Italian Studies - Department of Modern Languages at Birmingham

08/12/2018

A message from Super-Clelia Boscolo:

Edwin's in the final!

My son Edwin is in the final of a screen composition competition, please help him to get the audience prize by voting for him:

https://www.pannoniastudio.com/competition

(Ed Beesley)

Mio figlio Edwin è finalista in un concorso di composizione cinematografica. Aiutiamolo a vincere il premio del pubblico votando per lui (Ed Beesley) al sito:

https://www.pannoniastudio.com/competition

Grazie! Thank you!

Pannonia Film Music Competition was created for young composers from all over the world.

20/10/2016

Ariosto is one of Italy’s most important writers, and the 500 year anniversary of his most famous work, the Orlando Furioso, is this year. We’re celebrating this important event for our culture with high-profile concerts and talks and exhibitions at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. Whether or not you yet know Ariosto, we hope you’ll want to get involved. Find out more:

http://barber.org.uk/musica-secreta-early-modern-vocal-ensembles-early-music-ensembles/

http://barber.org.uk/musica-secreta/

02/08/2016

The British School at Rome has become an official partner on Dr Clodagh Brook's AHRC-funded Interdisciplinary Italy project.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/sections/italian/news/2016/The-British-School-at-Rome-has-becomean-official-partner-on-the-AHRC-funded-Interdisciplinary-Italy-project.aspx

05/05/2016

We are pleased to announce the final donation total for 'Young Minds' charity is £270! Thank you to all finalists who completed the National Student Survey - not only have you raised money for a great cause, your feedback will help shape the future of your course and department. We really do value your views and appreciate you taking the time to participate :)

26/04/2016

Delighted that Italian at UoB is now 9th overall in the UK & 5th for graduate prospects in the Complete University Guide http://bit.ly/26qQ9FK

League tables of the best universities for Italian, 2017. Compare universities, courses, prospects and career options.

18/03/2016

Thank you all finalists who have completed the NSS, you have raised £226 so far for Young Minds charity! We will donate £2 for every final year student in our School who completes the survey www.thestudentsurvey.com

17/03/2016

Please sign!

I just signed a petition at iPetitions.com. Please join me in supporting this important cause!

25/11/2015

In the second seminar of the Italian studies series Clodagh Brook will talk about an ongoing, AHRC funded project, that she is completing with Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway), Florian Mussgnug (UCL) and Emanuela Patti (Birmingham):

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/sections/italian/research/interdisciplinary-italy-phase-2.aspx).

It will be an excellent opportunity for all of us to to hear about this innovative research being done in our Department. The seminar takes place tomorrow:

26 November, 4pm. Dr Clodagh Brook (Birmingham), seminar: ‘Interdisciplinary Italy: Experimentation and Transgression across the Arts’. Venue: Learning Centre (R28 on the map, near the train station), Room LG 14.

24/11/2015

Today Charlotte Ross is presenting her book on discourses of desire between women in Italy, at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, in London. Find out more here: http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/18611/Cultural+Discourses+on+Lesbianism+in+Italy

10/11/2015

You are warmly invited to the first event of the Italian studies seminar series that takes place this afternoon.

10 November, 4pm. Dr Charlotte Ross and Dr Michele Aaron (Birmingham), book launch: ‘A conversation about Eccentricity and Sameness. Discourses on Lesbianism and Desire between Women in Italy, 1860s-1930s (Peter Lang, 2015)’, written by Charlotte Ross. Venue: Strathcona (R18 on the map), Room LT6 (that is: Lecture Theatre 6).

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=82519

22/10/2015

Qualche consiglio per parlare bene l'italiano....

http://www.italianalingua.it/index.php?page=umberto-eco-40-regole-per-parlare-bene-l-italiano

09/10/2015

Interested in Italian cinema? Come along to our free film club!
First screening: Nanni Moretti's 'La stanza del figlio', Wednesday 21 October, 6pm, Strathcona Lecture Theatre 1. All films will be shown in Italian with English subtitles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208990/

Directed by Nanni Moretti. With Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice. A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.