Michaelmas Term Card 2020
Michaelmas Term 2020
Guide to all Italy-related events
In order to provide you with a useful guide, the following list comprises all events organised by ISO and other associations:
— ITALIAN STUDIES AT OXFORD (ISO) —
http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk
Tuesday 24 November, 5–7pm (UK time)
in collaboration with the Italian Sub-faculty:
Italy and the USA: Cultural Change through Language and Narrative (Book Launch)
A round-table discussion (online)
Discussants: Prof Loredana Polezzi (Stony Brook) and Prof David Ellwood (Johns Hopkins).
The editors — Prof Guido Bonsaver, Dr Alessandro Carlucci and Dr Matthew Reza — will briefly introduce the book, and after the discussants’ comments both contributors and audience will be welcome to join the conversation.
Please register via the following link:
https://forms.gle/75CR6ZvPVyLbV9Jy5
(Oxford Italian sub-faculty members are automatically registered).
Please see here the editors’ introduction to the volume
More information on the book can be found at http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Italy-USA.
*ALL WELCOME*
— SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN —
ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINAR MICHAELMAS TERM 2020
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm on Microsoft Teams. To register please contact italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk (Italian sub-faculty members are automatically registered)
All welcome
Week 4 (02 Nov)
Prof Paola Italia (Bologna) and Prof Giulia Raboni (Parma) — Varianti d’autori. Il caso italiano.
Week 5 (9 Nov)
Prof Emilio Ruisso (La Sapienza, Rome) — Tra Tasso e Marino. La fine del Rinascimento e la nascita del Barocco.
Week 6 (16 Nov)
Prof Jacob Blakesley (Leeds) — Charting Dante’s Popularity: Book Translations and Wikipedia.
Week 7 (*Friday* 27 Nov)
Prof Manuele Gragnolati (Paris Sorbonne and ICI Berlin) & Prof Francesca Southerden (Oxford) — Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue.
Week 8 (30 Nov)
DPhil Work in Progress Presentations (2nd year).
— OXFORD UNIVERSITY ITALIAN SOCIETY (OUIS) —
https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/
No events currently planned due to the Coronavirus pandemic; please consult the OUIS web page for updates.
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
Tuesday 10 November, 8pm (Zoom lecture)
Dr Jan Cox (art historian)
‘The Swan and the Unicorn: The Most Secret Affair in Estense Ferrara’
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84003269627?pwd=ekVMWlJrazg4WkhDUjJyMkM4eG1wQT09
Meeting ID: 840 0326 9627 (no spaces needed)
Passcode: 014226
— ITALIAN POETRY TODAY —
IPT is a reading group which aims to discuss, appreciate, and problematise the issues of contemporary Italian writing, in continuous dialogue with living poets, writers, translators, and scholars. For more information, please contact Adele Bardazzi at adele.bardazzi@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
All events begin at 5:30pm (UK time)
14 Oct — Francesca Santucci (respondent: Olmo Calzolari)
04 Nov — Emanuele Zoppellari Perale (respondent: Prof Rodolfo Zucco)
11 Nov — Stefano dal Bianco (respondent: Dr Adele Bardazzi)
2 Dec — Valerio Magrelli (respondent: Roberto Binetti)