Hilary 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
Thursday 28 February, 5.15pm
Daniele Albertazzi (University of Birmingham)
“The remarkable transformation of the Lega Nord under Matteo
Salvini: from regionalist populist to populist radical right”
First Floor Lecture Room 1, 47 Wellington Square
*ALL WELCOME*
LEOPARDI STUDIES AT OXFORD (LEO)
https://www.facebook.com/LeopardiStudiesatOxford/
Monday 14th Jan
Alessandra Aloisi (University of Warwick)
'Éloge des oiseaux. The Ornithological Imaginary in Leopardi and
George Sand'
5.15 pm, 47 Wellington Square, Ground Floor lecture room 2
Monday 4th March
Martina Piperno (UCC)
'Leopardi and Vico'
5.15 pm, 47 Wellington Square, Ground Floor lecture room 2
*ALL WELCOME*
SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS HILARY TERM 2018
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm in the Ground Floor Lecture Room 2 at 47 Wellington Square
italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Week 3 Monday 28 January
Donato Pirovano (University of Turin)
Idrografia dantesca. Dalla livida palude al fiume di luce
Week 5 Monday 11 February
Andrea Afribo (university of Padua)
Dopo il '68. Per una mappa della poesia italiana degli ultimi decenni
Week 7 Monday 25 February
Bernhard Huss (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Lyrical Genre and Petrarchism. The Case of A. S. Minturno
*ALL WELCOME*
University of Oxford
Italian Renaissance Seminar
St Catherine’s College
Hilary Term 2019 | Mondays at 5 pm
All Welcome
14 January Sarah Vowles (Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum)
‘Confronting the canon: Two new drawings in the Mantegna and Bellini exhibition at the National Gallery’
21 January Simon Gilson (Italian Department, Oxford University)
‘“Making Aristotle vernacular" in Padua and Florence: Benedetto Varchi's Italian translations and commentaries on Aristotle (1538-43)’
28 January Lorenzo Caravaggi (Balliol College, Oxford)
‘A knight and his library in the age of the aristocratic communes: Romanitas, chivalry, and urbanitas in the 12th and 13th centuries’
4 February Martin Kemp (Trinity College, Oxford)
‘“It’s yours for $450 million.” Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi’
11 February Lia Costiner (Merton College, Oxford)
‘Mercanti artisti: Illustrating the book in the late-medieval Italian home’
18 February Caspar Pearson (History of Art Department, Essex University)
‘Between shipwreck and the giants: Leon Battista Alberti’s letter to Filippo Brunelleschi’
25 February Matilde Malaspina (Lincoln College, Oxford)
‘Aesop’s Fables in the 15th-century Veneto, in manuscript (BL 10389) and print’
4 March Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS / University of Liège)
‘The Sense of Touch in Italian Renaissance anatomy’
Convenors: Lia Costiner and Gervase Rosser Contact: gervase.rosser@hoa.ox.ac.uk
THE OXFORD ITALIAN SOCIETY
https://www.oxforditaliansociety.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/italian.society/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
For details of this term’s events, please visit their Facebook page or website
THE OXFORD ITALIAN SOCIETY (TOIA)
[all events free to TOIA members]
15/1/19, 7.30 pm, Concert, Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College, Oxford
Sara Stowe, Soprano, Ogloudoglou, Vocal Masterpieces of the Experimental Generation
Sara Stowe’s repertoire as a singer covers a wide range of music ranging from spiritual songs of the medieval period to the most adventurous modern songs. Initially studying as harpsichord scholar at the Royal College of Music, she later discovered her voice and won a British Council Advanced Training Bursary to study singing in Italy, laying the foundations of her interest in much of the virtuosic and extraordinary Italian music she performs today, including compositions by Giacinto Scelsi and Luciano Berio.
24/1/19, 7.30 pm, The Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford
Emeritus Professor Martin Kemp, Living with Leonardo, Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond
Martin Kemp, described by The Times as ‘the world’s leading authority on Leonardo’, in conversation on his fifty-year relationship with the most famous artist of all time.
22/2/19, 7.30 pm, Maplethorpe Building, St Hugh’s College, Oxford
Film Screening, Bernardo Bertolucci, Il conformista
Bernardo Bertolucci's expressionist masterpiece of 1970, Il conformista, is an account of the neuroses and self-loathing of a sexually confused would-be fascist aching to fit in in 1938 Rome and was deemed an instant classic on release.
And finally, at Keble College on a mid-February date to be finalised, Professor Nicola Gardini will also talk on his latest book:
LE 10 PAROLE LATINE che raccontono il nostro mondo
Un viaggio nella vita di 10 parole antiche che continuano a creare pensieri e discorsi.