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Warwick Festival of the Gothic
Happy Spooky Season! The SMLC is joining the Warwick Festival of the GothicLink opens in a new window with a series of events celebrating the recent publication of Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh CompanionLink opens in a new window, edited by Marco Malvestio and Stefano Serafini and including contributions by Fabio Camilletti and Simona Di Martino. Events will take place on the 31st of October and the 1st of November:
31 October, 5pm onwards, TRC. Film night: Mario Bava, La maschera del demonio (Black Sabbath, 1960), introduced by Jacopo Francesco Mascoli. In Italian with English subtitles. In collaboration with the Italian Cinema Seminar SeriesLink opens in a new window.
1 November, 2-5pm, FAB M0.01 Study Café Space, Student workshop: London Gothic 'Made in Italy'. Transnational, Translational, and Transmedial Readings of 'Dylan Dog', with Silvia Vari and Fabio Camilletti. No previous knowledge of Italian is needed. In collaboration with the Comics Reserch NetworkLink opens in a new window.
1 November, 5:15-7pm, OC 0.01, Roundtable: Italian Gothic, with Fabio Camilletti, Simona Di Martino, Francesco Dimitri, Marco Malvestio, Stefano Serafini, and Mark Storey. In collaboration with The Revolving Century. Transdisciplinary Network for the Study of Cultures in the Age of Revolutions (1751-1849)Link opens in a new window.
All events are part of the Italian Studies Research Seminar SeriesLink opens in a new window and have been generously sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre.
Pandemic Perspectives
Pandemic Perspectives is a research group that began a year and half ago to debate the ramifications of COVID-19 on ‘future history’.
There will be a fortnightly Seminar Series for Term One, with a view to continuing the series over the academic year to come. The series is entirely free to attend, open to the public, does not require prior reading, and is hosted online via Zoom.
You can register for any of these seminars by following this Eventbrite link and you can contact the Pandemic Perspectives team at the following email address if you have any queries: pandemicperspectivesofficial@gmail.com