Friday, February 25, 2022 12pm
About this Event
Inspired by Professor Eric Cochrane’s “Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes” (1973), a roundtable examines the state of research on the Medici Grand Duchy today, under the lenses of gender, globalization, and race.
Schedule
Opening Remarks
Lia Markey, Newberry Library
Alessio Assonitis, Medici Archive Project
Reflection: “Memories of a Brother and Father”
Nicholas Cochrane, John Cochrane, and Charles Cochrane
Roundtable Speakers
Sheila Barker, Medici Archive Project
“Women Artists and the Medici Grand Dukes”
Brian Brege, Syracuse University
“Florence’s Forgotten Global Ambitions: Deprovincializing Early Modern Tuscany”
Emily Wilbourne, Queens College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York
“Race, Voice, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Florence”
Respondent
Brendan Dooley, University College Cork
It has been nearly 50 years since Professor Eric Cochrane of the University of Chicago published Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes (1973), a book that has inspired generations of scholars.
Co-organized by Friends of the Medici Archive Project. The Center for Renaissance Studies is grateful to an anonymous donor for inspiring this event.
This webinar event is free and open to the public, and no registration is required.
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