Month: October 2015

Charles Burdett and Barbara Spadaro presents the TML project at Exeter’s Centre for Translating Cultures. This talk will present the progress of the AHRC large grant Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures. The project aims to explore the ways in which Italian communities have formed across the world and it…Continue Reading TML project at Exeter’s Centre for Translating Cultures. An audio recording of this lecture is now available

Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Marina Warner The conference is part of the AHRC funded project Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures  and opens the project exhibition at the British School at Rome.   The history of Italians and of Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and transnationalism. Such experiences reflect the history…Continue Reading CFP Transnational Italies: Mobility, Subjectivities and Modern Italian Cultures Conference, British School at Rome, 26-28 October 2016

30 October,  6pm Venue: the Byre – University of St Andrews On October 3 2013, more than 360 people died in a shipwreck as they tried to reach Europe. The catastrophe drew the world’s attention to the ongoing loss of lives in the Mediterranean. Two years on from the disaster, Antonino Maggiore’s documentary ”3 October 2013-3…Continue Reading BYRE WORLD – Screening of Antonino Maggiore’s documentary ‘3 ottobre 2013 – I giorni della tragedia’

Writing without Frontiers: a ten week course at Drummond Community High School sponsored by TML.         Led by published author Vicki Jarrett the course explores different forms of creative writing across languages and borders.    …Continue Reading Writing without Frontiers