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.