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...

Join us on Thursday 15 May for our annual lecture! @italianmmll.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

📣 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'!

Today!

💫 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