Conferences et al in 2010
TOIA film screening: "I Vicere"
| Date: | 15th Jan 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Rewley House Lecture Theatre (Wellington Square) |
| Convenor: | TOIA |
| Description: | 120 minutes, no subtitles. |
| Further information: | Admission free. |
Italian Cinema Nights: 8 1/2
| Date: | 26th Jan 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | 8 1/2 (1963) by Federico Fellini |
| Description: | In Italian with English subtitles |
| Further information: | Free entry. |
Italian Cinema Nights: Il conformista
| Date: | 9th Feb 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | Il conformista (1970) by Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Description: | In Italian with English subtitles. |
| Further information: | Free entry. |
Italian Cinema Nights: Il ladro di bambini
| Date: | 23rd Feb 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | Il ladro di bambini (1992) by Gianni Amelio |
| Description: | In Italian with English subtitles. |
| Further information: | Free entry. |
Italian Cinema Nights: Il Caimano
| Date: | 9th Mar 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | Il Caimano (2006) by Nanni Moretti |
| Description: | In Italian with English subtitles. |
| Further information: | Free entry. |
Cinema Paradiso: Allegro non troppo
| Date: | 4th May 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Description: | "Allegro non troppo" (1976) by Bruno Bozzetto |
| Further information: | Film in Italian with English subtitles. Free entry. |
Cinema Paradiso: Le mani sulla citta'
| Date: | 18th May 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Description: | Le mani sulla citta' (1963) by Francesco Rosi |
| Further information: | Film in Italian with English subtitles. Free entry. |
Cinema Paradiso: Una giornata particolare
| Date: | 31st May 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Description: | Una giornata particolare (1977) by Ettore Scala |
| Further information: | Film in Italian - NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Free entry. |
A Walk through the Phlegrean Fields
| Date: | 8th Jun 2010 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Venue: | Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road |
| Convenor: | TOIA |
| Speaker(s): | Giuseppe d'Esposito & Lucia Itria |
| Description: | Members £1, Non-Members £3, Students under 30 free |
| Further information: | Our speakers, who organize study and educational tours from Pozzuoli, Napoli under the title Learning and Fun, will focus on volcanology, archaeology and the nature of the Phlegrean Fields, Campi Flegri) north-west of Naples. They will do this using excerpts from English travel literature, (prose writers and poets) and photographs illustrating the archaeological and volcanic sites, describing the natural beauties of the area where history and nature uniquely merge with each other. Part of the talk will be devoted to the now largely submerged, Roman resort of Baiae which was considered the most elegant and fashionable of the Empire. Julius Caesar, Hadrian, Tiberius and Nero all built magnificent holiday villas there. |
Cinema Paradiso: Bellissima
| Date: | 15th Jun 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Mary Hide Eccles Room, Samuel Johnson Building, Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Description: | Bellissima (1951) by Luchino Visconti |
| Further information: | Film in Italian with English subtitles. Free entry. |
Desire in Dante & the Middle Ages
| Date: | 28th Jun 2010 |
| Time: | 00:00 |
| Venue: | Taylor Institution |
| Convenor: | Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, Oxford, and The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature |
| Speaker(s): | See programme for details |
| Description: | Organizers: Manuele Gragolati & Elena Lombardi. Keynote: Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge). To register or for further information, contact Tristan Kay (tristan.kay@queens.ox.ac.uk). |
| Further information: | Desire in Dante & the Middle Ages: Programme Monday 28 June 11h00-11h15: Greetings and Welcome [Manuele Gragnolati and Elena Lombardi] 11h15-13h15: Loss [Chair: Martin McLaughlin] Fabio Camilletti (ICI Berlin / University of Warwick): Dante Painting an Angel: Simulacra, Sublimation and Double-oriented Sonnets in the Vita Nova Elena Lombardi (University of Bristol): Limbo’s Desire: The Hopelessness of Suspension Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford): Out of Eden: The Genesis of Desire in Petrarch 13h15-15h00: Break 15h00-17h00: Mimesis [Chair: Emmanuela Tandello] Pierpaolo Antonello (University of Cambridge), Manuele Gragnolati (University of Oxford), Heather Webb (Ohio State University): ‘Dubious Desires’: Mimetic Processes in the Divine Comedy 17h00-17h30: Break 17h30: Keynote Lecture [Chair: Sophie Marnette] Bill Burgwinkle (University of Cambridge): Modern Lovers: Evanescence and the Act in Dante, Arnaut and Sordello Tuesday 29 June 09h30-11h30: Beyond 1: Mind [Chair: Giuseppe Stellardi] Paola Ureni (CUNY College of Staten Island): Intellectual Memory and Desire in Augustine and Dante’s Paradiso Gregory Stone (Louisiana State University): Cavalcanti’s Desire and the Salvation of Intellect Tristan Kay (University of Oxford): Dualism and Integration: Poetry and Desire from the Convivio to the Commedia 11h30-11h45: Break 11h45-13h15: Closure and Deferral [Chair: Nigel Palmer] Monika Otter (Dartmouth College): Translation and Desire: Reflections on Layamon and Gottfried von Strassburg Annette Volfing (University of Oxford): Ever-Growing Desire: Spiritual Pregnancy in Hadewijch and in Middle High German Mystics 13h15-14h45: Break 14h45-16h45: Beyond 2: Senses [Chair: Nicola Gardini] Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna): ‘Quali colombe dal disio chiamate’. A Bestiary of Desire in Dante’s Commedia Peter Dent (University of Bristol): The Call of the Beautiful: Augustine and the Object of Desire in Purgatorio X Daniela Boccassini (University of British Columbia): ‘L’ora che volge il disio’: Comparative Hermeneutics of Desire in Dante and ‘Attâr 16h45-17h15: Break 17h15-18h30: Discussion |
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
| Date: | 16th Sep 2010 |
| Time: | 00:00 |
| Venue: | Ashmolean Museum |
Cinema Paradiso: Le mani sulla Citta'
| Date: | 19th Oct 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | (F. Rosi) |
| Description: | English Subtitles |
| Further information: | All welcome. |
Opera Screening: Don Giovanni
| Date: | 26th Oct 2010 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Venue: | Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Description: | English Subtitles. |
| Further information: | All welcome. |
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
| Date: | 16th Sep 2010 |
| Venue: | Ashmolean Museum |
Cinema Paradiso: Matrimonio all'Italiana
| Date: | 2nd Nov 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | (V. De Sica) |
| Description: | No English Subtitles. |
| Further information: | All welcome. |
Cinema Paradiso: I Vitelloni
| Date: | 16th Nov 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | (F. Fellini) |
| Description: | English Subtitles. |
| Further information: | All welcome. |
Opera Screening: Tosca
| Date: | 23rd Nov 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Description: | With English subtitles. |
| Further information: | All welcome. |
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
| Date: | 16th Sep 2010 |
| Venue: | Ashmolean Museum |
Cinema Paradiso: Pranzo di Ferragosto
| Date: | 30th Nov 2010 |
| Time: | 20:00 |
| Venue: | Pembroke College |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | (G. Di Gregorio) |
| Description: | With English subtitles. |
| Further information: | All welcome. |
The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
| Date: | 16th Sep 2010 |
| Venue: | Ashmolean Museum |