The next SFPS Postgraduate Study Day will be held on Thursday 5 June 2014, at the University of Warwick, in the Wolfson Exchange Centre. The theme of the day willl be: 'Migrations in Francophone Culture'. For full details of papers, location, and registration, see here.

Article published in the December 2013 E-Newsletter for Research Active Staff from the Learning and Development Centre. Full E-Newsletter can be accessed at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ldc/researchers/about/newsletter_december_2013.pdf

Italian at Warwick has been ranked in 3rd place in the latest Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide. This impressive result places Warwick just below Cambridge (1st) and Oxford (2nd).

The full rankings can be found at http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/University_Guide/

Researchers in Italian at Warwick are central in a £1.8m research project recently funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its ‘Translating Cultures’ theme.

On our brand new BA in Modern Languages, you can study three languages: two major languages chosen from those taught by our French, German, Italian and Hispanic Studies departments, plus one minor language: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.

Jennifer Burns and Fabio Camilletti are co-organizers of the interim conference in 2014 of the Society for Italian Studies. The conference - Interstitial Italy: Reassessing global questions through the 'peculiar' Italian case - will take place on 27th-28th March 2014 at the British School at Rome.

This project is funded by an AHRC Research Networking award, under the Care for the Future theme. It will run from July 2012 to Spring 2014, and has a lively programme of upcoming events inthe UK, Italy and Germany. Including two conferences, one workshop, and a seminar series, overlapping with an itinerant artistic exhibition and two film screenings.

The 'Roman Modernities' network will allow scholars, artists, and urban planners to engage in joint enquiry on Rome as a paradigmatic location for reconfiguring the trajectory of Western modernity. It will interrogate existing/potential representations of the city from a strongly multi-disciplinary perspective.