Venetian Seminar 11 May 2019.pdf

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 selfsacrificing 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 a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk 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/headingtoncampus/ 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