Conference 2016

CONFERENCE 2016


The third conference of the Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies:

An international, multidisciplinary conference in Oslo organized by the Norwegian Renaissance Society.


Venue: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo (map).


Conference documents in pdf:

Detailed programme with overview of sessions

List of participants

Book of abstracts


Keynote speakers


Professor Christopher Celenza, The Johns Hopkins University


Professor Virginia Cox, New York University


Professor Marianne Pade, Danish Academy at Rome


Professor Hans Jürgen Scheuer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin



Programme


Wednesday 28 September


12.00-13.00: Registration and Coffee/Tea


13.00 Welcome by Professor Øivind Andersen, Secretary General of the Academy, and by

Associate Professor Unn Falkeid, Chair of The Norwegian Renaissance Society


13.30-14.30 Keynote lecture: Professor Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University:

“Text as Prototype: Five Ways of looking at Philology in the Italian Renaissance”


15.00-16.30: Papers 


17.00-18.30: Papers



Thursday 29 September


09.00 Coffee/Tea


9.30-10.30 Keynote lecture: Professor Virginia Cox, New York University:

“The Exemplary Vittoria Colonna”


11.00-12.30: Papers


13.00-14.00 Lunch at Clarion Collection Hotel Gabelshus

Gabels gt. 16, 0272 Oslo (5 min. walk from the Academy)

 

14.00-15.00 Keynote lecture: Professor Hans Jürgen Scheuer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 

“Women, Sacrifice, and The Politics of Virtue. Lucretia – Verginia – Susanna:

Historical Prototypes of Future Communities in 16th-century German Tragedia


15.30-17.00 Papers


17.30-19.00 Papers

 


Friday 30 September


09.00: Coffee/Tea


09.30-10.30 Keynote lecture: Professor Marianne Pade, The Danish Academy in Rome:

“The Latin Thucydides and the development of Western political lexicon”


11.00-12.30 Papers


12.30-13.30 Lunch at the Academy


13.30-15.00 Papers


15.30-16.30 Papers


17.00-18.00 Book Presentation by Professor Victor Plathe Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design) and

Professor Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame University)

Moderator: Professor Christopher Celenza (John Hopkins University)


18.00-18.40 Reception


18.40 Conference Dinner at the Academy