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...
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...
How can intermediality be conceptualised and expanded within a medium that is already intrinsically intermedial such as graphic novels? The diverse artistic output of Italian graphic novelist and designer Alessandro Baronciani (Pesaro,...
“Ignoro né mi interessa appurare se l’educazione pittorica dia luogo a uno speciale modo di scrivere. Ciò che mi interessa è il percorso, l’esperienza, l’aver vissuto determinate sensazioni. Volevo fare il pittore,...
MIRACOLO A MILANO interactive video installation Portatori di Storie, Milano 2016 [Storytellers, Milan 2016] [We are delighted to present one of the recent works by our partner Studio Azzurro] Miracolo a Milano...
[Testo in Italiano] When some years ago I went to see Tullio Pericoli in his studio in Milan, to interview him on his pictorial work around Robinson Crusoe, on which I was...
Too often research is confined to words expressed on paper, in conferences or in the classroom. Still rare is the opportunity (or the desire) to communicate our ideas in other media for...
[You can find the English translation here] A partire da un errore, nel traduttore automatico di Google, nel trasferire alcune termini dall’inglese all’italiano, relativi al testo che illustra i criteri con cui...
This is an experimental and multimedia blog for artists, curators and critics to display interart and intermedia. We are opening this section with a special contribution by Studio Azzurro, a pioneering group...