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Seminars in 2011

Caterina Cornaro, some plates and self-fashioning in Renaissance Brescia

Date: 17th Jan 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Gaby Neher (Art History Department, Nottingham University)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

The Mezzogiorno and Economic Policy in Italy

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"Per l'intercessione sua": graces, miracles and canonization in 17th century Italy

Date: 24th Jan 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Clare Ashdowne (Oxford)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Artstor and Bridgemaneducation Presentation

Date: 24th Jan 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Room 10b, Taylor Institution
Convenor: Nicola Gardini (Italian Dept, Oxford)
Speaker(s): Clare Hills-Nova (Taylor) & Nicola Gardini (Italian Dept.)
Description: A presentation of two new important image data-bases that are now available for Oxford scholars.
Further information: *All welcome*

Byzantine icons in Italian Renaissance collections

Date: 31st Jan 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Rembrandt Duits (Warburg Institute, London)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Dante in pictures: Early Renaissance illustrators of the Divine Comedy

Date: 7th Feb 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Rachel Owen (Pembroke College, Oxford)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Gadda and Raffaello

Date: 7th Feb 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Room 10b, Taylor Institution
Convenor: Nicola Gardini (Italian Dept, Oxford)
Speaker(s): Giorgio Pinotti
Description: Part of the Italian Department's Graduate Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Bill Emmott - "The Good Italy vs. The Bad Italy: A Post-Berlusconi Agenda for Levelling the Playing Field"

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Renaissance velvet: Commercial rivalry, craftsmanship and status

Date: 14th Feb 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Lisa Monnas (London)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Book presentation: 'Ciò che potea la lingua nostra. Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper'

Date: 18th Feb 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Brasenose College
Convenor: Nicola Gardini (Italian Dept, Oxford)
Speaker(s): Dr Helena Sanson (Cambridge)
Description: Volume edited by Dr Vilma de Gasperin (Oxford, 2010).
Further information: *All welcome*

Grace and labour in the arts of the Italian Renaissance

Date: 21st Feb 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Ita MacCarthy (Italian Dept, Birmingham University)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Court astrologers in Renaissance Italy: knowledge, practice, and patronage

Date: 28th Feb 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Monica Azzolini (History Dept, Edinburgh University)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Film Screening: "La Quarta Via"

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‘Iustissime Chiron’: The non-violent centaur in late fifteenth-century Florentine art

Date: 3rd May 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Scott Nethersole (Courtauld Institute, London)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

A time to love, and a time to hate? Venice and the Spanish in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Date: 10th May 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Nicholas Davidson (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Andrea Mantegna: Force and the frame

Date: 17th May 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Stephen Campbell (Art History, Johns Hopkins University)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series
Further information: *All welcome*

"Le donne, i cavalier, l'arme e gli amori": protagonisti, topoi e stereotipi nel genere epico-cavalleresco

Date: 20th May 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Lecture Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church
Convenor: Nicola Gardini
Speaker(s): Laura Lazzari (University of Lausanne)
Description: Part of the Italian Sub-Faculty Graduate Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

Poesia del cinema e poesia del romanzo: "Riflessi da un paradiso" e "La camera da letto" di Attilio Bertolucci

Date: 23rd May 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Lecture Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church
Convenor: Nicola Gardini
Speaker(s): Gabriella Palli Baroni
Description: Part of the Italian Sub-Faculty Graduate Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

The Chiesina della Vergine di Piazza in Pistoia: Antonio Rossellino, Andrea Verrocchio, and Antonio Pollaiuolo

Date: 24th May 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: St Catherine's College
Convenor: Maya Corry, Nicholas Davidson & Gervase Rosser
Speaker(s): Stephen Milner (Italian Dept, Manchester University)
Description: Part of the Italian Renaissance Seminar series.
Further information: *All welcome*

“‘Facts? I like them as much as I like trees’. (J. Berger). La scrittura è un pendolare tra realtà e immaginazione.”

Date: 6th Jun 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Lecture Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church
Convenor: Nicola Gardini
Speaker(s): Caterina Serra (visting writer)
Description: Part of the Italian Sub-Faculty Graduate Seminar Series.
Further information: *All welcome*

What's wrong (and right) with Italy?

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"Filmografia italo-libica: Una storia attraverso le immagini del colonialismo e del postcolonialismo italiano in Libia (1911-2008)"

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Does the Left have a Future?

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Old Italians and New Italians: Emigration, Immigration and Italian Identity

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Letteratura migrante e letteratura di genere. Quali relazioni?

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Paolo Mancini: Does Berlusconi provide a New Model of Politics?

Date: 24th Nov 2011
Time: 17:00
Venue: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St. Anne's College, Woodstock Road
Convenor: Italian Studies at Oxford & Reuters Institute for the Study ot Journalism
Speaker(s): Professor Paolo Mancini, Department of Institutions and Society, University of Perugia
Description: Professor Mancini will present his new Reuters Institute publication: "Between Commodification and Lifestyle Politics: Does Silvio Berlusconi provide New Model of Politics for the Twenty-First Century?". This will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by John Lloyd (Director of Journalism, Reuters Institute), with David Hine (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford) and Paolo Bellucci (Professor of Political Science, University of Siena).
Further information: Free copies of the book will be given out.
A reception will follow.
Registration is required. Please e-mail your name and affiliation (if any) to: emma.bond@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
A poster for this event is available here.

Beppe Severgnini: Berlusconi Explained for Posterity and Friends in England

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