MT24 Term Card
Michaelmas 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
Conference – In person/Online
The Past, Present, and Future of Language: Learning in Italy and Great Britain
The Case of English in Italy, and of Italian in Britain
Saturday, 9 November 2024
Allen & Overy Seminar room
Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Organisers: Guido Bonsaver (University of Oxford) and Alessandro Carlucci (University of Bergen and University of Oxford
Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) and the University Council for Languages (UCFL)
9.15-9.45 Registration and coffee/tea
9.45-10.00 Welcome and introductory remarks by the organisers and the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute
10.00 Giovanni Iamartino (University of Milan, Co-convenor of HoLLT.net), ‘The known, the unknown, and the unknowable (?) in the history of Italian language learning and teaching in Britain’
11.00-13.00 Session 1
Michele Piscitelli (University of Oxford), ‘A World of Words before John Florio: Italian language-learning in pre-Elizabethan Tudor England (1509-1558)’
Andrea Del Cornò (The London Library and University of Oxford), ‘Educating Italians in 19-th century London: The Scuola Italiana Gratuitaof Hatton Garden, 1841-[1860]’
Emanuela Tenca (University of Milan), ‘Learning to speak English in the early 20th century: How was pronunciation taught in materials for Italian learners?’
Francesca Magnabosco (University of Oxford), ‘“Quel suo immaginoso angloligure” (Gianni Clerici, Alassio 1939): The British colony in Alassio in the early 20th century’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Monica Barni (Sapienza, University of Rome), ‘Ricognizione diacronica della presenza e dell'insegnamento della lingua italiana in Gran Bretagna: motivazioni, obiettivi e impatto per le politiche linguistiche ed educative’
15.00-16.30 Session 2
Francesca Branciari (Università per Stranieri di Siena), ‘La diffusione dell'Italiano in Gran Bretagna. Sfide e opportunità delle nuove migrazioni’
Vincenza Minutella (University of Turin), ‘Using audiovisual texts and audiovisual translation in Italian and English language learning: A journey across time and space’
Stefania Taviano (University of Messina and President of Treali Onlus), ‘Learning social inclusion through English’
16.30-17.00 Coffee break
17.00 Neil Kenny (University of Oxford and British Academy), ‘Italian and other languages in UK education today’
17.30-18.30 Roundtable with Laura Pinnavaia (University of Milan) and Peter Langdale (Former Head of Italian at North London Collegiate School, Webmanager of Teach Italian)
Attendance is free, but booking is required. If you would like to participate, please send an email to italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk by the end of Friday 1 November 2024 and specify whether you wish to attend in person or remotely (a link will be sent in the latter case).
— SUB-FACULTY OF ITALIAN —
POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS - MT 2024
Seminars take place on Mondays at 5.15pm and unless further specified, in Room 2 of the Taylor Institution Library
Week 2 (21 Oct)
Dr. Rhiannon Daniels (Bristol), ‘Printing Boccaccio’s Lives 1470-1600: The Canonisation of a Vernacular Author’
Week 4 (4 Nov)
Dr. Teresa Franco (Oxford), ‘Diventare traduttrice: Un’indagine attraverso gli archivi letterari del Novecento’
Week 5 (11 Nov)
Dr. Federica Coluzzi (Warwick), ‘The Modern Beatrices Archive’
Week 6 (18 Nov)
Dr. Sean Wyer (Oxford), ‘Islamic and Jewish Palermo: A Cosmopolitan Inheritance?’
