CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Royce Hall 314
WELCOME
5:00 p.m.

Massimo Ciavolella
UCLA Department of Italian
Brian Copenhaver
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Elisabetta Mori
Archivio Capitolino, Rome
Peter Reill
UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Victoria Steele
UCLA Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections

KEYNOTE LECTURE
5:20 p.m.
Carlo Ginzburg
UCLA

"Making Sense of the Chinese Rites Debate: Rome 1735, Los Angeles 2007"
OPENING RECEPTION
6:15 p.m.
Royce Hall 306
Friday, February 2, 2007
Charles E. Young Research Library Conference Center
SESSION 1
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
THE FAMILY ARCHIVE AS A RESOURCE

Chair:
Richard Rouse
UCLA


Panel:
Guendalina Ajello
UCLA Special Collections

“The Orsini Papers at UCLA: Property, Administration and Political Strategy”

Elisabetta Mori
Archivio Capitolino, Rome

“Paolo Giordano Orsini, the Archive and the Reasons for Memory”

Thomas Kuehn
Clemson University

Fideicommissum and Family: the Orsini di Bracciano”

SESSION 2
2-5 p.m.
POLITICS, POWER AND ADMINISTRATION

Chair:
John Marino
UC San Diego


Panel:
Christine Shaw
Cambridge University, UK

“The Exemplary Career of a Rogue Elephant: Napoleone Orsini, abate di Farfa.”

Ingrid Rowland
Notre Dame, Rome

“Agostino Chigi and the Orsini”

Thomas Cohen
York University, Canada

“A Baron Explains his Lordship over a feudo: Giuliano Cesarini in 1556”

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Charles E. Young Research Library Conference Center
SESSION 3
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Chair:
Dale Kent
UC Riverside


Panel:
Caroline Murphy
UC Riverside

"Women, Property and Possessions in UCLA's Orsini Family Papers."

Caroline Castiglione
Brown University

"When a Woman "Takes" Charge: Anne Marie de la Tremoille (1642-1728) and the End of the Patrimony of the Dukes of Bracciano"

Renata Ago
La Sapienza, Rome

"The Orsini and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life between the Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries"

SESSION 4
2-5 p.m.
PATRONAGE AND THE ARTS

Chair:
Geoffrey Symcox
UCLA


Panel:
Henry Dietrich Fernández
Rhode Island School of Design

"Nicholas III's Interventions at the Vatican Palace"

Kristin Triff
Trinity College, Hartford, CT

"Patronage and Public Image in Renaissance Rome: The Orsini Palace at Monte Giordano"

Barbara Furlotti
University of London

"Displaying Credit. The Dukes of Bracciano and their Possessions in the Late Sixteenth Century"

5:30-6:30 p.m. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Dale Kent, UC Riverside
John Marino, UC San Diego
Richard Rouse, UCLA
Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA

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