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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · 5h

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

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · 11d

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · 11d

📌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!

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 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.

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Sep 2

📌 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.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣 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.

buff.ly

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Jul 23

📌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...

CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH

The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Jun 11

Today!

CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Jun 2

🗓️11 June, 9:45am-6pm

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

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

CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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...

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · May 28

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-...

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...

www.film.cam.ac.uk

CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · May 12

Join us on Thursday 15 May for our annual lecture!
@italianmmll.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · May 5

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...

@italianmmll.bsky.social @ericabellia.bsky.social

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Apr 22

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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)

CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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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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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 24

@italianmmll.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @fernandag.bsky.social @marylaven.bsky.social

CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 24

Today!

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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
@italianmmll.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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

electro//acoustic day

www.electroacousticday.com Now in its second year, electro//acoustic day brings together exceptional musicians performing both classical instrumental and vocal repertoire alongside cutting-edge

www.festival.cam.ac.uk

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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/

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

CRASSH conference

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 17

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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

Classical Archaeology Seminars | Faculty of Classics

D: CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Seminars take place on Tuesdays in Room 1.04* in the Faculty of Classics, and begin at 16:30.

www.classics.cam.ac.uk

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 17

5 events coming up this week!

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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

History Seminar | Faculty of Classics

C: ANCIENT HISTORY Lent Term 2025 Meetings will take place on Mondays at 5:15pm in Room G.21, Faculty of Classics. All Welcome. 27 January Dr David Pickel (Warsaw) ‘Malaria Landscapes in Roman Italy: ...

www.classics.cam.ac.uk

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CIRN - Cambridge Italian Research Network @cirn-cambridge.bsky.social · Mar 10

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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

Literature Seminar | Faculty of Classics

A: LITERATURE Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 17.15–18.45, in room G.21.

www.classics.cam.ac.uk