The Society of Italian Studies

Annual General Meeting 2021
2021-01-16 13:30 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
The Society for Italian Studies is very pleased to invite you to the next Annual General Meeting, which will take place online on Saturday 16th January at 1:30pm, until around 4pm. The AGM will take 45 minutes and, after a short break, we will then move on to the afternoon discussion. As always, the meeting is an important opportunity for the Italian Studies community to discuss the major issues that are affecting our discipline. So this year our afternoon session will be devoted to addressing issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in Italian Studies.
To join the meeting, please use the following link and/or credentials:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83793076505?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 837 9307 6505
Passcode: [REDACTED]

PRISMI new series - CALL FOR PAPERS
2020-09-15
CALL FOR PAPERS PER
PRISMI nouvelle série,
revue du Département d’Italien de l’Université de Lorraine
Dirigée par Elsa Chaarani et Giuseppe Sangirardi

2 (2021) et n. 3 (2022)

A partire dal 2020, PRISMI, rivista di studi italianistici fondata nel 1996 da Bruno Toppan e legata al Dipartimento di Italiano dell’Université de Lorraine, sarà oggetto di una doppia pubblicazione, in volume cartaceo e online, sul portale dell’editore Chemins de tr@verse (una richiesta è in corso per l’accesso al portale open edition).
Parallelamente, PRISMI si rinnova nella sua organizzazione interna e nella sua struttura per meglio inserirsi nel paesaggio universitario attuale e allinearsi agli standard scientifici oggi riconosciuti.

I fascicoli, pubblicati con cadenza annuale, comporteranno tre rubriche (due almeno per numero), per meglio alimentare e valorizzare il carattere tradizionalmente pluridisciplinare della rivista, facendo ampio spazio alla letteratura italiana, ma promuovendo ugualmente l’apertura dell’orizzonte in direzione di una comparatistica intesa in senso largo e degli studi storici e culturali.

Interprétation de textes et de corpus : questa sezione ospiterà studi aventi per oggetto la letteratura italiana, che si tratti di analisi di testi singoli o di inchieste su tematiche più o meno estese.
Interlangues : (letteratura comparata, intertestualità, traduzione) : questa sezione ospiterà studi sulla lingua e sulla letteratura italiane in relazione con altre lingue e letterature del presente o del passato, nella prospettiva della traduttologia, della letteratura comparata, della filologia romanza, della filologia tout court.
Arcimboldo: questa sezione ospiterà studi che esplorino le diverse sfaccettature della storia e della cultura italiana, dal teatro all’opera, dalla storia dell’arte al cinema, dalla sociologia allo sport, dalla musica alla filosofia o alla politica.

Sommario del n. 1, la cui pubblicazione è attesa per la fine del 2020
Interprétation de textes et de corpus
Paolo Orvieto, Lettura allegorica del Morgante
Matteo Residori, « Non si perde servigio mai nessuno ». Gratitudine, amicizia e giustizia nel Morgante
Pierre Musitelli, Langue, dramaturgie et lectures politiques des opéras de Verdi (1842-1849)
Interlangues
Federico Bertoni, La donna moltiplicata. Frammento di um discorso amoroso
Arcimboldo
Gilles Bertrand, Versailles en Italie. Usages et destin d’une référence pour les Français voyageant dans la Péninsule au XVIIIe siècle
Raffaele Ruggiero, Giambattista Vico, un filosofo in tipografia
Salvatore Settis, Tre inquietudini di Antonio Tabucchi: la pátria, la politica, il tempo.
Per i numeri 2 e 3 si può inviare all’indirizzo della redazione :
lis-revue-prismi@univ-lorraine.fr

Una proposta di articolo (un titolo e una descrizione del contenuto tra dieci e venti righe) per il n. 2 (uscita nel 2021) al più tardi il 15 settembre 2020 (se la proposta è accettata, l’articolo dovrà essere consegnato al più tardi il 30 ottobre)
Una proposta di articolo (un titolo e una descrizione del contenuto tra dieci e venti righe) per il n. 3 (uscita nel 2022) al più tardi il 31 gennaio 2021 (se la proposta è accettata, l’articolo dovrà essere consegnato al più tardi il 30 aprile)

Le lingue accettate sono il francese, l’italiano e l’inglese

APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS POUR
PRISMI nouvelle série,
revue du Département d’Italien de l’Université de Lorraine
Dirigée par Elsa Chaarani et Giuseppe Sangirardi

