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Dear all,

With the new academic year fast approaching, this is a shameless plug for my new book, Modern Italy in Historical Perspective (Bloomsbury Academic, June 2010, ix + 342 pp. £19.99).

Here is what the cover blurb says:

'A sense of failure pervades modern Italian history: the political and economic disappointments of unification; the collapse of Liberal Italy and the rise of Fascism after World War One; military defeat and occupation in World War Two; the problems of the post-war Republic. Modern Italy is often characterized as a 'deviant' nation, [...]

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Buongiorno a tutti,

vivo in prima persona tutto questo tutti i giorni. Voglio informarvi e condividere con voi. Saluti,

Enrico Santangelo

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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Dear colleagues in Italian Studies,

Registration for the first Italian language conference 'Enhancing the
Italian Studies Curriculum: Innovation and Development' in Manchester
on 17 September closes on Wednesday 8 September.

If you would like to attend, could you please fill in the registration
and payment details forms available from [...]

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

RENAISSANCE NOW!

University College Cork, Ireland

College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSSS) Graduate School

9-10 December 2010

Doing Renaissance Now is the theme of this two-day conference to be held at University College Cork, Ireland on 9-10 December 2010. The title is intentionally ambiguous. We wish to focus on the concept of Renaissance as it applies to a particular time and place still regarded as crucially important for world-wide ways of life and thought. However, even this outlook is open to our questioning. What indeed, [...]

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

For anyone who's interested, 'the straw which comes apart', my translations of the Italian poet Ivano Fermini, are now available from Oystercatcher Press.
 
More information is available at:
 
http://www.oystercatcherpress.com/ifermini.html

Thank you.
 
 
Ian Seed

  
 
 

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Salve a tutti.

Alcuni studenti mi chiedono bibliografia in inglese sul periodo friulano di Pasolini. In particolare servono testi sul suo concetto di lingua e dialetto, nonché informazioni sull'Academiuta di lenga furlana e l'antizoruttismo.

I testi sull'web sono particolarmente graditi.

Grazie in anticipo, giornata proficua, Giorgio Cadorini [...]

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Call for Sessions

The conference of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies will be
held from June 24 to June 26, 2011 at the Ateneo Veneto, in Venice,
Italy. Sessions may be proposed on any aspect of Italian (or Italian-
diaspora) studies: Language, Literature, Linguistics, History,
Philosophy, Cinema, etc. [...]

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

CALL FOR PAPERS for:
42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, NJ - Hyatt New Brunswick
Host Institution: Rutgers University
Corporeality: Italian Literary Bodies of the XX and XXI Centuries:
We have seen the body placed in question in the contexts of science fiction, issues of gender, sexuality, and identity: consider Donna Haraway's rather seminal article "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991). More recently, such scholars as Massimo Lollini, Giuseppe Longo, Roberto Marchesini, Mario Perniola, and Roberta Tabanelli [...]

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

Dear italian-studies colleagues,

BBC Radio 4 has a phone-in on Tuesday 31st August, from 1200 to 1257
local time. The topic is: 'Is it worthwhile learning another language?'

Some list members may wish to participate; others may simply want to
listen to how this is perceived in the United Kingdom. [...]

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

BBC Radio 4 has a phone-in on Tuesday morning 31st August

The BBC website states:

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12:00-12:57 You and Yours

31/08/2010

Is it worthwhile learning another language?

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Anyone like to offer some words of wisdom?

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