2017 Workshop
Digitizing the Grand Tour II:
a workshop on the worlds and lives of eighteenth-century travelers to Italy
September 8-9, 2017
In the Stanford Humanities Center Board Room
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
except Friday afternoon and session (4:00-6:00pm) at CESTA Seminar Room (Bldg. 160, Rm.433A)
Participants: Malcolm Baker, Melissa Calaresu, Giorgio Caviglia, Giovanna Ceserani, Thea De Armond, Zephyr Frank, Ryan Heuser, Simon Macdonald, Rachel Midura, Grant Parker, Carole Paul, Catherine Sama, Jonathan Sheehan, Rosemary Sweet, Elaine Treharne.
Organized by Giovanna Ceserani and sponsored by the Classics Department, Dean of Research, Stanford Humanities Center, and Department of History.
Program:
Friday, September 8, 2017
10:15 am – 10:45am: Check-in, Coffee and Pastries
10:45am
Giovanna Ceserani, Stanford University
Welcome and Opening Remarks
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Session I: Placing Travelers' Experience
Chair: Zephyr Frank, Stanford
11:00 am
Melissa Calaresu, Cambridge University
Urban Experience in 18th-century Naples: Comparative approaches
12:00 pm
Thea DeArmond, Stanford University
Czeching in with the Grand Tour Explorer: the Bohemian Crown Lands and the Grand Tour
1:00 pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Session II: Routes and Destinations
Chair: Grant Parker, Stanford University
2:00 pm
Rosemary Sweet, Leicester University
Who travelled, where and when? Using the Grand Tour Explorer to examine patterns of travels and travelers
3:00 pm
Rachel Midura, Stanford University
Travel Infrastructure and the Grand Tour, 1650-1780
4:00pm-4:30pm: Afternoon Coffee
4:30pm-6:00pm:
Session III, Workshopping the Grand Tour Explorer Group discussions of travel & biographical data in the Grand Tour Explorer.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
10: 00 am - 10:30 am – Coffee and Pastries
10:30 am - 12:30 ampm
Session IV: Arts, Artists, and Patrons between Italy and Britain
Chair: Elaine Trehorne, Stanford University
10:30 am
Malcolm Baker, UC Riverside
Sculpture, Sculptors and the Grand Tour: Intersections and Agency
11:30 am
Catherine Sama, The University of Rhode Island
Going Digital: Mapping Connections Between Rosalba Carriera and British Grand Tourists, Phase II
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:300 pm
Session V: Professing Arts and Tourism on the Grand Tour
Chair: Jonathan Sheehan, UC Berkeley
1:30pm
Carole Paul, UC Santa Barbara
Ciceroni and Their Clients: Making a Profession of Tourism
2:30pm
Simon Macdonald, Institut d'études avancėes de Paris
Non-Grand Tours on the Grand Tour (Explorer): Travelling Circuses and Other Unidentified Travellers
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Afternoon Coffee
4:00pm-6:00pm
Session VI, Indexing 18th-century Travelers to Italy, 1949-2017
4:00pm
Giovanna Ceserani, Stanford University
From Brinsley Ford's Archives to a Digital Dictionary of Travelers
5:00 pm: Closing Discussion
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