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Venerdì 2 - 16 - 30 Giugno 5:30-7:30pm
Friday Happy Hours at QP
QP - 34, Dover Street, London W1S 4NG
Tube station : Green Park
Il Circolo ti invita ai Friday Happy Hours
da QP, per un piacevole get-together
informale, in un ambiente glamour,
all’interno di un rinnovato ristorante
in pieno Mayfair, per concludere la
settimana ed iniziare il weekend in modo
frizzante.
Un Happy Hours con drinks, stuzzichini
e nuovi amici da conoscere.
Sarà gradita la presenza di eventuali
ospiti disponibili ad essere inclusi tra i
potenziali Guest Speaker di future attività
del Il Circolo o per discutere iniziative da
intraprendere insieme.
Il costo a persona di 10£, da pagare sul posto, include un drink e canapè
Si prega di confermare la propria partecipazione scrivendo a:
attivita@ilcircolo.org.uk
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Maggio 2017
GIOVEDI’ 8 GIUGNO 2017 ore 17.
Essenze dall’Antichità ad Oggi
PAOLA CIPRARI ed ADELE DIANA
a casa di Paola Ciprari
L’aromaterapia si basa sul potere curativo
degli oli essenziali estratti dalle piante
medicamentose.
Venite a provare il loro aroma e a capire
che effetti profondi possono avere sul vostro
benessere fisico, mentale ed emotivo.
Adele ci racconterà l’uso delle essenze
dall’antichità fino ai nostri giorni.
Seguirà un aperitivo.
Donazione: £20
Prenotazione tramite e-mail a: attivita@ilcircolo.org.uk
Pagamento: assegno da consegnare a Paola Ciprari intestato a “Il Circolo”
Oppure tramite bonifico bancario a :
Il Circolo Account Number: 71142577 Sort Code: 40 06 03
Pag. 2 NEWSLETTER
Maggio 2017
30 June 2017
2017 Italy Made Me Award
King’s College London
The Italian Embassy in London invited young Italian researchers
across the United Kingdom to submit applications for its annual
research award programme “Italy Made Me”, to honour the
accomplishments of young Italian researchers in several aca-
demic domains.
The awards will be presented to Italian researchers operating in
the United Kingdom who received part of their education in Italy,
in recognition of innovative research conducted in each of the
three European Research Council (ERC) domains:
•LifeSciences (LS)
•PhysicalandEngineeringSciences (PE)
• Social Sciences and Humanities (SH)
This initiative is coordinated by the Italian Embassy in London,
in collaboration with il Circolo, the Association of Italian Scien-
tists in the United Kingdom (AISUK) and other Italian academic
associations across the UK.
The awards will be presented during the “Conference of Italian
academics and researchers in the U.K.” which will be held at
King’s College London on 30 June 2017.
Pag. 3 NEWSLETTER
Maggio 2017
MARTEDI’ 19 SETTEMBRE DALLE 10:30
SAVE THE DATE: WELCOME BACK IN LONDON
a casa di Daniela McBride
Cari amici, siamo lieti di invitarvi a
ritrovarci dopo la pausa estiva per un
rilassante coffee morning a casa di
Daniela McBride che, gentilmente,
ci ospiterà nel giardino di casa sua
a Wimbledon.
Questa riunione ha lo scopo di
augurarci reciprocamente un felice
rientro a Londra.
Prenotate, per favore:
attivita@ilcircolo.org.uk
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Maggio 2017
MERCOLEDI’ 27 SETTEMBRE 2017 ore 18.00 precise
SAVE THE DATE
FONTANA RECTO/VERSO: I SUOI TAGLI E SQUARCI
a casa di Etta Carnelli
Francesca Centurione Scotto introdurrà Ursula
Casamonti, titolare della Tornabuoni Art di
Londra.
Si parlerà del grande artista e anche di come
funziona una galleria d’arte.
Ursula – eccezionalmente – porterà un dipinto
di Fontana da mostrare ai presenti. Anticipiamo
solo che sarà un evento eccezionale vedere il
retro di un capolavoro di Fontana. La Fondazione
Fontana non dà facilmente il permesso di
osservare (e non concede mai di fotografare !) il
retro dei quadri di Fontana.
Grazie a Ursula – capiremo perché.
