“In Between and Across: New Directions, Mappings and Contact Zones” Venue: Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) 1-3 September, 2022 Organising committee: Prof Clodagh Brook (TCD), Dr Cecilia Brioni (TCD) Scientific Council: Dr Adele...
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School took place at Trinity College Dublin on 7-8 July 2022, was organised by Clodagh Brook and Cecilia Brioni with the support of the Irish Research Council...
We are delighted to invite you to these free online public lectures: Convergence Culture in the Age of Covid-19: A Fever Dream by Professor HENRY JENKINS (July 2, 17:30-18:30 GMT+1) AND Simulating...
My current research project, which is funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship, focuses on representations of contemporary Italian youth on the video sharing platform YouTube. I am...
There are some recurring basic concepts in the humanities and social sciences that seem to be under perennial debate. They are constantly under attack for being ‘simplistic’ or criticised for being vague...
When do conferences break new ground? One can think about individual presentations, or panels, that stand out as paradigm shifting – though this is often a tall order in the short twenty-minute...
15 February 2019, Royal Holloway Where is Modern Languages in digital culture and digital arts? And where in digital culture in Modern Languages? SYMPOSIUM REPORT The ‘digital turn in the humanities’ has...
For the Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference in Durham in the summer of 2013, I was invited (in the context of this research project) to talk about interdisciplinarity in the secondary...
The investigation of the close dialogue between poetic and visual language in the Italian panorama of the last seventy years is at the centre of the research project Verba Picta. Interrelazione tra...
Since the 1960s there has been an interest in (artistic) media from (tending towards) the technologically deterministic of Marshall McLuhan, to critics on the left such as Raymond Williams (Contact: Human Communication...