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Rachel L. Burk
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Dr. Rachel Burk is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore. A specialist in early modern Spain and Portugal, as well as their transatlantic empires, Dr. Burk explores literary and visual representations of blood in relation to early race laws based on blood purity in her book manuscript, Con sangre entra: Blood and Purity in Early Modern Iberia. Her new research addresses the transmission of knowledge about the Americas through the diffusion of early colonial texts, New World in the Old: Afterlives of Colonial Texts in Europe. Dr. Burk’s scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and edited collections from Routledge and Palgrave.
Previous to her current position, Dr. Burk served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Humanities at the Universide de Lisboa and taught at Tulane and the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Penn, as well as an A.B. in English from Columbia.
Presentation Title:
"Broadsides and Bodies: Columbus’s First Return to Europe"
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Dr. Rachel Burk is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore. A specialist in early modern Spain and Portugal, as well as their transatlantic empires, Dr. Burk explores literary and visual representations of blood in relation to early race laws based on blood purity in her book manuscript, Con sangre entra: Blood and Purity in Early Modern Iberia. Her new research addresses the transmission of knowledge about the Americas through the diffusion of early colonial texts, New World in the Old: Afterlives of Colonial Texts in Europe. Dr. Burk’s scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and edited collections from Routledge and Palgrave.
Previous to her current position, Dr. Burk served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Humanities at the Universide de Lisboa and taught at Tulane and the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Penn, as well as an A.B. in English from Columbia.
Presentation Title:
"Broadsides and Bodies: Columbus’s First Return to Europe"
Ralph Bauer
University of Maryland, College Park
Ralph Bauer is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he also serves the College of Arts and Humanities as associate dean for academic affairs. His research interests include the literatures and cultures of the colonial Americas, early modern studies, hemispheric studies, and the history of science. His publications includeThe Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: empire, travel, modernity (Cambridge UP 2003, 2008); An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (U Colorado P, 2005); (co-edited with José Antonio Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the colonial Americas: empires, texts, identities (UNC P, 2009); (co-edited with Marcy Norton), Entangled Trajectories: a special issue of Colonial Latin American Review (2017); (co-edited with Jaime Marroquín Arredondo) Translating Nature: a transcultural history of early modern science (forthcoming 2018 U of Penn P); as well as articles in collections and journals such as American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, PMLA, Revista Iberoamericana, Colonial Latin American Review, Dieciocho, and Latin American Research Review. His new monograph is entitled The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World (forthcoming UVA P).
Presentation Title:
"The Key to the Secrets of the World: Christopher Columbus's Ecstatic Itinerancies"
University of Maryland, College Park
Ralph Bauer is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he also serves the College of Arts and Humanities as associate dean for academic affairs. His research interests include the literatures and cultures of the colonial Americas, early modern studies, hemispheric studies, and the history of science. His publications includeThe Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: empire, travel, modernity (Cambridge UP 2003, 2008); An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (U Colorado P, 2005); (co-edited with José Antonio Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the colonial Americas: empires, texts, identities (UNC P, 2009); (co-edited with Marcy Norton), Entangled Trajectories: a special issue of Colonial Latin American Review (2017); (co-edited with Jaime Marroquín Arredondo) Translating Nature: a transcultural history of early modern science (forthcoming 2018 U of Penn P); as well as articles in collections and journals such as American Literary History, American Literature, Early American Literature, PMLA, Revista Iberoamericana, Colonial Latin American Review, Dieciocho, and Latin American Research Review. His new monograph is entitled The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World (forthcoming UVA P).
Presentation Title:
"The Key to the Secrets of the World: Christopher Columbus's Ecstatic Itinerancies"
Bernard D. Cooperman
University of Maryland, College Park
Bernard Cooperman holds the Louis L. Kaplan Chair in Jewish History at the University of Maryland, where he has served as Director of both the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Historical Studies. Dr. Cooperman’s research focuses on the history of Jews in Early Modern Italy. Recent papers include studies of “Jewish Space in Early Modern Pisa,” in Diversi Angoli di Visuale: Fra Storia Medievale e Storia degli Ebrei In Ricordo di Michele Luzzati ed., Anna Maria Pult Quaglia, and Alessandra Veronese (Pisa: Pacini, 2016); “Suppose the Ghetto Had Never Been Constructed…. Putting a Term into Its Contexts,” in What Ifs of Jewish History, edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016); “The Global Turn and Jewish Studies,” Giornale di Storia 18 (2015); “Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila. Jewish Moneylending and Community Institutions in Early Modern Rome,” Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History,edited by Adam Teller and Rebecca Kobrin (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), pp. 27–45; 264–276; “Legitimizing Rhetorics: Jewish “Heresy” in Early Modern Italy,” to appear in Etudes Epistémè.
