Current News and Events

Italian Research Seminars - Easter Term 2025

Eleanor Stocks — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:20:23 +0000

We are pleased to share with you the Easter Term card of Italian Research Events. The first two events will take place on Thursday 8 May, when we'll have the pleasure of having Gabriella Ghermandi with us. We look forward to seeing you then. 8 May, 2-3pm, Chadwick Room, Selwyn College Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation...

Two events with Ethio-Italian writer, musician and performer Gabriella Ghermandi

Robert Lee — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:30:51 +0000

We are glad to welcome Gabriella Ghermandi, Ethio-Italian writer, performer and musician for two events on Thursday 8 May both taking place at Selwyn College.

Book publication: 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland'

Eleanor Stocks — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:36:23 +0000

Dr Elena Sottilotta 's book, Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland, has just been published by Princeton University Press.

CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium: Labour

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:43:44 +0000

We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium on 'Labour', taking place on Monday 24 March, from 10:45am to 5pm, in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building. Programme poster 10:45-11am: Welcome 11am-12:30pm Panel 1: Reproduction, Refusal, Revolution Ilaria Favretto Striking Women: Gender...

Prof JD Rhodes on props and property

Jay Richardson — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:36:19 +0000

The Prop , by Prof JD Rhodes (MMLL, ��) and Dr Elena Gorfinkel (Film Studies, King’s College London), was published by Fordham Press on 4 March. The Financial Times spoke to Prof Rhodes in February about Joanna Hogg’s film Autobiografia di una Borsetta , which was inspired by Rhodes’ and Gorfinkel’s...

Italian Research Seminars - Lent Term

Eleanor Stocks — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:53:10 +0000

Italian Research Seminars in Lent Term 2025 are scheduled for 26 February and 6, 21–22 and 24 March.

Selwyn Sykes �� Masters Studentship in Italian Studies

Eleanor Stocks — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:22:56 +0000

Selwyn College will offer two studentships for UK MPhil students in Italian Studies for entry in October 2025.

A Series of International Events on 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'

Eleanor Stocks — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:07:54 +0000

We are delighted to announce a series of academic and public engagement initiatives aimed at celebrating the legacy of Carlo Collodi’s literary masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio in contemporary culture, co-organized by Murray Edwards College Fellow Elena Sottilotta (Italian section, MMLL Faculty) with Pablo a Marca (...

Ruth Murphy on moral philosophy, literature, and New Literary History

Jay Richardson — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:40:11 +0000

Ruth Murphy is a PhD candidate in Italian at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literature, ��. Her most recent article, ‘“Let me look again”: The Moral Philosophy and Literature Debate at 40’ , was recently published in New Literary History (Vol. 55 No. 1). Here, Murphy explains the...

Byron Festival – a commemoration of the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death

Jay Richardson — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:08:30 +0000

The �� Centre for Greek Studies participated in Trinity College’s commemoration of the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death, hosting a wreath-laying ceremony and a paintings exhibition. On 19 and 20 April 2024 Trinity College, ��, commemorated the 200th anniversary of the death of Trinity’s most famous literary...