Ross Balzaretti's professorial inaugural lecture for the Department of History
Join Professor Rossano Balzaretti the next in the series of inaugural lectures from the School of Humanities at University of Nottingham.
There will be an introduction from Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts Professor Jeremy Gregory and the talk will be followed by a drinks reception.
Encounters with Italy: in the field, the archive and the classroom
This lecture approaches the history of Italy via a series of encounters with places, things and people, dead or alive. Through stories about these encounters, I will show how history matters to me. I will examine twenty-five years of fieldwork in Liguria, some fascinating documents and objects I have met in archives and reflect on what I have learnt from the many students I have had the pleasure of teaching. The stories I will tell tend to be about collaboration, as that is the direction in which my career has gone in the last twenty years. I will advocate for teaching-led research alongside research-led teaching and for engaging with the public. In time honoured fashion I will consider what universities are for, and I hope by the end to have made a convincing case for my subject and why it should remain an important part of our educational system and our lives.
Schedule
The live lecture will be available to watch on MS Teams 6pm-7pm.
If you're joining the in-person event, the doors will open at 5.30pm with tea and coffee available. Please arrive by 5.45pm to get seated for a prompt 6pm start.
The lecture will take 6pm - 7pm followed by a wine reception.
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Location
A30 Arts Lecture, Music Building, University Park Campus (adjacent to Lakeside Arts Centre).
The lecture will also be available online via Miscrosoft Teams.
About the speaker
Prof Ross Balzaretti has worked at the University of Nottingham since 1990, having taught previously at Sheffield and UCL (where he did his PhD). He has had research fellowships at the British School at Rome and the University of St Andrews. He has published widely in several fields of Italian history, including Ligurian Landscapes (2004, ed. with Mark Pearce and Charles Watkins), Narrative and History (2007, ed. with Elizabeth Tyler), Dark Age Liguria (2013), Italy and Early Medieval Europe (2018, ed. with Julia Barrow and Patricia Skinner, The Lands of Saint Ambrose (2019) and Rediscovering Lost Landscapes (2021, with Pietro Piana and Charles Watkins).
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