Michaelmas Term 2026
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 Italy-related associations:
— ITALIAN STUDIES AT OXFORD (ISO) —
http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk
In collaboration with Italian Research Seminars
Monday, 16 November 2026
12 pm to 1.30 pm
Gianluca Fantoni
(Nottingham Trent University)
The Jewish Brigade: Memory, History and the Politics of the Past
Taylor Institution, Room 2
St Giles, Oxford
For more information, please write to italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk.
— ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINARS —
The Sub-Faculty of Italian’s Italian Research Seminars will be held at 5.15 pm in Room 2 of the Taylorian Library and will take place on Monday, except where otherwise stated. Please e-mail italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions!
Week 1 (12 October)
Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame)
‘Una jungla modernissima’: On the Natural History of Allied-Occupied Italy
Week 2 (Tuesday 20 October)
Fanny Clemente (Oxford)
in conversation with Simon Gilson (Oxford) and Charlotte Ross (Oxford)
Book Launch of Ecstasy in Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915) (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Week 3 (26 October – 12 pm to 1.30 pm)
Olga Campofreda (UCL)
"La vera libertà di una donna": Tracing the History of Women's Emancipation in Alba de Céspedes' Work as a Journalist
Week 4 (2 November – Somerville College, Park 5)
Francesca Southerden (Oxford) and Manuele Gragnolati (University of Paris-Sorbonne; ICI Berlin)
Compost Humanity: Soil and Affect in Boccaccio’s, Keats’s, and Pasolini’s Lisabetta da Messina
Week 4 (Wednesday 4 November)
Marco Sonzogni (Victoria University of Wellington)
Star-Sign and Tech-Sign: A Conversation on Machines, Metrics and Melancholy
Week 9 (7 December – Taylorian Library, Main Hall, times TBC)
SIS Postgraduate Symposium
Tracing a Roadmap of Italian Feminism: Experiences of Solidarity Amongst Women in the Italian Bildungsroman
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN WORLD SEMINAR SERIES —
This interdisciplinary seminar hosts papers and discussions about any aspect of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4:30pm at St Edmund Hall. For more information, visit the seminar’s website at https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-italian-seminar.
Week 1 (13 October)
Filippo de Vivo (Oxford)
Possible friends: The Ottoman Empire in Venetian Knowledge Practices
Week 3 (27 October)
Katia Occhi (Trento)
An environmental history of the “timber frontier” in the early modern period: sources, methods, problems
Week 5 (10 November)
Achille Marotta (Oxford)
From documents to artefacts: Genoese converts in Tunis and their material corpus
Week 7 (24 November)
Anne Dunlop (Melbourne and Merton)
Marco Polo and all that: Italian art and Mongol Asia.
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For further information, please contact italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk
or visit our website, www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk.