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....
Category Archives: Blogposts
Gillo Dorfles (1910-2018): The Freedom of Mythopoeia
by Florian Mussgnug When the members of Gruppo 63 assembled for the third time, in 1965, to discuss the fate of the experimental novel, Gillo Dorfles agreed to open the debate with...
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...
The First Edition of Emilio Villa’s Tarot Poems
My thesis, supervised by Dr Giuliana Adamo, aims to provide the first critical edition of a still unpublished collection of Tarot texts by the multilingual and visual poet Emilio Villa (1914-2003).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...
8-9 March 2018/Multilingual Digital Authorship, Lancaster University,
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...
Interart in Schools Project/Programme of Events 2018
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...
‘Utopie radicali’, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Fifty years after its inception, Florentine Radical Architecture has attracted an extraordinary flurry of celebratory activity, including at least three large exhibitions:Â Super Superstudio (PAC, Milan: Oct 2015 to Jan 2016), Superstudio...