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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