Hilary Term Card 2020
Hilary 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
Thursday 20 February, 5–7pm
The Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College
Book Launch:
Caroline Moorehead
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
(London: Chatto & Windus, 2019)
The author will be joined in conversation by Professor David Ellwood (Johns Hopkins/Bologna), Roberto Binetti (Oxford) and Alice Gussoni (Oxford)
In collaboration with the Italian Sub-faculty:
The event will be followed by drinks
*ALL WELCOME*
— SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN —
ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINAR HILARY TERM 2020
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm in the Ground Floor Lecture Room 2 at 47 Wellington Square
All welcome
Week 1 (20 Jan)
Dr Alessandra Aloisi (Oxford), Dr Fabio Camilletti (Warwick) — Book Launch: The Archeology of the Unconscious (London: Routledge, 2019).
The authors will be joined in conversation by Olmo Calzolari (Oxford)
Week 2 (27 Jan)
Dr Catherine Keen (UCL) — Virgil, Cicero, Brunetto, Dante: Inferno XV’s Roman Voices in Tuscan Mouths
Week 3 (3 Feb)
Prof David Lines (Warwick) — Humanism and Teaching Humanities in Renaissance Bologna
Week 4 (12 Feb)
Dr Paola Cori — Book Launch: Forms of Thinking in Leopardi’s Zibaldone (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019)
Week 5 (20 Feb), *Thursday, 5pm, Pembroke College*
Caroline Moorehead — Book Launch: A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism (London: Chatto & Windus, 2019)
In collaboration with ISO (see above for further details)
Week 6 (24 Feb)
Prof Emanuele Zinato (Padua) — La teoria delle figure in Francesco Orlando. Applicazioni e sviluppi
Week 8 (9 Mar)
DPhil Work in Progress Presentations (3rd year)
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
[all events free to TOIA members; others please check TOIA website]
31 Jan 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Paula Claire, poet and performance artist: The Codestones of Venice (based on John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice)
13 Feb 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Professor John Foot, academic and author: The Archipelago: Italy since 1945
26 Feb 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Ferdie Addis, journalist and author on Rome: Eternal City
2 Mar 7:00pm, St Hugh’s College — In conversation: His Excellency Raffaele Trombetta, the Ambassador of Italy to the UK; The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor, University of Oxford; Sir Ivor Roberts
— MISCELLANEOUS —
Reading Group on Contemporary Italian Poetry: On the Edge of Traditions
5:30pm on Wednesdays of Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, The Queen's College.
Week 1 (22 Jan) — The Unbearable Lightness of Patrizia Cavalli's Poetry. Tradition and its Discontent
For more information contact Dr Adele Bardazzi (adele.bardazzi@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) or Roberto Binetti (roberto.binetti@st-annes.ox.ac.uk)
Nuffield College Public Lectures
31 Jan 5–6:30pm, Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College — Carlo Cottarelli —The Re-birth of Fiscal Policy: Public Debt Implications
14 Feb 5–6:30pm, Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College — Lucrezia Reichlin — The European central bank and the euro crisis [TBC]
28 Feb 11am–12:30pm, Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College — Tito Boeri — Populism and civil society
For more information contact marco.molteni@pmb.ox.ac.uk or nicolo.cavalli@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Medieval Italian Reading Group: Petrarch’s Triumphi
5:30–6:30pm on Tuesdays of Weeks 3,5,7, Merton College
Week 3 (4 Feb) – Triumphus Cupidinis, sections I & II
Week 5 (18 Feb) – Triumphus Cupidinis, sections III & IV
Week 7 (3 Mar) – Triumphus Pudicitie
For more information contact Lachlan Hughes (lachlan.hughes@merton.ox.ac.uk)