Week 7 (25 Nov)
Prof. Daniela Treveri Gennari (Oxford Brookes), ‘European Cinema Audiences: Digital Approaches to Comparative Studies of Cinema Histories’
For any queries, please contact italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
— THE OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (TOIA) —
https://toia.co.uk/forthcoming-events/
All talks will be held in St Hugh’s College with a drinks reception at 7:30pm before the lecture at 8:00pm. All welcome. £2 Entrance fee for members (£5 for non-members; FREE for full-time students under 30)
Week 1 (Weds 16th Oct)
Professor Nicholas Havely (University of York), Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany
Week 3 (Weds 30th Oct)
La Chimera (film screening – Italian with English subtitles)
Week 5 (Thurs 14th Nov)
Dr Philippa Joseph, Let’s Get Nervi: Pier Luigi Nervi – Architectural Desgins
Week 7 (Mon 25th Nov)
Professor Guido Bonsaver, The Arrival of Hollywood in Italy, 1914-1938: Cultural Hegemony and Failed Marriages
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN WORLD SEMINAR —
This interdisciplinary seminar hosts papers and discussions about any aspect of the world of Italian culture and society in the period 1400-1800. We are keen to range across the Italian peninsula and beyond to include, as the seminar’s name implies, Italian communities, cultures and connections in the Mediterranean, Europe, and the rest of the world. The seminar is open to all postholders, early career researchers, doctoral and Masters students, and interested undergraduates, especially those considering graduate studies.
Convenors: Filippo de Vivo (St Edmund Hall); Leah Clark (Kellogg); Jane Crawshaw Stevens (Brookes); Zoe Farrell (St Edmund Hall); Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum); Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter); Emanuela Vai (Worcester).
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 4.30pm, in the Old Dining Hall in St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane (unless otherwise specified). The seminar is open to the public. To get updates about the seminar, please write to earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk
https://italianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
To get updates about the seminar, please write to earlymodernitaly@history.ox.ac.uk.
No seminar in Week 1, but note the following Campion Lecture:
Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week)
Camilla Russell (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu), ‘Jesuit Correspondence from Early Modern Asia’
[Location for this seminar is Campion Hall, Campion Hall Library, Brewer Street]
Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week)
Katia Occhi (FBI, Trento), 'An Environmental History of the “Timber Frontier”: Sources, Methods, Problems’
Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week)
Gloria Moorman (Manchester), Enrico Zucchi (Padua) and Alessandro Metlica (Padua), 'Comparative Reflections on Early Modern Italian Republics, title TBC
Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th week)
Emanuela Patti (Edinburgh), Carlotta Paltrinieri (Royal Holloway), ‘On Controversial Heritage: Making Sense of Transnational Biographies through Archives and Mythmatking’
— MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY SEMINARS —
Series organisers: Nick Stargardt (Oxford) , Senia Paseta , Patricia Clavin , Matthew Kerry
The seminar will take place on Tuesdays at 17:00
Each session will be held in person in the Rees Davies Room of the History Faculty Building in George Street, or online, depending on the availability of the speakers. Further details will be circulated closer to the time.
If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email patricia.clavin@history.ox.ac.uk
Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week)
Stephen Grundle (Warwick), ‘Mussolini's Places: Dissonant Heritage and Political Memory in Postwar Italy’
Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week)
Amy King (Bristol), ‘The Politics of Sacrifice: Youth, Martyrs and Remembrance in Meloni's Italy’
— EARLY MODERN WORLD SEMINAR—
Series organisers: Natalia Nowakowska, Lyndal Roper, Giora Sternberg
Meetings will be held on Wednesdays from 11:15-12:45 (UK time), in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, unless otherwise stated.
Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week)
Toby Osborne, Chair: Natalia Nowakowska, ‘Rome Branded: The Politics of Heraldic Devices in the Early Modern Papal Capital’
— EARLY MODERN VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE SEMINAR –
Series organisers: Niko Munz (Christ Church, Oxford), Niklas Groschinski (Merton College, Oxford)
For any queries, please contact the organisers:
Niko Munz, niko.munz@chch.ox.ac.uk
Niklas Groschinski, niklas.groschinski@merton.ox.ac.uk
Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
Martin Kemp (History of Art, Oxford), ‘Dante and the Art of Divine Light’
Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre, Christ Church, St. Aldates
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For further information please write to italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk