News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Stefano Bragato
(Re)constructing Futurist Rome
A work by Mario Schifano shown at the recent exhibition Roma Pop City 60-67 at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO) is a creative remaking of a famous photograph portraying five members...
27-30 June 2017/SIS Biennial Conference, University of Hull
Society for Italian Studies Panel Submission PANEL 1 Title: Interart and Intermedia in Italy Speakers: Dr Clodagh Brook (Birmingham), Prof Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway), Dr Emanuela Patti (Birmingham) Focus and aims This...
9-10 June 2017/JCMS Conference: Innovations and Tensions, Italian Cinema and Media in a Global World, Rome
PANEL Italy’s “Expanded Cinema”: Cinema and The Electronic Arts Cinema has, since its very origins, been a plural medium, one which encompasses theatre, photography, music and other forms. However, since the sixties,...
In Conversation with Alessandro Baronciani
How can intermediality be conceptualised and expanded within a medium that is already intrinsically intermedial such as graphic novels? The diverse artistic output of Italian graphic novelist and designer Alessandro Baronciani (Pesaro,...
Cthulhu by Komplex: Augmented Reality as Intermedia Fiction and Surfacing Media
(translated by Kate Willman) Augmented Reality (AR) is a medium based on geolocation, computer vision, the use of specific apps (Aurasma, Blipper) and a mobile device (smartphone, tablet). In the last few...
November 2016 / Panel, Crossing Disciplines in Modern Languages Research
On Wednesday 30 November from 2-7 p.m in the Muirhead Tower, Room 710, University of Birmingham the Institute for German Studies will host an event on “Border crossings in Modern Languages: Research,...
November 2016/ Keynote, Cinema and the Arts in Italy: Creativity, Conflict and Collaboration
On 25th November 2016 at 2pm at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, Clodagh Brook will be giving the keynote talk for the Conference, An Eye on Italy. This talk investigates how Italian cinema...
Leonor Fini: A Unique Case of a Well-Rounded Artist
In art history, only a few artists were able to embrace multiple artistic fields like Leonor Fini (Buenos Aires, 1907-Paris, 1996). Cosmopolitan and magnetic, cultured and refined, eclectic and histrionic artist, paradoxically...
Milan Crossroad of Cultures (conference report)
On 22nd and 23rd September 2016 Milan hosted a major international conference, Milan, Crossroad of Cultures. As the result of a partnership between the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick and...
Bellissima: Between Metacinema and Intermediality
(translated by Kate Willman) Before Luchino Visconti’s film Bellissima, before directing the actors on the set, shooting, editing and cutting for censorship, all of which took place between June and December 1951,...