Upcoming seminars
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
This year has seen the publication of two new books on early modern Naples: John Marino’s Becoming Neapolitan: Citizen culture in Baroque Naples (Johns Hopkins, 2011) and Gabriel Guarino’s Representing the king’s splendour: Communication and reception of symbolic forms of power in Viceregal Naples (Manchester, 2011). Both of these books explore the dynamics of urban life in one of the most densely populated and vibrant cities in Europe in the early modern period. The workshop proposes to discuss these two new works with their authors alongside new research on the varieties of citizen culture, contestation over urban space, civic symbols, and municipal power in Naples and comparative reflections on other cities in Italy and Spain. Speakers also include James Amelang, Peter Burke, Stephen Cummins, and Lorenza Gianfrancesco. To register, please contact Melissa Calaresu (mtc12@cam.ac.uk).
Research Seminars
Numerous regular research seminars take place under the aegis of the History Faculty. They provide an opportunity for graduate students, visiting scholars, and senior members (and, in some cases, precocious undergraduates) to discuss the work of scholars from both within and beyond Cambridge. These research seminars are open to all scholars of postgraduate or more advanced status, of whichever university.
