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Italian Research Seminars

In Lent Term 2025, the Department will host three seminars, a conference and a symposium.

  • 13 February, 5:15pm, Walters Room, Selwyn College: Eleonora Serra (Ghent; I Tatti) – The Use of Formulae in Men's and Women's Letters: An Analysis of Private Correspondence from Renaissance Florence.
  • 26 February, 5:15pm, Room 336, MMLL Faculty, Raised Faculty Building: Federica Coluzzi (Warwick) – Beatrice's (Digital) Legacy: Women Writers and the Making of Modern Italy (1860-1920).
  • 6 March, 5:15pm, Room 336, MMLL Faculty, Raised Faculty Building: Mila Milani (Warwick) – Book Discussion: Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field, 1939-1977 (Liverpool University Press, 2023).
  • 21-22 March, Alison Richard Building – Fairy-Tale Trouble and the Art of Fluidity: Gender, Genre, Media. Conference organised by Elena Sottilotta (Cambridge) and Alice Parrinello (Edinburgh).
  • 24 March, Room SG1, Alison Richard Building – CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium: ‘Labour’.

For information, please contact Erica Bellia or Aurora Sturli.

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