Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BIVIUM (Standing at the Crossroads: Doubt in Early Modern Italy (1500-1560))
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2020-09-03 al 2021-09-02
I attended workshops organized by the Centre for Teaching Innovation and Support of the UoT on equity and power in the classroom and on how to draft a successful dossier for job applications. I attended a workshop on the use of sources organized by the Graduate Center for Academic Communication and a workshop on drafting and submitting a book proposal organized by the Department of History, UoT, led by acquisitions editors of Cornell University Press.
I have organized three panels at the 2019 Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (= RSA) titled “Cultures of Doubt in Early modern Europe”.
I have organized two panels at the 2021 RSA Annual Meeting on “Doubt, Science, and Empirical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe” and on “Doubting Women: Women as Agents of Doubt in Early Modern Europe”. This last panel was not originally included on the DoA.
Publications:
"Allegorie e personificazioni del dubbio nell'Italia del Cinque e Seicento" in print in the volume "Le doute dans l'Europe moderne", forthcoming with Brepols.
Review essay on "Early Modern Uncertainty" A Cultural Revolution and a Historiographical Turn" published in “Exemplaria. Medieval, Early Modern, Theory”.
Final monograph:currently under review for the publisher Legenda (Cambridge).
Edited volume: "Doubting Women: Women as Agents of Doubt in Early Modern Italy" under contract with Amsterdam University Press.
Article:"Advertising Doubt in Early Modern Italy", tbp on "Renaissance Studies". The article has passed the first round of reviews and is currently being examined by external reviewers.
Talks:
Early Modern Graduate Forum, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, UoT (04/2019); Department of French and Italian and the Renaissance Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington (02/2021); Group for Early Modern Studies (GEMS), University of Ghent (02/2021); UoT (Emilio Goggio chair in Italian Studies / Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium. 03/2021).
I have created a website for the project.
A video presentation of my research has been uploaded onto the YouTube Channel of my supervisor
I have released an interview on my project on the newspaper "Corriere Canadese" (February 20, 2019)
The project has been advertised on the Department's webpage
Science Gallery Venice (= SGV): Introduction for the catalogue of the exhibition "Illusion" organized by the SGV network. On September 10, 2020 I presented my research and dialogued with Matteo Lonardi, a director of Virtual Reality Movies and Michel Reilhac, curator of the Virtual Reality section of the Biennale. The event has been included in the 2020 ArsElectronica international festival. The event, titled “The Art of Doubt”, took place on the occasion of the 77 Venice Film Festival.
The results of the project have gone beyond what I had set in the DoA: the edited volume for Amsterdam UP was not originally included in it. The volume has allowed me to add to my project a strong gender perspective and reach out to a new scholarly audience. The event organized with SGV in turn has allowed me to interact with international artists, putting my research on early modern Italy in dialogue with contemporary art and with present social challenges. The presentations I gave in Europe and in North America (although, unfortunately, mostly in remote) allowed me entertain fruitful conversations with social and religious historians as well as with historians of art and literature.
Finally, I was able to secure a tenure-track position at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). The prestige of the MSC fellowship has positively impressed the faculty in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.