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22-23 January – Women and the Canon. A symposium organized by Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Hartley.
25 February – Italian Cultural Institute in London, Londra per Amelia Rosselli. A roundtable including Gian Maria Annovi, Alberto Casadei, Chiara Carpita, Gabriella Palli Baroni, Emanuela Tandello; followed by a reading of Rosselli’s work by poet and playwright Mariangela Gualtieri. (Details TBA)
Italian Studies at Oxford is pleased to invite you to the following events
(all events take place at the Taylor Institution, St Giles, Room 2)
Wednesday 3 February, 5pm
Nicola Gardini (University of Oxford), Lost Words: Growing up in Chaotic Early-1970s Milan
Wednesday 17 February, 5pm
Emmanuela Patti (University of Birmingham), Dante and Pasolini
Wednesday 2 March, 5pm
Gaia Servadio (Writer), The Dream of Reformation in Renaissance Italy
Wednesday 9 March, 5pm
Alessandro Gallenzi (Writer and Publisher), Giordano Bruno, an Exile in England and in the World
You may also be interested in the following events:
The Oxford Italian Association
Events start at 7.30 for 08.00 pm
Admission: Members £2; Non-Members: £5; students under 30 free
26 January 2016
Catherine Whistler (Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean), ‘Titian to Canaletto: drawing in Venice’, Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s
17 February 2016
Stefania Del Monte will discuss her latest book: Staging Memory. Myth, Symbolism and Identity in Postcolonial Italy and Libya, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Rd
4 March 2016 (tbc)
Film: Mia madre (Nanni Moretti, 2015)
Tawney Room, Rewley House
Italian Renaissance Seminar
Convenors: Gervase Rosser (gervase.rosser@hoa.ox.ac.uk) and Nicholas Davidson
St Catherine’s College, Mondays, 5 pm
18 January Pietro Delcorno (University of Leeds)
‘Between Pulpit and Stage: the Prodigal Son in Early Renaissance Florence’
25 January Guido Rebecchini (Courtauld Institute of Art)
‘Visual politics on the street: Art and rhetoric in the Rome of Pope Paul III (1534-1549)’
1 February Michael Waters (University of Oxford)
‘Resubstantiating Antiquity: The materiality of Roman Renaissance architecture’
8 February Meera Juncu (Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge)
'Unveiling India in the Italian Renaissance: the papal secretary and the adventurer's tales'
15 February Giorgio Tagliaferro (University of Warwick)
‘Sovereignty and self-denial: The idea of Venice in the Great Council Hall painting cycle (1577-1601)’
Italian Cultural Institute
26 February Mariangela Guatieri
‘leggere a voce alta’, Main Hall, Taylor Institution