Digitizing the Grand Tour: A Workshop on the Worlds and Lives of Eighteenth-Century Travelers to Italy (Day 1)
Friday, March 4, 201610:00 AM - 6:30 PM (Pacific)
Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center
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Organized by Giovanna Ceserani at Stanford University, with the generous sponsorship of the Classics Department, and co-sponsorship of the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of History, The Europe Center, the Division of Cultures, Languages and Literatures, and the Departments of English and Art History.
For more about The Grand Tour Project, go to grandtour.stanford.edu.
Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by March 1st. (RSVP also accepted by email to dearmond@stanford.edu)
Program:
Friday, March 4th 2016
10:00 am – Check-in, Coffee and Pastries
10:30 - 11:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Giovanna Ceserani
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session I: Circles and Networks of the Grand Tour
Chair: Paula Findlen, Stanford
11:00 am
Catherine Sama, The University of Rhode Island
Going Digital: Mapping Connections Between Rosalba Carriera and British Grand Tourists
12:00 pm
Jeffrey Collins, Bard Graduate College, NYC
Counting the Woodcocks: Snapshots from the Tour
1:00 pm – Lunch
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Session II: Beyond Rome
Chair: Caroline Winterer, Stanford
2:00 pm
Melissa Calaresu, Cambridge University
Life and Death in Naples: The Italian presence in the Grand Tour (Explorer)
3:00 pm
Rosemary Sweet, Leicester University
Other cities of the Grand Tour: Turin, Padua and Bologna seen through the Grand Tour Explorer
4:00 pm Afternoon Coffee
4:30 pm
John Brewer, Caltech
Naples with and without Sir William Hamilton, 1764-1800
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Roundtable on the Grand Tour Explorer led by designer Giorgio Caviglia with graduate researchers Thea De Armond and Rachel Midura, Stanford
For full program, see attachment below.