About MEMSA Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries Podcast
Durham's Medieval and Early Modern Student Association invite postgraduate students and early career academics to share and discuss their research on crossing borders and contesting boundaries in the Medieval and early modern world.
Georgina Watson, 'The Perspective of Fakhr ad-Din al-Ma'n II'
Georgina Watson is a second-year PhD candidate at Manchester University's History Department. Her thesis, 'War, Wealth, and God's Will: The Order of St Stephen between Crusade and Commerce in the late sixteenth century' examines the disconnections of early modern Mediterranean trade, crusade and religious interactions between the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Ottoman Empire. She has specific interests in the role of Christianity within commercial trading, the construction of European noble family's identities within literary texts and portraiture and the varied usage of private military orders to shape Muslim/Christian diplomacy throughout the early modern Mediterranean.
Georgina's paper for the MEMSA Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries Podcast is entitled 'The Perspective of Fakhr ad-Din al-Ma'n II'.
Music: Aitua, 'Blind Fire', from the album Elements. Used with the kind permission of the artist. All rights reserved.
10 Jul 2022
Katharina Strika, 'A Journey to the Underworld: From Purgatory to Hades in Ulrich von Hutten's Phalarismus'
Katharina Strika is a third-year PhD student at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, focusing on journeys to the underworld in Renaissance texts. She is particularly interested in the coexistence of Christian and ancient mythological imaginations of the afterlife in texts of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Katharina's paper for the MEMSA Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries Podcast explores these themes in Ulrich von Hutten's Phalarismus.
Music: Aitua, 'Blind Fire', from the album Elements. Used with the kind permission of the artist. All rights reserved.
13 Jun 2022
Dr Valeria Viola, 'Crossing boundaries and keeping distance: Masters' and servants' spaces in eighteenth-century Palermo'
Dr Valeria Viola is a mother of two wonderful daughters and an Art teacher with experience in both architectural practice and research. She worked as an architect with a specialization in restoration (1997-2015), taught Art-related subjects at different grades of education (2005-2016) and published nine essays on baroque architecture (1999-2015). In 2020 Viola completed her PhD programme in History of Art and Architecture at the University of York (UK), with a thesis on the interconnections between architecture, devotion, and family life in Baroque Palermo. The results of her research were shared through seven essays, nine conferences and three seminars (2018-2021). She is currently engaged in integrating gender and postcolonial perspectives into school teaching, while working on a book tentatively titled "Neighbourly Relationships in Eighteenth-century Palermo".
Dr Viola's paper for the MEMSA Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries Podcast explores masters' and servants' spaces in eighteenth-century Palermo.
Music: Aitua, 'Blind Fire', from the album Elements. Used with the kind permission of the artist. All rights reserved.
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