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Italian at UCC invites you to the following research seminars, conferences, events and presentations for the academic year 2010-2011. The calendar will be updated regularly.

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Teaching Term 1

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Saturday, 16 October 2010, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., ORB 1.01

Alberto Moravia: nuovi approcci per il terzo millennio - An International Conference

Conference webpage

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Monday, 18 October 2010, 3.00 p.m., O'Rahilly Building 1.24

Prof. Marilyn Migiel (Cornell University)

Can the Lower Classes Be Wise? (For The Answer, See Your Translation of the Decameron )

Download poster

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Friday, 29 October 2010, 2.00-5.00 p.m., O'Rahilly Building G.46

Postgraduate Research Day: research papers by final-year doctoral candidates in Italian and in Film Studies at UCC

1. Ms Jill Murphy, A Run through the Imaginary Museum: Video as Archival Tool in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Histoire(s) du cinéma'
2. Mr Aidan Power, Another Man's Vine: A microcosmic look at travel and diaspora in French cinema
3. Dott. Alessia Risi, Narrative Post-Noir? Some Considerations about the Genre and Grazia Verasani's Writing

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Thursday, 4 November 2010, 5 p.m., ORB 2.55

Dr Adalgisa Giorgio (University of Bath)

Contemporary Women's Narratives on Naples: Beyond the Postmodern

A seminar jointly organised with Women’s Studies at UCC

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Monday, 8 November 2010, 3 p.m., Brookfield 1.21

Prof. Davide Papotti (Università di Parma)

A Geographical Approach to Migration Literature

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Monday, 8 November 2010, 5 p.m., Seomra Caidrimh

Book Launch: Silvia Ross's Tuscan Spaces: Literary Constructions of Place

presented by Davide Papotti

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Teaching Term 2

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Tuesday 18 January 2011, 4 pm, ORB 2.55

Prof. Ellen Nerenberg (Wesleyan University)

Disturbing Italian Landscapes: Gender, Horror, Law, and Order in Dario Argento

A seminar jointly organised with Film Studies at UCC

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Dante Lecture Series

VENUE:  BOOLE LECTURE THEATRE 2, UCC
TIME:     Tuesdays 7.30

1. 25 January - Prof Corinna Salvadori Lonergan (Trinity College, Dublin), Dante and Justice
2. 1 February - Prof Catherine O'Brien (NUI Galway), Dante and Cacciaguida
3. 8 February - Prof John C. Barnes (University College Dublin), Dante and War
4. 15 February - Dr Daragh O'Connell (University College Cork), Dante's Silent Ship
5. 22 February - Prof Terry O'Reilly (University College Cork), Dante and Beatrice

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Saturday, 5 February 2011

Graduate conference in Italian Studies

Keynote speaker: Dr Charles Burdett (University of Bristol), Chairperson, Society for Italian Studies

Conference webpage

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Monday, 7 March 2011, 4 pm, ORB 1.24

Dr Ivelise Perniola (Università degli Studi Roma III)

The Return of the Real in Contemporary Italian Cinema

A seminar jointly organised with Film Studies at UCC

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Saturday, 19 March 2011 (venue TBD)

Dante Day

Dr Claire Honess and Dr Mattthew Treherne, Directors, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, University of Leeds

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Thursday, 24 March 2011, 5 p.m., ORB 2.55

Italian Writers in the UK and Ireland: Marcello Fois

In collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin

Download leaflet

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Thursday, 12 May 2011, 3 p.m., ORB 3.03

Inferno d'amore: A Mystery Reading in Italian by Giampaolo Simi

In collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin

Download leaflet

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All welcome

For information contact Dott Laura Rascaroli (tel. 490 2471, lr@ucc.ie) or Italian at UCC (tel. 490 2335)

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