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....
Marco Bellardi
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,...
Textile and Fashion Production in Italy 1945-1985
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...
Futurist Women: Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences
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...
Interart in Schools – London, 18 June 2016
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...
Contaminating the Opera Genre: ‘Lo Specchio Magico’ (Urban Art Dance Opera)
“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),...
Il valore aggiunto dell’arte. Feminist Remediations of Memory in the Graphic Novel
Memory is continuously shaped in the present, and increasingly so through the use of new media. Indeed, the proliferation of new media technologies, products and aesthetics is inextricably linked to changing ways...
STUDIO AZZURRO, Miracle in Milan, an Interactive Installation
MIRACOLO A MILANO interactive video installation Portatori di Storie, Milano 2016 [Storytellers, Milan 2016] [We are delighted to present one of the recent works by our partner Studio Azzurro] Miracolo a Milano...
Narrating Images: The Novel in the Time of Multimedia Convergence [PAPER]
There is a famed and frequently quoted passage in Epic and Novel in which the Russian critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, uses the terms «novel-ise» and «novel-isation» in order to refer to the overpowering...