Join us for our second series of CONVERSATIONS AROUND NAPLES, taking place on Thursdays 6-7pm from February to May 2025. The Conversations features public talks around the city of Naples and Neapolitan history, culture, art, and literature, delivered by experts in the field. The events are free to attend but booking is required due to limited spaces. Reserve your spot by sending an email to oxford@ilcorno.co.uk.
PROGRAMME 2025
13 February - Clare Whitton: San Gennaro: The Medieval Origins of a Modern Devotion
27 February - Dr Elisa Cozzi: ‘As like as two potatoes’: Irish-Neapolitan Prospects in the Long Eighteenth Century
6 March - Gennaro Ambrosino: Science, Mysteries and Revolutions: Naples and Vesuvius in the Travel Diaries of Carlos de Gimbernat (1768-1834)
27 March - Prof Maxine Berg: Porcelain for Princes in the Eighteenth Century: The King and Queen of Naples build a Factory
8 May - Prof Patrick M. Bray: The Romance of Naples for the French Romantics
15 May - Dr Rosamund Bartlett: Naples and the Russian Literary Imagination
22 May - Prof Guido Bonsaver: Roberto Rossellini’s America and Naples in Paisà (1946)
29 May - Dr Francesco Sticchi: Neapolitan Left-Wing Melancholia: Appucundria in Mario Martone’s Cinema
