Villa i Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies

2020 Nov 19

Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Workshops

10:30am to 1:00pm

Location: 

Zoom presentation
Harvard's Islamic Collection in and beyond Cambridge: an introduction to rare music from the Islamicate World in the Loeb Music Library, the Islamic world in the collections of I Tatti and the Berenson Library, and the Byzantine and Islamic collections of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Presentations by Joseph Kinzer (Loeb Music Library), Michael Rocke (Biblioteca Berenson), Spyros Koulouris (Villa i Tatti), Giovanni Pagliarulo (Biblioteca Berenson), Joshua Robinson (Dumbarton Oaks), and Stephanie Caruso (Dumbarton Oaks), Betsy Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks),... Read more about Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Workshops
2019 May 20

Crossroads Africa: African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity

(All day)

Location: 

Gould Hall, Villa i Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Via di Vincigliata 26, Florence Italy
A two-day conference featuring art historians and curators, archaeologists, and historians of political institutions, economics, and the slave trade to explore how Africans played active roles in shaping global histories c. 1300-1700 and creating transnational spaces, ones that continue to inform the circulation of people, goods, and ideas today. For more information, please click... Read more about Crossroads Africa: African Engagement in the Making of Early Modernity