Michaelmas Term Card 2018
Michaelmas 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
Thursday 29 November, 5pm
Sophia Psarra (UCL)
City-craft and Statecraft: Venice and Humanist Urban Culture
This lecture will explore the spatial transformations in the city of Venice, tracing a pattern of evolution from an island commune to a state, then a republic and an imperial power. Parallel to these transformations was the creation of an ideal image of the city as a cohesive and stable community, in the process of achieving prosperity through the political virtues of republican governance and communal action. The ‘Myth of Venice’ coalesced from a loose collection of popular beliefs, which in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries became formalised through works of art, civic ritual and official historiography.
Analysing the urban structures of Venice and the prevailing institutions of Venetian life, the lecture will relate urban form, governance, social resilience and creative invention in understanding Venice and its Myth as the most serene Republic.
47 Wellington Square, First Floor Lecture Room 1
*ALL WELCOME*
––– SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN –––
ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINAR – MICHAELMAS 2018
Location: 5.15pm, 47 Wellington square. Ground Floor Lecture Room 1 (unless otherwise stated)
MON 15TH OCT
ELENA LOMBARDI, Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante
Book Launch followed by drinks reception. Room 2, Taylor Institution, St Giles
MON 12TH NOV
MAIRI MCLAUGHLIN, ‘Anglicisms in the Romance Languages: A New Perspective’
The Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture. Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St. Giles, 5.00 p.m.
TUE 13TH NOV
BEATRICE SICA, ‘Politics in and Off the Saddle: Cavalieri in 20th-Century Italian Culture’
WED 21ST NOV
PATRIZIA SAMBUCO, ‘The Taste of War: American and Italian Experiences of Food in WWII’
MON 26TH NOV
CRISTINA DONDI, ‘Communicating High-End Research to the General Public: the Exhibition Printing Revolution at the Correr Museum in Venice’
*ALL WELCOME*
––– Economic & Social History Graduate Seminar –––
The following seminars will be given at 12.45am on Wednesdays in the Butler Room, Nuffield College:
November 7: Giulia Mancini (Tor Vergata), ‘An Equal Sharing of Miseries? Dimensions of Gender Inequality in a Changing Rural World, Italy 1880s-1930s’
For the full term of the Economic & Social History Graduate Seminar, click here.
––– THE OXFORD ITALIAN SOCIETY (TOIA) –––
[All events free to TOIA members]
10 October
Dr Cristina Dondi, Printing R-Evolution 1450-1500: Fifty Years that changed Europe, St Hugh’s College, St. Margaret’s Road, Oxford, 7.30 p.m.
18 October
Michael Starks, Understanding Ravenna, St Hugh’s College, St. Margaret’s Road, Oxford, 7.30 p.m.
23 October
Professor Ingrid Rowland, Raphael's Rome, The Rowe Memorial Lecture, The Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford, 5.00 p.m.
8 November
Richard Gadeselli, The Italians are coming! How Fiat leveraged the Cultural Stereotype in America, St Hugh’s College, St. Margaret’s Road, Oxford, 7.30 p.m.
12 November
Professor Mairi McLaughlin, Anglicisms in the Romance Languages: A New Perspective, The Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture, Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St. Giles, Oxford, 5.00 p.m.
––– THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY ITALIAN SOCIETY –––
https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/
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