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VENETIAN SEMINAR

16 May 2009

Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds

Seminar Room 3, LHRI, 29 Clarendon Place, Leeds, LS2 9JT

Sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, and the School of History, University of Leeds

10.30 - Coffee

11-12.30          Ronnie Ferguson (St Andrews), ‘Reflections on the origins and historical status of Venetian’

Eva Stamoulou (Manchester) ‘Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Il Regno di Candia in Maps and Texts of the Early Modern Period’

            Discussion

Chair:   Brian Richardson (Leeds)

12.30 - Lunch break

2-3.30              Federico Barbierato (Verona), ‘Libertinism, unbelief, and the Inquisition in Venice in the second half of the seventeenth century’

Allison Sherman (St Andrews) ‘Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi in Venice: Reconstructing a Lost Renaissance Shrine’

Discussion

            Chair:   Alessandro Pastore (Verona)

3.30 - Tea

4-6                   David Laven (Manchester) ‘Nineteenth-century historians and the fall of the Serenissima’

Oliver Logan (UEA) ‘The Veneto: the “white province”, c. 1850-1950’

Discussion

            Chair:   James Shaw (Sheffield)

The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop which has a long history of bringing together scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy.  It is convened on a yearly basis by Dr Mary Laven (University of Cambridge) and Dr Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck, University of London).  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. This year’s seminar is hosted by Dr Alex Bamji.

Graduate students are warmly encouraged to attend, and a number of postgraduate bursaries are available to assist with travel and accommodation expenses. For further information, and to apply for a bursary, please contact Dr Alex Bamji, School of History, University of Leeds ([log in to unmask]).

The conference organisers are grateful for the generous financial support of the Royal Historical Society, and the School of History, University of Leeds.  There is no registration fee, and lunch will be provided.  We should be grateful if you could notify one of the organisers if you plan to attend. ALL WELCOME.

Information

Postgraduate bursaries

Graduate students are warmly encouraged to attend, and a number of postgraduate bursaries are available to assist with travel and accommodation expenses. For further information, and to apply for a bursary, please contact Dr Alex Bamji, School of History, University of Leeds ([log in to unmask]).

Food and drink

Lunch and coffee will be provided. If you wish to seek out any other refreshments, there are a number of options:

-          The Refectory: provides a range of hot meals, sandwiches and snacks (1 minute from LHRI)

-          LUU: in the basement of the Student Union building adjacent to the Refectory you can find a supermarket, other food outlets, and a cash dispenser

-          Opposite cafe: opposite the Parkinson building at the entrance to the university –  highly recommended

Following the Seminar, a general invitation is extended to anyone who wishes to congregate firstly for a drink at the historic Victoria Hotel pub, followed by dinner at an excellent (and affordable) Chinese restaurant, Red Chilli. Both venues are located on Great George Street, halfway between the university and the station:

http://www.redchillirestaurant.co.uk/leeds_gallery.asp

Travel

The University of Leeds is located to the NW of Leeds city centre, a 15-20 minute walk or 5 minute taxi ride from the station.

Directions on foot from station: Turn left out of the station into City square; with the Queens Hotel behind you, walk straight up Park Row. Continue up Park Row until the first major junction, The Headrow. Turn right and walk along The Headrow, past the Light shopping centre on your left. At the end of The Light centre turn left up Woodhouse Lane. Follow this road up, passing Morrisons supermarket on your right, Leeds Metropolitan University on your left. Continue up Woodhouse Lane to the Parkinson (clocktower) Building.

Directions by car: Leeds is linked to the major motorways M1 and M62. Parking is available on campus (the charge is £5.00), and you need to go to the main entrance. If the Visitors’ car park is full, on-street parking is possible in the Hyde Park area to the north of the university.

Leeds Humanities Research Institute

The LHRI is located on the main campus of the University of Leeds.  Head through the arches to the left of the Parkinson Building, keep straight on, bear left towards the Student Union building, continue past it, and Clarendon Place is the third street on your left.

Links to a map of the LHRI’s location on campus, and directions by car can be found at:

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lhri/index.htm