Past Talks

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Kathleen Christian (Berlin), "Raffaele Riario, Jacopo Galli, and Michelangelo's Bacchus"

09 June to 30 June
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Saundra Weddle (Drury University), "The Braided Networks of the Venetian Sex Trade"

12 May to 30 June
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Diego Pirillo (Berkeley), "Does the Refugee Speak? Negotiating Displacement in Early Modern Italy"

26 May to 30 June
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Elena Calvillo (University of Richmond, Virginia) and Nicholas Scott Baker (Macquarie University, Sydney), 'The Art of War: Giulio Clovio and Medici Diplomacy'

19 May to 31 May
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Robert Brennan (Courtauld): 'Thresholds of Art in Renaissance Italy' 

28 April
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Monique O'Connell (Wake Forest), 'Polyphony or Cacophony? Tumult and Order in the Political Culture of Venice's Empire during the Italian Wars'

03 March to 12 March
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Caroline Callard (EHESS, Paris), 'Sovereignty, Spirituality, and the Subsoil in the Duchy of Savoy'

20 January to 12 March
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Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (Sheffield), 'Sonic Identities and Coexistence in Venetian Crete (1453-1669)'

03 February to 12 March
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Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge), 'The Romes of Thomas Jones (1742-1803)'

17 February to 01 March
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Claire Judde de Larivière (Toulouse) "Who did Renaissance people think they were? Class consciousness, sense of belonging, and social categories in Venice 1400-1600"

25 November 2025 to 08 December 2025
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Elizabeth Currie (Central St Martins and V&A) "On and Off the Canvas: Street Life in Early Modern Rome"

28 October 2025 to 07 December 2025
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Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge) "Fear and Fortune: Gypsy Women between Image, Devotion, and Control in Early Modern Italy"

11 November 2025 to 07 December 2025
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Hannah Marcus (Harvard): "Was it Possible to Die of Old Age in Early Modern Italy?"

29 April 2025 to 10 June 2025
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Kathryn Taylor (Tennessee): "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice"

13 May 2025 to 10 June 2025
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Lucio Biasiori (Padua): "The daily prophet: the Letter of the Grand Master of the Hospitallers and its audiences (1319-1793)"

27 May 2025 to 10 June 2025
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Emily Michelson (St. Andrews): "Rituals of ambiguous religion in early modern Italy"

10 June 2025
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Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford), 'Digital History and 18th-Century Journeys to Italy'

18 February 2025 to 11 March 2025
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Zoe Farrell (Oxford), 'Verona: Artisans and material culture in a provincial Renaissance city'

21 January 2025 to 09 March 2025
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Lana Martysheva (Rome) and Nina Lamal (Amsterdam), 'The Italian Peninsula and the European Wars of Religion'

04 March 2025 to 09 March 2025
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Bianca de Divitiis (Naples), 'Local and Global: Intersecting Dimensions in Renaissance Southern Italy"

04 February 2025 to 09 March 2025
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Emanuela Patti (Edinburgh) and Carlotta Paltrinieri (Royal Holloway), 'On controversial heritage: Making sense of transnational biographies through archives and mythmaking'

26 November 2024 to 28 November 2024
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Gloria Moorman (Oxford and Manchester), Enrico Zucchi (Padua) and Alessandro Metlica (Padua): 'Contending Representations of Power in Baroque Republics and Monarchies'

12 November 2024 to 28 November 2024
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SEMINAR CANCELLED: Katia Occhi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento), 'An environmental history of the "timber frontier": sources, methods, problems'

29 October 2024 to 25 November 2024
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Francesco Zimei (University of Trento): 'The Italian lauda: origins, features, connections'

21 May 2024 to 16 June 2024