Seminars in 2009
Made in Italy. Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance and Modern Italy
| Date: | 27th Jan 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Room 16, Taylor Institution |
| Convenor: | Chair: Dr Giorgio Riello (Warwick) |
| Speaker(s): | Professor Stephen Gundle (Warwick) & Professor Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary) |
Women in the Mafia: Opportunities before Emancipation
| Date: | 5th Feb 2009 |
| Time: | 12:45 |
| Venue: | Manor Road Social Sciences Building, Seminar Room D |
| Convenor: | Diego Gambetta, Heather Hamill, Federico Varese |
| Speaker(s): | Valeria Pizzini-Gambetta |
| Description: | Part of the Extra-legal Governance Institute (ExLEGIS) Discussion Group Seminar Series. *All welcome* |
IGS "Gypsies, Travellers & Roma" Seminar
| Date: | 5th Feb 2009 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 1, QEH (3 Mansfield Road) |
| Convenor: | Prof. Judith Okely & Dr Lidia Sciama |
| Speaker(s): | Prof. Tommaso Vitale (Milan-Bicocca University) |
| Description: | As part of the IGS "Gypsies, Travellers and Roma Throughout Europe" Seminar Series, Prof. Vitale will speak on: "Continuous Persecution of Gypsies in Italian Local Societies? De-historicization and an Historical-Ethnographic Link." |
Economic Structure and Vulnerability to Organized Crime in Sicily
| Date: | 12th Feb 2009 |
| Time: | 12:45 |
| Venue: | Manor Road Social Sciences Building, Seminar Room D |
| Convenor: | Diego Gambetta, Heather Hamill, Federico Varese |
| Speaker(s): | Mario Lavezzi (University of Palermo) |
| Description: | Part of the Extra-legal Governance Institute (ExLEGIS) Discussion Group Seminar Series. *All welcome* |
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Mellon-Sawyer Seminar: "Managing International Financial Instability"
| Date: | 2nd Mar 2009 |
| Time: | 16:30 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building |
| Convenor: | ISO & OxIGED |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Fabrizio Saccomanni |
| Description: | The Mellon-Sawyer Seminar is in this occasion jointly organized by ISO and OxIGED, and we are pleased to announce the seminar speaker will be Dr Fabrizio Saccomanni. The title of Dr Saccomanni's talk will be "Managing International Financial Instability". |
| Further information: | The Mellon-Sawyer Seminar is in this occasion jointly organized by ISO and OxIGED, and we are pleased to announce the seminar speaker will be Dr Fabrizio Saccomanni. The seminar will take place in Seminar Room G of the Manor Road Building, and the title of Dr Saccomanni's talk will be "Managing International Financial Insecurity". |
Italy and its Racisms
"How do Italian CEOs spend their time? Evidence from top Italian firms"
| Date: | 20th May 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room B, Said Business School |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Oriana Bandiera (LSE) |
| Description: | Chair: Professor Diego Gambetta (Oxford). There will be a drinks reception after this event. *All welcome* |
"The UK banking system: A view from Italy"
| Date: | 3rd Jun 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Room 3, Taylor Institution |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Alessandro Roselli & Dr Carlo Gola (Banca d'Italia) |
| Description: | Chair: Professor Peter Oppenheimer (Christ Church) |
"Il populismo autoritario"
| Date: | 9th Jun 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Room 2, Taylor Institution |
| Convenor: | Italian Studies at Oxford |
| Speaker(s): | Professor Nicola Tranfaglia (Turin University) |
The Medieval Heart
| Date: | 19th Oct 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini & Dr Ela Tandello (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Heather Webb |
| Description: | Dr Webb is Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University, and visiting professor at CRASSH, Cambridge. Her book, 'The Medieval Heart' is forthcoming from Yale University Press. |
| Further information: | Seminar organized by the Department of Italian, Oxford. |
WHAT FREEDOM? and WHOSE FREEDOM?
Ovid, Boccaccio and Florentine Domestic Painting
| Date: | 21st Oct 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | History of Art, 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbe's (lecture theatre) |
| Convenor: | Dr C. Payne (Humanities, Oxford Brookes), Dr C. Whistler (Ashmolean), Dr A. Wright (History of Art, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Dr CAROLINE CAMPBELL (Courtauld Institute, London) |
| Description: | Art History Research Seminar, organized by the History of Art Department, Oxford. |
| Further information: | *Open to all* |
The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's "Aracoeli"
| Date: | 26th Oct 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini & Dr Ela Tandello (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Sara Fortuna (Rome), Dr Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford), Dr Christoph Holzhey (Berlin) & Dr Giuseppe Stellardi (Oxford) |
| Further information: | Seminar organized by the Department of Italian, Oxford. |
Beyond Futurism: Bruno Munari's Useless Machines
| Date: | 9th Nov 2009 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 2, Tom VIII, Christ Church |
| Convenor: | Dr Nicola Gardini & Dr Ela Tandello (Italian, Oxford) |
| Speaker(s): | Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge) |
| Further information: | Seminar organized by the Department of Italian, Oxford. |