2 (2021) et n. 3 (2022)

A compter de 2020, PRISMI, revue d’études italiennes fondée en 1996 par Bruno Toppan et émanant de la section d’Italien de l’Université de Lorraine, fera l’objet d’une double publication, en volume papier et désormais aussi en ligne, sur le portail de l’éditeur Chemins de tr@verse (une demande est en cours pour la mise en ligne sur le portail open edition).
Parallèlement, PRISMI fait peau neuve dans son organisation interne et sa structure pour mieux s’accorder avec le paysage universitaire actuel et s’aligner sur les standards scientifiques aujourd’hui reconnus.
Les parutions régulières, à cadence annuelle, comporteront désormais trois rubriques (dont deux au moins par numéro), pour mieux nourrir et valoriser le caractère traditionnellement pluridisciplinaire de la revue, en accordant une large place à la littérature italienne mais promouvant également l’ouverture de l’horizon en direction d’un comparatisme compris dans le sens le plus large et des études historiques et culturelles.

Interprétation de textes et de corpus : cette section hébergera des travaux ayant pour objet la littérature italienne, qu’il s’agisse d’analyse de textes singuliers ou d’enquêtes sur des thématiques plus ou moins étendues
Interlangues : (littérature comparée, intertextualités, traduction) : cette section hébergera des travaux portant sur la langue et la littérature italiennes en relation avec d’autres langues et littératures du présent ou du passé, dans les optiques propres à la traductologie, la littérature comparée, la philologie romane, la philologie tout court.
Arcimboldo: cette section hébergera des travaux explorant l’ensemble des facettes de l’histoire et de la culture italiennes, du théâtre à l’opéra, de l’histoire de l’art au cinéma, de la sociologie au sport, de la musique à la philosophie ou à la politique.

Sommaire du n. 1, à paraître fin 2020
Interprétation de textes et de corpus
Paolo Orvieto, Lettura allegorica del Morgante
Matteo Residori, « Non si perde servigio mai nessuno ». Gratitudine, amicizia e giustizia nel Morgante
Pierre Musitelli, Langue, dramaturgie et lectures politiques des opéras de Verdi (1842-1849)
Interlangues
Federico Bertoni, La donna moltiplicata. Frammento di um discorso amoroso
Arcimboldo
Gilles Bertrand, Versailles en Italie. Usages et destin d’une référence pour les Français voyageant dans la Péninsule au XVIIIe siècle
Raffaele Ruggiero, Giambattista Vico, un filosofo in tipografia
Salvatore Settis, Tre inquietudini di Antonio Tabucchi: la pátria, la politica, il tempo.
Pour les números 2 et 3 vous pouvez envoyer à l’adresse de la rédaction :
lis-revue-prismi@univ-lorraine.fr

Une proposition d’article (un titre et dix à vingt lignes décrivant le contenu) pour le n. 2 (parution en 2021) au plus tard le 15 septembre 2020 (si votre proposition est retenue, l’article sera à remettre pour le 30 octobre au plus tard)
Une proposition d’article (un titre et dix à vingt lignes décrivant le contenu) pour le n. 3 (parution en 2022) au plus tard le 31 janvier 2021 (si votre proposition est retenue, l’article sera à remettre le 30 avril au plus tard).

Les langues acceptées sont le français, l’italien et l’anglais.

SIS Themed Conference 2020: Visions of Italy
2020-09-10 - 2020-09-11 | University of Kent, Giles Ln, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ, United Kingdom
Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference
Visions of Italy
University of Kent, 10-11 September 2020

Popular conceptions of Italy typically revolve around the visual: the beauty of its landscapes and its historic legacy of fine art and architecture. This dates back at least to the medieval period, and the innovations of artists such as Giotto and visionary writers like Dante. In the twentieth century, it is in the fields of cinema, photography, art, fashion and design that Italy has had the most marked impact around the world. Concurrently, Italy has also been a favoured subject of visual representation: from Grand Tour photographic albums to mainstream Hollywood films set in Italy, there is no lack of foreign representations of the country and its inhabitants.

This conference will explore Italian visual culture, Italy’s relationship with the visual and the way in which Italy and Italians have been depicted. It aims to further a dialogue among scholars in the field of Italian studies who deal with visual culture in the broadest sense, from studies of visual arts and objects to literary works characterized by an emphasis on the visual.

