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.
Stephen J. Milner
'Renaissance Multimedia: The Chiesina della Vergine di Piazza in Pistoia', History of Art Seminar, University of Nottingham, 7 December 2011.
'Political Theory and Practice', at 'The Medici in the Fifteenth Century: Signori of Florence?' conference, Prato and Florence (Villa I Tatti), 12-15 October 2011.
'Latini and the Law', at XVIII Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, University of Bologna, Italy, 18-22 July 2011.
'The Chiesina della Vergine di Piazza in Pistoia: Antonio Rossellino, Andrea Verrocchio and Antonio Pollaiuolo', University of Oxford, Renaissance Seminar, 24 May 2011.
'Dante in Manchester', Inaugural Lecture as Serena Professor of Italian, John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, 24 March 2011.
'Addressing Princes: Machiavelli’s Rhetorical Dedication', 'The Prince before the Prince' conference, Centre for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 25-26 February 2011.
'The Pedestrian Renaissance', 'The Renaissance Now!' conference, University College Cork, 9-10 December 2010.
'Library Liaison: An Academic Perspective', at the WESLINE 2010 conference (West European Studies Library and Information Network), University of Manchester, 1-3 September 2010.
'The Publics of Republics: Venice and Florence (again)', The Venetian Seminar, JRUL Deansgate, Manchester, 15 May 2010.
'Renaissance Humanism and Sociology', at CIDRA 'The Humanities and Social Sciences' seminar, University of Manchester, 29 April 2010.
'The Devil’s Advocacy: Law and Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy' and 'Luigi Gianfigliazzi and the First Ciceronianism', McLaughlin Lecture and Seminar in Medieval Law, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 31 March- 1 April 2010.
'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.
