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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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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…
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From February to June 2016, the TML team based at Warwick will be running a series of creative writing workshops at the Birmingham Ikon Gallery with the writer Shirin Ramzanali Fazel. The series explore how we bridge gaps and move across languages and cultures in…
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The Byre Theatre, University of St Andrews 8th to 26th February 2016 Free Entry 10am till 10pm The work in this exhibition is the latest edition of an ongoing collaboration between the AHRC funded research project ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages’ and two secondary schools…
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The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Friday, 26 February 2016 Recent public policy statements have stressed the need for concerted action to address the fact that recruitment on Modern Languages courses within the UK is in decline, and influential…
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Terri Colpi and Carlo Pirozzi have contributed to curating a new archive exhibition, ‘Family Portrait: The Scots Italians 1890 – 1940’, which opens on 1st December 2015 at National Records of Scotland (NRS) in Edinburgh. Created by NRS in partnership with the Italian Consulate General of…
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