News of the second phase of this project (2015-2018)
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. The new...
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Interdisciplinarity in the Classroom: Interviews with teachers
On Monday 12 May 2014 Dr Giuliana Pieri met with two highly experienced teachers of Italian, Carmela Amodio Johnson and Barbara Romito to talk about their experience of interdisciplinarity in the classroom in a 45 minute...
New resource page for secondary school teachers and lecturers
One of the key questions of the project relates to the ways in which interdisciplinarity in both theory and practice can inspire new patterns of teaching. Our collaboration with teachers and national...
Iconic Images in Modern Italy: Politics, Culture and Society.
The 2013 conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, which took place on 22 and 23 November at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, London, put in sharp focus...
New interdisciplinary project on photographer Luigi Ghirri
The interest in taking interdisciplinary and interartistic approaches to Italian cultural figures continues, as a new project is announced on Luigi Ghirri: “Viewing and writing Italian Landscape: Luigi Ghirri and his legacy...
Italian Transmedia Culture: Stories and Storytelling Across Media by Emanuela Patti
On the occasion of the last SIS Biennial Conference (Durham, 7-11 July), I organized a panel entitled “Italian transmedia culture: stories and storytelling across media” which included papers presented by Marco Amici...
Panel on Interdisciplinarity in Teaching by Giuliana Pieri: Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference, Durham, 8th July 2013
Giuliana Pieri, in her paper on “Vision and Visuality in Italian Studies”, explored a surprising blind spot in the current field of Italian studies: the interdisciplinary field of Visual Studies. In 2010...
Interdisciplinarity in the Secondary Modern Languages Curriculum, failed experiment or way forward? by Peter Langdale: Society for Italian…
Before the radical changes to the languages curriculum that began in the late 1980s, the study of literature and the language required to read it were the unique focus of languages study...
Panel on Interdisciplinarity in Teaching by Clodagh Brook – Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference, Durham, 8th July…
Interdisciplinarity is everywhere seen as normative, necessary, and part of what we do, and need to do, as academics.It’s good, isn’t it, to bring in documentaries when we teach history? It makes...
Interdisciplinary Postmodernism: Re-thinking the Sixties by Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge)
Experiment/Experience Pierpaolo Antonello’s contribution to the third Interdisciplinary Italy Workshop held at University College London, Saturday, 11th May 2013, can be accessed here: experimentexperience powerpoint ExperimentExperience paper