ISDC

ITALIAN STUDIES DOCTORAL COLLOQUIA
Series of seminars run by the community of PhD students in Italian Studies.

CALENDAR for Academic Year 2014/2015

13 October 2014 - 6 p.m. - room H3.55

Tommaso De Robertis (University of Parma, Italy), Aristotle or Machiavelli? Ancient philosophy within Machiavelli's political thought

Chair: Giacomo Comiati

30 October 2014 - 6 p.m. - room H4.03

'Italian XX century literary experiences between fantastic and childhood fiction'

, Always arguing with pictures. Translators-illustrators of Uncle Tom's Cabin under Italian Fascism

, Fantastic hybridizations: human, animal and textuality in post-WWII Italian literature

Chair: Elio Baldi

1 December 2014 - 6:15 p.m. - room H3.55

, Milan and Turin in 1960s and 1970s Italian Crime Fiction. A Comparative Analysis on Giorgio Scerbanenco and Fruttero & Lucentini

, Italian-ness and notions of success in migration: case studies of celebrities in the British-Italian community

Chair: Maria Belova

PAST EVENTS

25 February 2014 - 6 p.m. - room H3.45

, The Grotesque as a Multifunctional Tool. Deconstructing the Imperial Narrative in Two Commedie by Ettore Scola

, The Art of change. Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy as a Postcolonial Novel

Chair: Gioia Panzarella

30 April 2014 - 5 p.m. - room H4.03
(Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Storia di una sconfitta culturale. Il libertinismo italiano nei secoli XVII-XVIII
Chair: Giacomo Comiati

21 May 2014 - 5.30 p.m. - room H4.03
, The author as frame: Italo Calvino in the context of literary criticism

, Giovanni Raboni as a translator: Reflecting Baudelaire's modernità

Chair: Valentina Abbatelli

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If you want to deliver a paper or have any query, please, contact the organisers:

- G.Comiati@糖心TV.ac.uk

- G.Panzarella@糖心TV.ac.uk