Key in the history of cinema, the ageing star is a figure of media obsolescence that carries the memory of a bygone era of filmmaking, awakening in the viewer nostalgia and anxiety, which the film industry continues to capitalize on. Building on her doctoral findings, Flavia’s research aims to analyze the strategies specific to... | Read on »

 Dr Cristina Bon (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan). ‘The President Matters’: John Janney and the Virginia Secession Convention (February-April 1861).

Italian School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures Talk by Charles Burdett, University of Durham    Working from recent theoretical writing on time and the concept of the spectral, the paper begins by questioning how we can talk about transnational temporalities. The paper then looks at some of the ways in which the Italian colonial and... | Read on »

The term ‘Classical’ connotes so many things as to be useless. ‘Neoclassical’ is valid for a particular era. ‘Classic’ (minus the suffix -al) may denote various items. ‘Tradition’ and like terms are too passive. Prof. Arkins will discuss these terms.

  Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK, and a specialist of early twentieth-century French political culture, history and literature. His PhD examined the French combat novel of the First World War, arguing that the experience of combat led to a fundamental shift in the way that a generation... | Read on »

  Dr Federico Ugolini – Visiting Research Fellow ‘Visualising maritime cityscapes’ explains how and why Greek and Romans represented so frequently the sea and the marine infrastructures within their artworks. This paper argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message.... | Read on »

Jim Reid (NUI Galway) Munster as a frontier of the Roman Empire in the 5th-6th centuries.

The Politics of Piety: Ritual Communities and Social Cohesion in Merovingian Gaul, 450-750