, A pious home? Italian Renaissance devotional jewellery and amulets
Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:15-14:00
Abigail Brundin, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Family reading and praying in the Italian Renaissance home
Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:15-14:00
Vicky Avery, Madonna & Miracles: The inside story
Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:15-14:00
Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art, Imagining the holy land in the Italian Renaissance home
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8. Heritage Research Group Seminar
Tuesday 9 May, 1-2pm, Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco (McDonald Institute): ‘Recovering Heritage through Social Media after Natural Disasters: the Case Study of the Earthquake in Italy’
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9. Medieval Economic and Social history seminar
24 May 2017, 5pm, the Walters Room, Selwyn College
Marta Gravela (University of Turin), The value of goods and value of people. Assessing urban fiscal policies in late medieval Italy
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10. Two events in Linguistics
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Thursday 27th of April, 4pm
English Faculty Building, GR06/07
Adam Ledgeway (joint work with Norma Schifano and Giuseppina Silvestri), Microvariation in argument-marking in the Romance and Greek varieties of southern Italy
12th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax-Morphology Meeting (CIDSM 12)
3rd-5th July
The meeting aims to bring together dialectologists working on any aspect of the syntax and/or morphology of the dialects of Italy (including non-Romance varieties) and encourages all approaches to the regional languages and dialects spoken throughout Italy.
The event is organised by Luigi Andriani, Valentina Colasanti, Alice Corr, Kim Groothuis, Adam Ledgeway, Norma Schifano, Giuseppina Silvestri, and Maria Olimpia Squillaci.
Advance registration needed. Please visit the conference page for further details.
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11. International symposium: ‘MAKING CITIES: Economies of production and urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000-500 BCE’
from May 18, 2017 09:00 AM to May 19, 2017 05:00 PM — McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Courtyard Building, Downing Street,
This two-day symposium will focus on the economies of production at specific sites or regions of Greece, Italy and Spain during the period of urbanisation in order to place textile production in a wider economic context.
For details, see: http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/events/procon
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Lent Term 2017
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list
The following research events are taking place this Lent term:
1. CIRN Annual Lecture, Marina Warner at the Fitzwilliam Museum – with private view of Madonnas and Miracles exhibition
2. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar
3. Early Modern History Seminars
4. Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar
5. Italian Department Research Seminars
6. CRASSH seminars
7. Conference: Early Modern Viewers and Buildings in Motion
8. Discussion Group at the Mill Pub on ‘Arabising influences at the Sicilian court of Federico II’
9. Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series
Looking ahead to Easter Term:
1. CIRN annual interdisciplinary symposium on ‘Crime and Punishment’
2. Workshop, ‘Politicising the social and cultural in the history of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
3. Filmmaker in residence, Gianfranco Rosi
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1. CIRN Annual Lecture at the Fitzwilliam Museum with the writer Marina Warner and a private view of the Madonnas and Miracles exhibition
Monday 13 March 2017, 17:30-20:00, Fitzwilliam Museum, British Art 16-18th centuries (Gallery 3)
Marina Warner, ‘The Flight of the Holy House: Nazareth – Loreto – Walsingham’
Booking is essential. Fifty free tickets will be reserved for CIRN and allocated on a first-come-first-served basis by 1 March 2017. Further details will follow by email.
For details of the lecture: www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/marina-warner-flight-holy-house-nazareth-–-loreto-–-walsingham
For details of the Madonna and Miracles Exhibition linked to the ERC-funded Domestic Devotions project: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/madonnasandmiracles
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2. Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar
Thursday 19 January 2017, 5pm, Room 12, History Faculty
James Shaw (University of Sheffield), Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice
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3. Early Modern European History Seminars
Thursday 2 February 2017, 1-2 pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College
Emma Nicholls (Cambridge), Record-keeping as a tool of female self-formation in Early Modern Tuscany
16 February 2017
David Do Paço (Paris, Sciences Po), The Trouble with Community and Diaspora: Ottomans in Vienna and Trieste in the 18th century
Thursday 2 March 2017, 1-2 pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College
Felix Waldmann (Cambridge), Censorship and philosophy in the Two Sicilies, c. 1688-1767
Thursday 16 March 2017, 1-2 pm, Green Room, Gonville and Caius College
Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway, University of London), Space, Privacy and Gender in the early modern Italian Palace
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4. Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar Series
Monday 20 February 2017, 17:30-19:00, History of Art Lecture room, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge
Peter Dent (University of Bristol), ‘'Domine dio fece scolpire questa croce' : Carving the Crucifix in Late Medieval Italy’
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5. Italian Department Research Seminars
Monday 30th January, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Dr Jennifer Rushworth (University of Oxford): 'Acedia in Dante and Barthes'
Monday 13th February, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College, DrClaudia Tardelli and Nicolò Morelli (University of Cambridge): 'The Challenges of Textual Criticism'
Monday 20th February, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College, Prof. Guido Bonsaver (University of Oxford), Dr Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester), Manuela Di Franco (University of Cambridge): 'Modernising Cultures and Cultures of Modernity in Fascist Italy'. The talk will be held in Italian
Monday 27th February, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Dr Delia Casadei (University of Cambridge): 'Milan’s "Nuovo Canzoniere" in the late 1960s: Politics of the voice and the voice of politics'
Monday 6th March, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Dr Pietro Delcorno (University of Leeds): 'Dramatizing the "Commedia" on the Pulpit: The "Quadragesimale Peregrini"'
Thursday 16th March, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College, Prof. Robert Gordon and Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (University of Cambridge) in conversation with Prof. Francesco Cassata (University of Genova), author of 'Fantascienza? Lezione Primo Levi' (Turin: Einaudi, 2016)
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6. CRASSH seminars
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network Seminar
6 February 2017, 17:00-19:00, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building
Ayla Lepine (Fellow in Art History, University of Essex / Ordinand, Westcott House), Heather Webb (University Lecturer, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge), ‘Performing the Passion: Women’s Religious and Creative acts of Prayer’
Translation and Censorship (Panel)
20 February 2017, 14:00-16:00, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building
Francesca Billiani (Manchester, Italian), Federico Federici (UCL, Translation studies) and Rory Finnin (Cambridge, Slavonic Studies)
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7. Conference: Early Modern Viewers and Buildings in Motion
Saturday 25 February 2017, St. Johns College, University of Cambridge
Abstract: This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine intersections of architecture and motion in Europe and the New World, 1350-1800.
Papers on Italian topics include:
Andrew Chen (University of Cambridge): ‘Fourteenth-century Ascetic Imagery in a Staircase at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena’
Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge): ‘Fleeting Visions: Occluded Altarpieces and Mobile Eyes in the Italian Renaissance Church Interior’
Kimberley Skelton (Durham University): ‘Sensory Vibrations and Social Reform at San Michele a Ripa in Rome
To register: https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/events/?eventno=33401
Registration closing date: Sunday 12 February 2017
Contact kimberley.c.skelton@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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8. Discussion Group at the Mill Pub: Medieval poetry, song, dance
Tuesday 17 January, 6.00-7.00pm, back bar of the Mill Pub, Mill Lane, Cambridge
First session on ‘Arabising influences at the Sicilian court of Federico II’
Further details: http://www.facebook.com/EdEmeryMusicalAcademy
Please sign up in advance: ed.emery@soas.ac.uk
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9. Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series,
Wednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00 Mill Lane Lecture Room 1.
Peter Phelps (University of Leeds), ‘Regional financialisation and convergence’
This paper argues that financial divergence has broadly increased in Italian regions.
For details: http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/69927
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Looking ahead to Easter Term:
1. CIRN annual interdisciplinary symposium, ‘Crime and Punishment’
2. Workshop, ‘Politicising the social and cultural in the history of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
3. Filmmaker in residence, Gianfranco Rosi
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1. CIRN annual interdisciplinary symposium, ‘Crime and Punishment’
Friday 19 May 2017, Upper Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge
Speakers: John Dickie (UCL, History), Stephen Cummins (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin), Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School), Diana Bullen Presciutti (Essex, Art History), Sarah Cohen (Oxford, Classics), Carolin Behrmann (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence), Paolo Campana (Cambridge, Criminology), Peter Garnsey (Cambridge, Classics), Daniel Jütte (Cambridge CRASSH/NYU).
Further details to follow
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2. Workshop, ‘Politicising the social and cultural in the history of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
Friday 9 June 2017, 14.30-18.30, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Keynote speakers: Paul Corner (Siena), Moritz Föllmer (Amsterdam), Helen Roche (Cambridge)
Roundtable participants: Aristotle Kallis (Keele), Lucy Riall (EUI/Birkbeck), Christian Goeschel (Manchester), Hannah Malone (Cambridge), John Pollard (Cambridge), Stephen Gundle (Warwick), Christopher Dillon (KCL)
Further details to follow
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3. Filmmaker in residence, Gianfranco Rosi (director of Sacro GRA, 2013; Fuocoammare, 2016)
May 2017, Centre for Film and Screen, Dept of Italian, CIRN:
Further details of events to follow
CIRN committee:
Melissa Calaresu
Robert Gordon
Mary Laven
Hannah Malone
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Lent Term 2017 (supplementary bulletin)
In addition to the bulletin, here are details of other events taking place in Cambridge this term:
1. Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group Talks
2. Lecture, ‘The case of Giulio Regeni and the Challenge of Justice’
3. Heritage Research Seminar, ‘Remembering and forgetting Fascism’
4. CRASSH Seminar, 'Action Men: Dressing Bravely in Florence from the Siege to the Thirty Years War'
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1. Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group Talks
Wednesday 25 January 2017, 17:15-19:00, Faculty of English, Room GR-05.
Marco Tamburelli, Bangor University, ‘ The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges’
Wednesday 22 February 2017, 17:15-19:00, Faculty of English, Room GR-05
Maria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University), ‘The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization’
Monday 13 March 2017, 17:15-19:00, Faculty of English, Room GR-05
Bora Strati (Leiden University), ‘The Arbëresh linguistic archipelago: a natural laboratory of contact-induced variation and change’
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2. Lecture, ‘The case of Giulio Regeni and the Challenge of Justice’
Tuesday 14 February, 12noon-2pm, Keynes Hall, King’s College Dr Antonio Marchesi (Professor of Law at Università di Teramo and President, Amnesty Italy), 'The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni' www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-case-of-giulio-regeni-and-the-challenge-of-justice-tickets-31098329942
This Wednesday it will have been a year since Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni was disappeared in Cairo while researching the trade union movement in Egypt. The anniversary of Giulio's murder will be marked by events across the UK and Italy, as part of the campaign to get truth and justice for him and for the hundreds of Egyptians subjected to forced disappearance. Here in Cambridge UCU has been working with local Amnesty International groups to run events around the anniversary, including a major lecture by Antonio Marchesi, Professor of Law and President of Amnesty Italy, co-hosted with the Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR).
