Venetian Seminar
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Who this event is for
Location
Green Room, Headington Hill Hall, Headington Campus, Headington Hill site
Details
The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji (Leeds), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), and Mary Laven (Cambridge). The Seminar brings together established scholars, early career researchers, and postgraduate students in a format designed to promote awareness of the latest research in the field, and to maximise discussion. Warm thanks to Ioanna Iordanou and Jane Stevens Crawshaw for hosting this year’s seminar. We are very grateful for the generous support of the School of History, Philosophy and Culture and Oxford Brookes Business School.
Programme 10.30 | Coffee | |
11:00-12.30 | Oren Margolis (Villa I Tatti/Harvard): The Venetian Myth of Aldus Manutius | |
Marie-Louise Lillywhite (Middlebury College): Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice: The Censor and Censorship | |
Discussion | |
Chair: Louise Bourdua (Warwick) | |
12.30 | Lunch break | |
1.30-3.00 | Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes): Weeping trees and self- sacrificing fish: health, environments and miracles in early modern Venice and Chios | |
Solène Rivoal (Aix-Marseille): Fish and the city: Venice’s seafood market in the eighteenth century | |
Discussion | |
Chair: Paul Davies (Reading) | |
15.00 | Tea | |
15.30-17.00 | Tamsin Prideaux (Edinburgh): Social networks and family ties in immigrant mercantile communities in Venice, 1550-1700 | |
Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes): Venice’s Secret Service: Intelligence organization in the Renaissance | |
Discussion | |
Chair: Thomas Goodwin (Oxford) | |
There is no registration fee, but numbers are limited due to the size of the venue. Please email a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk to reserve a space.