Seminars and conferences in Italian Studies
Our seminars will normally take place in person, although some events may adopt a hybrid format (using MS Teams). If you'd like to attend one of our events or register for the entire programme, please email Professor Fabio Camilletti (F dot Camilletti at warwick dot ac dot uk). All welcome!
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Funded with the support of the Humanities Research Centre
2025-26 Events
Term 1
23 October 2025, 17:00-18:30, room FAB4.73. Stefano SerafiniLink opens in a new window (Padua), Darkest Italy: Modernity and the Gothic after Unification
20 November 2025, 17:00-19:00, room FAB2.32: Book Launch: Dante Alighieri & Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Vita Nuova/The New LifeLink opens in a new window, ed. by Fabio CamillettiLink opens in a new window. In conversation with Aisté KiltinavičiūtéLink opens in a new window (Cambridge) & Francesco GiustiLink opens in a new window (Frankfurt am Main); chaired by Federica ColuzziLink opens in a new window.
21-22 November 2025, programme and rooms tbc. International conference: Dante Futures: New Voices in the UK and IrelandLink opens in a new window. Keynote address by Julia HartleyLink opens in a new window (Glasgow)
3 December 2025, 17:00-18:30, room FAB4.78. Aldo Paolo BottinoLink opens in a new window (Brandeis), Leopardi's Homer. Homeric reception in Giacomo Leopardi.
2024-25 Events
Term 3
Term 2
15 January, OCO.05 and online: book launch. A conversation between Dr. Anna Lanfranchi and Dr. Mila Milani, chaired by Dr. Qian Liu, on Dr. Lanfranchi's recently published Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade: Publishers, Agents, and the State (1900–1947) (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2024). An event of the Translation and Transcultural Studies Reading Group, in collaboration with the Italian Studies Research Seminar Series
11 April, 3PM, online: Speaking with the Dead 2.0. In collaboration with the Revolving Century Network and <em>Ottocentismi</em>Link opens in a new window
Term 1
2023-24 Events
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Previous years
Research Seminars 2021-22,organised by Dr Federica Coluzzi and Dr Luca Peretti
Term 2
Research Seminars 2020-21 organised by Dr Maria Pavlova and Dr Federica Coluzzi
Recent Events
The 2022-23 Research seminars are now also available as podcast.
Listen to the Book launch of "Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), with Prof. Carlo Caruso (Siena), Dr Elena Giusti (Warwick) and author Dr Cecilia Piantanida (Warwick)
