Venetian Seminar

Millburn House, University of Warwick, May 2, 2020 - May 2, 2020

10.30 Coffee

11-12.30 Luca Zenobi (Cambridge): Venice’s terraferma expansion and the negotiation of territories in late medieval Italy; Catherine Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan): The dynamics of arms supply in the sixteenth-century Venetian terraferma; Discussion; Chair: Luca Molà (Warwick)

12.30 Lunch break

1.30-3.00 Anya Perse (Oxford): Circulating motifs in the Venetian moralizing print: The dissemination of ideas and images in the later Cinquecento; Valentina Tomassetti (Warwick): Guilty of shame: shaping women’s identities in sixteenth-century Venetian tribunals; Discussion; Chair: Peter Humfrey (St Andrews)

3.00 Tea

3.30-5.00 Stephanie Azzarello (Cambridge): Rendering the Other: Depictions of Jews and Muslims in early Quattrocento Venetian manuscripts; Hannah Lee (QMUL): The figure of the ‘Moor’ in the early modern Venetian interior; Chair: Giorgio Tagliaferro (Warwick)

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 Louise Bourdua for hosting this year’s seminar. We are very grateful for the generous support of the History of Art Department.

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.

Venetian Seminar
Location: Millburn House, University of Warwick
Start Date: May 2, 2020
Start Time: 10:30 am
End Date: May 2, 2020
End Time: 5:00 pm
Ticket Price: Free