Fotografia circa 1968 I focus on the chiasmus that occurred between art, and photography in particular, around 1968 in Italy. By then artists had begun to creatively use photographic documents, rendering the...

Music/ theatre/ virtuosity: Berio, Berberian and Eco at the Studio di Fonologia Dr Steve Halfyard examined the work Luciano Berio did involving language with Umberto Eco and Cathy Berberian at the studio...

Experimentation Through/With/Against the Past: The Role of Craft in Italian Design The 1960s represent a moment of transition in post-war Italian design. The earlier part of the decade was defined by its...

Robert Lumley’s report of his contribution to the third Interdisciplinary Italy Workshop held at University College London, Saturday, 11th May 2013, can be accessed here: Sit in- Art Design and Politics in...

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Our group were exploring metaphors of borders and their ability to enable us to understand interdisciplinarity better, and also looking at concepts of facilitating, policing and transgression. Our discussion began with the...

Our group focused on borders and border crossing in relation to interdisciplinarity in the Internet age. The first part of our discussion covered issues like the relationship between academic journal and blogs...

Rome, 22April 2013: For some participants of our second workshop, “Italian Interdisciplinarity in the Internet Age”, the afternoon ended with an intensive and illuminating discussion about the causes of contemporary interdisciplinarity, and...

Panel: M. Gargiulo (Bergen), Joanna Kostylo (The British School at Rome), (Università  Statale, Milano), G. Pieri (RHUL). Marco Gargiulo’s observation on the interdisciplinary nature of many job adverts in Italian Studies in...

How do metaphors of borders enable us to understand interdisciplinarity better? What does interdisciplinarity tell us about concepts of facilitating, policing, transgressing? How does the border crossing relate to fragmentation? How do...