Research Seminars in Italian Studies 2009-10
2 December 2009
Dacia Maraini in Manchester: 'Hurried Steps'.
Performed by New Shoes Theatre followed by discussion panel with Dacia Maraini.
In conjunction with MMU, at Manchester Lecture Theatre, MMU, All Saints Building, 6:00pm.
8 December 2009
Dr Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
The grammaticalisation of progressive and andative aspects in the dialects of Apulia
(part of the seminar series of the Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies)
Samuel Alexander Building, Room A115, 4.15 pm.
19 March 2010
Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford) and Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes)
Fascism and its Images
Jeffrey Schnapp and Roger Griffin in conversation on cultural policy and practice in the fascist dictatorships of Italy and Germany.
To be followed by a one-day workshop 'Fascism and its Images: dealing with the legacy today'.
Speakers include:
- Stefan Boness (Ipon Photography, Berlin)
- Derek Duncan (University of Bristol)
- Rachel Knight (Head of Exhibitions Imperial War Museum North), and
- Gregory Maertz (St John's College, New York). Date TBC.
25 March 2010
Prof. Ann Caesar (Warwick)
The 2010 Herford Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies
Samuel Alexander Building, 5:15 pm. Room TBC.
27 April 2010
Prof. David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
Regeneration: A Literary History of Europe 1348-1400
(Part of the medieval seminar series of the Centre for Transnational Studies)
Samuel Alexander Building. Time and room TBC.
4 May 2010
Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
Why Medieval Literatures?
part of the medieval seminar series of the Centre for Transnational Studies
Samuel Alexander Building. Time and room TBC.
5 May 2010
Prof. Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania)
The materiality of writing
(part of the Materials/materiality seminar series of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts)
John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Building, 5:00 - 6:30pm.
Respondent Prof. Stephen Milner.
15 May 2010
The Venetian Seminar
John Rylands Library in Deansgate
Programme to follow.
18 May 2010
Prof. Mary Wood (Birkbeck)
Zeffirelli and International Cinema
(Part of theTransnational Cinema lecture series of the Institute for Transnational Studies)
Samuel Alexander Building, 5:00-6:00pm.
Guyda Armstrong's Manchester Digital Dante Project, which is creating digital surrogate editions of three culturally significant incunable editions of Dante's Commedia, is now underway. The British Academy-funded project is due for completion in August 2010; for news and updates, see the project blog at http://manchesterdante.wordpress.com