Join us on Thursday, 10th October at 4:00 pm at the University of Glasgow as Marco Varvello, UK Bureau Chief for RAI Italian Radio and Television, discusses his latest book “Passo Falso” at the Histories and Subjectivities Cluster (LT 916, 42 Bute Gardens). In his talk (in English), Marco Varvello will introduce us to his insights on a post-Brexit Britain and his career as an Italian journalist in the UK in 2024.
Marco Varvello has a degree in philosophy and started his career as a journalist in Milan at the daily newspapers La Notte and Il Giornale. In television, he worked in the regional office of RAI in Milan before moving to Rome, where he anchored the news for TG1 and curated the daily magazine “Il Fatto”. Special News correspondent in the US, based in New York in the 90s, since 1997 he has been Foreign Correspondent, based in London (1997-2005), then Chief correspondent in Germany, Berlin (2006-2014). Since 2014 he has been back to London as UK Bureau Chief. Varvello is a member of the Foreign Press Committee in London, member of the Board of Villa Vigoni (German-Italian Cultural Centre) and author of four books. He was awarded the London Foreign Press Award 2018 for the best story in a foreign language about the UK.
The Histories and Subjectivities Cluster brings together researchers in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures whose work engages with life histories and autobiography, the body and emotions, gender studies, knowledge construction, working lives and professional cultures, history and memory. Researchers are engaged in projects that explore personal experiences and/or individual and cultural narratives in particular historical contexts, including the contemporary moment.