MT23 Term Card
MichaelmasTerm 2023
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)
Italian Studies at Oxford (ISO) is an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on Italy at the University of Oxford.
http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk
Wednesday 1 November (week 4), 5.15pm
Prof. Robert Gordon (Cambridge)
Modern Luck
Narratives of Fortune in the Long 20th Century
A conversation around Robert Gordon’s recent book with Guido Bonsaver (Oxford) and Olmo Calzolari (Oxford)
The book is available in Open Access at https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/210089
Taylorian Institution, St Giles - Lecture Room 2
all welcome
SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS - MT 2023
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm in the Ground Floor Lect Room 2, Taylor Institution
Week 1 (9 Oct)
Introduction to current research interest: prof. Gardini, prof. Gilson, prof. Lombardi, prof. Southerden)
Week 4 (30 Oct)
Silvia Liliana Angeli, ‘Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Need for Roots’: Between impegno Attention and Wonder’
Starting at 15.00 with screenings of Rohrwacher’s Le meraviglie (2014) and Omelia contadina (2020)
Week 5 (6 Nov)
Prof. Antonio Maria Morone (Pavia), ‘Italian Colonialism and Its Memories: Representations, Identities and Mobilities’
Week 6 (13 Nov)
Prof. Luca Marcozzi (Rome Tre), ‘”Figurando il Paradisoo”: A New Iconography of Paradise in Antonio Grifo’s Commedia con figure dipinte’
Week 7 (20 Nov)
Prof. David Marsh (Rutdgers) and Prof. Martin McLaughlin (Oxford), ‘Two New Alberti Works in Translation: Intercenales and his Biographical and Autobiographical Writings’
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
https://www.toia.co.uk/events/
All talks will be held in St Hugh’s College with a drinks reception at 7:30pm before the lecture at 8:00pm. All welcome. £2 Entrance fee for members (£5 for non-members; FREE for full-time students under 30)
Week 2 (Thurs 19th Oct)
Professor Abigail Brundin, The British School at Rome, Italian Books and their English Readers after the Grand Tour
Week 5 (Tues 7th Nov)
Professor Peter Hainsworth, University of Oxford, Castiglione Today
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN WORLD SEMINAR —
This interdisciplinary seminar will host papers and discussions about any aspect of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. Convenors: F. de Vivo (St Edmund Hall), F. Gigante (History of Science Museum); G. Marcocci (Exeter): L. Clark (Continuing Education); J. Stevens (Brookes); Emanuela Vai (Worcester).
https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-italian-seminar
The seminars take place at 16:30 in the Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane.
Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
- 16:30 - Beautiful Bodies: Spirituality, Sexuality and Gender in Leonardo's Milan
Maya Corry (Oxford Brookes)
Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
- 16:00 - The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (joint session with the Seminar in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology)
Please note change of day, time and venue: Monday at 16:00 at the Maison Française d'Oxford
John Henderson (Birkbeck)
Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
- 16:30 - Making the Renaissance Public: Location based interpretation of early modern urban space (joint session with the Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network)
Fabrizio Nevola (Exeter)
Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
- 16:30 - The Fabrication of Historical Truths: Rodrigo Caldéron and his Dignified Death in Italian Handwritten, Printed and Whispered News
Please note different location: Doctorow Room
Paola Molino (Padua)
— EARLY MODERN WORLD SEMINAR —
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays from 11:15-12:45 (UK time), in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
Unconventional Currents of Reform in Early Modern Italy
Querciolo Mazzonis (Teramo), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective
Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
For more information please contact us as at: Italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk