Our CONVERSATIONS AROUND NAPLES took place from 7 March to 6 June on Thursdays 6-7pm and featured public talks around the city of Naples and Neapolitan History, Culture, and Literature, delivered by experts in the field.
PROGRAMME 2024
7 March – Dr Emily Di Dodo: Boccaccio, Fiammetta, and the Neapolitan ‘novelle’
14 March – Prof Ela Tandello: Vesuvius in the Poetic Imagination: Leopardi (in collaboration with LEO Leopardi Studies at Oxford)
21 March – Dr Greta Colombani: Sirens, Sibyls, and Quarantine: The British Romantics in Naples
4 April – Dr Barbara Dawes: The Neapolitan Passion: Representations of Naples in Nineteenth Century British and American Fiction
25 April – Dr Alice Gussoni: From the Port of Naples to the USA: Italian Migration in the Early 20th Century
9 May – Dr Vilma De Gasperin: Naples in Anna Maria Ortese’s fiction (1914-1998)
23 May – Prof Emma Bond: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
6 June – Dr Frances Clemente: ‘femminielli/femmenelle’: Queer Identities in Naples (in collaboration with Oxford Pride)
