Venetian Seminar - in Memoriam Brian Pullan 1935-2022
| Dates: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Stefania Silvestri, Vendy Hoppe, Jennifer McFarland, Lavinia Gambini, Kathy Aron-Beller, Nicholas Davidson, Georg Christ, Alex Bamji, Filippo de Vivo, Mary Laven |
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10.00 Coffee
10.30-12.00 Georg Christ (Manchester): Provincializing Venice? Consolidation of the Veneto-Mamluk alliance in the wake of the Cypriot Crusade (1365-1403)
Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes): Institutions and identities: the case of Jacomo Coppa
Stefania Silvestri (Liverpool): Virgins, widows, orphans: Women in the Venetian Ghetto
Chair: Gloria Moorman (Manchester)
12.00 Lunch break (with optional walk to Brian’s former office)
1.30-3.00 Early career session
Vendy Hoppe (Manchester): Buying and owning velvets in Renaissance Venice
Jennifer McFarland (Cambridge): Caring for the elderly in the early modern Veneto
Lavinia Gambini (Cambridge): Secrets from Candia and Eastern Mediterranean inventors in seventeenth-century Venice
Respondent: James Shaw (Sheffield)
Chair: Tricia Allerston (National Galleries of Scotland)
3.00 Tea
3.30-5.00 In memoriam: Brian Pullan, 1935-2022
Kathy Aron-Beller (Tel Aviv)
Nicholas Davidson (Oxford)
Chair: Mary Laven (Cambridge)
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 (Oxford), and Mary Laven (Cambridge).
Warm thanks to Georg Christ, Stefan Hanss and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures for hosting this year’s seminar. Special thanks to CIDRAL and the Department of History for generous financial support. There is no registration fee, but space is limited and registration is required.
Please sign up at this link to register:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/venetian-seminar-2024-tickets-795952524427
Speakers
Jane Stevens Crawshaw
Role: speaker
Organisation: Oxford Brookes
Stefania Silvestri
Role: speaker
Organisation: Liverpool
Vendy Hoppe
Role: speaker
Organisation: Manchester
Jennifer McFarland
Role: speaker
Organisation: Cambridge
Lavinia Gambini
Role: speaker
Organisation: Cambridge
Kathy Aron-Beller
Role: speaker
Organisation: Tel Aviv Univ
Nicholas Davidson
Role: speaker
Organisation: Oxford
Georg Christ
Role: speaker
Organisation: Manchester
Alex Bamji
Role: convenor
Organisation: Leeds
Filippo de Vivo
Role: convenor
Organisation: Oxford
Mary Laven
Role: convenor
Organisation: Cambridge
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Nancy Rothwell Building
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