Trinity Term 2018
Italy-related events at Oxford
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
Monday 23 April, 5pm
Prof. Donald Sassoon (Queen Mary’s)
The Culture of the Italians
in conversation with prof. Stephen Gundle (Warwick), prof. David Robey (Oxford) and prof. Guido Bonsaver (Oxford)
Taylor Institution, Main Hall
In 2006, Prof. Sassoon published a stimulating and ambitious work: The Culture of the Europeans: 1800 to the Present. Italy features prominently in it, and the discussants will use it as a starting point from which to formulate their views on Italian culture in a changing Europe.
Thursday 3 May, 5pm
Benedetta Tobagi
Memoir, non-fiction and reportage
in conversation with Prof. Federico Varese (Oxford) and Dr Teresa Franco (Oxford).
Taylor Institution, room 2
Author and journalist Benedetta Tobagi will talk about her approach to literary writing with particular reference to her most recent books, Una stella incoronata di buio (2013) and La scuola salvata dai bambini (2016)
*ALL WELCOME*
SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS HILARY TERM 2018
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm in the Ground Floor Lecture Room 2 at 47 Wellington Square
Week 2 (30 April)
Dr Riccardo Cepach (Museo Svevo/Joyce), ‘LA MEDICINA DEL DOTTOR S. Casi di "rigenerazione" editoriale nell'opera di Svevo’
Week 6 (28 May)
Dr David Bowe (Oxford), title tbc
Week 8 (11 June)
Prof Jane Everson (Royal Holloway), ‘Charlemagne in Italy: Fiction and the Uses of History’
Friday 4 May, 5pm
Franco D’Intino (Roma La Sapienza)
Will deliver the inaugural Leopardi Studies at Oxford lecture
title tba
This will be followed by a small reception
Taylor Institution, room 2
*ALL WELCOME*
THE ITALIAN SOCIETY
https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/
Week 1, 22 April, 7:30pm, Aperitivo & Ceilidh, St Margaret’s Institute
Week 2, 3 May, 8pm, OUIS Cinema (with ISO), film: Benvenuti al Sud, Pembroke College
Week 3, 6 May, 5pm, Caffè Italiano
Week 4, 16 May, 5pm, ‘Zanetti, beyond football: a conversation with ‘Il Capitano’, Lincoln College
Week 5, 24 May, 8pm, OUIS Cinema (with ISO), film: Gomorra, Pembroke College
Week 7, 3 June, 12pm, OUIS Barbeque, TBD
THE OXFORD ITALIAN SOCIETY (TOIA)
[all events free to TOIA members]
1 May 2018 Graham Harding: Wine Tasting (sparkling wines)
8 May 2018 The Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture, Diego Zancani, Cibo
(followed by Europe Day on 9 May and meeting with European Association, Oxford City Council and emissaries of the University with Sindaco Sergio Giordani to forge closer ties)
17 May 2018 Katia Lysy, Origo’s granddaughter, and Lucy Hughes-Hallet, cultural historian and author of The Pike (D’Annunzio) on Iris Origo (A Chill in the Air)
30 May Erica Benner: Be like a fox (Machiavelli)
30 June Garden Party