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2018
CIRN Annual Lecture 2018
Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17.00, Webb Room, Jesus College
Nadia Urbinati, "Anti-Party: A Continuum in Italian Democracy, from 1945 to the Present"
2017
CIRN Annual Lecture
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"
2016
| 10.30 - 11 | Coffee | |
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| 11 - 12.30 | SESSION 1: Commemorations Chair: Paola Filippucci (Cambridge, Social Anthropology) |
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| Katherine McDonald (Cambridge, Classics) | 'Commemorating the dead while becoming "Romans": Italian funerary monuments in the 2nd-century BC' | |
| Paolo Heywood (Cambridge, Social Anthropology) | ‘The two burials of Aldo Moro: Sovereignty and governmentality in the anni di piombo’ | |
| Diego Carnevale (Cambridge/Aix-Marseille, History) | ‘Funerals and burials in 18th-century Naples: A business for the Church’ | |
| 12.30 - 1.30 | Lunch | |
| 1.30 - 3.30 | Session 2: Bodies Chair: Silvia de'Renzi (Open University, History of Medicine) |
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| Gavin Williams (Cambridge, music) | ‘Sounds Incorporeal: The Gramophone Company in Italy ca. 1900’ | |
| Andrea Carlino (Geneva, History of Medicine) | 'A matter of life and death in XVIth century medical books' | |
| Serenella Iovino (Turin, Comparative Literature) | 'From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Textual Interpretation, and Death in Venice' | |
| John Henderson (Cambridge and Birkbeck, History) | '"More Feared Than Death Itself"? Plague and Society in Early Modern Florence' | |
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Tea | |
| 4.00 - 5.30 | Session 3: Representations Chair: Delia Casadei (Cambridge, Music) |
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| Heather Webb (Cambridge, Italian) | 'Death Stories and the Construction of a Transmortal Community in Dante's Purgatorio' | |
| Donal Cooper (Cambridge, History of Art) | ‘Saint Francis, Giotto and "Fratello Morte": Death and redemption at Assisi’ | |
| John Leigh (Cambridge, French) | ‘Deadly Duelling in Italy’ | |
| 5.30 | Closing Remarks and Drinks |
2015
| 10.30 - 11 | Coffee and welcome | |
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| 11 - 12.30 | PANEL ONE Chair: Frank Salmon (History of Art, Cambridge) |
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| Rebecca Flemming (Classics, Cambridge) | 'Religion and the Composite Home in Roman Italy' | |
| Irene Cooper (History, Cambridge) | ‘Popular Prints and Domestic Piety in Sixteenth-Century Naples’ | |
| Catherine O’Rawe (Italian/ Film, Bristol) | ‘Back for Good: Melodrama and the Return Home in Post-War Italy’ | |
| 12.30 - 1.30 | Lunch | |
| 1.30 - 3.00 | PANEL TWO Chair: John David Rhodes (Italian/Film, Cambridge) |
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| John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge) et al. | ‘Calabrian Households Across the Classical Divide’ | |
| Abigail Brundin (Italian, Cambridge) | 'Devotional Reading at Home in the Renaissance' | |
| Lena Näre (Sociology, Helsinki) | 'The Daily Labour of Home-Making: Migrant Domestic Work in Italy' | |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Tea | |
| 3.30 - 5.00 | PANEL THREE Chair: Marcus Waithe (English, Cambridge) |
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| Zuzanna Sarnecka (History of Art, Cambridge) | 'Visually Plain, Spiritually Enriching. The Importance of White in Domestic Devotional Sculpture' | |
| Clare Pettit (English, KCL) | ‘Interrupted Views: 1848, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Casa Guidi" Windows and the Paintings of the Macchiaioli’ | |
| Grace Lees-Maffei (Design History, Hertfordshire) | ‘Playing at Home/Playing Away: Alessi and Italian Domesticity’ | |
| 5.00 | Closing Remarks and Drinks |
2014
CIRN workshop 2014
'New approaches to Modern Naples'
29 April, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 5pm.
Chair: Melissa Calaresu
Speakers:
Ruth Glynn (Bristol): Occupied Naples between testimony and translation
Nick Dines (Middlesex): Interrogating narratives of renaissance and decline in contemporary Naples
| 10.30 | Welcome | |
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| 11 - 12.30 | PANEL ONE - GLOBAL POLITICS Chair: David Abulafia (History, Cambridge) |
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| Alessandro Launaro (Classics, Cambridge) | 'The Impact of Empire on Roman Italy: The View from Interamna Lirenas (Southern Lazio)' | |
| Patrick Lantschner (History Cambridge) | 'Late Medieval Italian Cities in a Global Perspective' | |
| Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Anthropology, Cambridge) | 'European Alliance or Mediterranean Affinity: Sicilian Transnational Politics Since World War II' | |
| 12.30 - 1.30 | Lunch | |
| 1.30 - 3.00 | PANEL TWO - GLOBAL EXCHANGE Chair: Valentina Pugliano (HPS, Cambridge) |
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| Erin Maglaque (History, Oxford) | 'A Global Microhistory of the Early Modern Venetian Aegean' | |
| Léa-Catherine Szacka (Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies) | 'The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: Towards a Transnational Postmodernism?' | |
| Anna Bagnoli (Sociology, Cambridge) | 'Researching Contemporary Italian Migration: a Participatory Visual Project with Young Italians in the UK' | |
| 3.00 - 3.15 | Tea | |
| 3.15 - 4.45 | PANEL THREE - GLOBAL PERFORMANCE Chair: Iain Fenlon (Music, Cambridge) |
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| David R. M. Irving (Music, Australian National University) | 'Arcangelo Corelli and the Construction of "Global" Fame in the Eighteenth Century' | |
| Benjamin Walton (Music, Cambridge) | 'Global Italian Opera' | |
| Stephen Gundle (Film Studies, Warwick) | 'Italian Stars Go to Hollywood: Isa Miranda and Alida Valli' | |
| 5.00 | Closing Remarks and Drinks |
2013
CIRN Annual Symposium 2013
