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DAY ONE – Friday 23rd June
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome
10.15 – 11.15 1st Keynote Lecture
Mario Damen (University of Amsterdam) Listing Space and Mobility in the Late Medieval Low Countries
11.15 – 11.30 Tea & Coffee
11.30 – 13.00 Session 1: Concepts and Paradigms (chair: John Watts, University of Oxford)
- Tom Pettitt (University of Southern Denmark) Negotiating Ways and Bounds: Connective vs. Demarcative Spatial Construction in Pre-Modern Culture
- Luca Scholz (Stanford University) Some Thoughts on the Uses and Abuses of an Analytic Concept
- Caterina di Fazio (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Charles University in Prague) Freedom of Movement and the Institution of Political Space
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (provided)
14.00 – 16.00 Session 2: Fluid Spaces (chair: Peter Spufford, University of Cambridge)
- Miriana Carbonara (University of East Anglia) On Border and Fluidity: a Paradox between Representation and Spatial Practices
- Hannes Ziegler (German Historical Institute London) Illicit Transgressions and Coastal Space in late 17th and early 18th century Britain
- Benedetta Crivelli (Bocconi University) Defining Commercial Spaces: People, Products and Financial Resources across Maritime Frontiers (16th and 17th centuries)
- Mirko Sardelić (Croatian Academy of Science and Arts – University of Western Australia) Renaissance Ships in the Adriatic: Mobile Cross-Cultural Systems
16.00 – 16.30 Tea & Coffee
16.30 – 18.00 Session 3: Objects and Sounds across Frontiers (chair: Cecilia Tarruell, University of Oxford)
- Marcus Meer (Durham University) ‘Mobiliora sunt nobiliora’: The Appropriation of Space and Status through Heraldic Graffiti of Medieval German Townspeople
- Doron Bauer (Florida State University) and Elena Paulino (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) The Macrocosmos within the Microcosmos: Domestic Spaces as Visions of the World in Late Medieval and Early Modern Majorca
- Florence Hazrat (University of Geneva) Of Minstrels and Men: Music and Mobility in Early Modern Europe
18.00 – 19.00 Drinks Reception (open to all registered attendees)
19.30 – 21.00 Conference Dinner (for speakers and chairs)
DAY TWO – Saturday 24th June
9.15 – 10.15 2nd Keynote Lecture
Rosa Salzberg (University of Warwick) Venice’s Floating World: Mobility and Space in a Renaissance City
10.15 – 10.30 Tea & Coffee
10.30 – 12.00 Session 4: Spaces of Mobility (chair: Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway – University of London)
- Daniel Maudlin (University of Plymouth) The Inn at the Intersection of Space, Mobility and Material Culture, 1397-1782
- Saskia Beranek (University of Pittsburgh) Portraiture and Experience in the Social Space of the Early Modern Dutch Court
- Jean-Dominique Delle Luche (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Unwilling Commuters: Shooting Stands, Petitions and Territorial Administration in the Duchy of Württemberg (second half of the 16th century)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (provided)
13.00 – 15.00 Session 5: Performances and Representations (chair: Nicholas Davidson, University of Oxford)
- Natalia Petrovskaia (Utrecht University) Gerald of Wales and World Geography
- Alex Cuadrado (Columbia University) Imagined Pilgrimages in Petrarch’s Itinerarium
- Euan Robson (University College London) Performing the Cathedral: Space, Ritual and Imagination in The Rites of Durham
- James Hall (University of Southampton) Michelangelo and the Processional Crucifixion
15.00 – 15.30 Tea & Coffee
15.30 – 17.00 Session 6: Moving to and through the city (chair: Eliza Hartrich, University of Sheffield)
- Charlotte Berry (Institute of Historical Research – University of London) ‘Though I be a foreign my master is a freeman’: mobile lives, marginal neighbourhoods and social marginality in London, 1470-1530
- Beatrice Saletti (University of Udine) Entering the City: the Arrival of Foreigners in Late Medieval Bologna
- Martina Pranic (Charles University in Prague) Performing the City: Space and Mobility in Early Modern Dubrovnik
Mobility & Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 