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3. Heritage Research Group Seminar
Thursday 9 February, 17.00, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Flaminia Bartolini (PhD student, University of Cambridge): ‘Remembering and forgetting Fascism: from Fascist heritage in Rome to the future of the Documentation Centre for the History of Fascism in Predappio.’
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4. CRASSH Seminar series: Embodied Things: Histories of Cognition, Practices, & Theories
22 February 2017, 12:30-2 pm, Alison Richard Building, Room SG1
Dr Elizabeth Currie (Central Saint Martins) and Rebecca Unsworth (QMUL/V&A)
Dr Elizabeth Currie: 'Action Men: Dressing Bravely in Florence from the Siege to the Thirty Years War'
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27069
Abstract:
In early modern Italy a range of inner attributes could be expressed through physical appearances. This talk will focus on the embodiment of bravery. It will consider the distinctions between valour, courage, and bravery to show how performance was particularly crucial to an understanding of the latter, during real acts of warfare as well as simulated ones.
Three different aspects of dress that had specific connections with military might or physical strength will be analysed: tight breeches that emphasized musculature, leather doublets or jerkins, and gowns with frogging. Did these styles retain vestiges of their original symbolism after they became fashionable? And if so, how acceptable were they in courtly society, at a time when the seductive appearances of soldiers were thought to pose a moral and social threat?
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Michelmas term 2016
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK. (Follow up)
Addenda and corrigenda to the first bulletin. The following research events are taking place in Cambridge this term:
1. A study of North Italian prehistoric rock art, McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, Cambridge
2. Faculty of Music Colloquium
3. Writing Women in History, interdisciplinary reading group
4. Cambridge Art History Research Seminars [WITH TIME]
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1. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Seminar Room, Downing Street, CB2 3ER
Monday 17 October, 5-6pm, Europa Nostra – Civil Society in Action for Heritage, A study of North Italian prehistoric rock art
Introduction: Christopher Chippindale & Frederick Baker, Prehistoric Picture Project, McDonald Institute.
Keynote Speech: Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, General Secretary, Europa Nostra.
The digital humanities and civil society are revolutionising archaeology and the study of Europe’s cultural heritage. The Cambridge Prehistoric Picture Project has been awarded the 2016 Europa Nostra European Union research award for its pioneering digital experiments and arts based research, turning static 4000 year old rock art into movable visual images for both academic and public audiences.
http://www.europanostra.org/
http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/europa-nostra-civil-society-action-heritage
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2. Faculty of Music Colloquium
Wednesday 19 October, 5pm, Recital Room, Faculty of Music
Delia Casadei, ‘Gramsci’s voices’
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3. Writing Women in History, interdisciplinary reading group
Tuesday 18 October, 11.00-12.00, Room 142 (Media Centre), Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site
'Writing Women in History' is an interdisciplinary reading group looking
at writing by, for, and about women. In our first session, we will be looking at
convent regulation and the issue of enclosure comparatively in
16th-century Italy and Muscovy (Early Modern Russia).
https://writingwomeninhistory.wordpress.com/
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4. Cambridge Art History Research Seminars, Lecture room 2, History of Art Department, Trumpington Street
Wednesday 9 November, 5pm, Hannah Malone (Cambridge), ‘Fortresses of the Dead: Fascist Italy and the Fallen of the First World War’
Wednesday 30 November, 5pm, Vicky Avery (Cambridge), ‘A Michelangelo Discovery: A Sensational Attribution Unpacked’
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Here is a list of research events linked to Italy that are taking place this term around Cambridge.
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
1. Festival of Ideas
2. Cambridge Film and Screen Studies research seminar
3. CRASSH Cambridge Conversations in Translation
4. Mellon Teaching Seminars, 'Gesture, Perception and Event'
5. Italian Department graduate seminars
6. Early Modern European History workshop
7. Cambridge Art History Research Seminars
8. Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network seminar
9. Institute of Criminology seminar
10. Classical Archaeology seminar
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1. Festival of Ideas
Tuesday 18th October, 5.30pm, The Upper Hall, Jesus College, Dr Maya Corry (Clare College, University of Cambridge), Prof. Deborah Howard (St John's College, University of Cambridge) and Dr Mary Laven (Jesus College, University of Cambridge): 'Madonnas and Miracles: Renaissance Religion on the Move'. Bookings will open at 10.30am on Monday 26th September. For more info visit http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/madonnas-and-miracles-renaissance-religion-move
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2. Cambridge Film and Screen Studies research seminar
16 November, 5.15pm, Parker Room, Corpus Christi College
Robert Rushing (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), ‘Feeling Biopolitics: the Visceral Dimension of the Peplum’
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3. CRASSH Cambridge Conversations in Translation
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/cambridge-conversations-in-translation
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4. Mellon Teaching Seminars, 'Gesture, Perception and Event' [for Dante fans]
Tuesdays in Michaelmas term starting on 11th October 2016, 1.30-3.30pm, convenors: Prof. Catherine Pickstock (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) and Dr Heather Webb (Selwyn College, University of Cambridge): 'Gesture, Perception and Event'. To apply, visit http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26849
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5. Italian Department graduate seminars
Monday 31st October, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Prof. Vittorio Montemaggi (University of Notre Dame): TITLE TBC
Monday 7th November, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Prof Brian Richardson (University of Leeds): 'Orality and the Circulation of Literature in Renaissance Italy'
Thursday 17th November, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Prof. Franco Piperno (Sapienza University of Rome): 'Boccaccio in musica nel Cinquecento'. This seminar will be held in Italian.
Friday 18th November, TIME TBC, Latimer Room and Clare College Chapel, Clare College, 500th Anniversary of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, organisers: Helena Sanson (Clare College, University of Cambridge) and Francesco Lucioli (University College Dublin): 'The Fortunes of the Orlando Furioso (1516-2016)'
Monday 28th November, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Prof. Charles Burdett (University of Bristol): 'Italy, Islam and the Islamic World from 9/11 to the Arab Uprising'
N.B. Some details of the events are still to be confirmed. Please contact Nicolo’ Morelli for further details: nm505@cam.ac.uk
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6. Early Modern European History workshop
Thursday 1 December 2016, 3-5 pm, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius
Paula Findlen (Stanford), ‘Workshop – Galileo’s Laughter: Knowledge and Play in the Renaissance’
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7. Cambridge Art History Research Seminars, Lecture room 2, History of Art Department, Trumpington Street
Wednesday 9 November, Hannah Malone (Cambridge), ‘Fortresses of the Dead: Fascist Italy and the Fallen of the First World War’
Wednesday 30 November, Vicky Avery (Cambridge), ‘A Michelangelo Discovery: A Sensational Attribution Unpacked’
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8. Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network seminar
Monday 10 October, 5-7 pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Simon Palfrey and Enza de Francisci, Shakespeare: Translating, Adapting, Inhabiting
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26966
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9. Institute of Criminology seminar
Thursday 13 October, 5.30 pm, Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology
Paolo Campana (Cambridge), ‘Out of Africa: The Organisation of Migrant Smuggling across the Mediterranean’
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10. Classical Archaeology seminar
Tuesday 8 November, 4.30pm, Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics
Mario Torelli (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei): A struggle among ancestral gods: The sanctuary of Inuus near Ardea
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The Cambridge Italian Research Network and the Cambridge Migration society present a special event:
"REFUGEES WELCOME: THE 'RIACE MODEL' AND ITS MAYOR"
WITH DOMENICO LUCANO, MAYOR OF RIACE, ITALY & DR ANNA BAGNOLI,
SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
6PM THURSDAY 1 DECEMBER | MILL LANE LECTURE ROOM 5
"For decades emigration drained life from Riace, a village of 2,000 on
the Calabrian coast. When a boatload of Kurdish refugees reached its
shores in 1998, Lucano, then a schoolteacher, saw an opportunity. He
offered them Riace's abandoned apartments along with job training.
Eighteen years on, Mayor Lucano is hailed for saving the town, whose
population now includes migrants from 20-some nations, and rejuvenating
its economy. (Riace has hosted more than 6,000 asylum seekers in all.)
Though his pro-refugee stance has pitted him against the mafia and the
state, Lucano's model is being studied and adopted as Europe's refugee
crisis crests." -- From Fortune's "World's Greatest Leaders 2016"
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At the closing of a year that marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, the Italian Department at the University of Cambridge and Clare College invite you to attend the following event:
The Fortunes of the Orlando Furioso, 1516-2016
The event will take place on Friday 18 November 2016, at Clare College, Cambridge.
See: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/Fortunes-of-the-Orlando-Furioso
Organisers: Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge) and Francesco Lucioli (University College Dublin)
The event includes:
PUBLIC LECTURES: The Furioso in Literature, Art and Music, Clare College Latimer Room, 3-5 pm
Speakers:
Abigail Brundin, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
Francesco Lucioli, University College Dublin
Federica Pich, University of Leeds
Franco Piperno, University of Rome, La Sapienza
Helena Sanson, Clare College, Cambridge
CONCERT: Amore, Magia, Follia in the Orlando Furioso: A Musical Quest Clare College Chapel, 6 pm
Musical coordinators: Adam Cigman-Mark and Anna-Luise Wagner
Performers:
Adam Cigman-Mark (piano), Royal Academy of Music
Grace Durham (mezzo-soprano), National Opera Studio
Alexander Simpson (countertenor), Royal Academy of Music
Anna-Luise Wagner (soprano), Selwyn College, Cambridge
For a full programme of the concert, see: http://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/files/orlando_furioso_concert_programme_.pdf
REGISTRATION DETAILS
The Public Lectures and the Concert are free and open to the public, but places are limited and registration is required. To register, please send an email to: hls37@cam.ac.uk, specifying whether you would like to attend either the Public Lectures or the Concert, or both.
This event has been made possible by the support of the Italian Department at the University of Cambridge and takes place in Clare College by kind permission of the Master and Fellows. It is under the auspices of the ‘Comitato Nazionale per il V Centenario dell’Orlando Furioso’, http://www.furioso16.it
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EXHIBITION OF BOOKS
In conjunction with the event, an exhibition of Orlando Furioso editions held in Cambridge University Library will take place between 7 November and 3 December 2016.
