italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
CENTRE
FOR ITALIAN STUDIES
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2002-03
AUTUMN TERM 2002
Thursday 17 October, 6.00pm, Room 114 Foster Court, UCL
Riflessioni e ricordi sull'antifascismo e sulla resistenza
Guido Bersellini and Stuart Hood
Thursday 31 October, 2.30 - 6.30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL
People who lose their language
An interdisciplinary conference on strokes prompted by Sheila Hale's book,
published by Penguin, about her late husband Sir John Hale. Speakers
include Sally Byng, Gabriele Miceli, Chris Frith, Victoria Readman,
Richard Wise.
Thursday 14 November, 6.00pm, A V Hill Lecture Theatre, UCL
Microhistories, methodologies, art and politics
Carlo Ginzburg in dialogue with Francesca Medioli
Friday 15 and Saturday 16 November. Warbug Institute
A conference on Renaissance studies in memory of Giovanni Aquilecchia
Speakers include Lina Bolzoni, Peter Brand, Germana Ernst, Conor Fahy,
Hilary Gatti, Carlo Ginzburg, Miguel Granada, Nuccio Ordine, Letizia
Panizza, Angelo Romano.
This event is sponsored by Withers Solicitors.
Thursday 21 November, 6.00pm, Room 114 Foster Court, UCL
Antonio Tabucchi (1943-): history, psychoanalysis, literature. Jonathan Smith
Thursday 5 December, 6.00pm, A V Hill Lecture Theatre, UCL
Heroes and lovers: male beauty in fifteenth century Florentine portraiture.
Alison Wright
This lecture will be followed by a Buffet Supper for Alumni of the Italian
Department
SPRING TERM 2003
Thursday 23 January, 6pm, Haldane Room, UCL.
An evening of words and music
Margaret Rapacioli and John Moores
Thursday 30 January, 6.00pm, A V Hill Lecture Theatre, UCL
Establishing canons and breaking codes. Avantgardes. Beyond the Twentieth
century
Klemens Gruber, Luisa Passerini and Robert Lumley
Thursday 20 February, 6.00pm, A V Hill Lecture Theatre, UCL
Il comune senso del pudore.
Mario Fortunato in conversation with Jennifer Burns
Thursday 27 February, 6.00pm, A V Hill Lecture Theatre, UCL
Vedere e descrivere le emozioni: un esperimento
Patrizia Violi in conversation with Giulio Lepschy
Thursday 6 March, 6.00pm, Room 114 Foster Court, UCL
Poesia dialettale
Franco Brevini in conversation with Giulio Lepschy
Friday 25 April, 9.00am - 6.00pm, Foster Court 101, UCL
Memory and Place in the 20th century Italian City
Second annual symposium. Speakers include Alessandro Portelli, John Foot,
David Forgacs.
NOTES ON SPEAKERS
Guido Bersellini was a Giustizia e Libertà partisan and subsequently Editor
of Il Sole
Franco Brevini is Professor of Italian at Bergamo University
Jennifer Burns is Lecturer in the Italian department at the University of
Warwick John Foot is Lecturer in the Department of Italian at UCL
David Forgacs is Professor of Italian at UCL
Mario Fortunato is a highly acclaimed novelist and Director of the Italian
Insititute in London
Carlo Ginzburg is Professor of History at UCLA
Klemens Gruber teaches at the Institut für Theater-, Film- und
Medienwissenschaft in Vienna
Stuart Hood fought with the Italian Resistance; was subsequently Controller
of the BBC and is now a novelist
Giulio Lepschy is Honorary Professor in the Department of Italian at UCL.
Robert Lumley is Professor of Italian Cultural Studies at UCL
Francesca Medioli is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Reading
John Moores, pianist and composer, formerly lectured at UCL
Luisa Passerini is Fellow in Residence at the Kulturwissenschaftliches
Institut, Essen
Alessandro Portelli is Professor of American Studies at the University of
Rome and a specialist on oral history
Margaret Rapacioli will be appearing in the ENO' 'Operatunity' programme to
be shown on Channel Four in February 2003
Jonathan Smith is a Lecturer at the University of Wales in Swansea
Patrizia Violi is Professor of Semiotics at the Univeristy of Bologna
Alison Wright is Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian
Art in the Department of History of Art, UCL
We have introduced a Friends Scheme which will entitle members to some
benefits (such as a 10% discount ad Cecil Court's Italian bookshop,
occasional papers etc.)
To find out more you can e-mail me ([log in to unmask]) or Sue Carr
([log in to unmask])
Italian Departments in Britain should have received the Programme in hard
copy as well. If they have not and they can request one.
I look forward to see you in London for some of these events
Enrico Palandri
Director of the Centre for Italian Studies
Italian
Ucl
Gower St.
London WC1E 6BT
020 7679 7114
fax: 020 72090638
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