Month: March 2016

On Thursday 10th March TML member Loredana Polezzi spoke on gender and translation at the Instituto de Literature Comparada Margarida Losa, Universidade do Porto. The talk was part of a collaboration with the ‘Intersexualities’ research group of the Programa Estratégico 2015-2020: Literatura e Fronteiras do Conhecimento: Políticas de Inclusão, which involves researchers from across Europe…Continue Reading Talk on Gender and Translation by Loredana Polezzi, University of Porto

The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that has involved all the cultural, political and religious institutions of the country and some of its most vocal and controversial cultural figures. This study examines some of…Continue Reading Italy, Islam and the Islamic World: Representations and Reflections from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings

MIGRATING OBJECTS Material Culture and Italian Identities April 28-30, 2016 JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE Queens College, City University of New York 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan.         Loredana Polezzi, Margaret Hills de Zàrate and Carlo Pirozzi (TML Team) will be participating at the…Continue Reading TML at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York

In collaboration with the Edinburgh College of Art – Graphic Design and Illustration.     We often imagine that we belong to only one culture, but human experience is almost always, in some sense, transnational, with movement between cultures. How can such experiences be expressed in creative images? How and why do we move between…Continue Reading Transnational identity. Call for illustration and other visual representation

In collaboration with the SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST The first call for stories is Scottish Book Trust’s 50 Word Fiction Competition (can you create a story in 50 words or less?), the second is for a short story without any specific word limit. For both, can you write a story in response to The Manuscript of…Continue Reading Two Calls for Short Stories in response to The Manuscript of Monte Cassino by Eduardo Paolozzi

On Friday 19th February 2016, TML member Loredana Polezzi (Cardiff) spoke at the ‘Translation and Interpreting in Multilingual Contexts’ conference held at Aston University, Birmingham (UK). Her talk was entitled ‘Rethinking the Translation Continuum’ and formed part of a panel on ‘Conceptualizing Multilingualism vis-à-vis Translation’ in which Prof. Rainier Grutman (Ottawa) also presented a contribution…Continue Reading Three recent talks on translation by Loredana Polezzi (TML Team)

We are very pleased to invite you to the workshop ‘Identities in Motion. Legacies and Representations of Mobility in Contemporary Italy’, on 4 March (2-9 pm) at the Research Exchange, Library, Warwick. The event aims to discuss Italian mobility and representational practices from the end of the colonial experience to nowadays. In this regard, Italy offers an…Continue Reading Identities in Motion. Legacies and Representations of Mobility in Contemporary Italy – Warwick