Department of Italian
Forms of Faith:
The influence of
religious change on artistic, literary, and musical culture in sixteenth-century Italy
Bodington Hall, University of Leeds, 30 - 31 March 2007
Description
This symposium will bring together specialists in the fields of Renaissance literature, music, history and history of art to address the question of the relationship between religious change and artistic form in sixteenth-century Italy. Specific issues to be addressed will include the ways in which religious developments are reflected in changing modes of literary expression (for example, the adoption of different modes of discourse - philosophical, Petrarchan, liturgical - in Christian poetry), techniques in the visual arts, and techniques in musical composition; and the role of changes in artistic form in shaping sixteenth-century religious sensibilities. All speakers will address current work in progress in extended papers of around an hour's duration.
Registration is now open. Download the Registration Form here. Deadline for registration: 31st January 2007
Speakers
The speakers are:
- Stephen Bowd, Lecturer in History, University of Edinburgh: Religious Friendship and the Republic of Letters in Renaissance Italy
- Dr Abigail Brundin, Lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge: Riforma al femminile: Vittoria Colonna's poetic legacy
- Professor Antonio Corsaro, Instituto di filologia moderna, University of Urbino: The dissemination of spiritual poetry in mid sixteenth-century Italy
- Dr Chrysa Damianaki, Associate Professor of Art History, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell'Università di Lecce, Italy: Pontormo's lost frescoes in San Lorenzo reconsidered
- Professor Iain Fenlon, Professor of Music, University of Cambridge: Varieties of Experience: Music and Reform in Renaissance Italy
- Professor Harald Hendrix, Chair of Italian Studies, University of Utrecht: Representation of Suffering and Religious Change in the Early Cinquecento
- Professor Alexander Nagel, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Toronto: Soft iconoclasm: Some forms of the image debate in Italy in the 1530s
- Dr Tom Nichols, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Aberdeen: 'Recalled from the infernal regions': Venetian mythological painting in an age of religious reform
- Dr Noel O'Regan, Senior lecturer in Music, University of Edinburgh: Church reform and devotional music in 16th-century Rome: the influence of lay confraternities
- Dr Letizia Panizza, Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London. Topic of contribution: Celio Secondo Curione
- Mr Matthew Treherne, Lecturer in Italian, University of Leeds: The Tridentine liturgy as theological discourse in Tasso's late works
- Professor Raymond B. Waddington, Professor of English, University of California at Davis: Aretino, Titian, and 'la humanità di Cristo'
Professor Brian Richardson, Professor of Italian Language, University of Leeds, will act as respondent in a final round-table session.
The conference is organised by Abigail Brundin (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge) and Matthew Treherne (Department of Italian, University of Leeds), and is supported by the British Academy, the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, the Modern Humanities Research Association, the Society for Renaissance Studies, and the Department of Italian, University of Leeds.
Accommodation
A preferential rate of �83 per room per night has been arranged with the Jurys Inn hotel, Leeds. The hotel is in the city centre and 5 minutes' walk from the train station. Please mention that you are attending the 'Forms of Faith' conference when booking your room.
Hotel address: Kendell Street, Brewery Place, Brewery Wharf, Leeds, UK, LS10 1NE Tel: (+44 113) 283 8800. Website: Jurys Inn Hotel
Further information about accommodation can be found at: Where to stay in Leeds
Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held in the University of Leeds. The cost of �27.50 includes a drinks reception beforehand and wine with the meal.
Post-Graduate Bursaries
We have a number of post-graduate bursaries available, generously funded by the Society for Renaissance Studies. Post-graduates wishing to attend the conference should contact Matthew Treherne in advance of the registration deadline in order to apply for a bursary..
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