Organisers:
Dr Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge)
Dr Francesco Lucioli (University College Dublin)
in collaboration with Anna-Luise Wagner (Clare College, Cambridge)
https://europeancollections.wordpress.com
Easter term 2016
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
The following research events are taking place this Easter term:
1. Cambridge Italian Research Network Annual Symposium
2. Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
3. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
4. Senior Research Seminar in Social Anthropology
5. Early Modern Economic and Social History seminar
6. Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
7. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminars, Later European Prehistory Group
Looking ahead to the summer break:
8. Conference, "Music, italianità and the nineteenth-century global imagination”
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1. Cambridge Italian Research Network Annual Symposium, ‘Death in Italy’
Friday 20 May 2016, 10:30-17:30, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
For details: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/cirn
All welcome. To register: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk
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2. Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
Thursday 21 April, 6 p.m., Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Rowan Williams (University of Cambridge), ‘Ice, Fire, and Holy Water (Inferno 33-34, Purgatorio 33, Paradiso 33)’
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3. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
Wednesday 20th April, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College, Prof. Brenda Deen Schildgen (University of California, Davis), ‘Girolamo Savonarola’s Apologeticus, Christian Poetry, and the Attack Against Art and Poetry’
Wednesday 27th April, 4.30pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Prof. Robert Gordon and Dr Alessandra Diazzi (University of Cambridge), Dr Florian Mussgnug (University College London), Dr Olivia Santovetti (University of Leeds), ‘The Liar Paradox: Deceit, Ambiguity, and the Vagaries of Fortune from Pinocchio to Ferrante’
Wednesday 4th May, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Dr Norma Schifano and Dr Giuseppina Silvestri (University of Cambridge), ‘Language Contact in Salento: Preliminary Results of a Language Investigation into Griko’
Wednesday 11th May, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Prof. Salvatore Lupo (University of Palermo), in conversation with Prof. John Dickie (University College London), Dr Mara Keire (University of Oxford), and Dr Paolo Campana (University of Cambridge), ‘The Two Mafias: A Transatlantic History, 1888-2008’
Wednesday 1st June, 5.15 pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Dr Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) and Sara Delmedico (University of Cambridge), ‘Sposi promessi: sacramento del matrimonio e indissolubilità del vincolo nell'Italia dell'Ottocento’
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4. Senior Research Seminar in Social Anthropology
Friday 22 April, 4.15 p.m., Seminar Room, Social Anthropology
Andrea Muehlebach (University of Toronto), ‘(IL)LEGALITY, EMERGENCY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE COMMONS: WATER POLITICS IN CAMPANIA’
For further details, see http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/senior-research-seminar-andrea-muehlebach-22-04-2016
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5. Early Modern Economic and Social History seminar
Thursday 28 April, 5 p.m., Room 12, History Faculty
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (University of Rouen), ‘Women, property and work: some considerations of the Italian case
(Turin, 18th century)’
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6. Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Tuesday 26 April, 17:45-19:15, Gatsby Room, Wolfson College
Hannah Malone (University of Cambridge), ‘The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World War’
Tuesday 3 May, 17:45-19:15, Gatsby Room, Wolfson College
John Henderson (Birkbeck/University of Cambridge), ‘“A Plague on Both Your Houses”: coping with epidemic disease in early modern Tuscany’
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7. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminars, Later European Prehistory Group
Thursday April 28, from 01:15 PM to 02:00 PM, McDonald Institute Seminar Room
Andrea Babbi, (The Romano-Germanic Central Museum), ‘Bisenzio (Viterbo, Italy) between the Bronze Age and the Archaic period: The current state of knowledge of a frontier town between powerful Etruscan cities’
Tuesday May 10, from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM, McDonald Institute Seminar Room,
David George (St. Anselm College, USA) and Claudio Bizzarri (Parco Archeologico Ambientale dell'Orvietano, Italy), ‘The Etruscan-Roman Excavation Projects at Orvieto, Italy’
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Looking further ahead:
8. Conference, ‘Music, italianità and the nineteenth-century global imagination’
16-17 September 2016, CRASSH, Cambridge
For details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cth/research-and-publications/projects/re-imagining-ita
CIRN committee
Robert Gordon
Mary Laven
Melissa Calaresu
Hannah Malone
Dr Hannah Malone
Lumley Junior Research Fellow
Magdalene College
University of Cambridge
Lent term 2016
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
The following research events are taking place this Lent term:
1. CIRN Annual Lecture (CHANGE OF DATE/VENUE)
2. Early Modern Economic and Social History seminar
3. Early Modern European History seminars
4. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
5. Political Thought and Intellectual History seminar
6. Seminar series of CRASSH research group, Things: (Re)constructing the material world
7. CIRN-funded conference, ‘Donne al potere, donne di potere: women, culture, and politics in Italy in the years of the economic crisis (2008-2014)’
8. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
9. Modern European History seminar
10. Wolfson College Humanities Society talk
11. Romance Linguistics Seminars
Looking ahead to next term:
12. CIRN Annual Symposium, “Death in Italy”
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1. CIRN Annual Lecture
Please note change of date and venue. Poster attached.
Thursday 25 February 2016, 5 p.m., Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland), “The Architectural Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia, 1550-1938”
This interdisciplinary lecture will explore how Dante’s Commedia was translated into architecture for a variety of purposes ranging from the theological to the political, while also employing the phenomenology of space. It will focus on two case studies: the chapel by Philibert Delorme at the Château d’Anet (c. 1550) and the Danteum project for Rome (1938) by Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri. Although widely separated in time and space, both designs have much in common; and their experiential architecture, in turn, helps to focus attention on the theological importance of “lived space” in Dante’s literary project.
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2. Early Modern Economic and Social History seminar
Thursday 14 January, 5pm, in Room 12 of the History Faculty
Andrea Caracausi (Padova), ‘Craft guilds, apprenticeship and human capital formation in early modern Italy’
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3. Early Modern European History seminars
Thursdays, at 1 p.m., in the Green Room, Gonville and Caius College.
21 January 2016, Robin Thomas (Penn State), ‘Palaces and political economy in 18th-century Naples’
4 February 2016, Federico Barbierato (Verona), ‘Demons’ voices and the lost souls of unbelievers: Collective possessions and exorcism in the eighteenth-century Venetian Republic’
3 March 2016, Irene Cooper (Cambridge), ‘Cose di casa’: The Materiality of Devotion in the Sixteenth-Century Neapolitan Home
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4. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
Public Lectures at 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Thursday 21 January, Inferno XXX, Purgatorio XXX, Paradiso XXX: Piero Boitani (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Thursday 4 February, Inferno XXXI, Purgatorio XXXI, Paradiso XXXI: Catherine Pickstock (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 18 February, Inferno XXXII, Purgatorio XXXII, Paradiso XXXII: David Ford (University of Cambridge)
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5. Political thought and intellectual history seminar
Monday 1 February, 5 pm, Senior Combination Room, Trinity College
Carlo Galli (Bologna), ‘Carl Schmitt and Machiavelli’
Comment: Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
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6. Seminar series of the CRASSH research group ‘Things: (Re)constructing the material world’
Wednesday 3 February 2016, 12:30-14:00, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building
Dr Donal Cooper (History of Art, University of Cambridge)
Professor François Penz (Architecture, University of Cambridge)
Architecture
Wednesday 2 March 2016, 12:30-14:00, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building
Joanne Sear (Cambridge), Deborah Howard (Cambridge)
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7. Conference supported by CIRN seed funding
Friday 12 February, Fisher Building, Boys Smith Room, St John’s College,
Donne al potere, donne di potere: women, culture, and politics in Italy in the years of the economic crisis (2008-2014) (Organizers: Eleonora Carinci, Alessia Ronchetti)
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8. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
Wednesday 24 February, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College
S.A. Smythe, TBC
Wednesday 9 March, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College
Monica Berté, TBC
Thursday 3 March, 5.15pm, Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College
Marco Belpoliti
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9. Modern European History seminar
Tuesday 1 March, 12:45-14:00, Nihon Room, Pembroke College
Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester), 'Staging friendship: Mussolini’s visit to Nazi Germany in 1937'
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10. Wolfson College Humanities Society talk
Tuesday 8 March 2016, 17:45-19:15, Bianca Gaudenzi, ‘Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
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11. ARC (Anglia Ruskin – Cambridge) Romance Linguistics Seminars
Held alternatively at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin, between January and June 2016, on Wednesdays 1-2pm. Venue and programme TBC. For further information please contact Norma Schifano (ns513@cam.ac.uk).
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Looking ahead to the spring:
12. CIRN Annual Symposium
Friday 20 May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
“Death in Italy”
More details to follow.
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Two events for your diary:
1. CIRN-funded conference, Friday 12 February, 'Donne al potere, donne di potere: Women, Culture, and Politics in Italy in the Years of the Economic Crisis (2008-?)'.
2. CIRN Annual Lecture, Thursday 25 February, Richard A. Etlin, “The Architectural Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia, 1550-1938”
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
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1. CIRN-funded conference, 'Donne al potere, donne di potere: Women, Culture, and Politics in Italy in the Years of the Economic Crisis (2008-?)'.
Friday 12 February, from 2pm to 6.30pm,
Venue: St John's College Cambridge, Fisher Building, Boys Smith Room
Papers will be in English. All welcome. There is no attendance fee.
Programme
2.00 Welcome and Introduction.
2.30 Annalisa Rosselli, Professor of Economic History at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata':
'The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Gender Equality in Italy'
3.30 Maria Serena Sapegno, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' and one of the founding members of 'Se non ora quando:
'Italian Women in the New Century: a Controversial Modernity'
4.45 Olivia Guaraldo, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona:
'Between Foucault and Bagaglino? Italy's Neoliberal Patriarchalism and its Aftermath'
5.45 Roundtable and Q&A.
In the wake of the global financial crisis, which dramatically conditioned European and thus Italian economic policies, the Italian state witnessed the birth of four governments in seven years (Berlusconi 2008-11; Monti 2011-13; Letta 2013-14; Renzi 2014-date). In these years, the participation of women in the public debate on politics and on the question of gender in Italy reached a degree of visibility comparable only to that of second-wave feminism in the 1970s. Examples of this trend include the wide participation in the protest of February 13, 2011, in response to sexist stereotypes promoted in the years of berlusconismo, that gave birth to the feminist network Se non ora quando; the campaign against feminicide supported by several important national newspapers and other media; and the great publicity given to recent books, documentaries, stage plays, etc. on the social and symbolic violence experienced by women in contemporary Italy. In this heightened general attention towards the problem of the role and the representation of women in institutions, in the media, and in the culture industry, several new models of authoritative and empowered women have been produced, which are also an expression of the changing values promoted by groups operating at these levels. These models are often contradictory among themselves, and represent a challenge to feminist theorists and activists, because of the theoretical and political difficulty of evaluating and assessing their impact on women and on the transformation of the social imaginary. This project aims to create a space for an interdisciplinary debate on the hermeneutic and political questions faced by (Italian) feminism in this important transitional moment.
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2. CIRN Annual Lecture
Please note change of date and venue
Thursday 25 February 2016, 5 p.m., Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland), “The Architectural Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia, 1550-1938”
This interdisciplinary lecture will explore how Dante’s Commedia was translated into architecture for a variety of purposes ranging from the theological to the political, while also employing the phenomenology of space. It will focus on two case studies: the chapel by Philibert Delorme at the Château d’Anet (c. 1550) and the Danteum project for Rome (1938) by Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri. Although widely separated in time and space, both designs have much in common; and their experiential architecture, in turn, helps to focus attention on the theological importance of “lived space” in Dante’s literary project.
