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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
My thesis, supervised by Dr Giuliana Adamo, aims to provide the first critical edition of a still unpublished collection of Tarot texts by the multilingual and visual poet Emilio Villa (1914-2003). My...
The inaugural symposium of The Creative Web of Languages (MEITS flexible funding project) Call for Papers The World Wide Web is commonly perceived the ultimate tool of homogenizing culture through dominant platforms...
We are delighted to announce a series of exciting events organised by Prof. Giuliana Pieri in collaboration with schools. Please get in touch (g.pieri@rhul.ac.uk) if you’d like to be involved in any of...
Institutional, historical and artistic contexts in which new media art occurred in Italy are examined in my doctoral research project, entitled Network culture in Italy in the 1990s and the making of...
A new publication about the Milanese artist Bruno Munari (1907-1998), titled Bruno Munari: The Lightness of Art, has been released by Peter Lang this month. The volume, edited by Pierpaolo Antonello, Matilde...