We welcome proposals for papers or pre-constituted panels (of three papers) on topics such as:

Cinema and photography;
Visual arts of all eras, from Medieval and Rennaissance to contemporary art;
Fashion and design;
Advertising and visual culture;
Intermediality and cross-media representation;
Visual representations of Italians and Italian culture abroad (e.g. Italian-Americans, the diaspora, etc);
Visual representations of migration to and within Italy;
Transcultural representations of Italy and Italians;
Ekphrasis and visual culture in Italian literature;
Visualisation within, and of, the work of medieval and early modern authors (e.g. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca).

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Stephen Gundle

Papers may be delivered in either English or Italian

For individual papers, please send a 200-word abstract and a 100-word bio.
For panels, please send a 200-word rationale plus 100-word abstracts and 100-word bios for each paper in the panel. In putting together a panel, you should take into account the SIS policy on gender equality (copied at the foot of this CFP).
Proposals should be emailed to both conference organisers (a.p.marlow-mann@kent.ac.uk and a.sforza-tarabochia@kent.ac.uk) by 31st January 2020.

SIS Gender Policy
Conferences and events organised by the SIS will respect the following norms:

as far as possible there will be a balance in the number of male/female speakers and session chairs;
single-sex panels will be avoided wherever possible;
panel chairs will be briefed on how to ensure inclusive and balanced discussion;
where there is more than one keynote speaker efforts will be made to ensure gender balance.

Alex and Alvise

Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression - temporarily cancelled
2020-06-25 - 2020-06-26 | University of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom
English version
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the role of women in Sardinian culture and society from the Middle Ages to the present day, with an emphasis on the concepts of creativity and self-expression, intended not only in literary, cultural and artistic forms, but also in daily practices and contexts. A central geographical area in the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by an enduring archaic and mythical aura, Sardinia is a privileged space to examine the contradictions between pre-established gender roles and the emergence of extraordinary female figures, from the great giudicessa Eleanor of Arborea (1347-1404) to the Nobel prize winner in literature Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), the only woman who received this recognition in Italy to date.
Grazia Deledda evocatively defined Sardinia as the “Cinderella of Italy, still waiting for her fairy godmother to discover her and take her out of the obscurity in which she lives”. This unjustly neglected Italian region has witnessed a rising wave of imaginative women writers in the twentieth century, including Maria Giacobbe (1928-), Bianca Piztorno (1942-), Milena Agus (1959-), Michela Murgia (1972-). As recently as 2019, several cultural events in Italy celebrated the centenary of Maria Lai’s birth (1919-2013), another distinguished artist from Sardinia, whose sculptures, canvases and “sewn fairy tales” speak of and to women’s creative self-expressions across time and space.
Alongside such renowned female figures, numerous unknown women contributed to build up the unique and multifaceted character of this island, by blurring in everyday life the boundary between the secluded world of their households and the public sphere, and challenging their own worlds with small but bold acts of disobedience to the established order. By unravelling the unexplored threads between prominent female figures and those who did not make their way in the official history of this region, this conference seeks also to acknowledge the forms of creativity and self-expression that lesser-known women resorted to in a variety of social and cultural contexts.
We invite papers that explore the nexuses between women, creativity, self-expression and Sardinian culture in their multifarious facets. Proposals may include, but are not limited to, women’s role in Sardinian literature, both as writers and as fictional characters, in oral traditions, visual arts, education, law, everyday public and domestic spheres, beyond chronological boundaries, as well as in a comparative perspective with other cultural contexts.

Instructions and deadlines for proposals
We welcome submissions of both individual papers and proposals for panels:

Individual paper proposals for 20-minute presentations should consist of a title, an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note.
Panels should consist of three papers and each proposal should include a title, the names of the chair and the speakers, abstracts (max. 300 words each) and a short biographical note of the

The working languages of the conference are English and Italian. Abstract and panel proposals can be sent either in English or in Italian.
Please submit your proposal for either a paper or a panel to the conference organisers Sara Delmedico (sd683@cam.ac.uk) and Elena Emma Sottilotta (ees45@cam.ac.uk), University of Cambridge, Italian Section.
The deadline for submission of paper/panel proposals is 30 March 2020. Notification of inclusion in the conference will be sent by 20 April 2020.

