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 (Oxford), and Mary Laven (Cambridge), each year in a different location. We are very happy to return to in-person meetings in 2022!
10.30 Coffee
11.00-12.30
Jonathan Harris (RHUL): Venice and the post-1453 Byzantine diaspora
Marina Inì (Manchester): Power and authority: Venice at the centre of the Mediterranean quarantine system
Discussion
Chair: John-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol)
12.30 Lunch break
1.30-3.00 Early career session
Alice Correia Morton (Birkbeck): Romanitas in Cinquecento Venice: the art and architecture of the Cornaro Family
Anya Perse (Oxford): Vice and virtue at the burin’s tip: The emergence and dissemination of the moralising print in Cinquecento Venice
Sophie Hartles (Warwick): Laughter and violence: the cruel humour of the beffa in sixteenth-century Venetian literature
Respondent: Nicholas Davidson (Oxford)
Chair: Mary Laven (Cambridge)
3.00 Tea
3.30-5.00
Louise Bourdua (Warwick): The taiapiera in fourteenth-century Venice: what’s in a name?
Filippo de Vivo (Oxford) and Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam): Popular protest and archival suppression in early modern Venice
Discussion
Chair: Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes)
A light lunch will be provided thanks to the generosity of St Edmund Hall. There is no registration fee, but space is limited and registration is required. Please sign up at this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/venetianseminar-2022-tickets-263185544047
