HT24 Term Card
Hilary 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:
Reflections on the Past and Future of Italy
Week 3: 31 January
75 years since Alessandro Passerin D’Entrèves’s inaugural lecture Reflections on the History of Italy.
“Authoritarianism, nationalism, centralization, demagogy: surely these are evils from which we may expect to be cured”.
Alessandro Passerin D’Entrèves, 1947
In 1947, Alessandro Passerin D’Entrèves gave his inaugural lecture as Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Oxford. A scholar and Italian resistance fighter, he saw the Chair as a chance to “cement the bonds of friendship and mutual understanding between England and Italy”. The event will be an opportunity to discuss some of the central themes that Passerin D’Entrèves addressed in his lecture and that are still relevant today: the different ways to study and remember the history or histories of Italy; the critical issue of national identity and the tensions between patriotism and nationalism; and how perceptions and understandings of Italy’s past inform current affairs and might impact the country’s future.
Organizational Committee: Vincenzo Morelli (Corpus Christi), Andrea Ruggeri (Brasenose), Nicolas Stone Villani (DPIR)
First Session: Corpus Christi College Lecture Theatre
9:30 Arrivals
10:15-10:45 On “Reflections on the History of Italy”
Andrea Ruggeri, University of Oxford
10:45-11:30 The Unity of Italian History: one or many histories?
Guido Bonsaver, University of Oxford
Giacomo Gabbuti, Sant ’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Andrea Ruggeri, University of Oxford - Panel Chair
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-12:45 Italy: identity, patriotism and nationalism
Richard Bosworth, University of Oxford
Mario Ricciardi, University of Milan
Federico Varese, University of Oxford/ Sciences Po Paris – Panel Chair
12:45-14:00 Light Lunch Break,
14:00-15:15 Italian legacies, ruptures and continuities
Giulia Albanese, University of Padova
John Foot, University of Bristol
Gianfranco Viesti, University of Bari
Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford – Panel Chair
15:15-15:45 Final Remarks Simon Gilson, University of Oxford
Second Session: Sheldonian Theater
17:00-119.15 RoundTable & Dialogues with:
Lord Chris Patten , Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Chiara Albanese, Bloomberg
Lucia Annunziata, Radio 24
Natalia Augias, RAI
Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist
Giovanna Pancheri, Sky
Beppe Severgnini, Corriere della Sera
Third Session: Divinity School (by invitation only)
19:30-21:30 Speakers’ Dinner
Lord Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Baroness Sarah Hogg, House of Lords
Petra Schleiter, Head of Department, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Closing Remarks by Beppe Severgnini, Corriere della Sera
SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS - HT 2024
Unless otherwise stated, seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution
Week 2 (22 Jan), Voltaire Room
David Lines (Warwick), '1405 Arts Statutes of Bologna'
Week 3 (29 Jan)
Guido Bonsaver (Oxford), 'Italian Culture between Belle Époque and Jazz Age'
Week 4 (5 Feb)
Book Presentation by Robert Gordon (Cambridge) of Mara Josi, 16 October, 1943: History, Memory, and Literature (Legenda, 2023)
Week 6 (19 Feb)
Salvatore Arcidiacono (Catania), 'Lessicografia elettronica dell'italiano delle origini: dai Vocabolari Danteschi al TLIO'
Week 7 (26 Feb)
Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), 'Space, Time, and Matter: Dante and the Paradise Paradox'
Week 7 (29 Feb, NB: Thursday)
Book Presentation (moderated by Marta Arnaldi, Oxford): Creative Criticism and Other Stories: Elena Lombardi (Oxford) and Nicola Gardini (Oxford) in Dialogue
Week 8 (4 Mar)
2nd-year DPhils Work-in-progress
- THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) –
https://www.toia.co.uk/events/
All talks will be held in St Hugh’s College with a drinks reception at 7.30pm before the lecture at 8pm. All welcome. Entrance fee for members (£5 for non-members; FREE for full-time students under 30)
Tues 12 March
Lord Patten, Chancellor of the University – Rowe Memorial Lecture, at Magdalen College
TOIA’s finalized programme will be distributed as soon as it is available
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN WORLD SEMINAR —
HILARY TERM 2024 WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE THEME OF THE ITALIAN AND GLOBAL MEDITERRANEAN
This interdisciplinary seminar will host papers and discussions about any aspect of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. Convenors: F. de Vivo (St Edmund Hall), F. Gigante (History of Science Museum); G. Marcocci (Exeter): L. Clark (Continuing Education); J. Stevens (Brookes); Emanuela Vai (Worcester).
https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-italian-seminar
The seminar is funded by the Faculty of History and St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is open to the public. To get updates about the seminar, please write to earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk.
Tuesday 16 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
Leah R. Clark (Oxford), 'Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Transcultural Objects across the Mediterranean'
4:30pm, Old Dining Hall, St. Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane
Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
Alejandro Garcia-Monton (Granada), 'Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700'
4:30pm, Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
[Joint session with Iberian History Seminar]
Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Domenico Cecere (Naples), 'Disasters that Made the World Shudder: How Extreme Events Redefined Communication and Politics in the Spanish Monarchy'
4:30pm, Cohen Quad, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter College
Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Guillaume Calafat (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne), 'A Picaresque Project of the 18th Century: The Savoyard King of Madagascar'
4:30pm, Old Dining Hall, St. Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane
[Organised with the support of the Ecole Française de Rome]
Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Roundtable: 'Reflections on the Global Mediterranean in Italian History'
4:30pm, Doctorow Room, St. Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane
— ARCHIVE OF PERFORMANCES OF GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA (APGRD) —
Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
5:00pm, Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford
An in-person event to celebrate the publication of:
'(Re)Living Greece and Rome: Performances of Classical Antiquiry under Fascism', Special Issue of Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, Brill, 2023
and
'A Hellenic Modernism: Greek Theatre and Italian Fascism', Special Issue of Classical Receptions, Oxford University Press, 2024
With the editors Giovanna di Martino (UCL), Eleftheria Ioannidou (Groningen), and Sara Troiani (Coimbra)
Free, all welcome; no booking required.
— FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES —
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Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
Brian Mac Cuarta (Oxford), 'An Elizabethan travels to Rome and Seville'
1:00pm, Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library and online via Zoom
Booking Required (Link)
— ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY GRADUATE SEMINAR —
The Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social History provides a forum for graduate students to share their research work in progress. It welcomes qualitative and quantitative research alike on any aspect of economic and social history. The seminar series is well attended by faculty and graduate students from History, Economic History, and related disciplines. Each session consists of a 30-minute presentation by the guest speaker followed by 30 minutes of discussion and questions from the audience. Members of the University only. To receive information and the joining link for HT and TT events, please mail eshoxford2023@gmail.com, or Yunyufei Luo (yunyufei.luo@univ.ox.ac.uk)
https://ocesh.web.ox.ac.uk/seminars
Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Francesco Azzoni (Bocconi), 'Inequality in the Early Middle Ages: Distribution of Wealth and Societal Changes in Lombard Northern Italy'
1:00pm, Butler Room, Nuffield College, New Road
— EUROPE IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES —
Hilary Term 2024 theme: Family
Tuesdays at 14:00-13:30 in the Dolphin Seminar Room, St John’s College, unless otherwise specified.
Tea and coffee available from 13:45.
Series organisers: Natalia Nowakowska , Hannah Skoda , John Watts
Members of the University only. Undergraduates welcome.
30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Jose Andres Porras (Oxford), 'Florentine Orphans and their Parents'
27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Trevor Dean (Roehampton), 'Families and Assassination Narratives in Italy and Europe'
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For further information please write to italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk