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Welcome
David Moss Australian National University Welcome to the website of ACIS, the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies – a connection-point for the specialised communities of Italianist scholars in...
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Oggi drammaturgia – Inedite visioni
Luciana d’Arcangeli Flinders University Ricevo da Cendic – Centro Nazionale Drammaturgia Italiana Contemporanea – il depliant appena “sfornato” sui loro 4 giorni di teatro contemporaneo inedito “Oggi...
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Translating globalized popular culture
Brigid Maher La Trobe University Translating cultural references can be very tricky, but some cultural references have an international reach, and the internet is making the translator’s – and...
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Il giorno della memoria
Luciana d’Arcangeli Flinders University Da qualche giorno l’Olocausto è il tema imperante di mail e messaggi su Facebook, tutto in preparazione del giorno della memoria. Credo sia importantissimo...
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Translating the imagery of confetti and bomboniere
Brigid Maher La Trobe University Weddings are, by all accounts, something of an extravaganza in most cultures, but the trappings are certainly not universal. What to do, then, when common features of...
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Blogs we like #1
Catherine Kovesi has made the great suggestion that we should signal other blogs that are likely to interest ACIS followers. For example, she points out that Jill Burke’s blog on Renaissance topics...
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Dalla parte dello Studente Non Frequentante
Edda Orlandi Milano Del mio primo giorno di università mi rimane solo questa impressione: trovai bellissimo il fatto che le porte fossero sempre tutte aperte, e quindi che chiunque, anche senza...
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Diego Marani on language addiction
Brigid Maher La Trobe University Last week Diego Marani, novelist, translator and inventor of Europanto, spoke to a capacity audience at the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne about how he got...
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Crime Fiction Conference in Galway/1
Barbara Pezzotti ACIS I have just come back from Galway where I attended the international crime fiction conference “Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre”. Organized by Kate Quinn (University of...
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International Crime Fiction Conference in Galway/2
Barbara Pezzotti ACIS At the “Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre” conference just finished in Galway, I attended a very interesting keynote address by Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham)...
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Franca Rame. Non e’ tempo di nostalgia
Luciana d’Arcangeli Flinders University Ricordo che quando decisi di scrivere la tesi su Dario Fo e Franca Rame , correva l’anno 1996, molti miei amici italiani cercarono di dissuadermi: “non si fa...
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Translating crime fiction with Carlo Lucarelli
Brigid Maher La Trobe University At the end of June a group of group of translators, scholars, and students of translation had the opportunity to meet and work with renowned giallista Carlo Lucarelli...
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Rome’s Casa delle Traduzioni
Brigid Maher La Trobe University Colleagues working in the area of Translation Studies, particularly those translating Italian literature, might be interested to know about a wonderful new(ish)...
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Scerbanenco, new translation welcome
Barbara Pezzotti ACIS I was very pleased to know that a new translation into English of Giorgio Scerbanenco’s “Traditori di tutti” (1966) has finally appeared this year. Published under the title of...
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Blogs we like #10
The most recent posts on the Reading Italy blog are concerned with Leopardi’s Zibaldone. They contain a discussion of the first translation into English by one of the editors (Franco D’Intino); a...
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The global circulation of crime fiction: The case of Gianluca Carofiglio
Brigid Maher La Trobe University Crime fiction – what it is or is not, who reads it, how it circulates – was the focus of a conference hosted earlier this month by Leeds University and the Crime...
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Disfunctional Female Detectives: the Exception or the Norm?
Barbara Pezzotti ACIS I have recently been watching the Danish/Swedish TV series “The Bridge” which, like many other hundreds of thousands of people in the world, I am enjoying very much. However, I...
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Le XI Giornate della traduzione letteraria, Urbino
Brigid Maher La Trobe University I was lucky enough this month to attend the XI Giornate della traduzione letteraria in Urbino. This is an annual event dedicated to the practice and profession of...
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Vale, Giorgio Orelli (1921-2013)
Theodore Ell University of Sydney Italian literature has lost a unique and much loved voice, with the death this morning of Swiss poet Giorgio Orelli, at the age of 92. Orelli was born in 1921 in...
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