Wonderfully insightful paper by Dr Amy King on Italy's involvement in the Iraq War and martyrological practices of the Nassiriya massacre

Finally 👻🧐Dr Jen Baker 🧐👻 with a very moving paper on the remembered pattering, prattling and other noises of deceased children in the nineteenth century The Remains of the Body 2021 Conference

Great interdisciplinarity indeed! 😀 Thanks @HRCWarwick for allowing me to organise such a wonderful and rich event

Lively and engaging discussion is going ahead in the last panel Broadcasting the dead. Thanks to Helen Wheatley 👻🧐Dr Jen Baker 🧐👻 Dr Amy King Here bits and pieces of their very visual talks!

Last tweet of the day... pizza and #Eurovision after an amazing conference today! Go Italy! 🇮🇹

It's so amazing seeing the great enthusiasm of participants! ❤

Talks will be both in English and Italian, but well... another brand-new deathly chat is on the horizon 🔭 Italian Studies CA

Just a week ago our amazing conference was beginning... Time really flies! Thanks @HRCWarwick for the great opportunity

Tomorrow Italian Studies CA be ready for panel 1 and 2 of Mapping Italian Death Cultures from the Late 18th Century until Today

And Day 2 of ASDS #DDD15 is LIVE!

Almost 5 months that we had the Remains of the Body conference. Such a rich day! Thinking about an edited collection makes me want to dance!

I'd better resume studying German

🚨 We are delighted to release the CALL FOR PAPERS for 'The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World'. Please send abstracts and any questions to [email protected] by 31st December. We look forward to reading your submissions

Behind that amazing cover you can find my contribution on the figure of the wet nurse in Vittorelli and Pirandello. Thanks Society for Italian Studies and SIS Postgraduate and great job to the editors!

Check out this brand-new issue of Bibliotheca Dantesca. There, I talk about bodily suffering in Dante, Varano and Leopardi. Thanks to the editors Natale Vacalebre @mrmariosassi and Tommaso De Robertis

Just discovered that Vestals were buried alive if found guilty of having sexual relationships with Roman citizens (a sort of incestum since they were 'daughters of the Roman state'. And there are many paintings too! Savage, but still interesting for my research 💀🧟‍♀️👻

A Christmas Vampire is what we need!

📢💀 Cemeteries' lovers, come along to learn how death reflected the narratives, mentalities, and memories that defined Italy as a nation. Speaker: Dr Hannah Malone. Register through the link below to attend on Monday 31st from 5.30 to 6.30pm (GMT) via MS Teams

The first systematic theorisation of the Italian Gothic is coming out soon with EUP and I'm part of it!💀👻 Thanks to Stefano and Marco for editing such a rich volume! Can't wait to hold it in my hands! 🖤

🥳 The brand new and multilingual special issue of Quaderni d'Italianistica, Italian Studies CA journal, I edited IS OUT! 🍾 Many thanks to Sandra Parmegiani and all the authors: Griseldo, Francesca, Tommaso Grandi, Fabio Camilletti, Luca, Salvatore, Alberica, Anna, Patrycja.