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The following from Peter Howard: Renaissance Religions II: modes and meanings in history 9-10 June 2016 Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII Via San Vitale 114, 40125 Bologna ITALY Tel: 0039 051 239 532 - Fax: 0039 051 082 2242 This call for papers follows the highly successful conference held at Villa i Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the Monash University Prato Centre in June 2015. Anyone interested in the program can find it at http://itatti.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/itatti/files/renaissance_religions.pdf. For a video of second day of the conference, go to: https://www.youtube.com/user/monashprato The second iteration of the conference will be held in Bologna at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII. At this gathering we will seek to extend further the range of materials and ideas beyond those traversed in 2015. We are looking for methodologically innovative contributions dealing with, among other themes: • Confessionalism • Conversion • Cross-cultural influences and impacts • Gender • Music • Space (architecture, propinquity) • Inter-religious relations/conflict • Senses and emotions The focus will be on Italy 1300-1700. Expressions of interest, including title and brief abstract are due by 6 January. Papers should be based on original research. Presentations may not be longer than 20 minutes. Please send proposals to [log in to unmask] This conference is a collaboration between FSCIRE, Monash University, and University of Toronto. Initial Organizing committee: Peter Howard, Riccardo Saccenti, and Nicholas Terpstra. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~