CIRN committee
Mary Laven
Melissa Calaresu
Robert Gordon
Hannah Malone
Conference:
The European Fame of the Roman Veronica in the Middle Ages
4-5 April, 2016
Facutly of Divinity, Cambridge
Università Cattolica, Milan
www.veronicaconference20162018.com
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As part of the PLACES OF AMNESIA conference, to be held on 5-6 April, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge (including papers on Italian topics), please note the following keynote lecture:
5pm, 5 April
CARLO GINZBURG (UCLA/Pisa), 'Unintentional Revelations. Rescuing the Past, Obliquely'
Programme and further information at: poaconference.wordpress.com
Michaelmas term 2015
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
The Cambridge Italian Research Network aims to bring together scholars working on Italy, in Cambridge, across different disciplines.
Activities for 2015/16:
1. Research seed funding. CIRN has a small fund of money to support interdisciplinary research projects on Italy, particularly with a view to preparing future external grant applications. In previous years, this fund supported a number of projects with grants of between £500 and £1000. If you have a project that fits this bill, please let CIRN have a short outline of the project, the rationale for seed funding and potential future grant applications, and the name and contact details of one referee (max 2 sides of A4; to cirn@mml.cam.ac.uk, subject SEED FUNDING) by 13 November 2015.
2. MT seminars. We will soon circulate a list of research seminars and events with Italian interests taking place in Cambridge this term. If you have programmes of seminars that are relevant, please email them to us at hom22@cam.ac.uk (subject CIRN).
3. We’re planning an annual lecture on 11 February 2016 and an interdisciplinary symposium on 20 May 2016. More news to follow.
4. Updates to the list. Please email hom22@cam.ac.uk (subject CIRN) if you are no longer in Cambridge or if you know of new arrivals in Cambridge (from PhD students to Professors) with research interests in Italy.
CIRN activities this year are being supported by a generous gift from Mr. Keith Sykes, for which we are extremely grateful.
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Dr Hannah Malone
Lumley Junior Research Fellow
Magdalene College
University of Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
The following research events are taking place this term:
1. Talk of The Perne Club, Peterhouse
2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
3. Italian Department, Graduate Research Seminars
4. The Eighteenth Century Seminar
5. Medieval Art Seminar
6. Modern European History Seminar
7. Talk of The Erasmus Society, Munro Room, Queens’ College
8. The Inaugural Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard, and Department of History of Art Research Seminars
9. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar
10. Later European Prehistory Group Seminar
11. Exhibition “Illuminating Dante’s Paradiso”
12. Seminars in the History of Material Texts
In addition:
13. An invitation to present your research from the Cambridge University Italian Society
14. Looking forward to CIRN events in the following terms.
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1. Talk of the Perne Club, Peterhouse
Thursday, 15th October, 8.40 p.m., the Parlour, Peterhouse
Ross King, 'Leonardo's Monsters: Fantasy and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance'
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2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
Public Lectures at 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Thursday 15th October
Prof. Ronald Martinez (Brown University) ‘“Contenti nel foco”: Of Containers and Things Contained’ Inferno XXVII, Purgatorio XXVII, Paradiso XXVII.
Thursday 29th October
Prof. Theodore J. Cachey (University of Notre Dame) ‘Cosmographic Cartography and the “Perfect” 28s’ Inferno XXVIII, Purgatorio XXVIII, Paradiso XXVIII.
Thursday 12th November
Prof. John Took (University College London) ‘Truth, Untruth and the Moment of Indwelling’ Inferno XXIX, Purgatorio XXIX, Paradiso XXIX.
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3. Italian Department, Graduate Research Seminars
Wednesday 21st October, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College
Sally Hill (Victoria University of Wellington), 'Transgressive Bodies: Disability, Gender, and the Memory of Fascism in Post-War Italian Films'
Tuesday 3rd November, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College:
Alina Marazzi, topic to be confirmed
Wednesday 25th November, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College:
Matilde Nardelli (UCL), 'Moving from Small to Large: Munari and Cinema'
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4. The Eighteenth Century Seminar
Tuesday 20 October, 5 p.m., Emmanuel College, Harrods Room
John Brewer (Caltech), ‘Sublime Tourism, Enlightened Science and Counter-Revolution: Vesuvius and Pompeii in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’
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5. Medieval Art Seminar
Monday 26 October, 5.30 p.m., History of Art Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Katerina Harris (Institute of Fine Arts New York), ‘Sculpting dead flesh in late medieval Italy’
Monday 23 November, 5.30 p.m., History of Art Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Andrew Chen (University of Cambridge), ‘Some flagellant confraternal responses to images’
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6. Modern European History Seminar
Tuesday 27 October, 12:45-14:00, Pembroke College, Nihon Room
Marta Petrusewicz (Università della Calabria),
‘Modernization at the European peripheries in the “short” 19th century’
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7. Talk of The Erasmus Society, Queens’ College
Thursday 12 November 2015, 5 p.m., Munro Room, Queens’ College
Paul Ginsborg (University of Florence), “Recent Italian politics in historical perspective”
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8. The Inaugural Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard, and Department of History of Art Research Seminars
Wednesday 18 November, 5 p.m., Department of History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Donal Cooper (History of Art) and François Penz (Architecture), ‘Hidden Florence: The Lost Church of San Pier Maggiore and its Digital Reconstruction’
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9. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar
Tuesday 24 November, 5 p.m., Gonville and Caius College, Senior Parlour
Nil Pektas (John Rylands Research Institute), ‘Byzantine Exiles and Venetian Printers’
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10. Later European Prehistory Group Seminar
Monday 16 November, 5:15 p.m., West Building Seminar Room, West Building, McDonald Institute, Downing Site, Cambridge
Francesco Iacono (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), ‘Joining the dots: Local networks and social change in Southern Italy during the Late Bronze Age’
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11. “Illuminating Dante’s Paradiso”: An exhibition, reading, and roundtable discussion with celebrated artist, Monika Beisner.
Tuesday, 27th October, 5.15-7.00 p.m. (with drinks and private view), the Diamond, Cripps Court, Selwyn College, Grange Road
Discussants: Monika Beisner, Dr Heather Webb (Cambridge University), Katherine Powlesland (Cambridge University), Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick (Cambridge University).
There is no charge, but to reserve places, please email smw59@cam.ac.uk with your name.
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12. Seminars in the History of Material Texts
Thursday 26 November, Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library
Vittoria Feola (University of Padua/University of Oxford), ‘The Bartolomeo Gamba Project – or, the London-Paris-Padua book trade connection, 1600-1840′.
13. The Cambridge University Italian Society would like to invite researchers to present their work as part of a series of talks. Talks could focus on any area of research, with a preference for topics drawing some connection with Italy. The talk should ideally last around 45 minutes, and be accessible for people outside the specific subject area. For further information, or to express interest, contact the Society’s Secretary, Edoardo Andreoni (ea381@cam.ac.uk).
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14. CIRN events over the following terms:
CIRN Annual Lecture
Thursday 11 February 2016, 5 p.m., Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College
Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland), “The Architectural Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia, 1550-1938”
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CIRN Annual Symposium
Friday 20 May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
“Death in Italy” – more details to follow.
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
Here are details of research events on Italian topics, which will take place this term:
(Note that numbers 1 and 10 were not included in the first MT bulletin)
1. Romance Linguistics Seminars
2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
3. Italian Department, Graduate Research Seminars
4. Medieval Art Seminar
5. Talk of The Erasmus Society, Munro Room, Queens’ College
6. The Inaugural Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard, and Department of History of Art Research Seminars
7. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar
8. Later European Prehistory Group Seminar
9. Seminars in the History of Material Texts
10. Talk of the Cambridge University Italian Society
Next year:
11. Two dates for your diaries: the CIRN Annual Lecture (11 February 2016) and the CIRN Annual Symposium (20 May 2016).
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1. Romance Linguistics Seminars
Thursday from 1 to 2pm in room 327, Raised Faculty Building
5 November: Dana Nicolescu, "Pronominal clitics and verb movement in Romanian";
12 November: Michelle Sheehan, "How uniform is the faire-par construction across Romance?";
20 November (*10am, room 331*), Federica Cognola & Norma Schifano, "Italian ben: a case study on Romance discourse particles".
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2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
Public Lectures at 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Thursday 12th November: Prof. John Took (University College London) ‘Truth, Untruth and the Moment of Indwelling’ Inferno XXIX, Purgatorio XXIX, Paradiso XXIX.
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3. Italian Department, Graduate Research Seminars
Wednesday 25th November, 5.15pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College:
Matilde Nardelli (UCL), 'Moving from Small to Large: Munari and Cinema'
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4. Medieval Art Seminar
Monday 23 November, 5.30 p.m., History of Art Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Andrew Chen (University of Cambridge), ‘Some flagellant confraternal responses to images’
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5. Talk of The Erasmus Society, Queens’ College
Thursday 12 November 2015, 5 p.m., Munro Room, Queens’ College
Paul Ginsborg (University of Florence), “Recent Italian politics in historical perspective”
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6. The Inaugural Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle’s Yard, and Department of History of Art Research Seminars
Wednesday 18 November, 5 p.m., Department of History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Donal Cooper (History of Art) and François Penz (Architecture), ‘Hidden Florence: The Lost Church of San Pier Maggiore and its Digital Reconstruction’
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7. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminar
Tuesday 24 November, 5 p.m., Gonville and Caius College, Senior Parlour
Nil Pektas (John Rylands Research Institute), ‘Byzantine Exiles and Venetian Printers’
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8. Later European Prehistory Group Seminar
Monday 16 November, 5:15 p.m., West Building Seminar Room, West Building, McDonald Institute, Downing Site, Cambridge
Francesco Iacono (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), ‘Joining the dots: Local networks and social change in Southern Italy during the Late Bronze Age’
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9. Seminars in the History of Material Texts
Thursday 26 November, Milstein Seminar Room, Cambridge University Library
Vittoria Feola (University of Padua/University of Oxford), ‘The Bartolomeo Gamba Project – or, the London-Paris-Padua book trade connection, 1600-1840′.
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10. Talk of the Cambridge University Italian Society
Friday 20 November, time and venue TBC
Fabio A. Camilletti (University of Warwick), ‘Fantasmagoriana’
Details about the venue and time will be available shortly on the website of the Cambridge University Italian Society: http://www.cuitaliansociety.org.uk/
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11. CIRN events next year:
CIRN Annual Lecture
Thursday 11 February 2016, 5 p.m., Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College
Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland), “The Architectural Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia, 1550-1938”
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CIRN Annual Symposium, “Death in Italy”
Friday 20 May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 9.30-17.30
More details to follow.
