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....
Enza De Francisci
Verga and Duse: Shaping an Italian Identity on Stage
My contribution at the recent Interart/Intermedia conference looked at the interartistic collaboration between Verga and Duse and the effect their collaboration had on Italy’s artistic creativity: observations which have been inspired by...
Making Moves: Three Positions. Three Days of Sound, Dance and Experimental Art Making (May 16-18 2019, Tate Modern)
Join staff and students from Royal Holloway’s departments of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Geography, Modern Languages, Music, and Electronic Engineering for three days of sound, dance and experimental art making. The three-day...
Wu Ming: Boundaries of Human and Posthuman Collaborations
Every time that someone asks me to explain what my research is about, I mumble and mumble without knowing where to start from. Are Wu Ming simply a ‘writing collective’? Wondering ‘what...
Interart/Intermedia in Italy from the Medieval Age to the Present (Royal Holloway, London)
The Interart/Intermedia conference took place on 12th and 13th April 2019 at Royal Holloway. It was organised by the Interdisciplinary Italy team and hosted some excellent speakers from the UK, Ireland, the...
Re-Shaping Space, Re-Making Theatre: The Case of Teatro Valle Occupato Between Activism and Art Intervention
In June 2011, a group of artists who identified themselves as ‘lavoratori e lavoratrici dello spettacolo’, occupied an historic theatre in Rome – the Teatro Valle – with the aim to prevent...
Thinking, Making, and Thinking through Making
As a new workshop with schools at Tate Exchange fast approaches (Tate Modern, 16 May 2019, 12-3pm), and our collaboration with schools around the country continues to flourish, I continue to reflect...
Staged Narratives, Narrative Stages: The Entanglement of Theatre and Narrative in Italian Literature
Once upon a time there was the storyteller – the aedo, the bard, the cantastorie. He – or she – was a performer and a magician, an author, an actor, a shaman,...
‘Fausto Melotti and the Arts’: Talk at the Estorick Collection (Saturday 9 March 2019, 3 pm)
Join Giuliana Pieri for a Saturday Gallery Tour of the exhibition Fausto Melotti: Counterpoint at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London on Saturday 9 March (3 pm). For more information...
Digital Culture Studies in Modern Languages (symposium report)
15 February 2019, Royal Holloway Where is Modern Languages in digital culture and digital arts? And where in digital culture in Modern Languages? SYMPOSIUM REPORT The ‘digital turn in the humanities’ has...
CFP: Canadian Association for Italian Studies Conference, Orvieto, June 13-16, ‘New Realities and the Avant-Garde’
Canadian Association for Italian Studies Conference, Orvieto, June 13-16 ‘New Realities and the Avant-Garde’, organised by Prof Paola Sica This panel intends to continue a debate carried out by various scholars interested...