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: Interdisciplinary Theory
Intermedia in Italy: Barbara Burns talks to C. Brook, F. Mussgnug, and G. Pieri about Their New Book
We are excited to share a recent interview with the Principal Investigators of the Interdisciplinary Italy project, Professors Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug, and Giuliana Pieri. The interview, conducted by Barbara Burns, delves...
New Book: Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence
Intermedia in Italy: From Futurism to Digital Convergence Co-authors: Clodagh Brook, Florian Mussgnug and Giuliana Pieri We draw your attention to the publication of our new book, which explores the development of...
Report on 6th Conference of The International Society for Intermedial Studies (ISIS)
“In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones” Venue: Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) 1-3 September, 2022 Organising committee: Prof Clodagh Brook (TCD), Dr Cecilia Brioni (TCD) Scientific Council: Dr Adele...
Report of the 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School: Collaboration and Co-Creation in Italian Studies
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...
Henry Jenkins + Massimo Riva Online Public Lectures (Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School)
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...
Researching Italian Youth Across Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach
My current research project, which is funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship, focuses on representations of contemporary Italian youth on the video sharing platform YouTube. I am...
Media Borders in Our Minds
There are some recurring basic concepts in the humanities and social sciences that seem to be under perennial debate. They are constantly under attack for being ‘simplistic’ or criticised for being vague...
Creative Thinking Labs: Logos, Techne, and Critical Thinking
When do conferences break new ground? One can think about individual presentations, or panels, that stand out as paradigm shifting – though this is often a tall order in the short twenty-minute...
Digital Culture Studies in Modern Languages (symposium report)
15 February 2019, Royal Holloway Where is Modern Languages in digital culture and digital arts? And where in digital culture in Modern Languages? SYMPOSIUM REPORT The ‘digital turn in the humanities’ has...
Interdisciplinary Materials for the Secondary School Classroom
For the Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference in Durham in the summer of 2013, I was invited (in the context of this research project) to talk about interdisciplinarity in the secondary...