TransModernLanguage

The School of Modern Languages is organising a Festival of Languages, the first edition of which will take place in early October 2024. If you want to contribute to this project, please get in touch with Dr Gavin Bowd (gpb).

No matter how exploited university employees are or how legitimate our reasons to strike are, we are not enslaved people. Please rethink this

EVENT: 📢 In conversation with @mabadagliacca & Derek Duncan, @jacocolo4, Claudia Giunta, and @cascettara, hosted by @edigiunta and Marie Garcia at @NJCUniversity on Monday 29th November for 'Italy Is Out'. 🇮🇹 #Italian Register for free here ⬇️ bit.ly/ItalyOutEvent

OUT TODAY! #OpposingPatriarchy How women in 19th-century #Italy🇮🇹 campaigned for equality and challenged traditional domestic roles. By @SDelmedico. Get 30% off using discount code DONNE30. sas.ac.uk/publications/o…

Perfect timing! 🎈🎁 @mabadagliacca

Many congratulations to our Prof Derek Duncan and @mabadagliacca on the publication of their volume Italy is Out, featuring work by the @ahrcpress funded research team ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ (2014-16).

Prof Derek Duncan from #Italian will talk about "'In the left background': minor transnational cultures and the Arandora Star" at @Yale next week. You are invited to attend his lecture online on 📅 Mon 15 Nov 2021 at 🕧 12:30pm EST (GMT-5) via 🌐 italian.yale.edu/event/guest-sp…

NEW TITLE: 'Italy Is Out', by @mabadagliacca and Derek Duncan is now out! With contributions from Edi Giunta, Barbara Spadaro, @edigiunta, @baspadaro and @drg1949 among others! 🇮🇹 Get your copy on our website here: bit.ly/ItalyOut

"Race and Citizenship in Italy" celebrates three amazing new books! It is an online event open to the public. Next Friday, 22 October at 12 pm (EST), 5 pm (UK), 6 pm (Italy), 7 pm (Greece). Join us! To register: #text-2495" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">italian.columbia.edu/content/italia…

Photo of the day! Hadn’t realised the Mina book was available for pre-order so hurrah 😁 @IntellectBooks @JICMStudies

We are resuming the Italian Cinema Seminars this autumn with three extraordinary talks by @dtreveri, Dr Silvia Angeli and @cathorawe! The first online seminar is on November 2nd; check out our program here👇 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapv… italiancinemagroup@warwic.ac.uk @WarwickFilmTV

@hastie_PhD I am available and would love to take part also as a Film Festival manager, (co-director and co-founder of @_IFFC )

I'm recruiting interviewees for the next stage of a project on the changing spaces and practices of film consumption. The project is pretty open - if you watch films via online platforms, then I'd like to hear from you! Please share with friends/family/colleagues.

Queer Epistemicides - online ML conference on queer thinking beyond the anglosphere with a plenary by the brilliant Professor Dagmawi Woubshet (University of Pennsylvania). Registration now open @IMLR_News @StAModLangs

‘We must be under no illusion: the withdrawal of this BA will have a negative impact on the decolonization of the curriculum & the University of Sussex’s image as a “Global” university.’ @sussexucu on slow & systematic dismantling of Sussex languages education.

To crib from @HarshaWalia, prison is a border. I’ll be talking black trans freedom, abolition & transnationalism next Monday w/ fellow @ucftp homie @dylanrodriguez (@ucr_ftp) & Callen Lowe. Moderated by @graceelavery, introduced by @subjectivitea. Link: bit.ly/3ahqKYf

Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2020/07/20/tra… via @livunipress

I'm happy to see my interview on "Searching for Japan" finally out.

New on the blog 'Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy’s Fascination with Japanese Culture – an interview with Michele Monserrati' bit.ly/searchingforja… #italianstudies #postcolonialstudies @MMonserrati