Convegno
Pandemic Histories in Transition I+II
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco (USA)
Panel organized by Paulina León (University of California, Berkeley) and Nils Weber (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
Lazaret of Beirut (Detail), Maison Bonfils, Courtesy of the Nicolas Sursock Museum, c. 1880
Panel I
Chair/Respondent: Gerhard Wolf (KHI–MPI)
9:00 AM
Pandemic Temporalities: Imagining Post-Pandemic Futures in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Jennifer Scheper Hughes (University of California, Riverside)
9:20 AM
Powders of Milan: Disinformation and Epidemic Anxiety in the Iberian World
Paulina León (University of California, Berkeley)
9:40 AM
Painters in Milan After the Plague of 1630
Emma Lombardia Ferrari (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Break
Panel II
Chair: Jacob M Eisensmith (Macalester College)
11:00 AM
The Quarantine Island: Post-Catastrophic Architectural Heritage and the Origins of Quarantine
Nils Weber (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
11:20 AM
Remembering and Misremembering the Plague
Ruth F. MacKay (Independent Scholar)
19 febbraio 2026, ore 09:00
Hilton San Francisco Union Square - Union Square 11 - Tower 3 - 4th Floor
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LINKS
https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/meetingapp.cgi/Session/9420
https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/meetingapp.cgi/Session/9426
Avviso
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