Recent and forthcoming papers by Italian Studies staff
Guyda Armstrong
'Dante's Gluttons: Materiality, Corporeality, and the Book', invited speaker, Dublin Dante Lecture Series 2010, University College Dublin, 22 February 2010.
'Text and image in illustrated editions of Boccaccio', invited speaker, Meaning in Literary Illustration Conference, Universitetet i Agder/University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 24-25 September 2010.
'Medieval Italy à la française: English editions of Boccaccio's Decameron in the nineteenth century', invited speaker, Imago et translatio conference, Bibliothèque nationale française, Paris, 3-4 December 2010.
'The 19th Century Invention of Boccaccio-dantista' at the Dante in the Nineteenth Century conference, University of York, 15-16 July 2008.
'Text, Translation, and Image: English Editions of Boccaccio's Decameron', 25 February 2008, Medieval and Renaissance Seminar Series, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Manchester.
'Translation as reception: The English Boccaccio', Translation: Transfer, Text and Topic conference, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 27 October 2007.
Delia Bentley
'Towards a unified theory of subjetc markedness in Romance', keynote address at the CIDMS 5, Freie Universität Berlin, 3 July 2010
'Focus Fronting in the Layered Structure of the Clause'. International Role and Reference Grammar Conference, University of California Berkeley, August 2009.
'Subject markedness and pivot choice: a crossdialectal survey'. Cambridge Italian Dialects Syntax Meeting, June 2009.
'Beyond definiteness: more on Sardinian existentials. Bristol Italian Dialectology Meeting, March 2009.
Francesca Billiani
'Nation, roman et traduction', Table ronde, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l' homme, Aix-en-Provence, 3-4 October 2008.
'Intellettuali militanti, funzionari e tecnologici nell' Italia di inizio secolo (1903-1914)', Technology and the Printed Media in Italy between 1870 and 1914, Seaton Hall University, 16-17 October 2008.
'The Gothic Imagination', AHRC-funded workshop, University of Stirling, 11-12 July 2008.
'The Politics of the Italian Gothic and Fantastic in Late 19th-Century Narrative Prose', School of Advanced Study, University of London, 22 January 2008.
Christopher Rundle
Speaker in Mapping and Framing Cultural Spaces Under a Dictatorship, Italian Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester, 5th December 2008.
Invited keynote speaker at Translation and Opposition, the CTS/Multilingual Matters Symposium, University of Guilford, 8th June 2007.
'The Censorship of Translations in Fascist Italy' at the International Conference Translation And Censorship - From The 18th Century To The Present Day, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 27th November 2006.
Elsa Damien
'Ruskin, Venice and 19th Century Cultural Travel', Venice, 25-27 September 2008 : Paper : 'Ruskin and Murray's Handbooks: Battles for Tourist Guidance in mid 19th Century Italy.'
AATI / AAIS, Taormina (Sicily), 22-25 May 2008: 'Viaggio, amor patrio e fantasia nel Viaggio in Italia di Carlo Collodi.'
David Laven
'Le élites nel Lombardo-Veneto,' Bolzano, Libera Università, 15-18 October 2008, at Eliten in Tirol zwischen Ancien Régime und Vormärz.
'Venice 1848-1914: the Venetian sense of the past and the creation of the Italian nation' at The Nation in the Town: Nationalism and the Reshaping of Urban Communities in Europe c. 1848-1914, University of Oxford, 26-27 September 2008.
'Myth, memory and Venice's republican past in nineteenth-century Britain' at the University of Frankfurt Modern History Seminar, 4 June 2008.
'Writing the Risorgimento', Forschungskolloquium zur neueren italienischen Geschichte, Freie Universität, Berlin, 22 April 2008
Stephen J. Milner
'Crys and Whispers: Information and the Public Sphere in Pre-modern Florence', Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Venice 8-10 April 2010.
'Credo', Keynote lecture at Society for Italian Studies conference 'Religion, Mysticism and Heresy in Italian Culture', Venice 16-17 April 2010.
'The Politics of Voice in Fifteenth-Century Florence', Language and History seminar, organiser Prof. Robert Evans, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, 24 February 2010.
'Voice and Translation: The Spectres of the Classics in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy', at the Graduate Centre of Medieval Studies half-day conference 'Genealogies: Dialogues Across Time in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writing', University of Reading, 4 November 2009.
'The Italian Peninsula', at the Medium Aevum Humanism in Fifteenth-century Europe conference, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 17 October 2009.
Spencer Pearce
'Dante and Psychology in the Late Nineteenth Century', AAIS-AATI Convention, Taormina, 24 May 2008; conference on Dante in the Nineteenth Century, University of York, 16 July 2008.
'Aristotle in Dialogue: Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, 1456-1531', two-day workshop on The Diffusion of Renaissance Aristotelianism, Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, 18 September 2007.
'Dante and Analytical Psychology Revisited', SIS Biennial Conference, Bangor University, 4 July 2007.
'Giosue Carducci after 100 Years', Società Dante Alighieri, John Rylands University Library, Manchester, 25 May 2007.
'The Warfare Within: Conflict Resolution and the Integration of the Personality in Purgatorio', University College Dublin, 19 February 2007.
Elena Polisca
'CAMILLE (Cultural Awareness Modules to Improve the Language Learning Experience): Enabling Autonomous Culture Acquisition within Language Learning', Blackboard Europe Conference, Manchester, 2008.
'Autonomous Acquisition of Italian Culture within Language Learning: the experience of CAMILLE' (Cultural Awareness Modules to Improve Language Learning Experience), CILT and LLAS / Subject Centre conference, York 2008.
'From Student to Student: A Mentoring Approach to Facilitate (Language) Learning', National EBL (Enquiry-Based Learning) conference, Manchester 2008.
Lara Pucci
'Contested Territories/Italian Landscapes', Clark Symposium on Film Studies and the History of Art, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, forthcoming, 13-14 March 2009.
'The Village-State in the Pictorial Language of Strapaese', Joint Convention of the American Association of Italian Studies and the American Association of Teachers of Italian, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, 22-25 May 2008.
'Translating Picasso: Guttuso's Guernica as an Italian Language of Resistance, c. 1938-1953', Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture, Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 25-26 April 2008.
'Terra Italia: The Peasant Subject as Site of National and Socialist Identities in Guttuso's Marsigliese Contadina and De Santiss Caccia Tragica'. New Perspectives on 20th-Century Italy II, College Art Association 96th Annual Conference, Dallas-Forth Worth, 23 February 2008.
Nigel Vincent
'Dante in Dialect: On Translating the Divine Comedy into the Regional languages of Italy', 26 March 2009: Herford Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies 2009, University of Manchester.
'Tra fiorentino e milanese: la Divina Commedia nelle versioni di Carlo Porta', 14 November 2008, Into and out of Italy: the language and culture of migrants, Italian Cultural Institute, London
'Non-finite forms and the paradigm in Latin and (Italo-)Romance', First Oxford Conference on Romance Morphology, University of Oxford, 27-28 August 2008.
'Objects' (jointly with Kersti Börjars), LFG2008, University of Sydney, Australia, 4-6 July 2008.
