Neapolitan Network
Aims of the Neapolitan Network
Neapolitan Network was established in 2010 by Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills with the following overarching and inter-related aims:
- To enhance the visibility of and to encourage, support and foster research on Naples, especially that with an interdisciplinary, cross-period approach.
- To draw together Neapolitanists from across the UK, Europe and the USA, in particular, for whom no institutional focus yet exists, in order to facilitate lively intellectual and interdisciplinary interaction.
- To provide a readily accessible forum for the circulation of information about Neapolitanists’ research, publications, conferences, etc.
- To facilitate critical awareness of the principal historiographical currents that have operated and that continue to operate within scholarship on Naples, particularly in relation to visual and literary representations of Naples from c.1500 to the present.
- To facilitate academic exchange that results in scholarly publications, performances and other outputs.
- To facilitate regular gatherings of scholars at all levels with research interests in Neapolitan culture and history.
- To establish and maintain a website which will facilitate the organization of further meetings, conferences, and research projects focused on Naples.
For upcoming events, please see Future Events