Italian version
Questa conferenza interdisciplinare mira ad esplorare il ruolo delle donne nella cultura e nella società sarda dal Medioevo al giorno d’oggi, con un’enfasi sui concetti di creatività ed espressione di sé, intesi non solo nelle dimensioni letterarie, culturali e artistiche, ma anche in pratiche e contesti quotidiani. Crocevia geografico centrale nel Mar Mediterraneo, circondata da una duratura aura mitica e arcaica, la Sardegna è uno spazio privilegiato per esaminare le contraddizioni tra ruoli di genere prestabiliti e l’emergere di figure femminili straordinarie, dalla grande giudicessa Eleonora d’Arborea (1347-1404) alla vincitrice del premio Nobel per la letteratura Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), l’unica donna ad aver ricevuto questo riconoscimento in Italia ad oggi.
Grazia Deledda ha evocativamente definito la Sardegna come “la Cenerentola d’Italia, che aspetta tutt’ora la fata benefica che la scopra e la tragga dall’oscurità in cui vive”. Questa regione italiana ingiustamente trascurata è stata protagonista di un’ondata crescente di scrittrici creative nel corso del ventesimo secolo, tra cui Maria Giacobbe (1928-), Bianca Piztorno (1942-), Milena Agus (1959-), Michela Murgia (1972-). Di recente, nel 2019 si sono tenuti vari eventi culturali in Italia per la celebrazione del centenario della nascita di Maria Lai (1919- 2013), un’altra nota artista sarda, le cui sculture, tele e “fiabe cucite” danno voce alle espressioni creative delle donne attraverso il tempo e lo spazio.
Accanto a queste figure femminili illustri, numerose donne sconosciute hanno contribuito a plasmare il carattere unico e sfaccettato di quest’isola, sfumando nella vita di tutti i giorni il confine tra il mondo appartato delle loro famiglie e la sfera pubblica e sfidando i loro mondi con piccoli ma audaci atti di disobbedienza all’ordine prestabilito. Nel dipanare i fili inesplorati tra figure femminili di spicco e coloro che non sono entrate a far parte delle pagine ufficiali della storia di questa regione, questa conferenza mira anche a riconoscere le forme di creatività ed espressione di sé a cui ricorrevano donne meno note in una varietà di contesti sociali e culturali.
Vorremmo ospitare contributi che esplorano i nessi tra donne, creatività, espressione di sé e cultura sarda nelle loro molteplici sfaccettature. Le proposte possono incentrarsi sul ruolo delle donne nella letteratura sarda, sia come scrittrici che come personaggi di fantasia, nonché nelle tradizioni orali, nelle arti visive, nel campo dell’istruzione, in ambito legislativo, nelle sfere pubbliche e private, al di fuori di limiti cronologici ed anche in prospettiva comparata con altri contesti culturali.

Modalità di invio delle proposte e scadenze
Sono benvenute sia proposte per presentazioni individuali che proposte per sessioni:

Le proposte per presentazioni individuali della durata di 20 minuti ciascuna dovranno essere accompagnate da titolo, abstract (massimo 300 parole) e una breve nota biografica.
Le proposte per sessioni comprenderanno tre presentazioni individuali e ogni proposta dovrà essere accompagnata da titolo, nomi del coordinatore della sessione e dei relatori, abstract (massimo 300 parole ciascuno) e una breve nota biografica dei partecipanti.

Le lingue di lavoro della conferenza saranno inglese e italiano. Le proposte possono essere inviate in una delle due lingue.
Si prega di inviare le proposte entro il 30 marzo 2020 alle organizzatrici della conferenza Sara Delmedico (sd683@cam.ac.uk) ed Elena Emma Sottilotta (ees45@cam.ac.uk), Università di Cambridge, Dipartimento di Italianistica. La notifica di inclusione nella conferenza verrà comunicata entro il 20 aprile 2020.

Conference Organisers:
Sara Delmedico, MHRA Research Fellow sd683@cam.ac.uk
Elena Emma Sottilotta, PhD Candidate ees45@cam.ac.uk
Date: 25-26 June 2020
Location:
Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Gigliola Sulis, University of Leeds
Guest of Honour:
Michela Murgia, Award-winning writer
Conference page:
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/news/women-sardinia-creativity-self-expression

SIS Annual General Meeting
2020-01-11 11:00 - 15:30 | Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX, United Kingdom
We are pleased to invite all SIS members to the 2020 Annual General Meeting which is taking place this Saturday 11 January 2020 at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, from 11am until around 3.30 pm.

