All Posts from Interdisciplinary Italy
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,...
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...
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...
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...
(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,...
Italian fashion narratives have often focused on the stylistic trajectories of couturiers and individual stilisti or on the biographies of fashion centres such as Turin during the interwar period, Florence as symbol...
My launch of Futurist Women: Florence, Futurism and the New Sciences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 – 2016) was held in Senate House, London, on 7 June 2016, with Katia Pizzi as chair and...
On Saturday 18 June 2016, the Italian Cultural Institute in London hosted a very exciting and extremely well attended conference organised by the ISMLA (Independent Schools Modern Languages Association) and the SIS...
“Le storie sono sempre convergenze di diverse nature” (“Stories are always convergences of different natures”), stated Aldo Nove illustrating the idea behind Fabio Vacchi’s opera Lo Specchio Magico (Urban Art Dance Opera),...