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
Dr Brook’s Keynote on ‘Expanded Cinema’ at the ASMI Conference
Dr Clodagh Brook is delivering the Friday Keynote at the ASMI Postgraduate Conference in Royal Holloway on 23rd July. Her talk focuses on the concept of “expansion†of the arts, a concept...
Mind the Gap: Interdisciplinarity in the Secondary and University Classroom
Do disciplinary boundaries still matter? Who is responsible for shaping and defining them? How can we foster better collaboration between disciplines? These are some of the key questions which underpin our project....
Creativity, Inclusivity and Linguistic Sensitivity in Language Learning: Collaborative Translation Workshops
How can we look beyond national borders in language-learning? What could a ‘transnational’ language teaching approach look like in practical terms? In light of exciting contemporary perspectives which seek to undermine the...
Cesare Fabbri, ‘The Flying Carpet’: The Lightness of a Photography Done On Foot
Cesare Fabbri (Ravenna, 1971) studied urban planning and photography at the IUAV in Venice and has taught alongside Guido Guidi at various institutions. Since 2000 he has engaged with photographic research, working...
The Personal Is (Still) Political. Towards an Aesthetical Historiography of the 1977 Student Movement
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1977 student movement in Italy. Unlike 1968, the events of 1977 continue to linger in a grey zone suspended between personal testimony and historical...
Contemporary Art in Eastern Sicily: Emotional Threads of a Journey
Key research continues to be carried out on peripheral space in the works of visual artists. In spite of the different perspectives from which every artistic intervention can be read, three recurrent...
Verba Picta: Navigating Multimediality in the Italian Poetry of the Last Half Century
The investigation of the close dialogue between poetic and visual language in the Italian panorama of the last seventy years is at the centre of the research project Verba Picta. Interrelazione tra...
Dealing with Difficult Heritage: Interdisciplinarity and the Afterlife of Fascist Architecture in Italy
The definition of difficult heritage I use here is indebted to Sharon Macdonald’s important study of the heritage of Nazi Germany, according to which difficult heritage is ‘a past that is recognised...
Dario Fo: Crossing Borders
Dario Fo (1926-2016) absorbed a wide range of arts into the field of theatre. Trained as a painter and architect, he entered the world of theatre and radio broadcasting in 1951. He...
