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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear all, I am delighted to invite you to the launch of my book, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. Kind regards, Carlotta UCL Institute of Jewish Studies IJS SPRING 2017 LECTURE SERIES BOOK LAUNCH Wednesday February 8th Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti Introduced by François Guesnet (UCL) The creation of an Italian nation-state introduced new problems and new opportunities for its citizens. What did it mean for the Jews? This lecture discusses the Italian-Jewish minority from the unification of the country to the end of the First World War. How could members of the minority combine and redefine Jewishness and Italian-ness in a radically new political and legal framework? Key concepts such as family, religion, nation, assimilation and – later – Zionism will be described as they shift and change over time, with the self-fashioning of Italian Jewish élites seen alongside the evolution of the cultural stereotypes typical of the period. Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti joined UCL in 2014 as Lecturer in Italian History at the Department of Italian, after holding post-doctoral positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), the Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (Paris), the Foundation for Contemporary Jewish Documentation (Milan) and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (Brandeis University). She has published extensively on Italian Jewish history, focusing in particular on the emancipation and the integration of the minority from a cultural perspective. Drinks reception from 6.30pm in the Malet Place Engineering Building foyer Lecture 7pm in Engineering Building 1:02 UCL Engineering (Roberts) Building, Malet Place entrance, Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT RESERVE YOUR PLACE AT https://italianjews.eventbrite.co.uk PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO THE IJS WHEN YOU BOOK OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE www.ucl.ac.uk/ijs<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ijs> THIS LECTURE IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY THE SCHOOL OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, CULTURE & SOCIETY (UCL) and THE DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN (UCL). Dr. Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti Lecturer in Italian Studies Department of Italian (SELCS) UCL [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies