Michaelmas Term 2025
Michaelmas 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, 3 November (Week 4), 5:15 PM (UK time)
Taylor Institution, Room 2, and Via TEAMS
In collaboration with the Italian Research Seminars
Guest Lecture: Yorick Gomez Gane (Calabria), Gender and Language in Italian and Other Romance Languages
Discussants: Prof. Charlotte Ross (Oxford), Prof. Federico Faloppa (Reading)
Chair: Dr Alessandro Carlucci (Oxford)
All welcome, no registration required. If you plan to join us online, please contact us on italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk.
Followed by drinks
— ITALIAN RESEARCH SEMINARS —
The Sub-Faculty of Italian’s Italian Research Seminars take place on Mondays at The Taylor Institution (Room 2) and via Teams. See the dates below for the timing of each session. Please e-mail italian.res-sem@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions!
Week 1 (13 October) — 5:15 PM
Ruth Glynn (Bristol), Book Launch for Naples and the Nation. Image, Media and Culture in the Second Republic
Week 2 (20 October) — 1 PM
Kate Travers (Warwick), ‘Lyric Geographies: Imagining Place in the Poetry of Medieval Italy’
Week 3 (27 October) — 5:15 PM
Alessandro Carlucci (Oxford), ‘Some thoughts and research on the role of translation in the history of the Italian language’
Week 4 (3 November) — 5:15 PM
Joint event with ISO
Yorick Gomez Gane (Calabria), ‘Gender and Language in Italian and Other Romance Languages’
Week 5 (10 November) — 1 PM
Ryan Pepin (York), ‘“Dietro la memoria non può ire”: Copyists’ Slips in the Textual Tradition of the Commedia’
Week 6 (17 November) — 1 PM
Selena Daly (UCL), ‘Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War’
Week 7 (24 November) — 1 PM
Nicolò Crisafi (Cambridge), ‘Three tales to take down Dante: Boccaccio’s reductio ad absurdum of teleological narratives’
— EARLY MODERN ITALIAN WORLD SEMINAR —
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 3 (28 October)
Elizabeth Currie (Central St Martins and V&A), ‘On and Off the Canvas: Street Life in Early Modern Rome’
Week 5 (11 November)
Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge), ‘Fear and Fortune: Gypsy Women between Image, Devotion, and Control in Early Modern Italy’
Week 7 (25 November)
Claire Judde de Larivière (Toulouse), ‘Who did Renaissance people think they were? Class consciousness, sense of belonging, and social categories in Venice 1400-1600’
— EARLY MODERN WORLD SEMINAR —
Rector’s Drawing Room, Exeter College
Tuesdays, 2–3:30 PM
Week 2 (21 October)
Peter Burke (Cambridge), ‘Towards a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma’
— HISTORY OF ART RESEARCH SEMINAR —
Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Tuesdays, 5 PM
Week 5 (11 November)
Maria Loh (Princeton), ‘Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?’
— EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE SEMINAR —
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Seminar Room 10.424
Tuesdays, 5:15 PM
Week 7 (25 November)
Bart Van Es (Oxford), ‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’
Francesca Southerden (Oxford), ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
— LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY SEMINAR —
Kloppenburg Room, Exeter College Cohen Quad
Wednesdays, 11:10 AM
Week 8 (3 December)
Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford), ‘Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy’
— ROMANCE LINGUISTICS SEMINAR —
Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Seminar Room 10.019
Thursdays, 5 PM
Jointly hosted by the Faculty of Linguistics and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Convened by Prof. Martin Maiden
Week 4 (6 November)
Yorick Gomez Gane (Calabria), ‘New Contributions on Italian Suffixes’
— WELCOMING CITIES: ARRIVAL INFRASTRUCTURE —
Seminar hosted by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/welcoming-cities-arrival-infrastructure
The Hub, Kellogg College, and online via Zoom
Thursdays, 3:45 PM
Week 7 (27 November)
Tiziana Caponio (Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto) and Andrea Pettrachin (Padova), ‘The Politicisation of Local Integration Policy-Making in Western European Small and Medium-sized Towns and Rural Areas’
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For further information, please contact italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk
or visit our website, www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk.