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Dear all,
We are delighted to announce the programme for the next Venetian Seminar, which will take place on Saturday 11 May 2019 at Oxford Brookes. We are very grateful to Ioanna Iordanou and Jane Stevens Crawshaw for hosting us in Oxford.
We will hear papers from Oren Margolis, Marie-Louise Lillywhite, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Solène Rivoal, Tamsin Prideaux, and Ioanna Iordanou. For a complete programme and further details, including travel information, see below.
As always, we plan to go for drinks and dinner at the end of the day.
There is no registration charge for the Seminar, but numbers are limited due to the size of the venue. If you plan to attend, please email Alex Bamji at[log in to unmask] to
reserve your space. Feel free to pass on details of the Seminar to anyone to whom it may be of interest.
With best wishes,
Alex Bamji, Filippo de Vivo and Mary Laven
VENETIAN SEMINAR
11 May 2019
Green Room, Headington Hill Hall
Oxford Brookes University
10.30 Coffee
11-12.30 Oren Margolis (Villa I Tatti/Harvard): The Venetian Myth of Aldus Manutius
Marie-Louise Lillywhite (Middlebury College): Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice: The Censor and Censorship
Discussion
Chair: Louise Bourdua (Warwick)
12.30 Lunch break
1.30-3.00 Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes): Weeping trees and self-sacrificing fish: health, environments and miracles in early modern Venice and Chios
Solène Rivoal (Aix-Marseille): Fish and the city: Venice’s seafood market in the eighteenth century
Discussion
Chair: Paul Davies (Reading)
3.00 Tea
3.30-5.00 Tamsin Prideaux (Edinburgh): Social networks and family ties in immigrant mercantile communities in Venice, 1550-1700
Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes): Venice’s Secret Service: Intelligence organization in the Renaissance
Discussion
Chair: Thomas Goodwin (Oxford)
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 Ioanna Iordanou and Jane Stevens Crawshaw for hosting this year’s seminar. We are very grateful for the generous support of the
School of History, Philosophy and Culture and Oxford Brookes Business School.
There is no registration fee, but numbers are limited due to the size of the venue. Please email
[log in to unmask] to reserve a space.
Travel and accommodation
Headington Hill Hall is located at Oxford Brookes’ Headington Campus. For travel information, maps and directions, see:
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/contacts-maps-and-campuses/headington-campus/
If you are travelling by car, it is possible to use the Headington Hill car park which is just in front of the Hall. You can pay with cash or card. The charges are set out here:
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/travel/parking/new-parking-policy-faqs/#5
For accommodation in Oxford city centre, options include:
https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/oxford/home