MT22 TERM CARD
Michaelmas Term 2022
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 Italy-related associations:
— ITALIAN STUDIES AT OXFORD (ISO) —
http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk
Thursday 10 November, 4:30-6:30pm (UK time)
Understanding Early Migration from Italy: The Case of Sicily and Louisiana
This workshop will see the discussion of four, brief position papers which will be available online as of 3 November. The papers will be introduced by their authors, and then discussed by four experts in the field. Everybody will be welcome to join the conversation. See attached poster for further details.
Chair: Renato Camurri (Verona)
Speakers: Jessica Barbata Jackson (Colorado State); Guido Bonsaver (Oxford); Lauren Braun-Strumfels (Cedar Crest College); Alice Gussoni (Oxford), and Clara Zaccagnini (Roma Tre)
Discussants: Brian A’Hearn (Oxford); Donna Gabaccia (Toronto); Stefano Luconi (Padua); Matteo Pretelli (Naples – L’Orientale)
Pembroke College, Harold Lee Room, and online via Teams
*Drinks will follow – All welcome*
Please email italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk to book your place in person or online
— SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN —
ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINARS MICHAELMAS TERM 2022
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm at The Taylorian Institute (Main Hall) and via Teams. Please e-mail italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk to book your place in person or online.
Week 1 (10 Oct)
Welcome Event for new graduate students
Week 5 (7 Nov)
Book Launch: Marta Arnaldi (Oxford), The Diasporic Canon: American Anthologies of Contemporary Italian Poetry 1945-2015 (with Anna Saroldi and Nicola Gardini)
Week 6 (14 Nov)
Andrea Torre (Scuola Normale Superiore), Title TBC
Week 7 (21 Nov)
Christine Ott (Frankfurt), Michelangelo, metempsicosi e soggettività "debole"
Week 8 (28 Nov)
‘Work in progress’: Current graduate students will present their findings so far
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
https://www.toia.co.uk/events/
With the exception of week 2 , all talks will be held in Maplethorpe Hall, St Hugh’s College with a drinks reception at 7:30pm before the lecture at 8:00pm. All welcome. £2 Entrance fee for members (£5 for non-members; FREE for full-time students under 30)
Week 2 (Tues 18 Oct)
Catherine Whistler, Raphael, Drawing, and Discovery (Rowe Memorial Lecture)
Magdalen College, Grove Auditorium at 5pm
Week 3 (Wed 26 Oct)
Richard Owen, Chaucer’s Italy
Week 5 (Thurs 10 Nov)
Nando Sigona, Negotiating Brexit at home: belonging, citizenship, and the future for Italian families in the UK
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN SEMINAR SERIES —
https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/2150ac7b-d7ec-4400-ba97-768a2b4e510f
This interdisciplinary seminar will host papers and discussions about any aspect of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. E-mail earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk to register.
Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 16:30 in St. Edmund’s Hall
Week 1 (11 Oct)
Natalie Rothman (Toronto), Trans-Imperial Archive-Making: Diplomatic Entanglements between Venice and Istanbul
Week 3 (25 Oct)
Raymond Carlson (Oxford), Michelangelo and the Salvageability of Desire
Week 5 (8 Nov)
Jill Burke (Edinburgh), On Recipes, Bodies and Time (Or Where’s the History in Historical Reconstruction?)
Week 7 (22 NOv)
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton), The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance
— BOTICELLI’S DANTE: THE COMMEDIA BETWEEN TEXT AND IMAGE IN LATE-FIFTEENTH CENTURY FLORENCE —
Interdisciplinary seminar series in person and online. Pre-reading of the canti discussed in each session is encouraged. Participants from all disciplines are welcome, knowledge of Italian is not required.
For registration, questions, and copies of the texts, please email: rebecca.bowen@pmb.ox.ac.uk.
Seminars will take place at 5.15pm (GMT)
at Pembroke College, Mackesy Room, Oxford
Week 4 (Tues 1 Nov)
Inferno
Introduction: Dr Rebecca Bowen (Oxford) & Prof Gervase Rosser (Oxford)
Inferno 25: Prof Heather Webb (Cambridge)
Inferno 15: Dr Raymon Carlson (Magdalen, Oxford)
Week 7 (Fri 25 Nov Nov)
Purgatorio
Introduction: Dr Rebecca Bowen (Oxford) & Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)
Purgatorio 3: Prof Zygmunt Barański (Notre Dame)
Purgatorio 10: Lachlan Hughes (Merton, Oxford)
— VESUVIUS ANNIVERSARY YEAR—
Week 2 (Fri 21 Oct)
Interdisciplinary one-day conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1822. Sponsored by TORCH. See attached poster for further details.
St. Anne’s College, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, 9am-6:30pm
Organisers Contacts: Professor Fiona Stafford (fiona.stafford@some.ox.ac.uk); Professor David Pyle (david.pyle@earth.ox.ac.uk); Elisa Cozzi (elisa.cozzi@ell.ox.ac.uk)
Week 3 (Mon 24 Oct)
Dr Will Bowers, Romanticism under the Volcano (Lecture)
Weston Library, Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, 12:30-1:30pm
Free Entry, booking required: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct22/romanticism-under-the-volcano
Weeks 2-3 (21-24 Oct)
Vesuvius-themed exhibition in the Weston Library (https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/events-exhibitions)
Week 3 (Fri 28 Oct)
‘Volcano Day’ at Compton Verney (https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/)
— FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES—
Week 7 (Wed 23 Nov)
Diana Ambache, The Soul of the Journey: The Mendelssohns in Scotland and Italy
Weston Library, Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, 12:30-1:30pm
Free, open to all, booking required: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/nov22/fob-the-soul-of-the-journey
— BIBITURAE DANTIS —
These events are very informal, and anybody is welcome to join - the only requirement is an enthusiasm for Dante! We start by reading the canto, and then move to an open-ended discussion.
Week 2 (Tues 18 Oct)
Inferno 19
Read by Elisabeth Trischler (Leeds)
5:30 – 6:30pm
The Bear Inn (6 Alfred St, Oxford OX1 4EH)
Week 6 (Tues 15 Nov)
Inferno 14
Read by Raymond Carlson (Magdalen College)
5:30 – 6:30 pm
The King’s Arms (40 Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SP)
— OXFORD UNIVERSITY ITALIAN SOCIETY (OUIS) —
Many exciting events are being planned including the visit of special guests, pizza nights and film nights. The full schedule for this term will soon be available. Visit the OUIS website (https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/) and follow them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/OxfordUniversityItalianSociety/) for more information.
For further information please contact: italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk
or
Visit our website: http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk