Interviews and Speeches/ Recordings and Videos

• Astrid Erll
• Carlo Ginzburg
• Miguel Hernandez Tribute
• Giuseppe O. Longo - interview
• Paul Preston - "Franco's Empire of Death"
  
  
  

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Professor Carlo Ginzburg: "Our Words and Theirs. A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft Today."
Lecture and reading in the Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, 9 May 2011 - organised by Dr Katia Pizzi. 

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Miguel Hernandez Tribute by De Silbos Cebollas y yunteros
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, 23 November 2010 - organised by Dr Maria-José Blanco
Contemporary Flamenco, Spanish song and theatre come together to bring their own vision of some of the author’s most significant poems.
De Silbos Cebollas y yunteros is a group of original compositions created and arranged by Tsivi Sharett and Ulises Diaz with Demi Garcia, Natalie Rozario Carolina Esteves and Jemma Gross completing the cast.

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Giuseppe O. Longo: Trieste, Memory and Beyond'
Katia Pizzi interviews Prof. Longo (Chair of Information Theory, University of Trieste)

This interview with Prof. Longo was recorded on 21 October 2008, on the occasion of his visit to the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies to give a Coffin Reading entitled: "The Dynamics of Beauty". In a conversation with Dr. Katia Pizzi of the IGRS, Prof. Longo illustrates and discusses informally his favourite themes: memory, Trieste, epistemology, artificial intelligence, and others.
Please note: the main body of this interview is in Italian.

Professor Paul Preston, "Franco's Empire of Death"
25 Feb. 2011, 12.30, Chancellor's Hall, Senate House
Keynote at "The Carnival of Death: Pecerptions of Death in Europe and the Americas", organised by Dr. Maria-José Blanco and Dr. Ricarda Vidal at the IGRS, 24-26 Feb. 2011

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