CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network

📢Check out this term's bulletin of research events relating to Italy happening in Cambridge!

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📌The CIRN event bulletin for MT will be sent out soon!

If you know of any research events going on in Cambridge that relate to Italian culture, please let us know by Wednesday 8 October and we'll make sure that the details are circulated to members!

CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

📣 Open for applications
CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship

The fellowship invites an an outstanding early career postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on Italy to spend a period of time at Cambridge in Spring 2026

Apply by 16 Sept 2025 buff.ly/avKFQEe
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CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

📌 2 weeks left to apply for the CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo visiting fellowship!

If you are an early career postdoctoral scholar, don't miss this great opportunity!

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...

CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

📣 Open for applications
CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship

The fellowship invites an an outstanding early career postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on Italy to spend a period of time at Cambridge in Spring 2026

Apply by 16 Sept 2025 buff.ly/avKFQEe
@cirn-cambridge.bsky.social

CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

📌Applications open for the 2026-26 CIRN-CRASSH Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship!

Deadline: 12:00 noon BST on 16 September 2025
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...

Today!

🗓️11 June, 9:45am-6pm

Join us for the CIRN-CRASSH Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship Symposium!

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/46680/

Londra, i luoghi del potere di Marco Varvello Venerdì 6 giugno, ore 17,30, 4 Mill Lane Recital Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge Presentazione del libro “Londra, i luoghi del potere” di Marco Varvello (RAI). Con l’autore interviene Francesco Bong...

6 June 2025, 5:15pm
Book launch
Marco Varvello, Londra: i luoghi del potere. Il ritorno del Regno Unito tra i protagonisti delle sfide globali (Solferino, 2025)
With the author and Francesco Bongarrà (director of IIC, London)

4 Mill Lane Recital Room, Pembroke College

Two events this week!

2 June, 5:15pm
Italian Research Seminar
Dr Małgorzata Trzeciak (Warsaw)
Diplomatic Secretaries as Travel Writers: Giovan Battista Fagiuoli and Giacomo Cavanis in Poland-Lithuania
Room 107, Raised Faculty Building, MMLL Faculty

Viva Voce: The Voice and Social History in the Sound Film » Cambridge Film & Screen The cinematic voice is often the formal cornerstone of film’s sound design. It is also the product of multiple industrial processes and strands of labour that take place on set and during post-product...

Today!

28 May 2025, 5pm
Film & Screen Studies Seminar
Dr Damien Pollard (Northumbria)
Viva Voce: The Voice and Social History in the Sound Film
Venue: Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College
Further info here: www.film.cam.ac.uk/events/viva-...

Join us on Thursday 15 May for our annual lecture!
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Two events with Ethio-Italian writer, performer and musician Gabriella Ghermandi happening in Cambridge on 8 May!

'Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation' will also be live streamed on Zoom: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8247458678...

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Join us for our Annual Lecture on 15 May, 5:15pm, in the Sibilla Room @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social !

2.
11 June, Alison Richard Building
CIRN-CRASSH Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship Symposium
Reimagining Ecologies in Italian Visual Culture
Organised by Dr Pietro Agnoletto (CIRN-CRASSH Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting fellow 2024-25)

Save the dates of two CIRN events happening in Easter Term!

1.
15 May, 5:15pm, Sibilla Room, Jesus College
CIRN Annual Lecture
Prof. Silvana Patriarca (Fordham)
'Long Live Menelik': Anticolonialisms and Antiracisms in Italy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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Today!

5.
22 March, 10am
The Body is a Page. An Encounter with Italian Poet Elisa Biagini
Poetry reading and craft talk
Co-curated by Bhanu Kapil (English) and Erica Bellia (MMLL Italian)
Venue: Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English
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4.
21 March, 2:15-3pm
Poetry reading: mines
Texts read by Elisa Biagini & David Cain with an introduction and Q&A by Marta Gentilucci
West Road Foyer, 2:15 – 3:00
(Cambridge Festival)
www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/elect...
www.electroacousticday.com

Fairy-Tale trouble and the art of fluidity: gender, genre, media - CRASSH CRASSH conference

3.
21-22 March 2025
CRASSH Event
Fairy-Tale trouble and the art of fluidity: gender, genre, media
Venue: Alison Richard Building, West Road
Convenors: Elena Sottilotta (Murray Edwards, Cambridge)
Alice Parrinello (Edinburgh)
Further information: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44790/

2.
19 March, 5:15-6:45pm
Ancient Literature Seminar (Classics)
Janja Soldo (University of Edinburgh)
The sapiens and the scorpion: Fronto’s philosophical letters
Venue: Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
Further information: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/a

5 events coming up this week!

1.
17 March, 5:15pm
Ancient History Seminar (Classics)
Olivier Hekster (Nijmegen)
The Global Roman Senate
Venue: Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
Further information: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/c

3.
12 March, 5:15-6:45pm
Ancient Literature Seminar (Faculty of Classics)
Barnaby Taylor (Exeter College, Oxford)
'Cicero, Tusculans 2: Pain, Plato, Pacuvius'
Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
Further information: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/a

2.
11 March, 4:30pm
Classical Archaeology Seminar
Sahal Abdi (Cambridge, McDonald Institute)
‘Your Gods are our Gods': Intepretatio Romana, Religious Syncretism and Ritual Imperialism in Roman North Africa
Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics
www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/d

3 events coming up this week!

1.
10 March, 5:15pm
Ancient History Seminar
Christiane-Marie Cantwell (Cambridge)
The belief economy: the application of social economics to religious practice in Roman Gaul
Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/c

🗓️ Our Annual Symposium is coming up in less than three weeks with a very rich and exciting programme!

This year's theme is 'Labour'🛠️

Join us on Monday 24 March in the Alison Richard Building (room SG1)

All welcome!

8.
7 Mar, 2:30pm
Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CLANS)
Julia Hillner (Sheffield)
Late Roman Emperors in Love
Venue: Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
Further information: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/cla...

7.
6 Mar, 5:15-6:30pm
Classical Reception Seminars
Sarah Annes Brown (ARU)
Mind the Gap: Ovid, Contemporary Poetry and the Anthropocene
Room G.21, Faculty of Classics
Followed by pub trip and dinner with speaker
Further information: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/crdg