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Read more at: Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover]
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Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover]

Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover] The Italian Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature...

Read more at: Uzma Hameed, dramaturg for Wayne McGregor’s new ballet The Dante Project, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, in conversation with Heather Webb (Sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo)
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Uzma Hameed, dramaturg for Wayne McGregor’s new ballet The Dante Project, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, in conversation with Heather Webb (Sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo)

Uzma Hameed, dramaturg for Wayne McGregor’s new ballet The Dante Project, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, in conversation with Heather Webb Sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo

Read more at: Dr Sara Delmedico (PhD in Italian 2019) awarded IRC Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence
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Dr Sara Delmedico (PhD in Italian 2019) awarded IRC Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence

The Italian Section is delighted to congratulate Dr Sara Delmedico, one of our former PhDs, for being awarded the IRC Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence , as the top-ranked Postdoctoral Fellow of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences under the Council’s 2021 Government of Ireland funding programme. Her postdoctoral project...

Read more at: Joint PhD studentship between Cambridge and the British School at Rome - Postwar Rome 1944-1951: Transnational flows and the culture of occupation and reconstruction
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Joint PhD studentship between Cambridge and the British School at Rome - Postwar Rome 1944-1951: Transnational flows and the culture of occupation and reconstruction

The Italian Section is pleased to invite applications to a new joint PhD studentship between Cambridge and the British School at Rome, starting in October 2022. The PhD project will be on the topic: Postwar Rome 1944-1951: Transnational flows and the culture of occupation and reconstruction. Candidates will be asked to...

Read more at: Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico
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Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico

Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico (Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021, 312 pp.) The Italian Section is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by Professor Helena Sanson, a modern edition, in Italian, of Isabella...

Read more at: Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: Women in the History of Linguistics
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Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: Women in the History of Linguistics

The Italian Section is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by Professor Helena Sanson, Women in the History of Linguistics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; 672 pp.), co-edited with Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics). The volume is a ground-breaking...

Read more at: Livia Russell Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize Winner 2020
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Livia Russell Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize Winner 2020

The Italian Section extends warmest congratulations to former undergraduate Livia Russell who has won the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Undergraduate Prize 2020 for her Dissertation ‘Contact and intimacy: Mario Giacomelli’s photo-poetic encounters’ . The Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize aims to raise the profile...

Read more at: Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019), winner of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the history of linguistics
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Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019), winner of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the history of linguistics

Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019), winner of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the history of linguistics The Italian Section is delighted to congratulate Eleonora Serra (PhD in Italian, 2019) for the award of the 2020 Vivien Law Prize for the best essay on any topic within the history of linguistics by a student within 5...

Read more at: The Robinson College Sykes Prize 2020
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The Robinson College Sykes Prize 2020

The Robinson College Sykes Prize has been launched for 2020. The winning prize is £1000, with runners-up awards of £500 and £250 also available. More information can be found here: https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/college-life/arts-literature-and-theology/sykes-prize-2020 All current students are welcome to enter, hopefully...

Read more at: Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) winner of the 2020 Polly Stewart Award 2020
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Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) winner of the 2020 Polly Stewart Award 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) for winning the 2020 Polly Stewart Award, for her research on women folklorists of Italy and Ireland. The award is given by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society to support young scholars in the field (further details at: https://www...

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Italian research project explores allied forces and memory

13 June 2024

'Escape, Community, Resistance, Memory. Italian Populations and Allied Prisoners of War’. We are pleased to announce a new research project and grant launched in the Italian Section, to run until 2027. Sponsored by the Monte San Martino Trust, which commemorates Italian civilians and communities who helped Allied prisoners...

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