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...
As we begin to plan our Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School 2024, we have been reflecting on the 2023 Summer School which took place in London and was hosted by Royal Holloway University...
4th Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School Italian Studies in Interdisciplinary Spaces, Transnational Times, and Digital Minds 15–16 September 2023 Senate House Library, London Organised by: Adele Bardazzi & Giuliana Pieri In recent years,...
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School took place at Trinity College Dublin on 7-8 July 2022, was organised by Clodagh Brook and Cecilia Brioni with the support of the Irish Research Council...
3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School Collaboration and Co-creation in Italian Studies Venue: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dates: 7-8 July 2022 Organisers: Cecilia Brioni, Clodagh Brook Speakers: Cecilia Brioni (Trinity College Dublin), Simone Brioni (Stony Brook...
The second Interdisciplinary Italy Postgraduate Summer School, called The Digital Turn: When, Why, and How to Embrace It, took place online on 1, 2, and 3 July 2021. While we really missed...
We are delighted to invite you to these free online public lectures: Convergence Culture in the Age of Covid-19: A Fever Dream by Professor HENRY JENKINS (July 2, 17:30-18:30 GMT+1) AND Simulating...