Michaelmas Term Card 2019
Michaelmas Term 2019
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
Wednesday 30 October, 5pm
The Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College
in collaboration with the Italian Sub-faculty:
A roundtable discussion on the newly published book based on the 2018 Conference of the Society for Italian Studies:
Resistance in Italian Culture from Dante to the 21st Century
(Florence: Cesati, 2019)
The editors - Dr. Ambra Moroncini (Sussex), Prof. Darrow Schecter (Sussex) and Prof. Fabio Vighi (Cardiff) – will be joined in conversation by Roberto Binetti (Oxford), Prof. Guido Bonsaver (Oxford), Prof. Simon Gilson (Oxford)
The event will be followed by drinks
*ALL WELCOME*
— SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN —
ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINAR MICHAELMAS TERM 2019
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm in the Ground Floor Lecture Room 2 at 47 Wellington Square
All welcome
Week 2 (21 Oct)
Dr Giacomo Comiati (Oxford) — Three Centuries of Petrarchan Exegesis: The Early-modern Triumph of Commentaries on the Canzoniere and Triumphi
Week 4 (4 Nov)
Prof Alberto Bertoni (Bologna) — Poesia italiana dal Novecento a oggi
Week 5 (11 Nov)
Double Book Launch — Ariosto, the “Orlando Furioso” and English Culture, with eds. Jane Everson (Royal Holloway), Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway), and Andrew Hiscock (Bangor) // ‘Dreaming again on things already dreamed’: 500 Years of Orlando Furioso (1516–2016) with eds. Marco Dorigatti (Oxford) & Maria Pavlova (Warwick)
The editors will be joined in conversation by Simon Gilson (Oxford)
Week 7 (25 Nov)
Dr Gabriele Paleari (Nottingham Trent) — AlterItà: La cultura appartiene agli stati? (TBC)
Week 8 (2 Dec)
DPhil Work in Progress Presentations (2nd year)
— OXFORD UNIVERSITY ITALIAN SOCIETY (OUIS) —
https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/
[some events are for members only or require ticket purchasing, please check OUIS website]
15 Oct 7:45–9:30pm, Sutro Room, Trinity College — Vino & Victuals
2 Nov 7:30pm, Exeter College, Cohen Quad — Carlo Verdone
12 Nov 4:30pm, Corpus Christi College — Alberto Agnelli (President of Juventus FC)
14 Nov 5pm, Lincoln College — Raffaele Trombetta (Italian Ambassador to the UK)
For more details and for information on Italian language classes please visit the OUIS website
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
[all events free to TOIA members; others please check TOIA website]
16 Oct 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Lecturer Tim Porter on Puccini’s La bohème
24 Oct 7:30 pm, Christ Church — Marco Varvello: BREXIT Blues
30 Oct 5pm, Magdalen College — The Rowe Memorial Lecture: Professor Brian Kelly on Raphael the Architect in Context
7 Nov 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Professor Diego Zancani: How We Fell in Love with Italian Food
18 Nov 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Dr Paul Roberts (Sackler Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum): Last Supper in Pompeii
21 Nov 7:30pm, St Hugh’s College — Film Screening: Lazzaro felice
— MISCELLANEOUS —
11 Oct all-day workshop, Pembroke College — The Italian Economy under Fascism / The Economics of Fascist Italy: For a Reappraisal (co-funded by ASE)
Limited seating available. For more information: http://associazionestoriaeconomica.com/events/italian-economy-under-fascism-economics-fascist-italy-reappraisal/
17 Oct 3–5pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College — All Souls Criminology Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia (Prof Federico Varese)
All welcome. More information: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/democracy-and-mafia?sfns=mo