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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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?...
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
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,...
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...
We held the first Interdisciplinary Italy Doctoral Summer School at Trinity College, Dublin on 29th-30th July 2018. The theme for this Summer School was “Intermediaâ€. The Summer School attracted PhD researchers from...
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] Can movement be an effective and important characteristic of a work of art? The use of...
“… L’attività poetica è diventata una continua invenzione, una creazione quotidiana (re-invenzione poetica del quotidiano), la poesia tende a essere non più esercizio letterario (sui sintagmi e il linguaggio usato) ma azione,...
Why is collaborative writing regarded with distrust in the Humanities, while in the Sciences articles by multiple authors are standard practice? A possible answer can be found in an essay by Donald...
Panel organised by Prof. Giuliana Pieri 1.Florian Mussgnug, University College London, “Fatal entanglement: Radical architecture, Interartistic Creativity and Riskâ€Â 2. Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway, University of London, “Milan 1963: Through the Looking...
by Clodagh Brook Interdisciplinarity has been a driving agenda in Universities for some decades. We are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary ways, although these are most often only vaguely articulated. What does...
‘How dangerously blurring would it be […] if the Nazi heart had the cheek or the hypocrisy even to beat for Franz Marc or, in another field, for Bartók […]. The fact that...
1st Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School at Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland, 29th and 30th June 2018 We invite applications from doctoral researchers to join the first Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School. The aims of the Summer School...
Gianni Toti (Rome, 24Â June 1924 – 8Â January 2007) was the Italian poet, author, journalist, photographer and filmmaker who created ‘Poetronica’, a fusion of poetry and electronics. The poet demonstrated the potential of...