SIS Executive Committee Meeting
2020-01-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Senate house, London, WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
The SIS Executive Committe Meeting wil take place FRIDAY 10th January 2020, 2-5pm
Room 246, Senate House (IMLR)
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

SIS PG Colloquium 2019
2019-11-29 | University of Durham, United Kingdom
The next Postgraduate Colloquium ‘Minorities Report. Italian Culture, Facing Otherness’
will be held on 29 November 2019 at the University of Durham.
The Colloquium will provide an opportunity for postgraduate students to discuss the extent to which multi-vocality has had an impact on Italian Studies so far, the direction in which our disciplinary field is moving and its role in an ever-changing national and global context.
Prof Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff University), an expert in the fields of translation studies, comparative literature, and history of travel and migration, will deliver a keynote lecture in the morning. She will propose an intersectional approach to the concept of minority intermingled with the experience of feminine migration. In the afternoon, Dr Guido Furci (Durham University – Sorbonne Nouvelle), with his strong knowledge of minorities’ voices and juridical statuses, will explore forms of ‘indirect witnessing’ and ‘intrusive memory’ in the context of Italian contemporary literature.

La più bella del mondo – The most beautiful in the world
2019-04-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX, United Kingdom
12 talks on the Italian language
“The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the expression is more often than not used to define Italian language. Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? It is commonplace, due to either italophilia or nationalism, but is it only this?
A series led by Dr Stefano Jossa, author of La più bella del mondo. Perché amare la lingua italiana (Einaudi) and Reader in Italian at Royal Holloway University of London, will explore the relationships between Italian and other languages, the Italian words that have become key to interpret our contemporary world, the various languages of arts, music, technology, economy and politics.
Event in Italian with simultaneous translation in English
Next talk will be on 30/04 by Massimo Arcangeli on Insulting in Italian.
Londra
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Interart/intermedia experimentation through the ages (from the medieval age to the present)
2019-04-12 - 2019-04-13 | Royal Holloway
The programme of the conference will be available soon.

In collaboration with
School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin
School of European Languages, Culture and Society, UCL
AHRC project “Interdisciplinary Italy” (www.interdisciplinaryitaly.org)
AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council)
Organisers: Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug, Giuliana Pieri, Emanuela Patti.

Description:
This conference explores interartistic and intermedial encounters in Italy and the new kinds of experimentation that arise from these. It will focus attention on individuals and groups who are actively engaged in creative boundary-crossing and on institutions who fostered or hindered interartistic and intermedial exchange. It may subvert widely accepted canons as what looks central under the lens of the monodisciplinary microscope may not be so from an interartistic one.

We welcome proposals from established scholars, early career researchers, and PhD students from all disciplines.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

1. Interartistic and intermedial, experimentation and creativity.
How does intermedial and interartistic practice work to enhance creativity? What are its links with experimentation? Why does it arise?

2. Mapping and rewriting the cultural canon
How does looking at artists and artworks from an intermedial/interartistic perspective reshape the map of what is central and what is peripheral? Which artists have been lost to cultural histories because their work falls into the interstices between the arts?

3. Historical change
How has working between two or more arts has been received or marginalised across the ages? What is instrumental in this change? Why does this take place? What kind of interartistic practice is taking place in medieval Italy, in the Renaissance or later? Are there particular periods in Italy’s history in which explosions of interartistic practice take place and why?

4. Boundary crossing
How are borders between the arts policed and why? How have institutions in Italy played a part in shaping what fits, or does not, in certain artistic tradition? How do we best investigate the process of dialogue/translation/remediation involved in border crossings between the arts?

5. Collaboration and communities
How might interartistic and intermedial practice bring artists together? Why do groups come together and how? How does the collaborative making of artworks across boundaries differ from solitary practice? How might transmedia practice – and the fandom associated with it – make us think differently about readers and about artistic and literary communities?

6. Theories of interartistic practice and intermediality
How has thinking in Italy contributed to the international debate on intermediality and on interartistic practice?

7. Bad practice …
How does intermedial and interartistic practice threaten the stability of artistic forms and disciplines? Are there negative implications to be considered? What are the risks and dangers of intermedia?

