Held at Warwick Venice Centre

Programme

Thursday 27^th March

12.45 Introduction and welcome; coffee

13.00-14.30: Gifts and Bribes

Oriol Luján: To buy and to sell a vote in European nineteenth-century elections: New insights of bribery in Spanish, British and French cases.

Rhea Tuli Partridge: The Past and the Present: ‘Gifted’ Objects in the Clive Collection

Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau: Pineapple Confit, Parrots, and the King’s Funds: Bribery, Prevarication and Malfeasance in the French Antilles

14.30-14.50: tea/coffee break

14.50-16.00: The Media

Thomas J. Sojka, The Bright Young People’s Freak Parties Abroad – Venice in 1920s and culture of c in press accounts

M. Gabriella Tigani Sava: The scandal of the Roman Bank in the weekly illustrated L’Asino d’Oro (1892-1893)

16.00-16.20 tea break

16.20-17.50: Visual Culture

Asunción Díaz Zamorano & Francisco Contreras-Pérez: The Representation of Corruption in The Spanish Visual Culture Under Francoism (1939-1975)

Natalie Hanley-Smith: Depicting ‘Lady Cunning’: Corruption and the Royal Mistress, c.1820-1830

Tom Young: Art and the Legacy of Warren Hastings, the ‘Chief Nabob’, c.1800–40 - art objects including statues cultivated ongoing social loyalties esp by D’Oyly

19.00 Dinner

 

Friday 28^th March 2025

8.30-10.30: Literary Culture

Okan Keleş: “Power, Gifts, and Corruption: Pişkeş and Bribery in the Ottoman Empire, Simony in Rome

Marcin Śrama: Corruption during divorce procedures in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth based on memoirs and literary sources (1733-1795)

Ian Cawood: The Literary Challenge to Corruption in Britain in the early nineteenth century – the novels of Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and John Galt

M. Gemma Rubí i Casals (GREPIIC-UAB) and David Martínez Fiol (GREPIIC-UAB): ‘The Business of The Said King’. Alfonso XIII and the Economic and Moral Corruption of the Monarchy According to Blasco Ibáñez

 10.30-10.50: coffee break

10.50-12.20: Records as artefacts

Vedran Obućina: Corruption in the (Inter)Religious Sphere: Material, Literary, and Visual Culture.

Cameron Whiteside: Corruption Records in the Court of Chancery and the Subversive Potential of Monarchical Paternalism in Early Modern England.

Christoph Rosenmüller, “Cleansing Treasury, Mint, and High Court: The Material Culture of Mexico City’s Judicial Investigations, 1710–1733”

12.20 -12.30: comfort break/snack

12.30-14.00 Heritage (and closing remarks)

Enrique Rodríguez Pereda: Tarnished funds, glittering results: presences and absences of corruption in the philanthropic legacy of Ramón Pelayo

Ricard Torra Prat: The facade of the House of the General of Catalonia: from a rigged public tender to a masterpiece of Catalan Architectural Baroque

Mark Knights: Acknowledging the Legacy of Corruption in British Heritage

 

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