Program, 11 December 2017

10.00
Ulrike Schneider (Freie Universität Berlin)
Introduction – Academies, Knowledge & Aesthetics

10.30
Simone Testa (International Studies Institute, Florence)
Italian Academies & Their Networks (1434-1700). From Local to Global
Chair: Sebastian Strehlau

12.00 Lunch Break

14.00
Mira Becker-Sawatzky (Freie Universität Berlin)
Discorsi Academici on Painting – Discussing Beauty, Perfection & Nobility
Chair: Alissa Birle

15.00 Coffee Break

15.30
Déborah Blocker (University of California Berkeley)
Guilds, Civil Offices & Poetics: Practicing and Theorizing the ‘Art’ of Poetry among the Alterati of Florence (1569 – ca. 1625)
Chair: Isabelle Fellner

17.15
Martin Urmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Round table – The Know[ing] How of Early Modern Italian Academies

Workshop organized by Ulrike Schneider & Mira Becker-Sawatzky
Project B05 – Theory and Aesthetics of Elusive Knowledge in the Early Modern Period

Location: SFB 980, Schwendenerstr. 8, 14195 Berlin