TT24 Term Card
Trinity Term 2024
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 Oxford-based 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
Main event:
Learning English in Italy, and Italian in Great Britain:
Historical Perspectives and Current Challenges
Week 7: 4th June 2024, 4:30-7:00pm (BST)
Hybrid – in person/online event
SCR Parlour, Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Organisers: Guido Bonsaver (Oxford) and Alessandro Carlucci (Bergen)
Speakers: Monica Barni (Rome Sapienza), Francesca Branciari (Siena Stranieri), Giovanni Iamartino (Milan Statale and Convenor of HoLLT.net), Peter Langdale (former North London Collegiate School, Webmanager of Teach Italian), Andrea Nava (Milan Statale).
This workshop is the first of a series of events, to be hosted by "Italian Studies at Oxford" (ISO). They focus on the history of Italian language teaching in Britain and of English language teaching in Italy, and, more broadly, on the knowledge and use of English in Italy and Italian in the UK. Their purpose is to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts in second language learning and teaching, English and Italian Studies, and to set the ground for the creation of a comprehensive diachronic dataset which will include quantitative data on students, teachers, courses, degrees, as well as data on other aspects such as methodologies, learners’ motivations and competence levels, from the late nineteenth century to the present. While these aims are primarily historical, it is hoped that knowledge of the modern history of language learning and teaching will also help all involved parties to address the challenges currently facing foreign language learning in the two countries.
* All welcome *
If you would like to participate please let us know by writing to italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk, and please let us know whether you intend to come in person or attend virtually.
SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS - TT 2024
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm and unless further specified, in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution
Week 1 (22 Apr)
Guido Bonsaver (Oxford) and Emma Bond (Oxford): Presentation of Current Research Interests
Week 2 (29 Apr)
Monica Farnetti (Sassari), 'Disobbedire ai maestri. Sulle tracce di un contrassegno della scrittura femminile (i casi di Gaspara Stampa e Goliarda Sapienza)'
Week 5 (20 May)
Philippe Audegean (Paris Sorbonne), 'Terrore e compassione. Beccaria e la tragedia penale'
Week 6 (27 May)
Veronica Frigeni (Amsterdam), 'The Personal is (Still) Political. (Auto)biographical Narratives of Reproductive (In)Justice in Contemporary Italy'
Week 7 (4 June)
Virginia Cox (Cambridge), 'Late-Renaissance Genoa Through the Lens of Social Lyric' [NB: 4:30pm, Room 2, Taylor Institution Library]
Week 8 (10 June)
Postgraduate Students Work-in-progress
For any queries, please contact italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Special Exhibition Launch: Seeing Dante's Commedia in Print from the Renaissance to Today
5.15pm, Friday 14th June 2024 (Week 8), Taylor Institution Library
An intensely envisioned journey through the three realms of the Christian afterlife, Dante’s Commedia was the subject of vivid illustrations from its earliest circulation. In a modern re-imagining informed by encounters in the archive, the artist and printmaker Wuon Gean-Ho invites us to step into a new reading of Dante’s medieval masterwork. This new series of linocuts moves from the pages of early modern books out into the spaces of the library before taking root in the artist's imagination and reappearing on sheets of paper inked and printed in the Bodleian Bibliographical Press. They will be displayed alongside historical editions of the Commedia held in the Taylorian special collections.
Join the artist, Wuon Gean-Ho, and her academic collaborators, Rebecca Bowen and Simon Gilson, for a public conversation and exhibition tour followed by a drinks reception on Friday 14th June from 5.15pm.
This event is free but booking is required, please email rebecca.bowen@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
This project is funded by a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Innovation Fund Award. The grant holders would like to thank Andrea Del Cornò, Joanne Ferrari, Alexandra Franklin, Frank Egerton, Emma Huber, and Richard Lawrence for their collaboration.
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
https://www.toia.co.uk/events/
With the exception of the photography exhibition, 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 4 (Mon 13th May)
Photography Exhibition
OBSCURUM
Venice Photographs from recent years
Exhibition launch 13th May 2024, 6.30 pm, JdP Music Building, St Hilda's College
Contemporary B/W Scandinavian Photography from recent years by Eva Ohtonen & Katarina Rothfjell
Week 5 (Wed 22nd May)
Matthew Spring, The Lute in Italian Art of the 16th Century
Talk and lute recital
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN WORLD SEMINAR —
This interdisciplinary seminar hosts papers and discussions about any aspect of the world of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. We are keen to range across the Italian peninsula and beyond to include, as the seminar’s name implies, Italian communities, cultures and connections in the Mediterranean, Europe and the rest of the world. The seminar is open to all postholders, early career researchers, doctoral and Masters students, and interested undegraduates, especially those considering graduate studies.
Convenors: Filippo de Vivo (St Edmund Hall); Leah Clark (Kellogg); Jane Crawshaw Stevens (Brookes); Zoe Farrell (St Edmund Hall); Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum); Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter); Emanuela Vai (Worcester).
https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-italian-seminar
To get updates about the seminar, please write to earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk.
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Francesca Trivellato (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton), 'Renaissance Individualism Revisited: A Business History Perspective'
11:00am-1:00pm, Rees Davies Room, History Faculty
Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary University of London), 'What is Literary History Now?: Recovering the Premodern Textual World in the 21st Century'
5:15pm-7:00pm, TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
[Joint Session with Early Modern English Literature Seminars at Oxford]
Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Francesco Zimei (Trento), 'The Italian lauda: Origins, Features, Connections'
4:30pm, Old Dining Hall, St. Edmund Hall
[Joint Session with Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network, TORCH]
Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Virginia Cox (Trinity College, Cambridge), 'Late-Renaissance Genoa Through the Lens of Social Lyric'
4:30pm, Room 2, Taylor Institution, Oxford
[Joint Session with Italian Research Seminars at Oxford]
— MEDIEVAL VISUAL CULTURE SEMINARS —
Series organisers: Hannah Skoda , Gervase Rosser , Martin Kauffmann , Elena Lichmanova (Merton)
Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Livia Lupi (Warwick), 'Artistic Practice and the Emergence of the Architect in Italy, c. 1300 – c. 1480'
5:00pm, Arumugam Building, St Catherine’s College
For any queries, please contact elena.lichmanova@merton.ox.ac.uk.
— HISTORY OF WAR SEMINAR —
Series organisers: Alexander Morrison (New College) , Peter Wilson (All Souls College)
All welcome!
For more information contact Briony Truscott, mailto:briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter), 'At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy'
5:15pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford
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For further information please write to italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk