2025-2026 Program
The series includes five presentations scheduled between November 2025 and March 2026:
November 17, 2025
Abdelhak Boumsied (EPHE/University of Antwerp), "Thematic Patterns in Diplomatic Correspondence between the Crown of Aragon and Post-Almohad States (13th-14th centuries)"
Discussant: Roser Salicrú i Lluch (CSIC-IMF, Barcelona)
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December 15, 2025
Elisa Turrisi (University of Palermo), "Trade, Networks, and Integration: Catalan and Valencian Agents in Late Fifteenth-Century Palermo"
Discussant: Alessandro Rizzo (University of Barcelona)
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January 19, 2026
Filippo Vaccaro ("La Sapienza" University of Rome/Heidelberg University), "Mediators and Rebels: The Making of Venetian-Cretan Tensions before 1363"
Discussant: Isabella Lazzarini (University of Turin)
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February 23, 2026
Nicola Fazioni (University of Bologna), "The 'Diplomatic Rhetoric' in the Venetian Chronicle of Gian Giacomo Caroldo"
Discussant: Frédéric Bauden (University of Liège)
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March 9, 2026
Andrea Raffaele Aquino (German Historical Institute in Rome), "The Ottoman Levant: a Testing Ground for Florentine Diplomacy"
Discussant: Malika Dekkiche (University of Antwerp)
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