Department of Italian

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Events in the Italian Department, 2003 - 2010

• Conference, L'italiano e il cinema, Birkbeck Cinema, London, 18th December 2010
• November 26th 2010: Italian Masterclass Day
• Performance 2010
• The 5th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting (CIDSM 5), Freie Universität, Berlin, 2nd - 3rd July 2010
• Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty', CRASSH, 21st - 22nd May 2010
• Italian Research Seminar and Activities, Lent Term 2010
• Italian Research Seminar and Activities, Michaelmas Term 2009
• Italian Immigrant Communities in the UK: The Case of Bedford, London, 20th November 2009
• Reviewing Dante's Theology: A Workshop, MML, 6th November 2009
• Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture, from Dante to the Present, CRASSH, 9th-10th October 2009
• CIDSM - 4th Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, 29th - 30th June 2009
• Research Seminars Programme 2008-09
• Dante Event 2009
• Symposium - Women in Ottocento Italy: new perspectives, Clare College, 7th March 2009
• The language and Culture of Migrants, 14 - 15 November 2008
• Research Seminars Programme 2007-08
• CISDID and CIDSM3 - 3rd Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting in Pescara, 4 - 6 July 2008
• Teaching Visual Arts in a Modern Language Syllabus, St Catharine's College, 23 November 2007
• Fifth International Dante Seminar, University of Oxford, 20 - 22 September 2007
• Forms of Faith Conference, Bodington Hall, University of Leeds, 30 - 31 March 2007
• The Risorgimento of Federico de Roberto, Lucy Cavendish College, 22 - 23 March 2007
• CIDSM - 2nd Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, 26 - 27 January 2007
• Research Seminars Programme 2006-07
• Italian Language Conference, 24 - 25 November 2006
• Postmodern Impegno Conference, 12 - 13 May 2006
• CIDSM - 1st Cambridge Italian Dialect Syntax Meeting, 21 - 22 April 2006
• Identità e desiderio seminar, 10 - 11 March 2006
• Graduate Seminars Programme 2005 - 2006
• Italian Filmmaker Davide Ferrarrio presents clips from his latest work Dopo Mezzanotte', chaired by Dr P Antonello. 1 December 2005, a CRASSH Seminar as part of 'Cambridge University Film Seminar'
• Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht): Transposition. On nomadic ethics. 24 November 2005, a seminar organised by the Department of Italian in conjunction with CRASSH
• 'La nuova gioventù? The Intellectual Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini - 30 Years On'. 4 - 5 November 2005, a conference organised by the Department of Italian and CRASSH
• Dentro/Fuori, Sopra/Sotto: Feminist Criticism and the Literary Canon in Italian Studies, 9 - 10 September 2005
• Postgraduate Colloquium, Pembroke College, 16 - 17 April 2005, organised by the Society for Italian Studies with the support of the Department of Italian
• Joint Postgraduate Training Programme in Italian 2004-05
• Graduate Seminars Programme 2004-05
• La violenza illustrata 19-20 November 2004, a conference organised by the Department of Italian in conjunction with the British Academy, CRASSH, and Trinity College, Cambridge
• Parole e Immagine. The Bologna-Cambridge-Oxford Annual Research Seminar in Italian and Comparative Literature, St. John's College, Cambridge, 21 - 22 May 2004
• Dante's Commedia, theology as poetry, Robinson College, 12 - 14 December 2003
• Fourth International Dante Seminar, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 25 - 27 September 2003
• Guerra e violenza in letteratura. The Bologna-Cambridge-Oxford Annual Research Seminar in Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Bologna, 23 - 24 May 2003

News from the Italian Department, 2008 - 2011

• 150th anniversary. 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy in 1861. There will be a mass of commemorative events, exhibitions and conferences as part of the celebrations in Italy. You might be interested in the following websites: http://www.italiaunita150.it/
  150º anniversario dell'Unità d'Italia: L'Italia in posa Dossier di StoricaMente.org - Università di Bologna
  http://speciali.espresso.repubblica.it/interattivi/150-italia/index.html?ref=HRESS-14
  http://www.inventarioitaliano.it/
  
• The Italian department is delighted to offer its warmest congratulations to two prize-winners for their performances in Tripos 2010. The Italian Department Prize for the most outstanding performance in Italian at Part II has been awarded to Eliza Apperley (Emmanuel). Eliza offered a majority of her papers in Italian and achieved a very distinguished First Class degree. The Department has also awarded an exceptional prize for excellence in Italian Culture to Ashley Cukier (Fitzwilliam). Ashley offered his language papers in French and his scheduled papers and dissertations in Italian and was awarded the top First (starred) in the Faculty.
• A number of members of the Italian Department, both Staff and Recent PhD students, spoke at the Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference in Venice, 16th-17th April 2010
• Dr Abi Brundin was one of the presenters at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Venice, 8th-10th April 2010
• Dr Helena Sanson was awarded one of the prestigious Philip Leverhulme prizes. Read more details about Dr Sanson's research here.
• Dr Abigail Brundin was awarded a fellowship at the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, for the academic year 2009-10. Read the recent article in 'Research Horizons'. During her year in Florence, Dr Brundin has been carrying out research on a project entitled: 'Rewriting Trent: the practice of poetry in Counter Reformation Florence'.
• Congratulations to Natalie Fullwood on winning the first SIS Postgraduate prize. The entries were uniformly of extremely high quality, and the judges were unanimous in awarding the prize to Natalie for her 'outstanding' dissertation on The gendering of space in three films by Antonio Pietrangeli.
• Dr Helena Sanson was one of the 2008 winners of the 'British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs' Competition across the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.
• August, 2008. The department is delighted to announce that Katherine Wallington, a third-year Italian PhD student, has been awarded the St. Catharine's Prize for Distinction in Research. Katherine's area of research is the work of Carlo Goldoni and Lorenzo Da Ponte.
• NEWS: Italian Department's Outstanding Performance in RAE 2008. The Department of Italian of the University of Cambridge has emerged from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise with the strongest research profile of any Italian department, and indeed any other UK Humanities department (including, among others, all Modern Languages, Asian Studies, Celtic Studies, Classics, English, European Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Theology). The assessment looked at publications by members of the Department and the research environment and activities among lecturers, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers. Click the link for more details: RAE 2008 results.

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