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Mini-workshop on Universities in Renaissance Italy as part of a book launch for David Lines’s new publication The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna. After a brief presentation of the book by the author, the discussion will explore various aspects of the Renaissance teaching of arts and medicine, including its institutional context and its articulation in the humanities, natural philosophy and mathematics, medicine, and theology. The invited speakers include: Jonathan Davies, Robert Black, Brendan Dooley, Vivian Nutton, and Matt Gaetano. This is an in-person event, in room FAB5.03 in the Faculty of Arts Building.

1.) Campbell Orchard (Warwick) '

Unveiling the Production Techniques of Trajan's Silver Coinage at Tarsus: A Die Study Methodology'

2.) Richard Allard-Meldrum (Warwick)
‘Ulpia Severina: A Tale of Two Biographies’

This paper will present new archival research at the collections and archives of the Musée Carnavalet, targeting documentation of monuments, memorials and museums that never came to be, for example the failed proposal to construct a memorial museum of the French Revolution at the 1889 centenary. The paper will explore the politics of the planning, commissioning and financing of a selection of the city’s monuments from the Revolution to the present, mapping an ephemeral network of lost and fading interactions with French history. The paper will discuss the historical planning of monuments, and the present development of cultural policies and politiques de mémoire. The evolution of the monumental landscape will be analysed to assess whether the development of these landmarks has become less elitist or simply inclusion-washed in new narratives that come with no concrete improvements for concerned communities. The work feeds into my new project ‘Mediating Memory through the Monuments of Paris’, which will address issues in accessibility and representation in monuments and memorials. The project will propose increased and improved cultural policies and practices surrounding the construction and maintenance of urban sites of collective memory.

Elizabeth Benjamin is Lecturer in French at Coventry University, UK. Her research is in the field of French and Francophone memory studies, with particular interest in monuments. Her current work looks at Paris and its problematic dominance over the Francophone memoryscape, through monuments, literature, and politics.

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

at the University of Warwick

invites you to

the 18^th ANNUAL EDWARD SAID MEMORIAL LECTURE 

by

ADAM HANIEH

(Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

A Contrapuntal Reading of the Anthropocene:

Knowledge Production and Absences in the History of World Oil

 Wednesday, May 3, 2023

5 pm

Faculty of Arts Building 0.08

6 University Road, Coventry CV4 7EQ 

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information:

Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk

See here for more details.