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Please contact Hannah Malone (hom22@cam.ac.uk) to advertise Italy-related events in Cambridge, or to be added to the mailing list.
Here a details of a few events in December:
1. Seminar of the Cambridge Migration Society and Cambridge Migration Research Forum
2. Conference: ‘500 Years of Italian Grammar(s), Culture, and Society in Italy and Europe: From Fortunio’s Regole (1516) to the Present’
And a look forward to the new year:
3. CIRN events next year
4. Political thought and intellectual history seminar
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1. Seminar of the Cambridge Migration Society and Cambridge Migration Research Forum
Tuesday 8 December 2015, 5 pm, room 11, Faculty of History, Sidgwick site
Ruba Salih (SOAS), “Rethinking Refugees. The politics of human rights and the perils of humanitarianism”
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2. Conference: ‘500 Years of Italian Grammar(s), Culture, and Society in Italy and Europe: From Fortunio’s Regole (1516) to the Present’
Thursday 10 December 2015, the Music Room, Downing College, Cambridge.
This one-day event will celebrate the publication of the first grammar of the Italian language, Fortunio's Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua (1516), ahead of its 500th anniversary in 2016. The event intends to be a re-assessment of the Italian grammatical production in the last five centuries, examining its development from Fortunio's Regole, which established a long-lasting tradition of 'grammatica degli autori' (based on the language of the great authors of the past), right up until contemporary speaker-based grammar production, a 'grammatica dell’utente’.
You will find full details and a link to the online booking form here: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/fortunio
Registration costs £30 full fee, £20 for students. Lunch and refreshments are included.
In relation to the conference, Dr Sanson and Dr Lucioli have organised a book display of Italian Grammars held at the University Library, published in Italy and abroad, between 1516 and the end of the nineteenth century. The book display is now on, in the three glass cases in the corridor that leads to the UL tearoom. The book display will end on 11 December, the day after the conference.
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3. CIRN events next year:
CIRN Annual Lecture
Thursday 11 February 2016, 5 p.m., Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College
Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland), “The Architectural Afterlife of Dante’s Commedia, 1550-1938”
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CIRN Annual Symposium, “Death in Italy”
Friday 20 May 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 9.30-17.30
More details to follow.
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4. Political thought and intellectual history seminar
Monday 1 February 2016, 5 p.m., Senior Combination Room, Trinity College
Carlo Galli, ‘Machiavelli and Schmitt’
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Dr Hannah Malone
Lumley Junior Research Fellow
Magdalene College
University of Cambridge
Easter term 2015
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
With apologies for cross-posting, here is the Easter Term events list:
(Please send notices of other events to: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk, subject: CIRN)
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1. Pembroke 750th Dante Anniversary Lecture
Zygmunt Barański (Notre Dame)
«Questo è secondo che l’Etica dice». Dante’s Lyric Poetry and His Florentine Intellectual Formation,
22nd April, 5.30pm, Old Library, Pembroke College
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2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Janet Soskice (Cambridge), True Desire: Inferno 24, Purgatorio 24, Paradiso 24
23 April
George Ferzoco (Bristol), Changes: Inferno 25, Purgatorio 25, Paradiso 25,
7 May
Elena Lombardi (Oxford), The Poetry of Trespassing: Inferno 26, Purgatorio 26, Paradiso 26,
21 May
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3. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
5pm Outer Parlour, Pembroke College
'The British Risorgimento, British Representations and Interactions in the Italian National Unification Process'
Roundtable: Elena Musiani (Bologna), Lilla Crisafulli (Bologna), Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge). Chaired by Helena Sanson (Cambridge)
Thursday 30th April
'Progressive Rock in Italy in the 1960s-1970s: Communities, Styles, Relations with Other Genres/Scenes'
Franco Fabbri (Turin)
Thursday 14th May
'Veronica Gambara and the Politics of Sixteenth Century Italian Lyric Poetry'
Paola Ugolini (Buffalo) and Molly Martin (NYU)
Thursday 28th May
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4. Film screening
Le cose belle (directed by Agostino Ferrente & Giovanni Piperno), award-winning documentary about Naples, followed by Q&A with the directors.
Wednesday 6th May, 5pm, Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall
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5. Workshop
The Years of Alienation. Asylum and Factory in Italy 1960s–1970s
Friday 22nd May, 10.45am- 7.30pm, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
Keynote speakers: John Foot (Bristol), Piero Barbetta (Milan)
Further details: Alessandra Diazzi (ad608@cam.ac.uk)
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6. Sykes Lecture
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Milan 2016
Friday 29th May, 5pm, Pembroke College, Old Library
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7. CIRN Interdisciplinary Symposium
The Italian Home
Monday 1st June, 10.30am-5pm, Gonville and Caius College
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
The following further events of Italian / CIRN interest are taking place this term:
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1. Colloquium
Early Modern Visual Marginalia
1 May 2015, 09:30 - 13:00, Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26149
Registration deadline: 29 April
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2. Seminar
Holocaust Intersections in 21st-Century Italy and Britain.
Crassh 'Places of Amnesia' seminar series
13 May 5pm - 7pm at SG2 at Alison Richard Building, Cambridge.
Emiliano Perra (Winchester), 'The Holocaust and British national identity in Peter Kosminsky’s The Promise (2011)'
Damiano Garofalo (Rome), 'Foibe: public memory and media representations: The myth-building of an Italian Holocaust'
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3. Seminar
'Reproduced Things', Michelle O'Malley (Sussex) and Helen King (Open University)
Crassh 'Things that Matter' seminar series
20 May 2015, 12:00 - 14:00, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.
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(CIRN enquiries: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk, subject: CIRN)
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4. CAMBRIDGE MIGRATION RESEARCH FORUM
Deaths at sea: and what? An evening of film and informed discussion
5.30 TO 7.30PM, WEDS, 29TH APRIL, 2015
B4, INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY
Following the recent drowning of over 900 people in a single day, trying to reach the European coasts, how do we respond?
CAMMIGRES (Cambridge Migration Research Network) Forum will host the screening of the AWARD-WINNING FILM “A LAND OF TRANSIT”, followed by a panel & audience discussion with DR GEOFFREY EDWARDS, Senior Fellow and Emeritus Reader in European Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies, DR SARA SILVESTRI, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies & DR THOMAS JEFFREY MILEY, Lecturer in Political Sociology, University of Cambridge, alongside the Director of the film, PAOLO MARTINO.
http://www.cammigres.group.cam.ac.uk
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(CIRN enquiries: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk, subject: CIRN)
Lent term 2015
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
With apologies for delayed posting, here is the Lent Term events list:
(please send notice of any other events to italian@mml.cam.ac.uk, subject: CIRN)
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1. CIRN Annual Lecture
Thursday 12th March, 5.15pm, Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
Jane Garnett & Gervase Rosser (Oxford University),
Looking for Miracles: Image Cults in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present
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2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Thursday 12th February
Truth, Autobiography, and the Poetry of Salvation: Inferno XXII, Purgatorio XXII, Paradiso XXII_
Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna)
Thursday 26th February
Our Bodies, Our Selves: Crucified, Famished, Nourished: Inferno XXIII, Purgatorio XXIII, Paradiso XXIII
Peter Hawkins (Yale University)
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3. Italian Department Graduate Research Seminars
Tuesday 24th February, 5pm, Pembroke College, Outer Parlour,
The Clinical Eye. A History of Contemporary Poetry
Valerio Magrelli (University of Cassino) and Elena Pinnen (Cambridge)
Thursday 5th March, 5pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College
Presentation of ERC project 'Domestic Devotions: the Place of Piety in the Renaissance Italian Home,
1400-1600'
Abigail Brundin, Marco Faini, Katie Tycz (Cambridge)
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4. AHRC Project Workshop
Friday 13th February, from 1.30pm, Chadwick Room, Selwyn College
'Florentine Confraternities. Theology and Society in the Age of Dante'
organized by Departments of Italian, University of Leeds, Warwick and Cambridge, as part of AHRC project: 'Dante and Late-Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society’ (Leeds, Warwick)
Further details: please contact Heather Webb: hmw53@cam.ac.uk or Nicolò Maldina: n.maldina@leeds.ac.uk.
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5. CRASSH Screen Media lecture
Tuesday 3rd March, 5.15pm, Harley-Mason Room, Corpus Christi College
Reflections on Max Ophuls through and across La signora di tutti (Italy, 1934)
Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck College)
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CIRN Annual Lecture
Thursday 12th March, 5.15pm, Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John’s College
Jane Garnett & Gervase Rosser (Oxford University),
Looking for Miracles: Image Cults in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/research/CIRN.html
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Other events:
1. CRASSH Screen Media seminar
Tuesday 3rd March, 5.15pm, Harley-Mason Room, Corpus Christi College
Reflections on Max Ophuls through and across La signora di tutti (Italy, 1934)
Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck College)
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2. Thursday 5th March, 5pm, Outer Parlour, Pembroke College
Presentation of ERC project 'Domestic Devotions: the Place of Piety in the Renaissance Italian Home,
1400-1600'
Abigail Brundin, Marco Faini, Katie Tycz (Cambridge)
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enquiries: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)
Michaelmas term 2014
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
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1. MT events. A separate email with MT seminars and events will follow. If you have an event to advertise to the network, please email us at nt272@cam.ac.uk (subject CIRN).
2. Research seed funding. CIRN has a small fund of money to support interdisciplinary research projects on Italy based in Cambridge, particularly with a view to preparing future external grant applications. Last year, this fund supported two projects of this kind, with grants of between £500 and £1000. If you have a project that fits this bill, please let CIRN have a short outline of the project, the rationale for seed funding including potential future grant applications, a short CV, and the name and contact details of one referee (max 3 sides of A4; to nt272@cam.ac.uk, subject CIRN), by 7 November 2014.
2. CIRN annual lecture. This year's lecture will take place in Lent Term. Details to follow.
3. CIRN interdisciplinary symposium. This year's event will take place on 1 June 2015. The theme is ‘The Italian Home’. Details to follow.
4. Updates to CIRN mailing list. It can be hard to trace all the new arrivals in Cambridge who are working on Italy. Please email nt272@cam.ac.uk (subject CIRN) or pass on these details if you are know of any newcomers (from postgraduates to professors) who might be interested in joining the network.
