Royal Holloway, University of London

Italian Research Seminars

2009-10

Except for Dr Pieri’s seminar*, all seminars will take place in the

International Building

Royal Holloway, University of London

Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX

Seminars will commence at 4 pm

and will be followed by refreshments

Wednesday, 18 November 2009: Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway, London), ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio and Edward Burne-Jones: The Myth of Psyche between Pre-Raphaelitism and Decadence’

*This seminar is part of a symposium on visual culture organised by the Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway. The symposium will be held in Room F001, Arts Building, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, from 2 to 5 pm.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009, Room IN031: Arturo Tosi (Royal Holloway, London, and Siena), ‘SABIR vs. ELF: A Comparison between an Italian-Based Lingua Franca of the Past and English as a Lingua Franca in Europe’

Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Room TBC: Federica Pedriali (Edinburgh), ‘Saturation, Gaps and Graded Props: Isn't He (Italo Svevo) Delightful?’

Wednesday, 24February 2010, Room TBC: Denis Reidy (Royal Holloway, London, and British Library), ‘Fucini, Verga and Fattori (not to mention Degas!)’

Wednesday, 17 March 2010, Room TBC: Fabrizio De Donno (Royal Holloway, London), ‘Otherworldly Matters: Religion and the Third World in Italian Culture’

Wednesday, 5 May 2010, Room TBC: Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford), ‘Writing the Apocalypse Before and After Freud: Memory and Selfhood in Dante's Commedia and Giorgio Pressburger's Nel regno oscuro’

Free entry

ALL WELCOME!

Alessandro Carlucci

Professor Jane E.Everson’s Administration Assistant

School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Royal Holloway University of London

Egham TW20 0EX

tel. 01784 443236