Seguirà un aperitivo gentilmente offerto da Etta
Carnelli.
Donazione: £20
Prenotazione tramite e-mail a: attivita@ilcircolo.org.uk
Pagamento: assegno da consegnare a Etta Carnelli intestato a “Il Circolo”
Oppure tramite bonifico bancario a :
Il Circolo Account Number: 71142577 Sort Code: 40 06 03
Pag. 5 NEWSLETTER
Maggio 2017SAVE THE DATE
Italian Christmas Bazaar 2017
27-28 November
Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road London SW3 5EE
Il Circolo, Italian Cultural Association, established in London
for over twenty years, is a non profit organisation with the aim of
promoting Italian culture in the UK.
The funds raised by Il Circolo are used to finance awards, research
projects and humanitarian initiatives and to support the chair of Italian
at Somerville College, Oxford University. In order to raise funds, Il
Circolo organises exhibitions
and events in connection with
the Italian Embassy and the
Italian Cultural Institute.
The Italian Christmas Bazaar is one of the most successful
traditional events, very popular among the cosmopolitan community
in London. As the years go by, the Italian Bazaar has become more
and more a showcase of Made in Italy and International quality
products, for traders already present in the UK, as well as for those
keen on becoming known to the British and International public.
We welcome vendors of:
Regional Food - Leather Goods - Home décor- Stationary
Jewellery - Clothes - Personal accessories - Toiletries
APPLY FOR A TABLE
The Italian Bazaar operates a policy of selection to ensure product suitability for the Fair.
For more information and to register your interest, please send an email to
bazaar@ilcircolo.org.uk
providing your contact details, a description of your products, photographs of products or a
brochure and your website address, if applicable.
Cristmas Bazaar 2016
Video
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Maggio 2017INVESTING IN ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE:
ENDOWING FELLOWSHIPS
New Faces: Professor Francesca Southerden, whose appointment was made possible
by our ongoing support from Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Association in London.
For many students, Somerville’s sense of community
continues far beyond the moment they graduate and receive
their degrees. The relationship between alumni and the
College is just as important as the large community we have
of students, Fellows and staff, which has inspired the saying
‘once a Somervillian, always a Somervillian.’
Someone for whom this expression rings especially true
is Somerville’s new Fellow in Italian, Professor Francesca
Southerden. Francesca rst came to Somerville as an
undergraduate in 1997 to study French and Italian. Now,
many of her students are doing exactly the same course.
‘They’re quite intrigued when they realise that someone has
had a similar trajectory to them,’ she says.
It is an exciting year for Somerville’s Italian students, with
four new undergraduates making up one of the biggest entry
groups in many years. ‘I think some of them nd it reassuring
because they know that you understand the pressure that
they’re under,’ she continues. ‘Often, students open up a
little bit more if they feel that somehow you will have more
empathy for their situation.’
Like many language students, Francesca picked Somerville
as her rst choice college because of the strength of the language facilities. She had heard that the
Somerville Library has unparalleled holdings for Italian and French texts. ‘Honestly, people joke about
it,’ she says, ‘but if you look at the library catalogues and look for the book you need, it will be in the
Taylorian, the Bodleian and Somerville.’ She also notes that the College is very fortunate in being so
centrally located
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Maggio 2017ENDOWING FELLOWSHIPS
for languages as we are just across the road from the Taylor Institution Library and Francesca teaches
many classes at the Wellington Square of ces of the Modern Languages Faculty.
Her love of languages began at a very early age. While she was growing up in Chester her mother, an
Italian polyglot who can speak an additional three languages, raised her to be ‘practically bilingual’. She
remembers being enamoured with how speaking in Italian caused her to think and behave in a slightly
different way – using different slang terms and hand gestures. That fascination, paired with a passion for
reading, resulted in her rediscovering Italian in her teens through literature.
‘I was with my students yesterday,’ she says, ‘and we were reading another work by Dante and studying
his very visceral, incredibly affective bond with his mother tongue. He was saying that asking him whether
he loves his mother tongue is like asking someone if they would save a child from a burning building.
Through his work, you realise how bound up language is with identity and self-expression.’
