INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Writing global medieval histories: comparative and connected approaches
6-8 September 2023 | Torino
6-8 September 2023
Palazzo d’Azeglio
Via Principe Amedeo, 34 - Torino
Scientific coordination:
Serena Ferente
The Summer School aims to discuss connected and comparative approaches to the global
Middle Ages, exploring new avenues for research in fields such as politico-institutional, intellectual, religious, economic, and environmental studies.
A global approach to the study of the medieval period has only recently come to the fore and is yielding important results, which emphasise the potential of combining the longue durée with a wider geographical scale. While the term ‘Middle Ages’ has proved more pragmatically useful for areas outside the Euro-Mediterranean world than it could have been anticipated, research on the global Middle Ages demands collaboration across different areas of historical research and openness to languages and traditions of studies operating in separate academic disciplines and departments.
The Summer School highlights the dynamic between connected and comparative approaches to the Middle Ages, offering opportunities for methodological reflection as well as examples and case-studies. One of such case-studies is the body-politic metaphor and its role in Euro-Mediterranean and East Asian political thought, as well as the challenges it poses to a comparative and connected intellectual history of the medieval period
PROGRAMME
10.15 Welcome and registration
10.45 Institutional greetings
Piero Gastaldo (Fondazione 1563)
Opening remarks
Serena Ferente (UvA and THP)
FIRST SESSION Chair: S. Ferente
11.00-12.30 Keynote and discussion
Nicola Di Cosmo (IAS Princeton)
History and Climate Science: Concepts, Methods and Goals
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Keynote and discussion
Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)
Fluid Boundaries and the Art of InBetweenness: Practicing Middle Period History Globally
15.30-15.45 Coffee break
SECOND SESSION Chair: L. Dolce
15.45-17.15 Keynote and discussion
Michela Catto (UniTo)
Comparing in a Global World: Interpretation, Description and Explanation in Jesuit Sources
18.00-19.00 Site specific dance performance for Fondazione 1563
Perdizione
Project, choreography and dance by Stefania Tansini, Curated by Festival Interplay.
The dance performance will be followed by a talk with the artist and the audience coordinated
by the dance critic Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino
19.00-20.30 Light refreshments
FIRST SESSION Chair: H. De Weerdt
9.30-11.00 Keynote and discussion
Serena Ferente (UvA and THP)
Writing Global Intellectual Histories: the Body-Politic Metaphor
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Papers and discussion
Rudi Capra (THP)
Imagining the Political Body with Zhu Xi and John of Salisbury
Evgeniya Shelina (THP)
Metaphorical Bodies in Medieval Europe: a Semantic Analysis
13.00-14.30 Lunch
SECOND SESSION Chair: D. Smail
14.30-16.00 Papers and discussion
Giorgio Lizzul (THP)
Somatic Metaphors and the Language of Late Medieval European Fiscal Policy
Yagi Morris (THP)
Music, Mandalas and the Imperial Body: an Exploration of a Medieval Japanese Buddhist Text from a Ritual Perspective
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
THIRD SESSION Chair: M. Catto
16.30-18.00 Keynote and discussion
Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
Buddhist Bodies: Ritual Cosmographies and Political Empowerment in Medieval Japan
19.00 Music performance
Crossing borders
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
(Via San Domenico 11, Torino)
FIRST SESSION Chair: G. Lizzul and E. Shelina
10.00-11.15 Short presentations and discussion
Summer School participants
presentations
11.15-11.30 Coffee break
SECOND SESSION Chair: R. Capra and Y. Morris
11.30-13.00 Short presentations and discussion
Summer School participants
presentations
13.00-14.30 Lunch
THIRD SESSION Chair: N. Di Cosmo
14.30-16.00 Keynote and discussion
Daniel L. Smail (Harvard)
The Ontology of the Foreign: Perceiving Global Objects in Late Medieval Provençal Households
16.00 Concluding remarks
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Allegato
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