Lucrezia Zaina Bequest Lecture 2022 with Dr Simone Brioni
5:30pm - 7:00pm /
Wednesday 27th April 2022
Type: Lecture /
Category: Public
- Catherine Gibson
- Admission: Free
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How is it possible to reevaluate Italian symbols in a more inclusive way that acknowledge the multiple, diasporic and postcolonial perspectives through which Italian culture is created, discussed, appropriated, and kept alive?
In an attempt to give an answer to this question, Dr Simone Brioni's lecture focuses on examples of three collaborative research experiences and artistic endeavors: a reading of how Somali diasporic writers have discussed Dante’s Commedia; a revisitation of Mantegna’s depiction of black people in his Renaissance paintings; and a closer look at questions of memory, belonging and family heritage in colonial photography.
Interrogating his own work as a scholar and a documentary maker, Dr Brioni's lecture argues that collaboration offers new perspectives which allow us to rethink how we study ‘Italian’ culture.
Dr Simone Brioni is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University and affiliated faculty in the Departments of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He specializes in the literary and cinematographic representation and self-representation of migrants with a particular emphasis on contemporary Italian culture. He co-authored the films Beyond the Frame (2022, with Matteo Sandrini) and Maka (2022, with Elia Moutamid).
Italian has been taught at this university since 1881 and today Italian Studies is housed within the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC). We are a small and friendly community of academic and teaching staff whose research and teaching interests cover contemporary fiction, linguistics, cultural history, film and transcultural studies.
These wonderful lectures have been made possible by alumna and colleague, the late Professor Lucrezia Zaina, who studied French and Italian at the University of Liverpool from 1939-1947. She then became a lecturer in those departments and later Head of Italian from 1964 to 1988. Professor Zaina sadly passed away in 2008 having bequeathed a generous legacy to the University.
Legacy gifts are a vital source of financial support to the University, whatever the size, all gifts are celebrated. Since the first recorded bequest in 1891, the University has been privileged to have benefited from many gifts which have funded essential research, scholarships and bursaries and enhanced the student experience.
What will your Liverpool legacy be? To discuss how you can advance and ennoble the lives of students, or to help support our work in ground-breaking research, contact Carolyn Jones, Legacy Officer by telephone: 0151 795 1067 or by email: carolyn.jones@liverpool.ac.uk
This lecture will take place online. Zoom webcast details will be shared with those who register prior to the event.
In an attempt to give an answer to this question, Dr Simone Brioni's lecture focuses on examples of three collaborative research experiences and artistic endeavors: a reading of how Somali diasporic writers have discussed Dante’s Commedia; a revisitation of Mantegna’s depiction of black people in his Renaissance paintings; and a closer look at questions of memory, belonging and family heritage in colonial photography.
Interrogating his own work as a scholar and a documentary maker, Dr Brioni's lecture argues that collaboration offers new perspectives which allow us to rethink how we study ‘Italian’ culture.
Dr Simone Brioni is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University and affiliated faculty in the Departments of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He specializes in the literary and cinematographic representation and self-representation of migrants with a particular emphasis on contemporary Italian culture. He co-authored the films Beyond the Frame (2022, with Matteo Sandrini) and Maka (2022, with Elia Moutamid).
Italian has been taught at this university since 1881 and today Italian Studies is housed within the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC). We are a small and friendly community of academic and teaching staff whose research and teaching interests cover contemporary fiction, linguistics, cultural history, film and transcultural studies.
These wonderful lectures have been made possible by alumna and colleague, the late Professor Lucrezia Zaina, who studied French and Italian at the University of Liverpool from 1939-1947. She then became a lecturer in those departments and later Head of Italian from 1964 to 1988. Professor Zaina sadly passed away in 2008 having bequeathed a generous legacy to the University.
Legacy gifts are a vital source of financial support to the University, whatever the size, all gifts are celebrated. Since the first recorded bequest in 1891, the University has been privileged to have benefited from many gifts which have funded essential research, scholarships and bursaries and enhanced the student experience.
What will your Liverpool legacy be? To discuss how you can advance and ennoble the lives of students, or to help support our work in ground-breaking research, contact Carolyn Jones, Legacy Officer by telephone: 0151 795 1067 or by email: carolyn.jones@liverpool.ac.uk
This lecture will take place online. Zoom webcast details will be shared with those who register prior to the event.