Presentation Title:
"Os Homens do Nação: Shared Language and Overlapping Identities"
University of Maryland, College Park
Bernard Cooperman holds the Louis L. Kaplan Chair in Jewish History at the University of Maryland, where he has served as Director of both the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Historical Studies. Dr. Cooperman’s research focuses on the history of Jews in Early Modern Italy. Recent papers include studies of “Jewish Space in Early Modern Pisa,” in Diversi Angoli di Visuale: Fra Storia Medievale e Storia degli Ebrei In Ricordo di Michele Luzzati ed., Anna Maria Pult Quaglia, and Alessandra Veronese (Pisa: Pacini, 2016); “Suppose the Ghetto Had Never Been Constructed…. Putting a Term into Its Contexts,” in What Ifs of Jewish History, edited by Gavriel Rosenfeld (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016); “The Global Turn and Jewish Studies,” Giornale di Storia 18 (2015); “Licenses, Cartels, and Kehila. Jewish Moneylending and Community Institutions in Early Modern Rome,” Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History,edited by Adam Teller and Rebecca Kobrin (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), pp. 27–45; 264–276; “Legitimizing Rhetorics: Jewish “Heresy” in Early Modern Italy,” to appear in Etudes Epistémè.
Presentation Title:
"Os Homens do Nação: Shared Language and Overlapping Identities"
Matthew Giancarlo
University of Kentucky
Matthew Giancarlo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is author of Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 2007) as well as numerous articles on medieval English literature, politics, and philology. Currently his work focuses on the mirrors for princes or Fürstenspiegel genre and popular constitutionalism in medieval England from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Presentation Title:
"“French vs. English? Political Exiles and Literary Returns across the English Channel in the Fürstenspiegel tradition, c. 1260-1470”
University of Kentucky
Matthew Giancarlo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is author of Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 2007) as well as numerous articles on medieval English literature, politics, and philology. Currently his work focuses on the mirrors for princes or Fürstenspiegel genre and popular constitutionalism in medieval England from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Presentation Title:
"“French vs. English? Political Exiles and Literary Returns across the English Channel in the Fürstenspiegel tradition, c. 1260-1470”
Brian Gourley
Independent Scholar
Independent writer and scolar, he is currently working on the publication of his PhD thesis on John Bale with ARC. Mr. Gourley has also published in the field of Reformation and early modern drama.
Presentation Title:
"The Vocacyon of Johan Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossory: An Irish Exile and Edwardian Reformation Identity Politics"
Independent Scholar
Independent writer and scolar, he is currently working on the publication of his PhD thesis on John Bale with ARC. Mr. Gourley has also published in the field of Reformation and early modern drama.
Presentation Title:
"The Vocacyon of Johan Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossory: An Irish Exile and Edwardian Reformation Identity Politics"
Kathryn Gucer
University of Maryland, College Park
Kathryn (I go by Katie) Gucer, Ph.D, MLIS (expected August 2017), is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s School of Information, where she is at work on several projects with her team members at the Archives and Research Collaboration Lab (ARCLab, http://archivescollaboratory.umd.edu). These projects include building a digital library on the history of the Animal Welfare Act for the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, MD (http://archivescollaboratory.umd.edu/e-is-for-animals-building-a-digital-library-for-the-animal-welfare-information-center). She is also a scholar of book history who is writing a book on cross-cultural information exchange among exiles in early modern England and Europe. Recent publications include “Beyond the Fronde: Jacques Cailloué’s Border-Crossing Books” (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2015).
Presentation Title:
"Migrating Mazarinades: a Case Study in Digital Reunification"
University of Maryland, College Park
Kathryn (I go by Katie) Gucer, Ph.D, MLIS (expected August 2017), is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Curation at the University of Maryland’s School of Information, where she is at work on several projects with her team members at the Archives and Research Collaboration Lab (ARCLab, http://archivescollaboratory.umd.edu). These projects include building a digital library on the history of the Animal Welfare Act for the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, MD (http://archivescollaboratory.umd.edu/e-is-for-animals-building-a-digital-library-for-the-animal-welfare-information-center). She is also a scholar of book history who is writing a book on cross-cultural information exchange among exiles in early modern England and Europe. Recent publications include “Beyond the Fronde: Jacques Cailloué’s Border-Crossing Books” (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 2015).
