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Languages and Disciplines in the 21 st century: Interdisciplinarity and Italian Studies Dr Giuliana Pieri Royal Holloway University of London http://interdisciplinaryitaly.com/
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Languages and Disciplines in the 21st century:
Interdisciplinarity and Italian Studies
Dr Giuliana PieriRoyal Holloway University of London
http://interdisciplinaryitaly.com/
http://interdisciplinaryitaly.com/
AHRC funded research networkInterdisciplinary Italy 1900-2015: Art, Music, TextDr Clodagh Brook (Birmingham University)Dr Giuliana Pieri (Royal Holloway University of London)
Dr Clodagh Brook, University of Birmingham, www.interdisciplinaryitaly.com
www.italydatabase.com
1. Interdisciplinarity and the existing Disciplines
2. Teaching Italian Studies
TEACHING ITALIAN STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES
London, 15 March 2013
Higher Education AcademyDiscipline Workshop and Seminar
Series 2012-13
Aims
1. To highlight the role of content in the curriculum
2. To counterbalance previous reports with their exclusive focus on language provisions
3. To open up a discussion within our discipline on the current and future shape of Italian Studies
Previous reports
1. 2012-13 UCLM/AULC: survey of IWLP activity in universities in the UK
2. February 2013: British Academy: http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/publications/languages-future
3. 2013 British Council: http://www.britishcouncil.org/organisation/publications/languages-future
Teaching Italian Studies in the 21st century
Revised Categories1. Medieval Literature, Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Art,
and Dante (with the option of separating Dante)2. 17th and 18th Century Culture, and 19th Century Literature3. Cinema4. 20th and 21st century literature5. Fascism and Italian Nationalism (a broad category renamed
Italian History)6. Translation and Linguistics7. Other (includes also Fashion and Opera Culture)
• Language courses were not included.
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Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, Re-naissance art, and Dante
20th and 21st century literature
Italian history
Cinema
Translation and linguistics
17th and 18th century culture, and 19th century literature
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17th and 18th century cul-ture, and 19th century lit-erature
3. The Research Context
1. A quest to grasp totality
2. Radical Postmodern Dissent
• “Interdisciplinary work is not a peaceful operation: it begins effectively when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down, a process made more violent, perhaps, by the jolts of fashion to the benefit of a new object and a new language, neither of which is the domain of those branches of knowledge that one calmly sought to confront.”
Roland Barthes, ‘From Work to Text’ in Textual Strategies, 1979
3. Hybrid Objects of Study
1960s
ITALIAN STUDIES1935-1960
Of 102 articles: 61 literary, cultural, textual
histories29 literary connections between
Italy and UK1 contemporary literature
2 linguistics9 art history1 music
ITALIAN STUDIES1935-1960
ITALIAN STUDIES 2013
Of 102 articles: 61 literary, cultural, textual
histories29 literary connections between
Italy and UK1 contemporary literature
2 linguistics9 art history1 music
Of 20 articles:
13 literature and 1 on book production
3 written historical, philosophical/theological works.
1 linguistics4 cinema1 magazines
Dr Giuliana Pieri,Royal Holloway University of London
www.interdisciplinaryitaly.com
Thank you!
