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Italian Research Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2012

ITALIAN DEPARTMENT: Research Activities Michalemas Term 2012

Wed 10 Oct, 5.30 pm Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College Welcome Party for new postgraduate students and Screening of Lucia Yandoli's short film ‘IN WAKING WE ARE SAVED’ (2012), 18’

Thur 18 Oct, 6.00 pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy George Corbett (Cambridge) and Heather Webb (Cambridge) Inferno I, Purgatorio I, Paradiso I

Fri 19 Oct, 5.00 pm Bateman Auditorium, Caius College, Cambridge CIRN LECTURE: Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard) 'Next Stop on the High Line: The Trento Tunnels Project'

Tue 30 Oct, 5.15 pm Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College Guido Mazzoni (Pisa), ‘A Theory of the Novel’

Thur 8 Nov, 6.00 pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy Matthew Treherne (Leeds) Inferno II, Purgatorio II, Paradiso II

Tue 13 Nov, 5.15 pm Teaching Room 2, Divinity School, St John’s College Elisabetta Cassina Wolff (Oslo) ‘A Lonely Knight against the Modern World: Julius Evola and the Italian Way to Radical Right’

Thur 22 Nov, 6.00 pm Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy Vittorio Montemaggi (Notre Dame) Inferno III, Purgatorio III, Paradiso III

Fri 30 Nov, 10.30 am – 4.00 pm IGRS, Senate House, University of London Post-Graduate Training Programme in Italian 

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