the norwegian renaissance society
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
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