Presentation Title:
"Migrating Mazarinades: a Case Study in Digital Reunification"
Drew Heverin
University of Kentucky
Drew Heverin is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Kentucky. His work investigates the formation of a rhetorical counterpublic of London apprentices in late Tudor and early Stuart London through the circulation of representative texts in the early modern public sphere. Some of this work is forthcoming in the Ben Jonson Journal.
Presentation Title:
"'Washed in the Thames': The Trouble with Economic Migration in Jacobean City Comedy"
University of Kentucky
Drew Heverin is a doctoral candidate in English Literature at the University of Kentucky. His work investigates the formation of a rhetorical counterpublic of London apprentices in late Tudor and early Stuart London through the circulation of representative texts in the early modern public sphere. Some of this work is forthcoming in the Ben Jonson Journal.
Presentation Title:
"'Washed in the Thames': The Trouble with Economic Migration in Jacobean City Comedy"
Katarzyna Lecky
Bucknell University
Katarzyna Lecky is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University, and a current fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her research explores how concepts of social justice articulated in natural philosophy and the new sciences informed English Renaissance literature. Her first book, Pocket Empire: Portable Maps and Public Poetry, 1590-1649 (under submission), shows that poets writing for monarchs and magistrates drew from cheap print cartography to map commonwealth ideals. Her second book project examines botanical models of nativity and naturalization in seventeenth-century poetry, drama, and medicinal herbals. Lecky has published in Exemplaria, TheJournal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Reformation, Studies in English Literature, and Spenser Studies, as well as edited collections. She has also earned fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Huntington, and Newberry Libraries.
Presentation Title:
"Naturalizing Rebellion: The English Physician in Colonial America"
Bucknell University
Katarzyna Lecky is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University, and a current fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her research explores how concepts of social justice articulated in natural philosophy and the new sciences informed English Renaissance literature. Her first book, Pocket Empire: Portable Maps and Public Poetry, 1590-1649 (under submission), shows that poets writing for monarchs and magistrates drew from cheap print cartography to map commonwealth ideals. Her second book project examines botanical models of nativity and naturalization in seventeenth-century poetry, drama, and medicinal herbals. Lecky has published in Exemplaria, TheJournal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Reformation, Studies in English Literature, and Spenser Studies, as well as edited collections. She has also earned fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Huntington, and Newberry Libraries.
Presentation Title:
"Naturalizing Rebellion: The English Physician in Colonial America"
J. Seth Lee
University of Alabama-Huntsville
J. Seth Lee earned his PhD in English literature from the University of Kentucky in 2014. His work examines the impact of exile on the authors of the trans-Reformation period. Some of that work has appeared in Reformation and Studies in English Literature. Currently, Dr. Lee teaches literature and composition as a lecturer at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Presentation Title:
“Shifting Voices: Gower’s Use of the Exilic Voice in the Vox Clamantis”
University of Alabama-Huntsville
J. Seth Lee earned his PhD in English literature from the University of Kentucky in 2014. His work examines the impact of exile on the authors of the trans-Reformation period. Some of that work has appeared in Reformation and Studies in English Literature. Currently, Dr. Lee teaches literature and composition as a lecturer at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Presentation Title:
“Shifting Voices: Gower’s Use of the Exilic Voice in the Vox Clamantis”
Featured Speaker
Clare Lyons
University of Maryland, College Park
Prizewinning author of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (UNC, Omohundro Institute, 2006), and “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” (WMQ 2003), Lyons is Associate Professor of History, at the University of Maryland. Her published scholarship has expanded into ever widening geographic frames: moving from one locality, making national claims, in her first book, to Atlantic history, and now into the global, in her current book project, Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Oceanic World: Global Transit, Enslaving Sexuality, Queering Intimacy & Inventing the Sexual Self. This project reveals a transregional cultural space that stretched from America to Asia, created by the movement of people and ideas through oceanic trade, migration (forced and voluntary) and print culture. It investigates how global geographic mobility and transregional colonial encounters influenced personal life, subjectivity and power relations in the eighteenth century.
