UPCOMING CONFERENCES & TALKS - FELLOWS & STAFF

by: 
MAP STAFF
October 27, 2013

 

  • Alana O'Brien ("Cosimo I de' Medici and the Cultural Network of MIchelangelo Buonarroti"), Alessio Assonitis ("The Circulation of Prohibited Texts at the Court of Cosimo I de' Medici"), Jessica Maratsos ("The Elusive Image: Pontormo's Heresy at San Lorenzo") and Sheila Barker ("Lucrezia Quistelli: a Gentlewoman and Painter in Sixteenth-Century Florence" ) will be speaking at the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 24-27, 2013. For further information, see the conference program. 

 

  • Maurizio Arfaioli ("A gentleman more robust than the others...: Chiappino Vitelli's Many Appetites"), Alessio Assonitis (“Unicorns, Medals, and Heretics: The Frivolous Obsessions of a Medici Duke”) and Samuel Morrison Gallacher ("Fealty and Familiarity: Gifts of Food at the Court of Cosimo I de' Medici") will be speaking at the international conference entitled "Florence_A city of many appetites" which will be held at Palazzo Bombicci Guicciardini Strozzi (Corso Tintori 21, Florence) on November 8 & 9, 2013.

 

  • Sheila Barker will be speaking at the Fourth Annual Feminist Art History Conference which will be held at the American University (Washington, DC) on November 8-10, 2013. Her paper is entitled “On Her Own: Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1612-1617”. For further information, see conference program.

 

  • Piergabriele Mancuso will speak at the Association for Jewish Studies conference (Boston, 15-17 December 2013). His paper is entitled: Magnifico principe: ambassadors, informers and spies at the service of the Medici court. The study of the Medici state papers and their relevance in the study of Jewish history.

 

  • Elena Brizio will present a paper entitled "Non poco darìa da pensare se fusse uno huomo bene suficiente et facultoso: Eustochia Bichi and her life in Cinquecento Siena" at the Biennial Medieval and Renaissance Conference which will take place at the New College of Florida at Sarasota on March 4-6, 2014.

 

  • Tessa Gurney (Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Fall 2013) is co-organizing a graduate student conference entitled “Building Connections: The Changing Face of Romance Studies” (April 3-5, 2014 at UNC – Chapel Hill). For description and call for papers, click here. 

 

  • Alessio Assonitis, Samuel Morrison Gallacher, Alana O'Brien, Marta Caroscio, Piergabriele Mancuso, Julia Siemon, John Henderson, Brendan Dooley, and Carla Darista will be presenting papers at the Renaissance Society of America which will take place in New York on March 27-29, 2014.