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The launch of 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland' by Italian Section's Elena Sottilotta will be taking place on 3 July at Murray Edwards College. For more details and to register, please visit: www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/conversation...
📣 Congratulations to Italian Section's Dr Elena Sottilotta on the publication of her book 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland'!
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last yr.With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Out now. Learn more and order your copy of this pioneering book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
💫 Cambridge Festival Fairy-Tale Mirages: A creative storytelling workshop 👨👩👦 Adults 🗓️ 22 March 4.30-6pm 📍 CB3 9DP 🎟️ buff.ly/US4fvoA Dive into fairy tales from the Mediterranean sea & activities based on Sicilian and Calabrian fairy tales that feature liminal sea creatures
5. 22 March, 10am The Body is a Page. An Encounter with Italian Poet Elisa Biagini Poetry reading and craft talk Co-curated by Bhanu Kapil (English) and Erica Bellia (MMLL Italian) Venue: Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English @italianmmll.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social
Join us for the pop-up exhibition of Emma Dante's fairy tales, illustrated by Maria Cristina Costa, at the Alison Richard Building, on 21-22 March. The exhibition is part of the CRASSH conference 'Fairy-Tale Trouble and the Art of Fluidity', organised by Elena Sottilotta and Alice Parrinello.
🗓️ Our Annual Symposium is coming up in less than three weeks with a very rich and exciting programme! This year's theme is 'Labour'🛠️ Join us on Monday 24 March in the Alison Richard Building (room SG1) All welcome!
6. 6 Mar, 5.15pm Italian Research Seminar Mila Milani (Warwick) Book Discussion Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field, 1939-1977(LUP, 2023) Room 336, Raised Faculty Building @italianmmll.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social
5. 13 Feb, 5.15pm Italian Research Seminar Eleonora Serra (Ghent; I Tatti) 'The use of formulae in men's and women's letters: an analysis of private correspondence from Renaissance Florence' Walters Room, Selwyn College
