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....
Cecilia Brioni, Simone Brioni
Interdisciplinarity and Collaborative Writing in the Humanities: Lara Saint Paul and the Performativity of Race
Why is collaborative writing regarded with distrust in the Humanities, while in the Sciences articles by multiple authors are standard practice? A possible answer can be found in an essay by Donald...
14-17 June 2018/ ‘Interdisciplinary Italy: interart/intermedia’ at the AAIS 2018, Sorrento
Panel organised by Prof. Giuliana Pieri 1.Florian Mussgnug, University College London, “Fatal entanglement: Radical architecture, Interartistic Creativity and Riskâ€Â 2. Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway, University of London, “Milan 1963: Through the Looking...
Modernist Art during the Catastrophe: The Italian Premiere of Bartók’s Ballet ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ in 1942
‘How dangerously blurring would it be […] if the Nazi heart had the cheek or the hypocrisy even to beat for Franz Marc or, in another field, for Bartók […]. The fact that...
1st Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School/ Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 June 2018
1st Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School at Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland, 29th and 30th June 2018 We invite applications from doctoral researchers to join the first Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School. The aims of the Summer School...
Gianni Toti’s Poetronics in Augmented Reality
Gianni Toti (Rome, 24Â June 1924 – 8Â January 2007) was the Italian poet, author, journalist, photographer and filmmaker who created ‘Poetronica’, a fusion of poetry and electronics. The poet demonstrated the potential of...
The Visual Arts, Mass Society and Totalitarianism
Is totalitarianism only found in ‘other’ societies? How come, then, it emerged historically in ‘ours’ first? How come it developed in so many countries either in Western Europe (Italy, Germany, Portugal, and...
REWINDItalia. Early Video Art in Italy
In the 70s and 80s, Italy was a fertile ground for the experimentation of video as art practice. At the time, the most relevant Italian video art centres – which included art/tapes/22,...
Dr Patti’s Keynote on ‘1968 in reviews’/23 April 2018, Birmingham
Programme Led by Dr Emma Wagstaff from the University of Birmingham and supported by the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust, this project will investigate the role of literary and cultural reviews in...
The Cinematic Mode in Fiction
Cinema has influenced modern and contemporary culture in many ways, for example by contributing to reshaping language, reinforcing or dismantling sexual biases, addressing politics and family order, fostering fashion trends, and triggering...
2 March 2018/Gender Politics and Gendering Politics: Visual Poetry and the Italian neo Avant-Garde, Royal Holloway
Professor Giuliana Pieri (School of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Dr Emanuela Patti (Senior Researcher, AHRC project Interdisciplinary Italy) will run a creative workshop which will focus on Italian visual poetry and...