Thanks
CIRN committee
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
The following research events are taking place this term:
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1. Italian Department Research Seminar
Wed 15th October, at 5pm, Pembroke College, Outer Parlour
Ara H. Merjian (NYU), 'Fatalities: Giorgio de Chirico's Scene of the Crime'
Thursday 20th November, at 5pm, Pembroke College, Outer Parlour
Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin), 'Primo Levi, the Partisan'
Friday 21st November, at 9.30am, MML Faculty, room 331
Roundtable discussion of L'atlante della letteratura italiana
Respondent: Sergio Luzzatto (University of Turin)
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2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Thursday 23rd October
Inferno XVIII, Purgatorio XVIII, Paradiso XVIII
ANNE LEONE (University of Notre Dame)
Thursday 13th November
Inferno XIX, Purgatorio XIX, Paradiso XIX
AMBROGIO CAMOZZI (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 27st November
Inferno XX, Purgatorio XX, Paradiso XX
CLAUDIA ROSSIGNOLI (University of St Andrews)
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3. "Dante's Paradise: imagining the divine", Robinson chapel, Sat 25th Oct at 2pm
details: https://www.facebook.com/imaginingthedivine
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4. Peterhouse Theory Group
3 November, 8.30pm, Peterhouse, The Parlour
‘Social Change and Activism in Italy: Two Perspectives’
John Foot (Italian, Bristol), 'Basaglia's Democtratic Psychiatry Movement
Jan-Jonathan Bock (Anthropology, Cambridge), 'Grassroots Initiatives after the 2009 L'Aquila Earthquake'
Peterhouse Theory Group
2014-2015
"The Idea of Europe"
John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Bristol. He has published on the history of Italian sport (‘Pedalare! Pedalare! A History of Italian Cycling’ (2011), ‘Calcio! A History of Italian Football’ (2007)); on the legacy of war in Italy (‘Italy’s Divided Memory’ (2011)), and Italian urban culture (‘Milan Since the Miracle: City, Culture and Identity (2001). He is currently researching the history and memory of the radical psychiatry movement in Italy, founded by Franco Basaglia, which led to the closure of asylums across the country. He will be talking about Basaglia’s movement at the Theory Group.
Jan Bock is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. His thesis explores the social and cultural repercussions of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, investigating how a natural disaster transforms into personal crisis experiences. At the Theory Group, he will examine the rise of grassroots activism in response to the city’s devastation and the authoritarian emergency response under the Berlusconi administration.
Everyone is welcome. Wine and light refreshments will be served.
Convenors:
Dr Jennifer Wallace (English)
Prof Steven Connor (English)
Giles Waller (Theology)
Jan-Jonathan Bock (Anthropology)
Jack Clearman (Psychology)
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5. GREEK IN ITALY
Tuesday 21 October: KATHERINE MCDONALD AND NICK ZAIR (University of Cambridge) ' Writing in Southern Italy: Adaptation, Exchange and Identity'
'Multilingualism and Exchange' Research group, CRASSH, Seminar room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 5pm
Thursday 6 November, GR04, English Faculty, Sidgwick Site
NICK ZAIR (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics):" Women's names and the shift to Latin in ancient Italy".
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6. Early Modern European History Seminar
13 November, 1 p.m. in the Green Room, Gonville and Caius College
Rose Marie San Juan (UCL), Punishment and Anatomy: The Confraternity of San Giovanni Decollato in Early Modern Rome
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7. Wednesday 26th November, 5pm, Pembroke College, Old Library
Paul Ginsborg (University of Florence), Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950,
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enquiries: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)
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8. Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CLANS)
'The Legacy of a Late Antique Prophecy: The Tiburtine Sibyl and the Italian Opposition to Otto III'
Levi Roach (Exeter)
19 November 2014, 17:00 - 19:00
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
Easter term 2014
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Events. Easter 2014
[enquiries and other announcements to: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)]
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1. CIRN WORKSHOP
New Approaches to Modern Naples
Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge), NIck Dines (Middlesex), Ruth Glynn (Bristol)
29 April, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 5 p.m.
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2. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy 2013-2014
The Public Lectures are at 6pm in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Thursday 1st May
Inferno XV, Purgatorio XV, Paradiso XV
PROF. SIMONE MARCHESI (University of Princeton)
Thursday 15th May
Inferno XVI, Purgatorio XVI, Paradiso XVI
DR MANUELE GRAGNOLATI (University of Oxford)
Thursday 29th May
Inferno XVII, Purgatorio XVII, Paradiso XVII
DR TRISTAN KAY (University of Bristol)
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3. Italian Department Roundtable.
8 May, 5pm, Pembroke College
'Written texts and their representations in Renaissance culture'
Claudia Tardelli Terry (Cambridge, Italian), chair
Eugenio Refini (Villa I Tatti)
Marco Faini (Cambridge, Italian. Domestic Devotions Project)
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4. CRASSH events
23 April: Marcial Echenique (Architecture, University of Cambridge), 'Mostra d'Oltremare: Recuperating Mussolini's Show Case'. 2.30pm, CRASSH
23 April: Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen) 'Renaissance Dialectics: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Approach to Logic and Argumentation'. 5pm, CRASSH
13 May: Pascal Girard (University of Reims), 'Conspiracy Theories in France and Italy during the Cold War and Decolonization', 5pm, Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College
3 June: Giuliana Chamedes (Harvard), 'Catholic internationalism and the Origins of the Atlantic Order, 1920-1960', 5pm, Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College
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5. 2014 Alcuin Lecture
Enrico Letta, Prime Minister of Italy (2013-14)
'The UK in or out of the EU: an Italian/European point of view'
6 June, POLIS, Alison Richard Building, 5pm
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Three new events announcements for this term
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1. Seminar
Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures group
Rosanna Sornicola, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, 'The Dialects of Campania. A perspective of linguistic ecology'
Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:15-19:00, in the Faculty of English, room GR-06/07
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2. Seminar
Classical Reception Discussion Group
Prof. Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck) The topography of decline: Gibbon and the city of Rome
Thursday May 8th, 5 for 5.15pm
G-21, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University
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3. One-day conference
THE ITALIAN LEFT AND FOREIGN POLICY
9 June 2014, 9am – 7pm, Department of Politics and International Studies, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DT
A one day conference sponsored by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), Taylor & Francis, the Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN) and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).
Programme available here and below:
http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/conference-the-italian-left-and-foreign-policy-9th-june
All welcome.
Register at dm641@cam.ac.uk
Please note the following events in Cambridge in June and September:
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1. Mysticism, Magic and Supernatural in Mediterranean Music
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TRADITIONAL MUSIC
Study Group ‘Mediterranean Music Studies’
10th Symposium
St John's College
27-29 June 2014
programme: http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/mysticism-magic-and-supernatural-in-mediterranean-music
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2. Visualising Posture in Dante’s ‘Comedy’: History, Theory, Practice
12-13 September 2014
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - SG1&2
programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25032
Lent term 2014
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Research events and announcements for Lent Term
[enquiries and other announcements to: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)]
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1. 'Greek in Italy' . We are pleased to announce the start of the 'Greek in Italy' project, an AHRC-funded research project based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. The project will run from January 2014 to December 2017.
The aims of the project are:
- To understand the nature and long-term effects of language contact between Greek and other languages of Ancient Italy.
- To understand the spread of the Greek alphabet among non-Greek speaking communities.
- To investigate the nature of the Greek spoken in towns in Southern Italy, and compare this with developments in the rest of the Greek world.
- To integrate issues of linguistic contact and linguistic borrowing into the discourse of archaeologists, historians and other scholars working on Greek colonization in Italy, and to promote dialogue between linguists and other scholars.
You can read more about the project, and follow our research on the project blog at greekinitaly.wordpress.com
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2. 'Why Berlusconi? An historical and cultural analysis of the phenomenon of Berlusconismo'
Cambridge University Italian Society http://www.cuitaliansociety.org.uk/
Thursday 23 January 2014, 7 pm, Lightfoot Room, St. John's College, Divinity School.
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3. Italian Department Graduate Seminars
Thursday 6th February, 5.15pm, Pembroke College, Outer Parlour
title: ‘Boundaries and Confinement in Post-unification Italian Women’s Writing’
Ann Caesar (University of Warwick), and Lucy Hosker (Clare College)
Monday 10th February, 5.15pm, Pembroke College, Outer Parlourr
Roundtable: Dr Daniele Giglioli (University of Bergamo), Alessandra Diazzi, (Darwin College), Elena Pinnen (Pembroke College),
on Giglioli’s book Senza Trauma
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
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Cambridge Screen Media Group presents:
A special screening of a new film by acclaimed Italian director Alina Marazzi:
TUTTO PARLA DI TE [ALL ABOUT YOU] (2012)
Monday 10 February 2014 at 7.15
Riley Auditorium, Clare College
In Italian, with English subtitles.
The director will introduce the film and take questions after the screening.
Free and open to all.
For further details of the screening please contact Emma Wilson (efw1000@cam.ac.uk)
For further details of the film:
http://www.kinoweb.it/cinema/tutto_parla_di_te/tutto_parla_di_te.html
Marazzi’s previous films include Un’ora sola ti vorrei [For One More Hour With You] (2002) and Vogliamo anche le rose [We Want Roses Too] (2007).
‘Alina Marazzi occupies a very special place in the history of Italian women filmmakers for her experimental style and feminist approach’ (Cristina Gamberi)
‘As the private affairs of this family are narrated, the screen is filled with beauty’ (Pietro Roberto Goisis)
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Upcoming Events
[enquiries and other announcements to: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)]
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1. CONFERENCE
Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy, 1470-1900: Prescribing and Describing Life
20-21 March, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
Organizers: Helena Sanson, Francesco Lucioli
Full program and registration: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/Conduct/conduct.html
2. CIRN WORKSHOP
New Approaches to Modern Naples
Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge), NIck Dines (Middlesex), Ruth Glynn (Bristol)
29 April, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 5 p.m.
3. ANNUAL CIRN SYMPOSPIUM
Global Italy
23 May, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius, 10.30am-4.30pm
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CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Two events this week
[enquiries and other announcements to: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)]
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1. Pembroke College, Outer Parlour, Wednesday, 12th March, 5pm
Fabrizio Cigni (University of Pisa), 'Manoscritti medievali pisano-genovesi’
Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France (AHRC project)
Italian Department research seminar
2. Thursday March 13, 8pm and Friday March 14, 6pm.
Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.
"Il Berretto a Sonagli" by L. Pirandello
Directed and adapted by Ludovico Nolfi
In Italian with English subtitles.
Tickets £4 (dm641@cam.ac.uk)
The Italian Society Committee and the ItSoc Theater Group.
Michaelmas term 2013
Conference:
Religion and Violence in Early Modern Naples'
Friday, 13 September 2013
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT - SG1&2
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2475/
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
The following research events are taking place this term:
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1. Annual CIRN Lecture 2013
Lucy Riall (EUI, Florence)
'Bronte 1860-2010. Social Conflict and the Politics of Memory'
14 November, Lightfoot Room, St John's College, 5.15pm
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2. The Cambridge International Studies Association (CISA)
Panel-event: The Current State of the European Left.
Friday 25 October, POLIS, room S2, Alison Richard Building, 5.00 pm.
Speakers:
Prof. Luke Martell (University of Sussex): 'Renewing and rethinking left ideas'.
