Past lectures
How to be a Renaissance Woman: Make up, Beauty and Dieting in Sixteenth-century Italy
Professor Jill Burke, Chair of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, University of Edinburgh
2019, Melbourne
The Sound of a Wall: Spatial and Sensory Boundaries between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy
Professor Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
2018, Melbourne
Coping with Plague: Public Health and Epidemics in Renaissance Italy
Professor John Henderson, Professor of Italian Renaissance History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London; Research Professor at Monash University, Melbourne; and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
2017, Melbourne
Uses and Abuses of Intelligence from Dante to Machiavelli
Professor Lino Pertile, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, and former Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
You can watch a video-recording of this lecture online.
2016, Melbourne