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...
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...
We would like to call the attention to the call for contribution for the International Symposium Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Poesia Visiva Phenomenon in the 60s and 70s, which will take...
To apply for the summer school: Email the organisers on limae@tcd.ie by May 31st To attend the public lectures (Henry Jenkins and Massimo Riva): Details on how to access the two public lectures...
During the International Conference, Interart/Intermedia Experimentation in Italy Through the Ages, Royal Holloway 12-13th April 2019, I had the honour of presenting the collaborative and cross-disciplinary project </unravel;> which I have worked...
In 1986, the Venice Biennale gave much attention to a renewed interest in the relationship between art and science: a thematic umbrella under which the latest developments in the field of communication...
“Sirio Luginbühl: film sperimentali”, an exhibition curated by Guido Bartorelli and Lisa Parolo, was held at Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella, Italy (April- September 2018). Promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Pretorio Onlus in collaboration...
Institutional, historical and artistic contexts in which new media art occurred in Italy are examined in my doctoral research project, entitled Network culture in Italy in the 1990s and the making of...
In 1962, the journal Questo e altro, in a position article, questioned the traditional boundaries of literature: Quali sono oggi i confini della letteratura, tra l’arcadia e il proclama, il laboratorio e...
On 22nd and 23rd September 2016 Milan hosted a major international conference, Milan, Crossroad of Cultures. As the result of a partnership between the University of Birmingham, the University of Warwick and...
Italian fashion narratives have often focused on the stylistic trajectories of couturiers and individual stilisti or on the biographies of fashion centres such as Turin during the interwar period, Florence as symbol...