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 Jenny Burns (J dot E dot Burns at warwick dot ac dot uk). All welcome!
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2025-26 Events
Term 2
Week 5:
Fabio Simonetti, Honorary Research Fellow, Brunel, University of London, author of Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation (OUP, 2025), 10th February, 3pm, Transnational Resources Centre (FAB4.76)
Week 7:
Luca Caminati, Professor of Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, HRC Visiting Fellow, hosted by FTV and Italian Cinema Group
February 25th-27th
• Lecture: 'Sandokan’s Thickness: Libidinal Economy, the Subversive Seventies, and Italian Television', 25th February, 5 pm, FAB Cinema
• Book presentation with Luca Peretti: ‘The Italian Anticolonial Film Archive: Global Counterculture (1955–1975)’, time and room tbc
Week 10:
Eleanor Dobson, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham, on Gothic Archaeologies, 17th March, 5pm, FAB5.03
Term 3
Week 3:
Marta Celati, Associate Professor, Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, University of Pisa and Maria Pavlova, book launch, co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, 12th May
Past events
Term 1
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
Past 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)
