Thursday 1 November
Keynote Lecture
17.15 – 18.30
Dr Genevieve Warwick, Lecturer in History of Art (Edinburgh College of Art)
“Looking in the Mirror: The Toilet of Venus in Renaissance Art”
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1
Minto House,
20 Chambers Street, Edinburgh
EH1 1JZ
Friday 2 November
Venue: The Teviot Lecture Theatre,
Doorway 5,
Teviot Place, Edinburgh
EH8 9AG
10.00-10.30 – Registration
Tea and Coffee
Panel I: Cross Cultural Exchange
Chair: Dr Andrew Marsham, Lecturer in Islamic History
School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
10.30 – 10.50 – Maria Pavlova, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
‘Italian Renaissance literature and the Islamic World: the portrayal of Islamic
culture in heroic poems (1450-1532)
10.50 – 11.10 – Timothy Demetris, University College London
‘Cardinal Olivero Carafa’s 1472 Naval Expedition against the Turks. Two accounts for the Quattrocento.’
11.10 – 11.30 – Charlene Vella, University of Warwick
‘The Renaissance in the South’
11.30 – 12.00 – Discussion
12.00 – 13.30 – Lunch
Panel II: Print and Culture
Chair: Dr Genevieve Warwick, Lecturer in History of Art
Edinburgh College of Art
13.30 – 13.50 – Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings, Victoria and Albert Museum
‘Sixteenth century ornament prints and the dissemination of the grotesque’
13.50 – 14.10 – Marianne Gillion, University of Manchester
‘Re-birth: The Council of Trent, Printed Graduals, and the Feast of the Nativity’
14.10 – 14.30 – Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick
‘Reshaping Knowledge: New Perspectives on Vernacular Translation in
Renaissance Italy’
14.30 – 15.00 – Discussion
15.00 – 15.30 – Tea and Coffee
Panel III: Materials and Materiality
Chair: Carol Richardson, Lecturer in History of Art
Edinburgh College of Art
15.30 – 15.50 – Maria Alessandra Chessa, Royal College of Art/V&A
‘The Materiality of Paper’
15.50 – 16.10 – Emanuela Vai, Polytechnic-University of Turin
‘Stettero molti Cantori sopra l’Organo et in Choro’
Performance practices and architectural setting in the Palatine Basilica of Santa
Barbara
16.10 – 16.30 – Hannah Higham, University of Birmingham
‘One design, many makers, many meanings: the case of the Master of the Unruly
Children’
16.30 – 17.00 – Discussion
17.00 – 17.30 Concluding Thoughts: New Directions in the Renaissance
New Directions in Renaissance Italy 