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...
The 2024 Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School took place last week in Trinity College, Dublin. We are grateful to our funders: the European Commission Funding (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) and the Society for Italian...
5th Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School Transnational Italian Comics 11-12 July 2024, Trinity College Dublin Organised by: Manuela di Franco and Clodagh Brook The study of comics as an interdisciplinary field has surged...
Please see below the program of the International Conference titled Il Gruppo 63 e le arti (November 16-17, University of Berne). Dr Emanuela Patti will present a paper entitled “L’opera aperta dalla Neoavanguardia...
Please see below the program of the 2023 Annual Conference of the Associazione svizzera di letteratura generale e comparata (ASLGC/SGAVL) titled Sull’orlo del visibile: Letterature comparate e visualità (November 16-17, Lugano – Università della Svizzera...
The conference ‘Sites of Cultural Agency: Creative Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities’, held at and in collaboration with the British School at Rome (BSR) examines the intimate link between material...
Join staff and students from Royal Holloway’s departments of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Geography, Modern Languages, Music, and Electronic Engineering for three days of sound, dance and experimental art making. The three-day...
Join Giuliana Pieri for a Saturday Gallery Tour of the exhibition Fausto Melotti: Counterpoint at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London on Saturday 9 March (3 pm). For more information...
Title of the Conference: Interart/Intermedia experimentation in Italy through the ages (from the medieval age to the present) Dates and Venue April 12-13, 2019; Royal Holloway In collaboration with School of Modern...