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Professor Abigail Brundin wins honorable mention for the SRS 2020 Book Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Abigail Brundin was given an honourable mention for her jointly authored book The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2018) by the Society for Renaissance Studies 2020 book prize. The judges received over forty books this year and the standard was extremely...

Pembroke College opens post for College Lecturer in Modern & Medieval Languages

Pembroke College has just opened applications for the 5 year post of College Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages, specializing in Italian.

Dr Eleonora Serra awarded Premio Giovanni Nencioni 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Eleonora Serra (PhD, Italian) on the award of the 2020 Premio Giovanni Nencioni . This prize is awarded by Italy’s most prestigious cultural academy, the Accademia della Crusca , for the best doctoral thesis in Italian linguistics presented at a University outside Italy. ( https://...

Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies

Jobs | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies. The Spanish and Portuguese Section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is seeking to appoint a University...

“Verso il faro” 2017, Asinara, by Marco Delogu

Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression

We are happy to announce a call for papers for the upcoming conference, "Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression", set for 27 September - 01 October 2021.

Karen Pinkus

We are delighted to announce that Professor Karen Pinkus (Cornell) will be in Cambridge for Easter Term 2019, followed by a second visit in Lent and Easter Terms 2020, as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor . Professor Pinkus will be hosted by MML/Italian and by CRASSH.

Research Events - Lent Term 2019

Research Events in Italian Studies The Italian Section are pleased to present the Lent Term 2019 programme of events which can be found here .

Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition (7-8 November 2018)

Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition 7-8 November 2018 Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College, Cambridge A conference entitled Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition will take place on 7-8 November, in the Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College, Cambridge...

Research Events - Michaelmas Term 2018

Research Events in Italian Studies The Italian Section are pleased to present the Michaelmas Term 2018 programme of events which can be found here .

Festival of Ideas: Unreadable Books: Bruno Munari's Graphic and Textual Playground - 20 Oct, 3:30pm

Registration and more info can be found here: https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/unreadable-books-bruno-munaris-graphic-and-textual-playground

Latest News

Italian Research Seminars - Easter Term 2025

2 May 2025

We are pleased to share with you the Easter Term card of Italian Research Events. The first two events will take place on Thursday 8 May, when we'll have the pleasure of having Gabriella Ghermandi with us. We look forward to seeing you then. 8 May, 2-3pm, Chadwick Room, Selwyn College Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation...

Two events with Ethio-Italian writer, musician and performer Gabriella Ghermandi

30 April 2025

We are glad to welcome Gabriella Ghermandi, Ethio-Italian writer, performer and musician for two events on Thursday 8 May both taking place at Selwyn College.

Book publication: 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland'

14 April 2025

Dr Elena Sottilotta 's book, Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland, has just been published by Princeton University Press.

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Events

Cambridge Lyric Network presents Carlos Iglesias Crespo on Petrarchan Lyric and Early Modern Spain

Tuesday, 6 May 2025 - 4:30pm
'Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation', Gabriella Ghermandi and Jenni Skinner in conversation

Thursday, 8 May 2025 - 2:00pm
Intervista a Gabriella Ghermandi condotta dagli studenti di italiano coordinati da Claudia Domenici

Thursday, 8 May 2025 - 5:00pm
Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture “Border Crossings, Folk Modernism: From the Literature and Art of Russian Paris to Soviet Film after Stalin” by Professor Catriona Kelly, FBA

Friday, 9 May 2025 - 5:30pm
Third Roberto Gerhard Annual Lecture on Catalan Studies - The Art of Drinking in Catalonia

Wednesday, 14 May 2025 - 6:00pm
Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN) Annual Lecture: "Long Live Menelik!" Anticolonialism and Antiracism in Italy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Thursday, 15 May 2025 - 5:15pm
Eisenstein at the Movies, Spring 1945

Saturday, 17 May 2025 - 5:30pm
University Open Days

Thursday, 10 July 2025 - 9:00am

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Professor Abigail Brundin wins honorable mention for the SRS 2020 Book Prize

Pembroke College opens post for College Lecturer in Modern & Medieval Languages

Dr Eleonora Serra awarded Premio Giovanni Nencioni 2020

Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies