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Trinity Term Card 2018

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

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This will be followed by a small reception

Taylor Institution, room 2

*ALL WELCOME*

 

THE ITALIAN SOCIETY

https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/

Facebook

 

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)

 

http://toia.co.uk/

[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