Cambridge Italian Research Network

Description

The Cambridge Italian Research Network, aims to create and sustain a network of scholars in Cambridge working on Italy across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.

The Network aims to:

• keep researchers informed through a regular bulletin of lectures, seminars, conferences and other research events on Italy taking place in Cambridge;
• organise an annual Cambridge Italian Research Network Lecture bringing prestigious speakers from outside Cambridge to lecture on an Italy-related theme;
• organise an annual Cambridge Italian Research Network Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, usually in Easter Term. This aims to bring together researchers from many different disciplines and fields to give papers on a single overarching theme. Speakers are drawn predominantly from the Cambridge research community but also include invited speakers from other universities. Up to now, symposium themes have included ‘Italian Landscapes’, ‘Global Italy’, ‘The Italian Home’, and ‘Death in Italy’. Speakers have so far been drawn from the following disciplinary areas:

Anthropology; Architecture; Classics; Compartive literature; Design; English; Film; French; Geography; History; History of art; History of medicine; History of science; Human, social and politial science; Italian; Linguistics; Music; Sociology

• facilitate – and where possible provide CIRN seed funding for –interdisciplinary research initiatives or events relating to Italy, both within Cambridge and in collaboration with other institutions.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2012

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University of Cambridge
The Old Schools
Trinity Ln
Cambridge
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