Presentation Title:
"Bodies in Motion: Fashioning the Intimate in a Globalizing Eighteenth Century World"
Karen Nelson
University of Maryland, College Park
Karen Nelson is Associate Director for the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies in the department of English at the University of Maryland. She also teaches courses on Shakespeare, Spenser, and early modern women writers. Nelson currently serves as Editor for the Sixteenth Century Journal, as a disciplinary representative for English Literature for the Renaissance Society of America, and on the editorial board for Renaissance Quarterly. Publications include articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and early modern women writers, and co-edited and edited collections on early modern women's lives and works. In large part for her contributions to the "Attending to Early Modern Women" symposium series and her role as book review editor for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, in 2014 the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women bestowed her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Presentation Title:
"Embodying Families at War in Early Modern English Drama"
University of Maryland, College Park
Karen Nelson is Associate Director for the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies in the department of English at the University of Maryland. She also teaches courses on Shakespeare, Spenser, and early modern women writers. Nelson currently serves as Editor for the Sixteenth Century Journal, as a disciplinary representative for English Literature for the Renaissance Society of America, and on the editorial board for Renaissance Quarterly. Publications include articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, and early modern women writers, and co-edited and edited collections on early modern women's lives and works. In large part for her contributions to the "Attending to Early Modern Women" symposium series and her role as book review editor for Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, in 2014 the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women bestowed her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Presentation Title:
"Embodying Families at War in Early Modern English Drama"
Barnaby Nygren
Loyola University Maryland
Dr. Barnaby Nygren is an associate professor of art history at Loyola College in Maryland. His research interests include humor and perspective in the art of the Italian Renaissance and, more recently, the function and meaning of the grotesque in early colonial Mexico. He has published on the Italian Renaissance in the Oxford Art Journal, Studies in Iconography, and other venues. Most recently his work on perspective and the grotesque respectively has been included in two anthologies: Vanishing Boundaries: Scientific Knowledge and Art Production in the Early Modern Era (2015) and Ornament and Monstrosity: Visual Paradoxes in Sixteenth-Century Art (forthcoming).
Presentation Title:
"Old Forms Grow in New Lands: The Grotesque in Early Colonial Mexico"
Loyola University Maryland
Dr. Barnaby Nygren is an associate professor of art history at Loyola College in Maryland. His research interests include humor and perspective in the art of the Italian Renaissance and, more recently, the function and meaning of the grotesque in early colonial Mexico. He has published on the Italian Renaissance in the Oxford Art Journal, Studies in Iconography, and other venues. Most recently his work on perspective and the grotesque respectively has been included in two anthologies: Vanishing Boundaries: Scientific Knowledge and Art Production in the Early Modern Era (2015) and Ornament and Monstrosity: Visual Paradoxes in Sixteenth-Century Art (forthcoming).
Presentation Title:
"Old Forms Grow in New Lands: The Grotesque in Early Colonial Mexico"
Jordan S. Sly
University of Maryland, College Park
Jordan Sly is a MA student at the University of Maryland with a focus on late Medieval and Early Modern Europe with a particular focus on religious communities, family life, and cultural exchange.
Presentation Title:
“Digital Humanities and the Recusant Printing Network: An Experiment in Research Format"
University of Maryland, College Park
Jordan Sly is a MA student at the University of Maryland with a focus on late Medieval and Early Modern Europe with a particular focus on religious communities, family life, and cultural exchange.
Presentation Title:
“Digital Humanities and the Recusant Printing Network: An Experiment in Research Format"
Featured Speaker
Nigel Smith
Princeton University
Award-winning author of numerous works including Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale 2012), Is Milton Better than Shakespeare? (Harvard 2008), and Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Yale 1994), Dr. Smith is the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media and Professor of English at Princeton University. His research interests include the social role of literature, early modern poetry, poetic history, censorship and the history of linguistic ideas. Currently, Dr. Smith is a long term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library for his developing project Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature. Examining texts from western, central, and southern Europe, Dr. Smith explores how authors experienced texts written in the vernacular foreign tongue. This project also studies the transfer of literature during war, performance and political unrest.
Presentation Title:
“Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature”
Nigel Smith
Princeton University
Award-winning author of numerous works including Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale 2012), Is Milton Better than Shakespeare? (Harvard 2008), and Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Yale 1994), Dr. Smith is the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Books and Media and Professor of English at Princeton University. His research interests include the social role of literature, early modern poetry, poetic history, censorship and the history of linguistic ideas. Currently, Dr. Smith is a long term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library for his developing project Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature. Examining texts from western, central, and southern Europe, Dr. Smith explores how authors experienced texts written in the vernacular foreign tongue. This project also studies the transfer of literature during war, performance and political unrest.
Presentation Title:
“Polyglot Poetics: Transnational Early Modern Literature”
Helena Wagefelt Ström
Umeå University, Sweden
Helena Wangefelt Ström is a PhD Candidate in Museology at Umeå University, Sweden. She is working on a thesis on heritagisation of religion as an act of control, employing a case study on Early Modern Swedish travellers to Rome and Venice. Her Master degree from Uppsala University in History of Science and Ideas (2011) examined the relation to Catholic artefacts and memories in 17th century Lutheran Orthodox Sweden. In the late 1990’s she was a part of a cataloguing project on Queen Christina’s manuscript collection in the Vatican library, and has a professional background in museums, NGO’s, and in culture funding . She has had several bursaries and scholarships from, among others, the Swedish Institute in Rome and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, to work in libraries and archives in Rome and Venice.
