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Dr Derval Conroy University College Dublin Seventeenth-century French entry books; French queens' royal entries; festival books of Louis XIV's reign.
Professor Emeritus Charles A. Hallett Fordham University Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama Playwriting techniques, Play analysis
Dr. Jean-Dominique Delle Luche Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Shooting contests and shooting societies, lotteries, horse races Holy Roman Empire, Swiss Confederacy, Free and Imperial Cities, Württemberg, Saxony Festival literature 15th and 16th centuries
Professor Robert Jean Knecht University of Birmingham Sixteenth-century French history including art and architecture. Reign of Henri III
Mrs Celine VANDEUREN-DAVID Université catholique de Louvain Social and economic impact of jewellery in Dijon (Burgundy) in the 14th and 15th century
Mrs Celine VANDEUREN-DAVID Université catholique de Louvain Social and economic impact of jewellery in Dijon (Burgundy) in the 14th and 15th century
Dr Gabriel Guarino University of Ulster Spanish Festivals in 17th-century Naples.
PhD candidate Margarita-Ana Vázquez-Manassero Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Spanish Golden Age art and culture; Renaissance and Baroque art; cultural history; patrons and artistic collections
Alejandra Osorio Wellesley College, Mass Spanish Habsburg Festivals
Alice 77 University of Liverpool Spanish Inquisition in 17th-century Sardinia University Archives in Spain and Italy Atlantic history of Iberian worlds (Spain and New Spain)
Dr. Luis X. Morera Baylor University Spanish and Portuguese Royal entries; Civic ceremonies of all sorts; ceremonial devices (canopies and arches); the economic and logistical aspects of organizing ceremonies; jousts and tournaments; bullfights and the running of bulls; music and dance used during; archival sources for researching Iberian festivals.
Ms Rio West University of Warwick Student of English Literature and Theatre Studies Final Year Undergraduate dissertation on festivals for Princess Elizabeth Stuart
Dr. Guendalina Ajello Mahler UCLA - Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies The Italian festive tradition, especially festive ephemera and banquets
Mrs. Rebecca Feneder Indiana University The Progresses of Elizabeth I
Linda A. Briggs University of Warwick The Royal Tour of France 1564-66: visual and aural representations of the authority of Charles IX
MA student Claire Wooldridge University of Warwick The festivals and rituals of early modern Italy, particularly those of Venice and Florence in the early sixteenth century. The communication culture of this period in general, specifically the relationship between festive and print culture. Also the calendar festivals of Reformation England.
Dr. Thomas Izbicki Rutgers University The papacy and its ceremonies
Dr Dagmar Motycka Weston University of Edinburgh The urban public realm the city and theatre contemporary architecture, city and culture Surrealism and architecture
John Hoenig Independent Scholar The work of Bernardo Buontalenti (1531-1608) for the Medici in Florence. Renaissance architecture and theatre design. Theatrical and ephemeral event design and production. Website: www.johnhoenig.com
Dr Arthur Blumenthal Cornell Fine Arts Museum Theater Art of the Medici, etc.
Prof. Francesco Cotticelli Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy Theatre and performing arts XVII-XVIII centuries (with special reference to Southern Italy); Commedia dell'Arte
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
Dr. Donald Beecher Carleton University Theatre and production, music
Professor Erith Jaffe-Berg University of California, Riverside Theatre of the Renaissance, minority communities in the Renaissance, commedia dell’ arte
Ms. Emilie Brinkman graduate student at Miami University, Ohio, USA Tudor-Stuart England; material & court culture; the politics of display & ceremony; dress history
Martina Frank Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy Venetian Art and Architecture of the Baroque The Galli Bibiena Workshop in Vienna Baroque Palaces, Villas and Gardens: Venice in the European Context
Dr. Christophe Brouard Independent Venetian Renaissance
Professor Massimo Ossi Indiana University Venice, Florence, Mantua: music in late 16th and 17th c.
Dr. Nhora Serrano Hamilton College Visual studies; Granada, 1492; Iberian
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
Dr Andrea Lausi festival wunderkammer artistic director of the early music festival Wunderkammer (Trieste, Italy)
Dr Elaine Tierney Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum c17th and c18th urban festival, with special reference to activities in London and Paris
PhD Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen Danish national Art Library court culture; early modern art and architecture; entries; festivals; royal portraiture and representation; ephemeral architecture
Dr Félix Labrador Arroyo Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) court, household, etiquette and royal ceremonials, Portugal, queens
Dr Ida Mauro Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona doctoral dissertation: 'Feste e creazione artistica a Napoli attraverso la "notitia" di Andrea Rubino (1648 - 1669)'
Dr Minou Schraven University of Liege early modern funeral apparati early modern papal ceremonies foundation ceremonies
Dr Leon Lock The Low Countries Sculpture Society main interest in Low Countries sculpture and architecture, including temporary structures for festivals
Dr Nadine Akkerman Leiden University masques
Cox Lindsey University of Kent portrait miniatures; Tudor and Stuart England; early modern material culture; British art history; references to and uses of portrait miniatures within performances.
Steven Thiry University of Antwerp regal heraldry; royal symbolism; political emblematics; elites and court culture
Miss Anastazja Maria Grudnicka University College London religious culture of the Habsburg imperial court; Habsburg festival tradition; early modern devotions and religious materiality; aural, visual, and material culture of the early modern court
Sir John Elliott Oriel College Oxford sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain
Felicia Else Gettysburg College the impact of water on art, geography, science and politics in the age of Cosimo I de' Medici; public sculpture and fountains in Renaissance and Mannerist Italy; Ammannati's Neptune Fountain in Florence; marble quarrying and transportation in 16th century