Italian Seminar Series 2023/024

Please email serena.laiena@ucd.ie to request the link to the online session.

Trimester 2:

31 JANUARY - 5.00 pm (ONLINE)
MARTINA PIPERNO (Sapienza University of Rome)
"Mi ha accusato di plagio": Luchino Visconti's alleged Plagiarism of Bassani

21 FEBRUARY - 5.00 pm (ONLINE)
ALBERICA BAZZONI (University of Siena)
Towards a Decolonial Ethics of Translation: NourbeSe Philip's Zong! in Italy

27 MARCH - 5.00 pm (ONLINE)
RUTH GLYNN (University of Bristol)
Naples and the Nation: From Gomorra to Heritage, Made in Italy

10 APRIL - 5.00 pm (ONLINE)
VIRGINIA COX (University of Cambridge) and LISA SAMPSON (UCL)
Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy. The life and works of Leonora Bernardi

Trimester 1:

29 NOVEMBER - 5.00 pm (ONLINE)
SIMON GILSON (University of Oxford)
Benedetto Varchi as a translator and commentator of Aristotle

4 DECEMBER - 5.00 pm (ONLINE)
FOLKE GERNERT (Universität Trier)
Si ride questo sciagurato di Cristo: Early Modern Physician Writers and Lucian of Samosata