Digitizing the Grand Tour: A Workshop on the Worlds and Lives of Eighteenth-Century Travelers to Italy (Day 2)

Saturday, March 5, 2016
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
(Pacific)

Board Room, Stanford Humanities Center

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Participants: Malcolm Baker, John Brewer, Melissa Calaresu, Giorgio Caviglia, Jeffrey Collins, Paul Davis, Thea De Armond, Paula Findlen, Simon Macdonald, Rachel Midura, Grant Parker, Carole Paul, Sophus Reinhert, Catherine Sama, Rosemary Sweet, Elaine Treharne, and Caroline Winterer.

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

Saturday, March 5th 2016
 
10: 00 am - 10:30 am – Coffee and Pastries
 
10:30 am - 12:30 am
Session III: Sciences of the Grand Tour
Chair: Grant Parker, Stanford
 
10:30 am
Paul Davis, Princeton University
Climate Change and the Grand Tour
 
11:30 am
Sophus Reinhert, Harvard Business School
Mapping the Economic Grand Tour
 
12:30 pm – Lunch
 
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Session IV: Professing Arts and Tourism on the Grand Tour
Chair: Elaine Treharne, Stanford
 
1:30 pm
Malcolm Baker, UC Riverside
Sculpture, Sculptors and the Grand Tour: Intersections and Agency
 
2:30 pm
Simon Macdonald, European University Florence
‘Virtù in tale genere’: British equestrian performers in late eighteenth-century Italy
 
3:30 pm – Afternoon Coffee
 
4:00 pm
Carole Paul, UCSB
Ciceroni and Their Clients: Making a Profession of Tourism
 
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Closing Discussion
 
For full program, see attachment below.