Past Talks

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Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary University of London), 'What is literary history now? Recovering the premodern textual world in the 21st century'

07 May 2024 to 15 June 2024
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Francesca Trivellato (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) 'Renaissance Individualism Revisited: A Business History Perspective'

30 April 2024 to 15 June 2024
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Virginia Cox (Trinity College Cambridge), 'Late-Renaissance Genoa through the lens of social lyric'

04 June 2024 to 15 June 2024
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Domenico Cecere (Naples) 'Disasters that made the world shudder: How extreme events redefined communication and politics in the Spanish Monarchy'

30 January 2024 to 10 March 2024
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Leah R. Clark (Oxford) 'Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Transcultural Objects Across the Mediterranean'

16 January 2024 to 09 March 2024
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Guillaume Calafat (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne) 'A Picaresque Project of the 18th century: The Savoyard King of Madagascar'

13 February 2024 to 09 March 2024
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Roundtable: 'Reflections on the global Mediterranean in Italian history'

27 February 2024 to 03 March 2024
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Alejandro Garcia-Monton (Granada), Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700

24 January 2024 to 03 March 2024
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John Henderson (Birkbeck) 'The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing', joint with HSMT

23 October 2023 to 27 November 2023
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Maya Corry (Oxford Brookes) 'Beautiful Bodies: Spirituality, Sexuality and Gender in Leonardo's Milan'

10 October 2023 to 27 November 2023
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Paola Molino (Padua) 'The Fabrication of Historical Truths'

21 November 2023 to 27 November 2023
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Fabrizio Nevola (Exeter) 'Making the Renaissance Public: Location based interpretation of early modern urban space'

07 November 2023 to 27 November 2023
Bernardino Poccetti "Istoria degli Innocenti" | Florence: Spedale degli Innocenti

Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto) 'Found and Lost: Race and Demography in Early Modern Foundling Care'

25 April 2023 to 11 September 2023
Giovanni Paolo Panini "Fête musicale" | Paris: Louvre

Élodie Oriol (Paris 8) 'Foreigners practicing music in 18th c. Rome: careers, accessibility and building reputations'

23 May 2023 to 11 September 2023
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Kate Lowe (Warburg) 'Differential experiences of enslavement in sixteenth-century Tuscany'

06 June 2023 to 10 September 2023
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Stefania Pastore (Normale, Pisa and Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare "B. Segre") 'Italian Renaissance and Iberian Diasporas (1492-1630)'

17 May 2023 to 10 September 2023
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Elena Bonora (Parma) 'Waiting for the Emperor: Italian Princes, the Pope and Charles V'

17 January 2023 to 06 March 2023
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Natalie Rothman (Toronto) 'Trans-Imperial Archive-Making: Diplomatic Entanglements between Venice and Istanbul'

11 October 2022 to 04 December 2022
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Raymond Carlson (Oxford) 'Michelangelo and the Salvageability of Desire'

25 October 2022 to 04 December 2022
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Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton) 'The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance'

22 November 2022 to 04 December 2022
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Jill Burke (Edinburgh) 'On Recipes, Bodies and Time (Or Where's the History in Historical Reconstruction?)'

08 November 2022 to 04 December 2022
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Eugenio Menegon (Boston) 'Empire of paper: A shady dealer, an insatiable linguist, an industrious missionary, and the extraordinary journey of a manuscript vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, 1760s-1820s'

07 June 2022
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Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca' Foscari, Venice) 'Of air, water, rice and waste: the management of public health in early modern Milan (XVII-XVIII centuries)'

24 May 2022
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Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum, Oxford) 'Slaves, merchants, and scholars: Italian "Turks" and the pursuit of knowledge in the 17th century'

10 May 2022