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Dear colleagues,
I am writing to let you know about the Italian Departmental Research Seminars at Warwick next term (January - March 2014).
ALL WELCOME
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21 January, 5pm, H403 (Humanities Building), Research Workshop: 'A Kristevan Approach to Italian Literature: from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century'
* Francesca Southerden (Wellesley College): The Other of Language: Defining Affect in Petrarch and Kristeva
* Fabio Camilletti (Warwick): 'The Melancholy Prince. Leopardi and the Art of Detour'
* Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Warwick): 'Ero io l'ordinatore della strage': Maternal abjections in Elsa Morante's and Elena Ferrante's writings
* Emma Bond (St. Andrews): Migration and the Space of the Maternal Body
26 January - 9 February: Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow, Alina Marazzi: programme TBC
22 February, Conference: 'Italy Made in England: Contemporary British Perspectives on Italian Culture' (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/imie/ for more details)
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
* Bill Emmott (former editor of the Economist, author of Good Italy, Bad Italy and co-creator of the documentary Girlfriend in a Coma<http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/imie/film/> with Annalisa Piras)
* Donald Sassoon (Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London)
26 February: Professor Margaret Rose: 'Intercultural Dialogues': a project importing plays dealing with migrant issues from the UK to Italy'
5 March, 3pm, Research Seminar: 'Transnational Ideologies in the Italian Communities Abroad'
* Marcella Sutcliffe (Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University): Aurelio Saffi in England: representing Italy as the country of free thought.
* Pietro Dipaola (Senior Lecturer, University of Lincoln): Italian anarchists in the UK.
* Matteo Pretelli (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick): Fascism and Italian communities abroad.
* Claudia Baldoli (Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University): In Search of the White International: Catholic anti-Fascist exiles in the interwar years.
Commentators: Dr Loredana Polezzi and Dr Jennifer Burns.
27-28 March: SIS Interim Conference 2014 (Rome): Interstitial Italy: Reassessing Global Questions through the 'Peculiar' Italian Case (see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/research/events/sis2014/) for further details.
All best wishes,
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
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Dr Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Italian
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7HS
UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/current/prf/2011/wehling-giorgi/
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