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🗣️ Free public lectures delivered by passionate people
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🍕 Hosted by Slizza Pizza & Pub

Lectures: Monthly
Conversation Dinners: Quarterly
Creative projects: Summer

Thanks so much Victoria Smyth for bringing the National Emergency Briefing to SLIZZA PIZZA & PUB ! We had some really go...
11/10/2026

Thanks so much Victoria Smyth for bringing the National Emergency Briefing to SLIZZA PIZZA & PUB ! We had some really good discussions about the climate crisis and what we can do to lessen our environmental impact. Please follow the National Emergency Briefing for future screenings and discussions!

Thank you so much Dr Diana Garrisi for coming down and delivering your talk on Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Vi...
21/09/2026

Thank you so much Dr Diana Garrisi for coming down and delivering your talk on Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain. Really interesting and some great Q&A at the end. Hope to have you back and thanks for donating a copy of your book!

08/09/2026

This book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain and represents a unique contribution to the media history of the human body.

08/09/2026

This contribution concerns the role of the Victorian newspaper correspondence column in advancing knowledge of dermatology in relation to corporal punishment. It explores The Times' coverage of an inquest into the death by flogging of a British soldier. I argue that on the one hand, The Times partic...

MEET THE SPEAKERS!Dr Diana Garrisi will be delivering out September talk entitled Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in...
08/09/2026

MEET THE SPEAKERS!

Dr Diana Garrisi will be delivering out September talk entitled Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain on the 19th at 1pm!

Diana is a lecturer in journalism at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Culture. Her research interests include nineteenth-century press history, contemporary journalism, and media representations of body image. Prior to her appointment at Cardiff University, she worked in China for over four years at Xi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University.

Diana has published in various academic journals including: Journalism Studies; Public Understanding of Science; and Early Popular Visual Culture. In addition to authoring the book Reporting Skin and the Wounded Body in Victorian Britain (Palgrave, 2024), she co-edited Disability and the Media: Other Bodies (Routledge, 2020), and Journalism Pedagogy in Transitional Countries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Her study on the news depiction of skin in Victorian newspapers earned her the Samuel J. Zakon prize in the History of Dermatology.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-g-a99220313/
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garrisid3

Thank you so much to Katalin Dankó for her talk on Accents, Arguments and Affections. We had a really good turnout and l...
02/08/2026

Thank you so much to Katalin Dankó for her talk on Accents, Arguments and Affections. We had a really good turnout and lots of interesting discussions about the various challenges of cross-cultural relationships! Thanks once again to Slizza Pizza & Pub for hosting!

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