New series of interdisciplinary Research Seminars organised by the Italian department: first guest speaker Dr Alberto Toscano (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths), 'The Non-State Intellectual: Franco Fortini and Communist Criticism' (September 29, 6pm, Woolf College Seminar Room 3). Full programme at THIS ADDRESS.
Dr Francesco Capello has been appointed Lecturer in Italian
Dr Lorenzo Chiesa's English translation of Giorgio Agamben's Il Regno e la Gloria to be released by Stanford University Press in September 2011
Andrea Soardo, Assistant Lecturer in Italian, recently published his first book, Accade l'accadere (Milan: Mimesis, 2011)
Contemporary Representations of Organised Crime in Italy and Beyond, international conference dedicated to the memory of Dr. Tom Behan (9th-10th of June 2011, the University of Kent).