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2024

Reimagining mobilities in the Mediterranean

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2023

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2019-2020

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2019

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2018

CIRNÌýAnnual Lecture 2018

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17.00, Webb Room, Jesus College

NadiaÌýUrbinati, "Anti-Party: AÌýContinuumÌýin Italian Democracy, from 1945 to the Present"

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2017

CIRNÌýAnnual Lecture

Monday 13 March 2017, 17.30 - 20.00, Fitzwilliam Museum, British Art 16-18th centuries (Gallery 3)

Marina Warner, "The Flight of the Holy House: Nazareth - Loreto - Walsingham"

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2016

10.30 - 11 Coffee Ìý
11 - 12.30 SESSION 1: Commemorations
Chair: Paola Filippucci (º£½ÇÉçÇø, Social Anthropology)
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Ìý Katherine McDonald (º£½ÇÉçÇø, Classics) 'Commemorating the dead while becoming "Romans": Italian funerary monuments in the 2nd-centuryÌýBC'
Ìý Paolo Heywood (º£½ÇÉçÇø, Social Anthropology) ‘The two burials of Aldo Moro: Sovereignty and governmentality in theÌýanni di piombo’
Ìý Diego CarnevaleÌý(º£½ÇÉçÇø/Aix-Marseille, History) ‘Funerals and burials in 18th-century Naples: A business for the Church’
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch Ìý
1.30 - 3.30 Session 2: BodiesÌý
Chair: Silvia de'Renzi (Open University, History of Medicine)
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Ìý Gavin WilliamsÌý(º£½ÇÉçÇø, music) ‘Sounds Incorporeal: The Gramophone Company in Italy ca. 1900’
Ìý Andrea CarlinoÌý(Geneva, History of Medicine) 'A matter of life and death in XVIth century medical books'
Ìý Serenella Iovino (Turin, Comparative Literature) 'From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Textual Interpretation, and Death in Venice'
Ìý John Henderson (º£½ÇÉçÇø and Birkbeck, History) '"More Feared Than Death Itself"? Plague and Society in Early Modern Florence'
3.30 - 4.00 Tea Ìý
4.00 - 5.30 Session 3: Representations
Chair: Delia CasadeiÌý(º£½ÇÉçÇø, Music)
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Ìý Heather Webb (º£½ÇÉçÇø, Italian) 'Death Stories and the Construction of a Transmortal Community in Dante'sÌýPurgatorio'
Ìý Donal Cooper (º£½ÇÉçÇø, History of Art) ‘Saint Francis, Giotto and "Fratello Morte": Death and redemption at Assisi’
Ìý John Leigh (º£½ÇÉçÇø, French) ‘Deadly Duelling in Italy’
5.30 Closing Remarks and Drinks Ìý

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2015

10.30 - 11 Coffee and welcome Ìý
11 - 12.30 PANEL ONE
Chair: Frank Salmon (History of Art, º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Ìý Rebecca Flemming (Classics, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'Religion and the Composite º£½ÇÉçÇø in Roman Italy'
Ìý Irene Cooper (History, º£½ÇÉçÇø) ‘Popular Prints and Domestic Piety in Sixteenth-Century Naples’
Ìý Catherine O’Rawe (Italian/ Film, Bristol) ‘Back for Good: Melodrama and the Return º£½ÇÉçÇø in Post-War Italy’
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch Ìý
1.30 - 3.00 PANEL TWO
Chair: John David Rhodes (Italian/Film, º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Ìý John Robb (Archaeology, º£½ÇÉçÇø) et al. ‘Calabrian Households Across the Classical Divide’
Ìý Abigail Brundin (Italian, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'Devotional Reading at º£½ÇÉçÇø in the Renaissance'
Ìý Lena Näre (Sociology, Helsinki) 'The Daily Labour of º£½ÇÉçÇø-Making: Migrant Domestic Work in Italy'
3.00 - 3.30 Tea Ìý
3.30 - 5.00 PANEL THREE
Chair: Marcus Waithe (English, º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Ìý Zuzanna Sarnecka (History of Art, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'Visually Plain, Spiritually Enriching. The Importance of White in Domestic Devotional Sculpture'
Ìý Clare Pettit (English, KCL) ‘Interrupted Views: 1848, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Casa Guidi" Windows and the Paintings of the Macchiaioli’
Ìý Grace Lees-Maffei (Design History, Hertfordshire) ‘Playing at º£½ÇÉçÇø/Playing Away: Alessi and Italian Domesticity’
5.00 Closing Remarks and Drinks

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2014

CIRN workshop 2014Ìý

'New approaches to Modern Naples'

29 April, Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 5pm.

Chair: Melissa Calaresu
Speakers:Ìý
Ruth Glynn (Bristol):ÌýOccupied Naples between testimony and translation
Nick Dines (Middlesex):ÌýInterrogating narratives of renaissance and decline in contemporary Naples

10.30 Welcome Ìý
11 - 12.30 PANEL ONE - GLOBAL POLITICS
Chair: David Abulafia (History, º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Ìý Alessandro Launaro (Classics, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'The Impact of Empire on Roman Italy: The View from Interamna Lirenas (Southern Lazio)'
Ìý Patrick Lantschner (History º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'Late Medieval Italian Cities in a Global Perspective'
Ìý Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Anthropology, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'European Alliance or Mediterranean Affinity: Sicilian Transnational Politics Since World War II'
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch Ìý
1.30 - 3.00 PANEL TWO - GLOBAL EXCHANGE
Chair: Valentina Pugliano (HPS, º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Ìý Erin Maglaque (History, Oxford) 'A Global Microhistory of the Early Modern Venetian Aegean'
Ìý Léa-Catherine Szacka (Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies)Ìý 'The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale: Towards a Transnational Postmodernism?'
Ìý Anna Bagnoli (Sociology, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'Researching Contemporary Italian Migration: a Participatory Visual Project with Young Italians in the UK'
3.00 - 3.15 Tea Ìý
3.15Ìý- 4.45 PANEL THREE - GLOBAL PERFORMANCE
Chair: Iain Fenlon (Music, º£½ÇÉçÇø)
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Ìý David R. M. Irving (Music, Australian National University) 'ArcangeloÌýCorelliÌýand the Construction of "Global" Fame in the Eighteenth Century'
Ìý Benjamin Walton (Music, º£½ÇÉçÇø) 'Global Italian Opera'
Ìý Stephen Gundle (Film Studies, Warwick) 'Italian Stars Go to Hollywood: Isa Miranda and Alida Valli'
5.00 Closing Remarks and Drinks

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2013

CIRNÌýAnnual Symposium 2013

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