Seminars in 2010
Loss and Historical Melancholy in Renaissance Literary Culture
| Date: | 18th Jan 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | St Catherine's College |
| Convenor: | Dr N Davidson and Dr G Rosser |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Nicola Gardini (Italian Sub-Faculty) |
| Description: | Italian Renaissance seminar |
Dal blog alle piazze. Un incontro con Beppe Grillo su internet e democrazia in Italia
Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth
| Date: | 25th Jan 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Lecture Room 1, Christ Church (SC VIII) |
| Convenor: | Italian Sub-Faculty |
| Speaker(s): | Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) |
The Renaissance Plague Hospital. Venetian Myths and Anti-Myths
| Date: | 1st Feb 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | St Catherine's College |
| Convenor: | Dr N Davidson and Dr G Rosser |
| Speaker(s): | Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes) |
| Description: | Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Series. |
The "failed" Italian Reformation
| Date: | 15th Feb 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini & Dr Ela Tandello (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Nicholas Davidson (Oxford) |
| Description: | |
| Further information: | Seminar organized by the Sub-Faculty of Italian, Oxford. |
Living with the Mafia: a round-table discussion
Parole ghiacciate, parole liquefatte. La lingua del cortigiano tra Castiglione e Speroni
| Date: | 22nd Feb 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Lecture Room 1, Christ Church (SC VIII) |
| Convenor: | Italian Sub-Faculty |
| Speaker(s): | Elisabetta Mongiat (Visiting Scholar at Oxford) |
Cultures of Plague: Evolutions of Disease and Thought in 16th Century Italy
| Date: | 22nd Feb 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | St Catherine's College |
| Convenor: | Dr N Davidson and Dr G Rosser |
| Speaker(s): | Sam Cohn (Glasgow) |
| Description: | Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Series. |
Aesthetic and Cultural Transgressions: Elite Literary Journals in 1920s and 1930s Italy
| Date: | 8th Mar 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Lecture Room 1, Christ Church (SC VIII) |
| Convenor: | Sub-Faculty of Italian, Oxford |
| Speaker(s): | Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) |
Everything but Italian. The Representation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the Italian Press
"Viva sa comune!" Language and Politics in Gramsci
| Date: | 3rd May 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Room 2, Taylor Institution |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Alessandro Carlucci (Royal Holloway) |
The Body is the Message: Women in the Italian Media
Questioni filologiche per la biblioteca di Vincenzio Borghini
| Date: | 24th May 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Room 2, Taylor Institution |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Elisabetta Arcari (University Ca' Foscari, Venice) |
Benedetta Tobagi - 'Come mi batte forte il tuo cuore'
Jane Tylus - Reclaiming Catherine of Siena
| Date: | 7th Jun 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Taylor Institution, Room 2 |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Professor Jane Tylus (New York University) |
| Description: | Book presentation: "Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others" (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009) |
| Further information: |
Catherine of Siena (13471380) wrote almost four hundred epistles in her lifetime, effectively insinuating herself into the literary, political, and theological debates of her day. At the same time, as the daughter of a Sienese dyer, Catherine had no formal education, and her accomplishments were considered miracles rather than the work of her own hand. As a result, she has been largely excluded from accounts of the development of European humanism and the language and literature of Italy. Reclaiming Catherine of Siena makes the case for considering Catherine alongside literary giants such as Dante and Petrarch, as it underscores Catherine's commitment to using the vernacular to manifest Christ's message and her own. Jane Tylus charts here the contested struggles of scholars over the centuries to situate Catherine in the history of Italian culture in early modernity. But she mainly focuses on Catherine's works, calling attention to the interplay between orality and textuality in the letters and demonstrating why it was so important for Catherine to envision herself as a writer. Tylus argues for a reevalution of Catherine as not just a medieval saint, but one of the major figures at the birth of the Italian literary canon. |
Italian Politics in the Foreign Media
| Date: | 14th Jun 2010 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Taylor Institution - Room 10b |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford & Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy, in collaboration with The Oxford University Italian Society |
| Speaker(s): | Anastasia Grusha (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism), Natalia Skripkina (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism), James Blitz (Financial Times Diplomatic Editor and former Rome Correspondent) |
| Description: | Silvio Berlusconi is one of the most prominent characters of today's international politics and has attracted widespread attention in the foreign media. In this seminar, we compare the coverage received by Berlusconi in Russian media and in the Financial Times and the British press more generally to understand how the foreign media look at the Italian Prime Ministership and why it is so. |
| Further information: |
Chair: Dr Daniele Albertazzi (Birmingham) *All welcome* |
Giallo a Milano: Documentary Screening and Discussion
TOIA: "How do you translate 'baroni' into English?"
| Date: | 11th Nov 2010 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Venue: | Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58 Banbury Road |
| Convenor: | TOIA |
| Speaker(s): | Nicola Gardini |
| Description: | A conversation on the decline of Italy's academia. |
| Further information: | Admission 31, students under 30 free. |