In Underland, Robert Macfarlane notes that “a long cultural history of abhorrence exists around the underground spaces,” associating them with fear, disgust, dirt, mortality, and brutal labor.... Read more about International Conference. Submerged, Unearthed, Emergent: Early Modern Knowledge Under the Surface

Exploring the phenomenon of musical migration between the late Middle Ages and the mid-17th century in Europe,... Read more about International Conference. Musical Mobility: Stories of Boundaries, Identities and Nationalities, 1400-1650

Armenians were among the most widespread communities throughout the medieval Mediterranean and Near East.... Read more about International Conference: Armenian Diasporas in the Mediterranean and Near East

"Spanish Italy & the Iberian Americas” is a project co-directed by...

A collaboration between I Tatti and Museo Galileo, this first-ever international conference dedicated to Vincenzo Galilei (1520 c. - 1591) marks 500 years since his birth.... Read more about Vincenzo Galilei: The Renaissance Dialogue between Music and Science

 

Between 1594 and 1602, the Florentine merchant Francesco Carletti (1573-1636) circumnavigated the world... Read more about Carletti’s World: An Early Modern Global Voyage

The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 brings together scholars focusing on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system... Read more about The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700

The 600^th anniversary of the inauguration of the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence provides an opportunity to re-examine the contexts for foundling care both within and beyond this pioneering institution. ... Read more about Common Children and the Common Good: Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World (Dai bambini “comuni” al bene comune: i trovatelli nella prima età moderna)

Crossroads Africa is a two-day conference that will bring together art historians and curators, archaeologists, and historians of political institutions, economics, and the slave trade, ... Read more about Crossroads Africa: African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity. An International Conference

With the rise of global history and art history, there is an ever-more intense interest in the Mongol period as a historiographical watershed.... Read more about The Mongols and Global History: An International Conference

Between the 16th and the 19th century, a new awareness and new uses of the nighttime slowly but unmistakably spread through different parts of the world, whereby new regimes of temporality redefined the spheres of work and leisure, of activity and repose.... Read more about Embattled and Conquered? The History of the Nighttime in the Early Modern World

From Tupinambá anthropophagi to ‘bloodthirsty Aztecs’ or ‘child-killing Incas’, American (human) sacrifices flooded the European imagination in the sixteenth century. In Europe, these images interacted with a heated debate about salvation, the Eucharist, and the role of sacrifice within Christianity.... Read more about Sacrifice and Conversion between Europe and the New World

Among the most complex and engaging artefacts of early modern Italian culture, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso was first published in 1516... Read more about Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts of the Orlando Furioso. An International Conference

This interdisciplinary conference examines the circulation of music and musicians throughout the Mediterranean diaspora. It concentrates on music as a migratory frontrunner and privileges displacement as its critical lens with the specific aim of crystalizing new theoretical approaches to mobility.... Read more about Conference: Music in the Mediterranean Diaspora