Spotlight on Sicily
Part 1: The Leopard
Online Lecture
SNAPSHOT
Lecturer: Dr Eireann Marshall
Date: Monday 14 April, 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Start Time: 7.30pm AEDT | 6.30pm QLD | 7.00pm SA | 4.30pm WA | 9.30pm NZST
Price: $25 AUD
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overview
Widely considered one of the most important novels in modern Italian literature, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's literary masterpiece provides fascinating insights into aristocratic Sicilian life at a moment of incredible upheaval during the 1860s.
Hailing from a noble family himself, Lampedusa's exploration of the painful process by which Sicily was integrated into the newly formed Kingdom of Italy - and its aristocracy subsequently struggled to survive - was a critical and commercial success when it was posthumously published in 1958.
Join Dr Eireann Marshall for a brilliant lecture which places The Leopard in its fascinating cultural and historical contexts, and includes an examination of the lives of nineteenth century Siclian elites such as the Whittakers, who would go on to make their fortune through the Marsala trade.
YOUR EXPERT LECTURER
Dr Eireann Marshall is an Honorary Research Associate and Associate Lecturer with the Open University. Raised in the Veneto, she was educated in Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York, as well as the Universities of Birmingham and Exeter in England, where she has lectured.
She has published a number of articles on Ancient North Africa, and co-edited volumes on ‘Death and Disease in the Ancient City’ and ‘Women’s influence on Classical Civilisation’. Eireann’s current research interests include the reception of classical art, as well as concepts of ethnicity and race in antiquity.
With her vast lecturing and guiding experience, Eireann has in depth knowledge of Italy and its history and archaeology. Eireann has led many tours, including several to Ravenna, Venice, Pompeii, Sicily and Tunisia, and is bilingual in English and Italian.
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