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CIRN, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Italian Research Network, aims to create and sustain a network of scholars in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ working on Italy across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences.

CIRN was set up in 2012.

CIRN aims to:

  • keep researchers informed through a regular bulletin of lectures, seminars, conferences and other research events on Italy taking place in °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼.
  • organize an annual CIRN Lecture bringing prestigious speakers from outside °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ to lecture on an Italy-related theme. Past lecturers have included Jeffrey Schnapp (Harvard); Lucy Riall (Birkbeck / EUI); Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser (Oxford); Richard A. Etlin (University of Maryland).
  • organize an annual CIRN Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, usually in Easter Term. This aims to bring together researchers from many different disciplines and fields to give papers on a single overarching theme. Speakers are drawn predominantly from the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ research community but also include invited speakers from other universities. Up to now, symposium themes have included ‘Italian Landscapes’, ‘Global Italy’, ‘The Italian °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼’, and ‘Death in Italy’. Speakers have so far been drawn from the following disciplinary areas:

Anthropology; Architecture; Classics; Compartive literature; Design; English; Film; French; Geography; History; History of art; History of medicine; History of science; Human, social and politial science; Italian; Linguistics; Music; Sociology

  • facilitate – and where possible provide CIRN seed funding for –interdisciplinary research initiatives or events relating to Italy, both within °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ and in collaboration with other institutions.

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For further information about CIRN, please write to: cirn@mml.cam.ac.uk

CIRN has been generously supported by: Italian Department, °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼; Keith Sykes Fund; Serena Fund; Trevelyan Fund, History Faculty.