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Please join us for the opening events of the academic year, where the new I Tatti Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects. These presentations are open to the public.
Discovery, Orientalism, and Global Exchanges of Knowledge
11:30 - 12:15
Samir Boumediene: Veritas Filia Temporis. Politics of Discovery in Renaissance Europe
12:15 - 13:00
Sundar Henny: Floating States of the Mediterranean: Towards a Global Microhistory of Ships
14:30 - 15:15
Éliane Roux: Japan’s “Christian Century” in the Center of Christianity: Proto-Orientalism and Far Eastern Art and Culture in Rome (1549-1650)
15:15 - 16:00
Dustin Klinger: The Humanists and the Arabs: Arabic Philosophical Manuscripts in the Scholarly Circles of Florence, Venice, and Rome, 1450-1650
image: Red Seal Ship Japanese and Portuguese Sailors, early 17th century, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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