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CIRN, the º£½ÇÉçÇø Italian Research Network, aims to create and sustain a network of scholars in º£½ÇÉçÇø working on Italy across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. It was set up in 2012. The networkÌýaims to:

• keep researchers informed through a regular bulletin of lectures, seminars, conferences and other research events on Italy taking place in º£½ÇÉçÇø.
• organize an annual CIRN Lecture bringing prestigious speakers from outside º£½ÇÉçÇø to lecture on an Italy-related theme. Past lecturers have included Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard); Lucy Riall (Birkbeck / EUI); Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser (Oxford); Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland).
• organize an annual CIRN Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, usually in Easter Term. This aims to bring together researchers from many different disciplines and fields to give papers on a single overarching theme. Speakers are drawn predominantly from the º£½ÇÉçÇø research community but also include invited speakers from other universities. Up to now, symposium themes have included ‘Italian Landscapes’, ‘Global Italy’, ‘The Italian º£½ÇÉçÇø’, and ‘Death in Italy’. Speakers have so far been drawn from the following disciplinary areas:

Anthropology; Architecture; Classics; Compartive literature; Design; English; Film; French; Geography; History; History of art; History of medicine; History of science; Human, social and politial science; Italian; Linguistics; Music; Sociology

• facilitate – and where possible provide CIRN seed funding for – interdisciplinary research initiatives or events relating to Italy, both within º£½ÇÉçÇø and in collaboration with other institutions.

CIRN has been generously supported by the Italian Department in the Faculty of MMLL at º£½ÇÉçÇø; the Keith Sykes Fund; the Serena Fund; and the Trevelyan Fund at the Faculty of History.ÌýFor further information about CIRN, please write toÌýcirn@mmll.cam.ac.uk.

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CIRN organising committee