Dr. Stephen Driver (University of Roehampton):'The changing Labour Party'.
Prof. Marc Lazar (SciencesPo Paris): 'A comparative study of the Italian and the French left'.
Prof. William Paterson (University of Aston): 'The SPD under Angela Merkel's rule'.
The panel will be chaired by Prof. Andrew Gamble (University of Cambridge, POLIS).
No booking required. (Enquiries: Lilia Giugni, lg433@cam.ac.uk)
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3. Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
Thursday 31st October
Inferno IX, Purgatorio IX, Paradiso IX
ZYGMUNT G. BARANSKI (University of Notre Dame)
Thursday 7th November
Inferno X, Purgatorio X, Paradiso X
K P CLARKE (University of York)
Thursday 21st November
Inferno XI, Purgatorio XI, Paradiso XI
PAOLA NASTI (University of Reading)
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4. Italian Department Research Seminar
Thursday 17th October, at 1pm, Board Room, Graduate Centre of the Faculty of MML (3rd floor).
George Corbett (JRF, Trinity), 'Writing Dante and Epicurus
(Refreshments from 12.30)
Thursday 24th October, at 5.15pm, in Pembroke College (venue tbc)
Francesco Capello (University of Kent),'Psychoanalysis and Literature: from Application to Conversation'
Respondant: Alessandra Diazzi (PhD candidate, Darwin)
Monday 18 November, at 5.15pm in Pembroke College (venue tbc)
Domenico Scarpa (Centro Primo Levi, Turin), 'Primo Levi in his Prime Time, 1945-66'
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5. Screen Media Research Seminar
Tuesday 29th October, 5.15 to 7pm, CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor
Zygmunt G. Baranski (University of Notre Dame), 'Roberto Rossellini’s Un pilota pitorna: Ethics, Realism, Propaganda'
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enquiries: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk (subject: CIRN)
Reminder: Research seed funding. CIRN has a small fund of money to support interdisciplinary research projects on Italy, particularly with a view to preparing future external grant applications. Last year, this fund supported two projects with grants of between £500 and £1000. If you have a project that fits this bill, please let CIRN have a short outline of the project, the rationale for seed funding and potential future grant applications, and the name and contact details of one referee (max 2 sides of A4; to nt272@cam.ac.uk, subject CIRN), by 31 October 2013.
1. REMINDER. CIRN (Cambridge Italian Research Network) Lecture 2013
Lucy Riall (EUI, Florence)
'Bronte 1860-2010. Social Conflict and the Politics of Memory'
14 November, Lightfoot Room, St John's College, Cambridge, 5.15pm
All welcome
2. UL blog and Italian ebook access
There is a new blog on European language collections at the UL, including this announcement of a trial access period (until 15 Jan) to a collection of Italian ebooks.
Easter term 2013
CIRN. CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
Many thanks to all those of you who came to seminars and other events this term.
**Please make a note of two important events coming up next term.**
1. CIRN interdisciplinary symposium. 24 May 2013 at Caius.
"Italian Landscapes". Programme attached.
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2. Symposium in Honour of Prof Deborah Howard. 28 June 2013
"Renaissance Encounters". Programme attached.
ANNOUCEMENTS OF OTHER EVENTS FOR THE LIST TO: rscg1@cam.ac.uk
REQUESTS FOR NEW MEMBERS OR TO REMOVE YOUR NAME TO: italian@mml.cam.ac.uk
CIRN. EASTER TERM EVENTS.
1. ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINARS
Tue. 30 April, 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College
Simon Levis Sullam (Venice)
‘Times of Indifference: Moravia, Fascism, Anti-Semitism’
Mon. 13 May, 5.30pm Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College
John Dickie (UCL)
‘Mafia Republic: Democracy, Prosperity & Organised Crime in Italy since 1946’
In collaboration with the CU Italian Society.
Tue. 14 May, 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College
Jason Houston (Oklahoma)
‘Boccaccio on Friendship, Theory and Practice’
2. DANTE. VERTICAL READINGS
Thur. 2 May, 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
SIMON GILSON (Warwick)
Inferno VII, Purgatorio VII, Paradiso VII
Thur 16 May, 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN (UC Davis)
Inferno VIII, Purgatorio VIII, Paradiso VIII
3. SYKES LECTURE
On 2 May Pembroke College will be holding its sixth annual K G Sykes Lecture in Italian Studies. This year's lecture will be delivered by Professor Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy (1992-1993, 2000-2001), and the title of his talk will be: "150 years afterwards and beyond. What has remained of the Italian Unity?"
The talk will be held in the Old Library at 5pm, with drinks in the Parlours afterwards.
The lecture is open to all, but if you would like to reserve a place at the talk, please contact Sally March at Pembroke via email at sally.march@pem.cam.ac.uk or by telephone on (7)65526.
4. RENAISSANCE ENCOUNTERS
Fri 28 June, 9.30am Old Divinity School, St John’s College,
RENAISSANCE ENCOUNTERS
A Symposium in Honour of Professor Deborah Howard
Programme available here:
http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/Downloads/DHSYMPOSIUMPROGRAMME
CIRN. REMINDER.
1. ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINAR
Tue. 30 April, 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College
Simon Levis Sullam (Venice)
‘Times of Indifference: Moravia, Fascism, Anti-Semitism’
2. EARLY MODERN EUROPE HISTORY SEMINAR
Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall, 1 pm, 2 May
Rosa Salzberg, Warwick
‘The Early Modern Melting Pot: Multicultural Venice in Print and Performance’
3. DANTE. VERTICAL READINGS
Thur. 2 May, 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy
SIMON GILSON (Warwick)
Inferno VII, Purgatorio VII, Paradiso VII
4. SYKES LECTURE
On 2 May Pembroke College will be holding its sixth annual K G Sykes Lecture in Italian Studies. This year's lecture will be delivered by Professor Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy (1992-1993, 2000-2001), and the title of his talk will be: "150 years afterwards and beyond. What has remained of the Italian Unity?"
The talk will be held in the Old Library at 5pm, with drinks in the Parlours afterwards.
The lecture is open to all, but if you would like to reserve a place at the talk, please contact Sally March at Pembroke via email at sally.march@pem.cam.ac.uk or by telephone on (7)65526.
5. Bilingualism and Biliteracy in Oscan South Italy
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
12:00 - 14:00
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, SG2 (ground floor)
Dr Nicholas Zair (Peterhouse; Classics) presents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar.
The event is free to attend but registration is required. A sandwich lunch will be provided. Registration website:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2433/
Abstract
The South of Italy between 400 and 100BC was extremely multicultural and multilingual, with speakers of various languages, including Greek, Latin, Oscan and Messapic all in contact at various times. My talk will examine the evidence for cultural and linguistic interaction provided by the use of different alphabets to write Oscan, a well understood language related to Latin. Oscan was spoken from Campania to the toe of Italy, and I will focus on the inscriptions from modern-day Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily, which use the Greek alphabet. Traditionally, inscriptions written in this alphabet have been seen as reflecting a fixed and rigid school of trained scribes using an orthography specifically developed for writing Oscan. Variation in the rules of this orthography have been attributed to a reform at the start of the 3rd century under the influence of specific changes in the Oscan alphabet used further North, or the Greek alphabet used to write Greek. I will argue that we should instead identify continuing variation in orthography due to individual factors, in particular widespread Greek-Oscan bilingualism leading to shared Greek-Oscan orthographic practices.
6. Masterclass on Italian Illuminated Incunabula at UL:
Cambridge University Library will be holding its 9th masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project on Tuesday 4 June 2013, with a repeat on Tuesday 25 June 2013.
The masterclass, entitled “Hand Illumination on Venetian Incunabula in Cambridge University Library”, will be led by Lilian Armstrong, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art at Wellesley College, Emerita, and a leading authority in the History of Italian Illumination. Her research concentrates in particular on book decoration in Venice in the second half of the 15th century, following the invention of printing with movable type.
With the help of treasures from the incunabula collection in the University Library, Professor Armostrong will illustrate the development of Venetian book ornamentation and its transition from hand painted decoration to woodcut illustration in the late 15th and early 16thcentury.
The seminar will be held in the Keynes Room at the Library. It will start at 2.30pm and will last approximately 90 minutes, allowing time for questions and discussion. Attendance will be limited in order to allow all attendees a chance to see the books under discussion up close, and to participate in the discussion.
To book your place, please email <incunabula@lib.cam.ac.uk>.
For more information, please visit https://inc.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rarebooks/incunabula_project.html
Lent term 2013
CIRN. CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
1. Seminars
5 Feb, 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College
Dr Marzia Maccaferri (Modena), ‘Italian Intellectual discourse, 1950s and 1960s. A political perspective’
11 Feb, 5pm, Department of Politics and International Studies, Room S138
Prof Robert Gordon (Cambridge), ‘Italy’s missing holocaust museum: memory, amnesia and post war Italian politics’
18 Feb, 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College
Dr Stefano Jossa (RHUL), ‘Why does not Italy have Robin Hood? Literary Heroes and National Identity in Modern Italy’
12 Mar., 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College
Prof Luciano Zampese (Geneve), ‘Aspetti verbali in Libera nos a Malo di Luigi Meneghello’
2. Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante
The first three lectures are now available online here: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1366579
Public Lectures at 6pm (All are welcome)
Thursday 31st January
Prof. John Marenbon (Cambridge)
'Virtuous pagans, hopeless desire and unjust justice: Inferno IV, Purgatorio IV, and Paradiso IV'
Thursday 14th February
Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick (Cambridge)
'St Valentines's Day: Massacre, Miserere and Martyrdom: Inferno V, Purgatorio V, and Paradiso V'
Thursday 28th February
Prof. Claire Honess (Leeds)
'Divided City, Servile Italy, Universal Empire: Inferno VI, Purgatorio VI, and Paradiso VI'.
Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge
3. CIRN seed funding
We're pleased to announce that two collaborative research projects successfully applied for CIRN seed funding in MT:
-'Umbrian and Latin Bronze Votive Figurines in context' (F. Fulminante)
- 'Posture and Performance in Dante's Purgatorio' (H. Webb)
We hope to run a similar competition again later this year.
4. CIRN interdisciplinary symposium. 24 May 2013. Italian Landscapes
Further details on the programme will follow this term.
5. ERC Synergy Grant
Many congratulations to Abi Brundin (Italian), Deborah Howard (History of Art) and Mary Laven (History) for the award of an ERC Synergy grant of €2.3 million for the project 'Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home' (2013-17).
Michaelmas Term 2012
CIRN
Activities for 2012/13.
1. The first CIRN LECTURE will take place on 19 October, 5pm (Bateman Auditorium, Caius). See attached flyer. We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jeffrey Schnapp from Harvard to give the first CIRN lecture. Look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there.
