UWA Italian Series

Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA

2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The University of Western Australia.

In 1929, Francesco Vanzetti, an idiosyncratic and popular Venetian, offered the first courses in Italian. This was the first appointment of a lecturer in Italian in any Australian university.

This lecture series, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies and by Italian Studies in the UWA School of Humanities, celebrates aspects of Italian language and culture, past and present.

Listen to some of the excellent talks held in this series.

• Italians in 19th century Western Australia, and, how a Venetian industrial chemist came from Kalgoorlie to teach Italian at The University of Western Australia
  Speaker: Associate Professor John Kinder, Italian Studies, UWA
  (a recording is not available for this talk)
• Shaping the Invisible: images reflected in music
  Speaker: Mr Robert Hollingworth, Reader in Music, University of York and Director, I Fagiolini
  
• Venice and the Ottomans: a visual artistic journey between the Serenissima and Istanbul
  Speaker: Dr Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia
• Missing Magnificence: tracing Catherine de Medici’s hidden cultural legacy
  Speaker: Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia
• Italy and the Invention of Luxury
  A public lecture by Dr Catherine Kovesi, History, University of Melbourne.
• Staying in touch across distance: 100 years of Italian-Australian migration
  Speaker: Professor Loretta Baldassar, Anthropology and Sociology, UWA
• Taking the pulse of Italy today: a creative presence in Europe and in Australia
  A public lecture by H.E. Francesca Tardioli, Ambassador of Italy in Australia
• Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519): enigma and genius
  A public lecture by Costantino D’Orazio, Art historian and writer, Rome
• A cookbook for a nation. Pellegrino Artusi and the Italian language
  Speaker: Professor Cecilia Robustelli, Università di Modena e Reggio-Emilia
• Artistic Diaspora: An exploration of the Italian cultural legacy in WA
  Speakers: historian Dr Robyn Taylor and artists Galliano Fardin, Patrizia Tonello and Caterina Franz, with UWA Chief Cultural Officer Professor Ted Snell.
  (a recording is not available for this talk)