Liliana Ellena (2024)
We were delighted to welcome cultural historian and independent researcher, Dr Liliana Ellena to deliver the 2024 Lucrezia Zaina Bequest Lecture.
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Professor Eugenia Paulicelli (2023)
Professor Eugenia Paulicelli discusses the post-war period and explores new archival materials.
Dr Simone Brioni (2022)
Dr Brioni discusses how it is possible to reevaluate Italian symbols in a more inclusive way.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby (2020)
Simonetta Agnello Hornby reflects on Italian society and law and discusses the readership of Italian literature, in particular female authorship.
Dr Stefano Jossa (2018)
Dr Jossa explores what the Italian language can express better than any other language.
Professor John Foot (2017)
Professor Foot considers how the Italian identity and sporting victories and disasters may be linked.
Professor Richard Dyer (2016)
Professor Dyer examines how La Dolce Vita Italian cinema on the world stage.
Tim Parks (2014)
Tim Parks considers how much has changed since Leopardi’s writings during the Enlightenment and reflects upon how much has remained the same.
Beppe Severgnini OBE (2012)
In his latest book, Italiani di domani, Severgnini considers a roadmap for the emerging nation.
Andrew Graham Dixon (2013)
In his lecture, Graham-Dixon discusses the identities of ordinary people that Caravaggio used as models for his depictions of classic religious scenes.
Carole Angier (2015)
Carole Angier is the biographer of Jean Rhys (1985, 1990) and Primo Levi (2002), and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.
Professor Marco Armiero (2025)
Professor Armiero explores fascist political ecologies, examining their historical foundations and their contemporary manifestations.
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Justin Randolph Thompson (2026)
Artist, cultural facilitator and educator, Justin delivered the 2026 Lecture entitled: C’è di mezzo il mare: The Distance between Black Presence and Black Representation in Italian Renaissance Art History