The main goal of this conference is to look at Italian culture from an intermedial perspective (rather than a multimedial, or multiartistic one) to understand how the bringing together of two or more art forms, or two or more artists working across art forms have changed creative production in Italy, and indeed beyond, from the medieval age to the present. We plan to publish selected papers from the conference in an edited volume.

Press Play: Creative Interventions in Research and Practice
2019-03-28 10:00 - 2019-03-29 19:00
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming conference Press Play: Creative Interventions in Research and Practice
MACRO / British School at Rome / MAAM
28-29 March 2019
This conference will bring together art practitioners and academics in order to explore common interests in creativity in, and as, research practice. It grounds this conversation in the broad disciplinary area of Modern Languages, which has been at a critical juncture in terms of defining its purpose and identity for some considerable time.

Readers and Reading in the Book: the Imaginary and the Material
2019-03-27 14:00 - 17:30
Readers and Reading in the Book: the Imaginary and the Material
The event will focus on how the practices and experiences of reading have been represented in literary texts over the centuries.
Speakers include: Federica Pich, Giovanna Rizzarelli, Rhiannon Daniels, Guyda Armstrong and Karin Littau. Please find the description of the event and details about the programme and the registration

Jhumpa Lahiri in Conversation with Nicola Gardini
2019-03-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Blackwell’s Bookshop, 51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ, United Kingdom
Blackwell’s is thrilled to announce this forthcoming event:
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri, in conversation with writer and translator, Nicola Gardini, on her latest role as editor of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories.
When Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian, a language she had studied for many years, her life as a reader – and writer – took a surprising turn. Complete immersion in this rich literary heritage brought fresh insight and unexpected freedom.
This collection brings together forty writers who have shaped her love of the Italian language and profound appreciation for its literature. More than half of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time and the wide ranging selection includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many captivating rediscoveries.
Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society. Together they reflect over a hundred years of Italy’s vibrant and diverse short story tradition, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and the dramatic political events of the twentieth century. The first anthology of its kind, over half of the stories in this collection appear translated into English for the first time.
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia for In altre parole.
Nicola Gardini is a poet, novelist, columnist and translator. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University and is now a Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Keble College, Oxford.
The event will be chaired by Elena Lombardi, fellow of Balliol College and Chair of the Department of Italian at Oxford University.

Tickets for this event cost £5. Doors will open at 6.45pm, at which time there will be a small bar available to purchase drinks. For more information please contact Customer Services on 01865 333 623 or email events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk

#italiesinmotion
2019-03-06 16:00 - 19:00
The 4th edition of ‘Identities in Motion. Legacies and Representations of Mobility in Contemporary Italy‘ will take place at the University of Warwick on Wednesday, 6 March 2019 (Ramphal Building, R0.04) the research seminar will provide an opportunity to discuss to what extent translation practices may impact the production and dissemination of alternative and de-centred perspectives to read contemporary Italian and European society and culture. Moreover, specific attention will be paid to some research projects which make available their outcomes via digital archives, interactive maps, and web blogs.
Programme
16.00 – Registration and Welcome
16.15 – Translating contemporary translingual writers Romeo Fratti (Linguafranca Transnational Literary Agency) in conversation with Mila Milani (Warwick)
17.15 – The Dialectics of Modernity: Designing Cultural Landscapes with Digital Humanities Francesca Billiani (Manchester) in conversation with Gianmarco Mancosu (Warwick)
18.15 – Final roundtable: Italian Cultures and Digital Humanities with Bryan Brazeau (Warwick), organizers and invited speakers

19.00 – Wine Reception

Italian Teachers Day 2019
2019-03-02 | pin Francis Holland School Regent’s Park, Ivor Place,, London, NW1 6XR
Italian Teachers Day
Speakers
Professor Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge, Fossoli: POWs, Primo Levi, Postwar Utopia
Professor Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway, University of London, The Making of Modern Italy: Art, Fashion and Design in Postwar Italy
Dr. Cecilia Brioni, University of Hull, Perché Sanremo è Sanremo: Teaching Italian Social History through Popular Music
Dr. Alessio Baldini, University of Leeds, The family as metaphor for a nation
Professor Guido Bonsaver, University of Oxford, Teaching I cento passi
Dr. Daniela La Penna, University of Reading, Teaching Marcovaldo
Ian Rodmell (AQA) – The GCSE examination
Carole Moore (co-author of Amici)
Round table on teaching grammar and translation (Dr Caterina Sinibaldi, Nick Roberts, Dr Julia Barron)
