Programme of Speakers for the 2018/2019 season
25th Anniversary Programme of Speakers 2018/2019
All lectures take place in Keynes College Senior Common Room, at the University of Kent, at 7.30pm promptly
2018
Thursday 25 October: Emeritus Professor Diego Zancani (Balliol College, Oxford University)
“The Origins of the Italian Language” - What language did Romans really speak?
Thursday 22November: Dr Margherita Sprio (University of Westminster)
“Popular Italian films
and the Italian community in post-war
Britain”
Christmas Break
2019
Sunday 13January: “Festa della Befana” – Lunch for members and friends at Pinocchio’s Restaurant 64 Castle Street, Canterbury CT1 2PY at 12 noon for 12.30.
Thursday 24 January: William Richards (Proprietor of the Racalia Estate, Sicily)
“A Sicilian Olive Oil Success Story” – From Marsala vineyards to the olive groves of Racalia – A very British-Italian affair (Tasting Included!) N.B. Venue at the Kent & Canterbury Club.
Thursday 28 February: Professor Michael Broers (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University)
“Napoleon’s Legacy in Italy”–Planting the seeds of the Risorgimento and the modern Italian State.
Thursday 28 March: Dr Roberta Cremoncini (Director of the Estorick Collection, London)
“The Estorick Collection” – The story of the biggest collection of 20th Century Italian Art in Britain.
April Break
(Easter Sunday is 21st April)
Thursday 23 May: Ross King (Art historian and author)
“Brunelleschi’s Dome” – The miraculous engineering of the Dome of the Great Cathedral of Florence.
Thursday 27 June: “Summer
Garden Party” at 7.30pm. Kindly hosted by Antoinette
& John Groom at their home at: 8 Cherry Avenue, Canterbury CT2
8EN