Helena has co-arranged international workshops in Rome and Umeå connected to topics on religion, heritage and cultural contexts. She has presented papers in international conferences in various fields such as sociology of religion, cultural history and critical heritage studies, and arranged a session in the ACHS conference in Canberra (2014) on sacredness, heritage and authenticity. In November 2016 she is an invited speaker at the FRH Future for Religious Heritage conference in Vicenza on pilgrims, travellers and tourists. She is a member of research groups EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissent and Radicalism) and UGPS (Umeå Group for Premodern Studies).
Helena has published articles in Swedish academic peer-reviewed journals, among which ”Heligt – Hotfullt – Historiskt. Kulturarvifieringen av det katolska i 1600-talets Sverige” (2011) in Lychnos, Annual for History of Science and Ideas in Sweden.Research interests include heritage politics, uses of the sacred past, religious heritage in conflicts, religious controversy, early modern history, history of collections and museums, relics and sacred materiality, and Italian – Scandinavian relations in the Early Modern period.
Presentation Title:
"Cult, Culture, Customs: Narrating Religious Otherness During times of Migrations in Early Modern Europe"
Featured Speaker
Nicholas Terpstra
University of Toronto
Professor and chair of the University of Toronto's History department, Dr. Terpstra's work focuses on the intersection of gender, charity, religion, and politics. He is currently involved with the DECIMA (Digitally Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive) project expanding a digital map of sixteenth century Florence. His most recent publications include Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City (Routledge: 2016), Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World:An Alternative History of the Reformation (Cambridge University Press:2015), and Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (Harvard: 2013).
Presentation Title:
“Exile, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees: Forced Migration and the Meaning of Reformation”
Nicholas Terpstra
University of Toronto
Professor and chair of the University of Toronto's History department, Dr. Terpstra's work focuses on the intersection of gender, charity, religion, and politics. He is currently involved with the DECIMA (Digitally Encoded Census Information and Mapping Archive) project expanding a digital map of sixteenth century Florence. His most recent publications include Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence: Historical GIS and the Early Modern City (Routledge: 2016), Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World:An Alternative History of the Reformation (Cambridge University Press:2015), and Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy (Harvard: 2013).
Presentation Title:
“Exile, Expulsion, and Religious Refugees: Forced Migration and the Meaning of Reformation”
Giorgio Tosco
European University Institute, Florence
I am a PhD researcher in History at the European University Institute of Florence, and currently I am writing a thesis on the attempts made by seventeenth-century Italian states to insert themselves into trans-oceanic trade. Previously, I studied at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. My main area of interest is the economic history of Early Modern Italy. Besides my current research topic, I also worked on the trade in fish in eighteenth-century Genoa and on the relations between Genoa and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Presentation Title:
"Importing the Netherlands: the Dutch-speaking community of Genoa and its role in naval and commercial development (XVIIth century)"
European University Institute, Florence
I am a PhD researcher in History at the European University Institute of Florence, and currently I am writing a thesis on the attempts made by seventeenth-century Italian states to insert themselves into trans-oceanic trade. Previously, I studied at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. My main area of interest is the economic history of Early Modern Italy. Besides my current research topic, I also worked on the trade in fish in eighteenth-century Genoa and on the relations between Genoa and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.
Presentation Title:
"Importing the Netherlands: the Dutch-speaking community of Genoa and its role in naval and commercial development (XVIIth century)"
Ian Verstegen
University of Pennsylvania
Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Art History from Temple University and writes about early modern and modern art history, historiography and theory. His most recent monograph is Federico Barocci and the Oratorians: Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation (2015).
Presentation Title: “Tethered Agents: Labor Exports from the Duchy of Urbino”
University of Pennsylvania
Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Art History from Temple University and writes about early modern and modern art history, historiography and theory. His most recent monograph is Federico Barocci and the Oratorians: Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation (2015).
Presentation Title: “Tethered Agents: Labor Exports from the Duchy of Urbino”
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Thomas Blundeville. M. Blundevile his exercises, containing eight treatises, the titles whereof are set down in the next printed page...p.301 Source Call Number: STC 3149 Copy 1.
Thomas Blundeville. M. Blundevile his exercises, containing eight treatises, the titles whereof are set down in the next printed page...p.301 Source Call Number: STC 3149 Copy 1.