2. Research seed funding. CIRN has a small fund of money which it plans to offer to support interdisciplinary research projects on Italy within Cambridge or in collaboration with other institutions, with a view to larger external grant applications in the future. If you have a project that fits this bill, please let CIRN have a short outline of it and of the rationale for seed funding and future grant applications (max 2 sides of A4; c/o nt272@cam.ac.uk, subject CIRN), by 31 October 2012.
3. MT seminars. Around the start of term, we’ll circulate a list of research seminars with Italian interests taking place in Cambridge this term or this year. If you have programmes of seminars that are relevant, please email them to us at nt272@cam.ac.uk (subject CIRN).
4. We’re planning a first CIRN interdisciplinary conference for 24 May 2013 on the theme ‘Italian Landscapes’. More news to follow.
5. Updates to list. Please email nt272@cam.ac.uk (subject CIRN) if you are no longer in Cambridge or if you know of new arrivals in Cambridge (from PhD students to Professors) with research interests in Italy.
(CIRN activities this year are being supported by a generous gift from Mr. Keith Sykes, for which we are extremely grateful.)
1. THURS 18 Oct, 6pm, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity
Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy
George Corbett and Heather Webb, 'Inferno I, Purgatorio I, Paradiso I'
2. FRI 19 Oct, 5pm, Bateman Auditorium, Caius
CIRN Lecture
Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard), 'Next Stop on the High Line: The Trento Tunnels Project'
Cambridge Italian Research Network
Two events next week and a reminder:
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1. Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar
Helena Sanson, Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900
Speaker: Dr Helena Sanson, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge
Chair: Professor Wendy Bennett, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
1330-1430, Monday 29 October 2012
The Ramsden Room, St Catherine's College, Cambridge
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2. Italian Department Research Seminar
Mon 29 Oct, 5.15pm, Teaching Room 2, in the new Divinity School, St John’s College
Prof Guido Mazzoni (Siena), ‘POLYTHEISM AND IMPERFECTION: The Morality and Moral of the Modern Novel’
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3. Research seed funding. CIRN has a small fund of money which it plans to offer to support interdisciplinary research projects on Italy within Cambridge or in collaboration with other institutions, with a view to larger external grant applications in the future. If you have a project that fits this bill, please let CIRN have a short outline of it and of the rationale for seed funding and future grant applications (max 2 sides of A4; c/o nt272@cam.ac.uk, subject CIRN), by 31 October 2012.
Cambridge Italian Research Network
Two events of interest this week, both on Thursday:
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1. Hannah Malone, 'The Meaning of Architecture in Nineteenth-century Cemeteries'
Date: Thursday 8th November Time: 12pm-1pm Venue: Graduate Seminar Room, History of Art Department, 4a Trumpington Street
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Hannah Malone is a third-year PhD student in architectural history. Her research explores the architecture of cemeteries as an expression of socio-political forces, with a focus on nineteenth-century Italy.
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2. The second Cambridge Vertical Reading in Dante's Comedy
Thursday, 8 November. Dr Matthew Treherne (Leeds) will be speaking on the connections between 'The Twos' (Inferno II, Purgatorio II, Paradiso II) at 6pm in the Winstanley Theatre of Trinity College.
For those who are interested, a teleconferenced workshop on Purgatorio II will be held at 4.30pm, also in the Winstanley Theatre (as well as locations at Leeds and Notre Dame). Please bring your own copy of the text and your thoughts on that canto.
Cambridge Italian Research Network
One more event:
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3. Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar in CRASSH
Wednesday 7th November, 5 p.m.
Prof. Jo Story, 'The Carolingians and Old Saint Peter's, Rome'.
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4. HISTORY OF MATERIAL TEXTS SEMINAR: 'ITALIAN BOOKS IN AN ENGLISH GREAT HOUSE LIBRARY: THE CASE OF BELTON HOUSE IN LINCOLNSHIRE'
Abigail Brundin (Cambridge) and Dunstan Roberts (Cambridge) Thursday, 8 November 5:30 pm Room SR-24, Faculty of English, 9 West Road
When English travellers went to Italy in the early modern period, they not only brought art objects and other tourist trophies back with them, they also acquired books. These books, combined with those bought in preparation for travel and those bought afterwards, provide a valuable insight into Anglo-Italian cultural relations. They also enrich our perceptions of the cultural vibrancy which Italy communicated to Protestant nations in the wake of the Council of Trent, despite ongoing religious disagreements. The holdings of an early modern private library help to map the competing influences on that house and family, the works arriving from other contexts, and their passage from reader to reader within the household and beyond it. Thus the library, more than simply a collection of books, becomes a repository of the social history of the place. More widely, the findings of this study, conducted in collaboration with the National Trust, engage with larger questions about English cultural permeability in the early modern period, facilitated through the exchange of books and ideas.
All welcome. Wine & soft drinks will be served at the start of the seminar. For more information, please contact Jason Scott-Warren (jes1003@cam.ac.uk), Andrew Zurcher (aez20@cam.ac.uk) or Dunstan Roberts (dcdr2@cam.ac.uk)
A final CIRN message for this term.
See below announcements of a 5-year Research Fellowship in Italian at Pembroke, and of an interesting event at St John's in January.
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1. KEITH SYKES RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN ITALIAN STUDIES, Pembroke College, Cambridge University
The College hopes to elect not later than 15 March 2013 to a KEITH SYKES RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN ITALIAN STUDIES, with tenure for five years from 1 October 2013. Candidates should have recently completed or be about to complete a doctoral degree.
The College welcomes applications from scholars with research interests in any aspect of Italian culture and history from the age of Dante to the present: relevant disciplines may include Italian language and literature, music, history and art history. The holder will be encouraged to do a limited amount of teaching for the College, and to offer an annual course of lectures in a relevant University Department or Faculty, but would require the permission of the Governing Body to undertake other paid work, and will be expected to support an annual "Italian evening" and the annual Keith Sykes Lecture.
The stipend payable from 1 October 2013 will range from £21,383 to £24,049 and is reviewed annually. Further financial particulars are available on request.
Applications, which are due by 7 January 2013, should be made online by clicking on the link below and following the relevant links.
http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/the-college/job-vacancies/
Informal enquiries can be made to the Senior Tutor's Assistant, Sally Clowes, at sally.clowes@pem.cam.ac.uk.
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ALL POSSIBLE CANDIDATES
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2. 'Adventures in Italy', on Saturday 12th January 2013, St John's College Library, is a celebration of the Samuel Butler Collection, and will feature an exhibition and talks on Samuel Butler's travels in Italy in the nineteenth century. The event is free to attend and everyone is welcome. The full programme for the day's events is on the College website at http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/butler-day-adventures-italy.
Easter Term 2012
LAUNCH OF CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
We had an excellent response to our call for interest in this new network, with over a hundred replies. We hope to build on this over the coming months by sponsoring events and research initiatives relating to Italy and by facilitating contact and communication within the network.
We're pleased to announce a launch event for the network. On 12 May, Jesus College is hosting a symposium on Venice (programme attached). At the end of the day, CIRN will celebrate the establishment of the network with a drinks reception: 5.30pm in the Fellows' Garden (or the Coleridge Room, if wet). Do come along to the drinks and/ or the symposium (numbers are limited for lunch, though, so please contact Mary Laven asap - mrl25@cam.ac.uk - to check on that).
As part of the network's activities, we'll send round digests of relevant announcements of events etc, but we'll try not to clutter your inboxes too much.
CIRN
CAMBRIDGE ITALIAN RESEARCH NETWORK
The following might be of interest (further details on each below):
1. CIRN research fund
2. CRASSH Screen Media Seminar on Ali Smith and Pasolini, 30 April
3. Seminars in Medieval Italian Literature and Religious Thought_, 1, 8, 15 May
4. Interdisciplinary work on the Gubbio-Perugia frontier
5. Talk by David Willey (former BBC Rome correspondent), 11 May
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1. CIRN research fund. Advance notice.
We are planning to set up a small network fund to support and provide seed money for collaborative research projects in Cambridge related to Italy, in particular with a view to developing grant applications. Further details to follow.
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2. Cambridge Screen Media Group, Monday 30 April
A Roundtable on Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
Ali Smith (Novelist and Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in European Comparative Literature, University of Oxford)
Robert Gordon (Professor of Modern Italian Culture, University of Cambridge)
Lucia Yandoli (Filmmaker and PhD student in Italian, University of Cambridge)
17.15-19.00 CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT ALL WELCOME
With us on Monday, 30 April will be writer Ali Smith, who will be reading from her 2005 novel, The Accidental, offering a modern-day reworking of Theorem's theme of angelic intrusion. Robert Gordon will follow up with a presentation on 'Teorema: Book and Film, Words and Silences', before Lucia Yandoli takes the stage with a paper on 'The ecstasy in Teorema'.
For further information contact Emma Wilson (efw1000@cam.ac.uk) or Hannah Mowat (hefw1000@cam.ac.uk)
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3. Seminars in Medieval Italian Literature and Religious Thought (Italian Dept, MML)
Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, 5:15pm
1 May Professor Peter Hawkins (Yale)
'Rahab and her Afterlife: From Bible to Comedy'
8 May
Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen (UC Davis)
'Dante's Commedia and the Ascent to Incarnational History: Canto 7 Paradiso'
15 May
Dr Kenneth Clarke (Cambridge)
'Griselda Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Boccaccio's Griselda, Petrarch's Walterus, and Dante's Ulysses'
contact:
Dr. Heather Webb: hmw53@cam.ac.uk
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4. Interdisciplinary work on the Gubbio-Perugia frontier
In the interdisciplinary spirit of the new network, I invite interest in our work on the longue duree of the Gubbio-Perugia frontier founded in the 6th century BC, but enduring up to the present day in the communal boundaries of two cities. Key phases include the construction of Ancient Etruscan and Umbrian identity, the Byzantine corridor of the seventh century AD between Ravenna and Rome, the construction of castles and abbeys from the tenth century AD onwards and the fluid military frontier of June and July 1944. The work is centred around the distinguished Benedictine abbey of S.Maria di Val di Ponte with an early undercroft, fine cloister and the location of work of the 13th century Maestro di Montelabate and the original location of further work by the Maestro di Montelabate and by the early 14th century Meo di Guido da Siena now in the Perugia art gallery
Project website here:
http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/projects/montelabate/
More details on the abbey here:
http://www.umbrarte.com/torri/montelabate.htm
The excavation this summer will be on twitter ... and is already on Facebook.
There is potential for cross disciplinary research and grant applications for anyone with research that coincides with these themes.
I can send an overview article in press for the Papers of the British School at Rome to anyone who sends me an email.
Simon Stoddart
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5. DAVID WILLEY (former BBC Rome correspondent) will be giving a talk at Pembroke College on May 11th at 5pm.
For further information, contact: Francesco Anesi, fa257@cam.ac.uk
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