Ben O'Loughlin has won a prestigious Senior Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna. He will be working there September-December 2016. Previous Senior Fellows include philosopher Nancy Cartwright, historian Hayden White and political scientist Michael Laver. Ben will be based in the Department of Language, Literature and Modern Culture.

On 15 November 2016 Ben will deliver a public lecture at the Institute entitled Europe in Crisis: Words, Images, Media.

Thanks are due to Federica Ferrari for hosting Ben's Fellowship and Barbara Cimatti for all her help behind the scenes.