italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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'Forms of Faith: the influence of religious change on artistic, literary, and musical culture in sixteenth-century Italy'
International conference 30-31 March, 2007 University of Leeds, UK
For details and registration forms please visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/research.htm or http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/news/Forms%20of%20Faith.html. Information is also provided on accommodation.
Papers to include:
- Dr Stephen Bowd, Lecturer in History, University of Edinburgh. Religious Friendship and the Republic of Letters in Renaissance Italy
- Dr Abigail Brundin, Lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge. Riforma al femminile: Vittoria Colonna's poetic legacy
- Professor Antonio Corsaro, Istituto di filologia moderna, University of Urbino. The dissemination of spiritual poetry in mid sixteenth-century Italy
- Dr Chrysa Damianaki, Associate Professor of Art History, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell'Università di Lecce, Italy. Pontormo's lost frescoes in San Lorenzo reconsidered
- Professor Iain Fenlon, Professor of Music, University of Cambridge. Varieties of Experience: Music and Reform in Renaissance Italy
- Professor Harald Hendrix, Chair of Italian Studies, University of Utrecht. Representation of Suffering and Religious Change in the Early Cinquecento
- Professor Alexander Nagel, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Toronto. Soft iconoclasm: Some forms of the image debate in Italy in the 1530s
- Dr Tom Nichols, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Aberdeen. 'Recalled from the infernal regions': Venetian mythological painting in an age of religious reform
- Dr Noel O'Regan, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Edinburgh. Church reform and devotional music in 16th-century Rome: the influence of lay confraternities
- Dr Letizia Panizza, Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. Paradoxes in Cinquecento Italy: Friends or Enemies of Religion? The case of Ortensio Lando.
- Mr Matthew Treherne, Lecturer in Italian, University of Leeds. The Tridentine liturgy as theological discourse in Tasso's late works
- Professor Raymond B. Waddington, Professor of English, University of California at Davis. Aretino, Titian, and 'la humanità di Cristo'
The conference is organised by Abigail Brundin (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge) and Matthew Treherne (Department of Italian, University of Leeds), and is supported by the British Academy, the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, the Modern Humanities Research Association, and the Society for Renaissance Studies. For further information about the conference, please contact Abigail Brundin ([log in to unmask]) or Matthew Treherne ([log in to unmask]).
We have a number of post-graduate bursaries available, generously funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies. Post-graduates wishing to attend the conference should contact Matthew Treherne ([log in to unmask]) in advance of the registration deadline in order to apply for a bursary.
Department of Italian
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7846
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/
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