Francesca’s own passion and enthusiasm with which she discusses language and medieval literature
was also very present while she was a student at Somerville. ‘I remember I was one of those students
who was so excited about everything that I was doing,’ she says. ‘I handed in these essays that were just
incredibly long and thorough, writing pages more than I was expected to. I am beginning to get similar
essays handed in now.’
The Italian course was taught by Dante scholar Professor Peter Hainsworth, who was the Italian Fellow
at Lady Margaret Hall. He called her aside after a tutorial one day and asked her if she had thought about
graduate study as he felt it would be something she would really enjoy.
This encouragement was enough to inspire Francesca to pursue a career in academia, but not before
she took a two-year break from studying to work at the Oxford University Admissions Of ce. Her role was
to widen access – a cause that she has been committed to ever since. ‘It’s so exciting to be at a College
that is very much at the forefront of trying to encourage students from non-traditional backgrounds to
apply.’
She notes that remaining in an educational environment reinforced the fact that she was gravitating
towards something that would be fundamentally academic. After the two years, she was awarded a place
at Hertford College for her Masters in Italian. It wasn’t long before she was drawn back to Somerville –
this time as a Mary Ewart Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2007.
For her DPhil, her focus was primarily on 20th century Italian poetry and she didn’t begin to specialise
in Medieval Italian Literature until her Fellowship at Somerville began. She credits her predecessor and
friend, Professor Manuele Gragnolati, for inspiring her, acting as an ‘informal mentor’, and for getting her
excited about Medieval Studies again. She was then invited to participate in conferences which helped
develop her research.
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Maggio 2017ENDOWING FELLOWSHIPS
Next, in 2010, her journey would take her to Wellesley College in Massachusetts, a liberal arts college
where she taught for six years. Francesca’s Fellowship at Somerville was made possible by Il Circolo,
the Italian Cultural Association in London, who have been generously supporting Somerville’s Italian
Fellowship for the last 12 years. Il Circolo was founded with the aim of promoting Italian culture in the UK,
and they support scholarships, students and academics linked to Italy.
For Francesca’s own academic focus, she is working on a book entitled Dante and Petrarch in the Garden
of Language: Towards a Relational Poetics. The book focuses on their major works, La Commedia by
Dante and Rerum vulgarium fragmenta by Petrarch, and looks at the relationship between language and
desire, focusing her analysis around the garden spaces in each text.
‘When Pertrarch goes into the narrative about Adam and Eve, there’s something very seductive about
the vernacular language for him,’ she says. ‘He’s con icted in his love and his erotic passion and I see
the tensions coming out. I try to interweave an attention to desire, language and body and the fact that
gardens are also fundamentally material spaces.’
One of the bene ts of teaching is that often it becomes very much in sync with an academic’s research.
As Francesca was hired for her specialism, she frequently nds that she is re-reading texts that she has
been using in her own research. The subsequent discussions and questions from students can shed new
light on a topic and allow her to think about things from a variety of perspectives.
Having been a Somerville undergraduate once herself, does Francesca have any advice for her current
students? ‘I want them to know the joy of learning,’ she says ‘and realise that there is something valuable
in the experience in itself. I gradually started understanding more and more that that’s what learning is –
realising the freedom that you have intellectually. I hope that my students will also be understanding that.’
‘Il Circolo aims to promote a love and understanding of Italian culture in the United Kingdom and we’ve
been delighted to see Italian studies at Somerville and Oxford grow and ourish over the years that we
have supported the College’s Italian Fellow.’
DANIELA MCBRIDE, Director of Il Circolo
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Maggio 2017LINKS:
Consolato generale d’Italia a Londra
www.conslondra.esteri.it
Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Londra
www.icilondon.esteri.it
La Scuola Italiana a Londra
www.scuolaitalianalondra.org
attivita@ilcircolo.org.uk
The Italian Bookshop
www.italianbookshop.co.uk www.ilcircolo.org.uk
Villa Scalabrini, Shenley, Herts
www.villascalabrini.co.uk
Visitatori Volontari Italiani
www.vvi.org.uk
Somerville college, Oxford
www.some.ox.ac.uk
FIWAL, Federation of International
Women Associations in London
www.fiwal.org.uk
Accademia Apulia
www.accademiapulia.org/it/
The London Library
www.londonlibrary.co.uk
The Italian community
www.theitaliancommunity.co.uk
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