Program
9:10-9.15 am Welcome [Silvia Dall’Olio, University of Notre Dame Rome]
9.15-9.30 am Opening Remarks [Eleonora Celora, Université de Namur]
9:30-11:00 am – Session 1 Mapping Borders: Geography, Culture, and the Construction of Space
Marven Corrielus, University of Notre Dame
New Neighbors from Across the Sea: An analysis of relations between Norman Italy and Constantinople
Renato Ricco, Université Côte d’Azur – Nice / Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Confini territoriali, confini letterari in seno all’Accademia Liviana: su alcune poesie di Girolamo Bor-gio in onore del condottiero Bartolomeo d’Alviano
Moderator: Susan A. Naramore, University of Notre Dame
11:00-11.30 am – Coffee break
11:30 am-1:00 pm – Session 2 Authority, Knowledge and Institution: Negotiating Boundaries of Power and Culture
Filip Malesevic, Bilkent University
Ceremonial Governmentality on the Boundary: Administering the Roman Sant’Uffizio between Urban Tribunals and Confraternal Liturgies in Cinquecento Rome
Francesca Masiero, University of Padua / Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Redefining the School Canon: Boundaries and Intersections in the Curriculum of Latin Schools in Fifteenth-Century Verona
Alessandro Haraldsen, Sapienza University of Rome
The Boundary between Historical Erudition and Confessional Controversy in Early Modern Ecclesiastical Historiography. The Case of the Jesuit Terenzio Alciati’s Historia Concilii Tridentini (1625-1651)
Moderator: CJ Jones, University of Notre Dame
1:15-2:30 pm – Lunch
2:30-16:00 pm – Session 3 Encountering the Other: Mobility, Difference, and Cultural Exchange
Friederike Ach, I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Circulating Doctors: Humanist Poetics and Rhetorical Healing in Sixteenth-Century Europe (online?)
Sally Anne Tucker, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History / UC Berkeley
The Boundaries of Race in Early Modern Naples: Cosmetic Blackness and Performing Difference in Giambattista Della Porta’s La carbonaria (1606)
Diego Felipe López Aguirre, University of Notre Dame
Collecting The Americas and the Problem of Indigenous Antiquities in Early Modern Italy (online)
Moderator: Giulia M. Cipriani, Università Roma Tre
4:00-4:30 pm – Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 pm – Session 4 The Limits of the Self: Between Human, Divine, and Readerly Experience
Kosuke Iijima, University of Osaka
Dove finisce l’io, dove comincia il lettore. Il commento a RVF 1, 7 come istituzione di confine
Wanjie Feng, Durham University
After Virtue: Reading Seneca between the Human and the Divine
Moderator: Luca Marcozzi, Università Roma Tre
17:45-18.45 pm – Keynote lecture
Theodore J. Cachey Jr., University of Notre Dame
Crossing Boundaries: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Invention of Italy