Tuesday 18 Oct, 5.15pm Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College Welcome and Presentation of incoming graduate students

Tuesday 1 Nov, 5.15 pm Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St John's College 'Comedy, Italian Style', Natalie Fullwood (Cambridge) and Giulia Cantarini (Cambridge)

Thursday 17 Nov, 5pm Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College Christian Uva (Roma 3) and Alan O'Leary (Leeds) "Tragedia all'italiana: cinema e terrorismo"

Wednesday 30 Nov, 5.15pm Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College Robert Rushing (Illinois), "A Peplum Century: from Maciste (1914) to Spartacus (2011)"

Friday 2 December, 11am-4pm IGRS, Senate House, University of London Joint Training Programme in Italian