Early Modern Rome, ca. 1341-1667
CALL FOR PAPERS - Early Modern Rome, ca. 1341-1667, University of California, Rome, Italy, 14-15 May 2010. Conference Organizers: Paolo Alei, Antonella De Michelis, Julia L. Hairston, and Portia Prebys. Conference sponsored by the Association of American College and University Programs in Italy (AACUPI) and the University of California, Rome with ACCENT.
Early modern Rome was contradictory and complex; its vernacular and high culture animated and rich. From Petrarch’s crowning as Poet Laureate on the Capitoline in 1341 to the pontificate of Alexander VII Chigi in 1667, this conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines - history, art and architectural history, literature, music, dance, religious studies, philosophy, history of medicine or science, and others - to investigate the city through a variety of different approaches and methods. The conference organizers intend to bring together in a single venue those whose research focuses on the city of Rome in an effort to encourage scholars to venture outside of their own disciplinary issues and concerns to explore concurrent forms of cultural production or social and political events. We also aim to amend in part the Florentine/Venetian axis of much scholarship on Renaissance Italy, at least outside of art history. All accepted papers will be published in a volume devoted to the conference, and selected papers will be included in a subsequent edited volume with a university press.
Conference papers should be 20-minutes (approximately 10 double-spaced pages) and may be in either English or Italian. Please send a one-page CV and an abstract of 150 words to Julia L. Hairston by June 5, 2009. Participants will be notified by June 16, 2009.
