HT25 Term Card
Hilary Term 2025
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
Monday 17 February, 5:15pm (UK time)
Nicholas Havely (York), Slow Travel on the Edge of Tuscany: Geography, Literature and History in the Northern Apennines
A cross-disciplinary talk based on his recent book, Appenine Crossings
Taylor Institution, Room 2, St. Giles, OX1 3NA
Chair: Prof Guido Bonsaver
*All welcome – Drinks to follow*
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED
— SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN —
ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINARS HILARY TERM 2025
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm at The Taylorian Institute (Room 2) and via Teams. Please e-mail italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk if you wish to attend remotely.
Week 1 (20 Jan)
Prof. Miguel Vatter (Deakin), Ancient Theology and the Ideological Roots of the Modern State in Renaissance Florence
Week 2 (27 Jan)
Dr. Rebecca Bowen, Prof. Simon Gilson, Dr. Giles Bergel (Oxford), Prof. Guyda Armstrong (Manchester), Wuon-Gean Ho, Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page
Week 3 (3 Feb)
Dr. Zoe Farrell (Oxford), Artisanal Consumption in Early Modern Verona
Week 4 (10 Feb)
Prof. Florian Mussgnug (UCL / Roma Tre), Planetary Literature and the Experience of Anthropocene Time
Week 5 (17 Feb)
Nicholas Havely (York), Slow Travel on the Edge of Tuscany (in collaboration with ISO)
Week 6 (10 Feb)
Dr. Rhiannon Daniels (Bristol), Printing Boccaccio’s Lives 1470-1600: The Canonisation of a Vernacular Author
Week 7 (3 Mar)
Dr. David Ragazzoni (NYU), At the Dawn of Political Conflictualism: Machiavelli and Savonarola on Partisanship
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN SEMINAR SERIES —
https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/early-modern-italian-seminar
This interdisciplinary seminar will host papers and discussions about any aspect of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. We are keen to range across the Italian peninsula including, as the title implies, Italian communities, cultures and connections outside Italy in the Mediterranean, Europe and the rest of the world. The seminar is open to all post-holders, early career researchers, doctoral and masters students, and interested undergraduates, especially those considering graduate studies. E-mail earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk to register.
Convenors: Filippo de Vivo (St Edmund Hall); Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum); Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter); Leah Clark (Continuing Education); Jane Stevens (Brookes); Emanuela Vai (Worcester); Zoe Farrell (St Edmund Hall).
The seminar is funded by the Faculty of History and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. We meet four times a term on Tuesdays in odd weeks of the Oxford University Term at 14:00-16:00 in the Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane (unless otherwise specified).
Week 1 (21 Jan)
Dr. Zoe Farrell (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford), Verona: Artisans and Material Culture in a Provincial Renaissance City
Week 3 (4 Feb)
Prof. Bianca de Divitiis (Naples), The Southern Italian Renaissance
Week 5 (18 Feb)
Prof. Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford), Digital History and 18th-Century Journeys to Italy
Week 7 (4 Mar)
Nima Lamal (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam) and Lana Martysheva (Ecole Française de Rome), The Italian Peninsula and the European Wars of Religion
— from the MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES —
The seminar will continue in a hybrid format, with a physical meeting in the Wharton Room, All Souls College, on Mondays at 17:00, unless otherwise stated, together with simultaneous interactive access via Microsoft Teams. If any seminars need to move online, details will be announced in advance. There will be no need to reserve a seat in advance to attend in person.
The Teams session can be accessed by logging into Teams with your Oxford (.ox.ac.uk) account and joining the group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs).
If you have any difficulties, please email medhistsem@history.ox.ac.uk
Student assistants: Antonia Anstatt, Annabel Hancock, Clare Whitton, Charlotte Wood
Series organisers: Julia Smith, Benjamin Thompson, Lesley Smith, Dave Addison, John Merrington, Laure Miolo
Week 5 (17 Feb)
Michael Eber (Oxford/Cologne), Re- and Mis-gendering St. Marina*us in High Medieval Italy
— from the ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY GRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES —
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.
All talks will take place on Wednesdays, from 12:45 to 14:00, in the Butler Room, Nuffield College, unless otherwise stated. We are going to run the seminars in an in-person format, barring exceptional circumstances.
To receive more information, please email esh.graduate@history.ox.ac.uk
Series organisers: Helen Murphy (Pembroke College, Oxford), Hadiya Hewitt (Keble College, Oxford), Thomas Robertson (Kellogg College, Oxford), Menggelisha (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Week 6 (26 Feb)
Maxence Costiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Spread the Word: Mass Media, Language, and Propaganda in Fascist Italy
For further information please contact: italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk