STVDIO Seminar Series 2024-25

Convenors this year were: Cecilia Sideri and Maria Czepiel

Autumn 2024, Term 1

Ingrid de Smet, University of Warwick,‘Ac tu, bibliotheca, iam valeto’: Concepts of Libraries and Book-Collecting in Neo-Latin Poetry from the Renaissance to the late Seventeenth Century. Week 2, 8 October 2024, 5:00pm in room FAB2.32.

JointEMECC/ CSR STVDIO event withAngela McShane,Investigating empowerment and song via the prizewinning 100 Ballads Website (100ballads.org).Week 2,Thursday10 October 1-2pm, with pre-talk lunch provided at 12.30pm. This is an in-person only event in room OC0.05 (Oculus Building).

Gary Watt, University of Warwick,Poetic Conjuration: Shakespeare’s Legal Rhetoric. Week 5, 29 October 2024, 5:00pm in room FAB2.32.

Craig Martin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice,Averroes among the Paduan Physicians, 1540-1600. Week 9, 26 November 2024, 5:00pm in room FAB2.32.

Spring 2025, Term 2

Cecilia Sideri, University of Warwick,Roberto Valturio and hisDe re militari:Manuscript Circulation, Authorial Control and Autography in Renaissance Italy, Week 2, 14 January 2025, 5:00pm in room FAB2.43.

Michael Michael, University of Glasgow,Images Associated with the Office of the Dead in English Manuscripts of the 13th-14th Centuries,Week 7, 18 February 2025, 5:00pm in roomS0.08.

Ben Griffiths, University of Birmingham,"Portada", "preliminares" and profit: the misleading editorial strategies of seventeenth-century printer-booksellers of exemplary short fiction (ESF), Week 9, 4 March 2025, 5:00pm in room OC1.06.

Summer 2025, Term 3

Samuel Agbamu, University of Reading,Petrarch’s ‘Africa’: the dream ofrenovatio imperii, Week 2, 29 April 2025, 5:00pm in room FAB2.32.

Daniele Conti, University of Cassino and of Southern Lazio,Pico della Mirandola'sConclusiones nongentae: textual and interpretative issues, Week 3, 6 May 2025, 5:00pm in room FAB2.32.This will be an in-person event only.

Felicita Tramontana, University of Roma Tre,Controlling at a Distance: Franciscan Accounting in Jerusalem in the Early Global Era, Week 4, 13 May 2025, 5:00pm, in room FAB2.32.

Vittoria Fallanca, University of Warwick,Love Will Tear Us Apart: Erotic Misreading and Amorous Misery in the Anterotic Tradition,Week 9, 17 June 2025, 5:00pm, in room FAB2.32.