Programms

The Graduate Students of the NY Italian Studies Department Present: Nel mezzo del cammin : an Early Modern, Interdisciplinary, Works-In-Progress Colloquium, Friday, February 13th, 2009.
Morning Session, Graduate Papers
9:30 A.M.- 1:15 P.M. NYU Casa Italiana 24 W 12th Street, 2nd Floor
Painting, Performance and Pirouette
9:30-11:00 A.M.
Leslie A. Geddes (Princeton - Art and Archaeology) Undercurrents: Approaching Leonardo and his Water Studies
Olivia Powell (Columbia - Art (…)

The main argument of this conference will be to study the rhetorical exchanges between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period. These two discursive and expressive regimes tend to be studied independently or considered in their chronological sequence as well as in their structural and ideological opposition (profane/ religious discourse). If they did not exist in sequence, did they coexist in mutual ignorance, as is often thought? Although in opposition as far as their ends are (…)

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Principal Sessions
M1 Around the property (XIIth-XVIIIth century) / Autour de la propriété (XIIe-XVIIIe siècle)
M2 Citizens and soldiers in early modern Europe
M3 Computer science in urban history
M4 Cosmopolitanism and the city: urban production and consumption 1600-1800
M5 Disability and the City : European perspectives
M6 Environmental and Social Inequalities in the City since 1800 / Les inégalités environnementales et sociales dans la ville depuis (…)