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Theatre and Performance Studies Society for European Festivals Research

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Ms. Rebecca A. Mahmood Indiana University Elizabeth I; Elizabethan Age; Festivals in Renaissance/Early Modern England, France,Italy, and Spain
Dr Rebekka Kill Leeds Metropolitan University Festival Performance Festival environments Industry/Academic partnerships
Dr Rebekka Kill Leeds Metropolitan University Festival Performance Festival environments Industry/Academic partnerships
Mr Richard Morris Trinity College, Cambridge Interested in the imagery of science and religion in early modern European festivals.
Professor Richard Cooper Brasenose College, Oxford Renaissance French and Italian triumphal entries and other court festivals and banquets.
Ms Rio West University of Warwick Student of English Literature and Theatre Studies Final Year Undergraduate dissertation on festivals for Princess Elizabeth Stuart
Professor Robert Jean Knecht University of Birmingham Sixteenth-century French history including art and architecture. Reign of Henri III
Roberta Carpani Università Cattolica di Milano Theatre and performing arts in the 17th and 18th centuries; the festival culture in Northern Italy (Milan and Lombardy): wedding festivals, religious events, royal entries
Ph D Roberta Carpani Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano Festivals and ceremonies in Northern Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries; theatre and performing arts in Italy XVII- XVIII centuries
PhD student Rosa De Marco University of Burgundy (Université de Bourgogne) Jesuit Festival culture in France (C 16th-17th); Ephemeral "apparati"; Illusionistic ceiling painting;Emblem tradition; Arts of memory; History of french and italian Art and iconography (mainly 15th-17th century);
Dr Sabina de Cavi Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts, Brussels Art and Architecture, Spanish Naples
Dr Sally Rush University of Glasgow Scottish Royal Palaces and the Court of James V.
Professor Salvatore Bottari University of Messina History of the Mediterranean countries in early modern age
Sara Smart University of Exeter German Court Culture of Early Modern Period, Brandenburg-Prussia
Sara Jayne Steen Plymouth State University Early modern women
Professor Sebastiana Nobili Università di Bologna Dante and Boccaccio
Sheila ffolliott George Mason University Catherine de' Medici; Women at Court
Dr Silvia Ferreira University of Lisbon Art History. Lisbon before the Earthquake. Jesuit Festivities in Lisbon. Brotherhoods of the Jesuit Church of Saint Roch, Lisbon. Woodcarved retables, Lisbon, 1670-1720.
PhD Simone Bardazzi Università di Firenze My main field of interest is Theatre and italian actors in the Habsbourg area between XV-XVIII Centuries. I'm interested in festival cycles at the Imperial Court.
Stefano Fogelberg Rota University of Stockholm Ballet de cour. Queen Christina of Sweden.
Ph.D. Stefano Fogelberg Rota Stockholm university Court Ballet in Sweden during the Swedish 'Stormaktstiden' (Great power era, ca. 1611-1718); courtly milieus and the formation of aristocratic ideals in literary and theatrical spheres
Steven Thiry University of Antwerp regal heraldry; royal symbolism; political emblematics; elites and court culture
Professor Susan Cerasano Colgate University Early modern drama and theatre history
Professor Sydney Anglo University of Wales (Emeritus) Renaissance Chivalry Court Festivities
Dr. Tamar Cholcman Tel Aviv University Ephemeral Art in the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Dr. Tamara Morgenstern Independent scholar 16th and 17th century Naples, Sicily, and Venice processions and festivals
Tania Lévy Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France Ph.D. candidate in art history about painters of Lyons 1460-1530. My work aims to explore artistic production of painters and particularly the royal entries and festivals held in the city. Between 1460 and 1530, there were 22 entries of kings, queens, archbishops, princes, dukes... and many painters, sculptors were involved in pageantries and decoration.
Dr. Taryn Marie Zarrillo Columbia University Seicento Venice, art history, cultural history
Mr Taylor Aucoin University of Bristol PhD Student Festive culture in medieval and early modern Britain and Europe more broadly; approaching seasonal festivals as multi-media for economic, social, political, and religious expression and communication across all levels of society. My research currently focuses on the history of British Shrovetide (Carnival) and the holiday’s related customs of feasting, drinking, sports, tournaments, dramatic performances, and rioting.
Theresa Powell Memorial University of Newfoundland Royal entries, printed pamphlets, media studies, mass communication
Dr. Thomas Izbicki Rutgers University The papacy and its ceremonies
Tibor Martí Institute of History of the Research Centre of the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences International relations of the Kingdom of Hungary in the early modern period, Hungarian-Habsburg relations in the 17th century with special regard to the Spanish Habsburgs. The personal networks of the Spanish ambassadors in Central Europe in the 17th century.
Professor Timothy Kircher Guilford College Humanism
Dr Tracey Hill Bath Spa University Civic pageantry, especially the Lord Mayor's Show
Dr Tracey Hill Bath Spa University Early modern civic pageantry, especially the Lord Mayor's Show.
Dr Trevisan Sara University of Warwick Court and civic festivals in early modern England, European Renaissance festivals, emblems, iconography, civic culture in London, 1590-1640, print and performance.
Dr Trevisan Sara Brunel University Jacobean and Caroline masques; Lord Mayor's Shows; European court festivals; renaissance iconography; renaissance rhetoric; poetry and the visual arts; emblems.
Uta Dorothea Sauer Technical University, Dresden Interaction of opera and music at European Courts. Influence of the French court Ballet on the German Court. Culture in the 17th century.
Dr. Valerie Taylor Pasadena City College Italian Courts, Renaissance design, digital humanities, Americas: Mexico and Peru Pre-Columbian-Colonial
MR WILLIAM ALCOCK Independent study - former student at Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon Building on previous work on the ritualised application of Shakespearean scripts in village community theatre, current interest is in the extent of non-perceived liminality to be found in Welsh language eisteddfodau festivals, and the worth of the Welsh language in that setting.
Dr Yamit Rachman-Schrire Hebrew University of Jerusalem Late medieval devotional culture, inter-cultural and artistic exchanges across the Mediterranean
Dr Zeynep Yelce Sabanci University, Istanbul Court Studies, Ritual Studies, Representations, Art and Power, Discourse Ottoman History,Sixteenth Century
helene otto università degli studi di verona anthropology european triumphans early modern history
helene otto università degli studi di verona antropology european triumphans early modern history