Women in Papal Rome
Rome, November 1998

Women In Papal Rome

An interdisciplinary conference devoted to the women of early modern
Rome--working women, noblewomen, religious women and their roles, spaces,
and possessions

30 November 1998

American Academy in Rome


9-10:30 am
Sergio Rossi (U di Roma "La Sapienza") "La santità al femminile nei cicli
pittorici romani del '400"

Franca Trinchieri Camiz (Temple University and Trinity College-Rome
Campuses) "Creative Women In and Out of Convents in Seventeenth-Century
Rome"

Stefano Andretta (U di Roma III) "Devozione femminile e protezione
cardinalizia nell'età moderna"

10:30-11 am Coffee Break

11 am-12:30 pm
Renata Ago (U of Rome "La Sapienza") "Le donne e gli oggetti nel primo '600"

Elizabeth Cohen (York University) "Were Prostitutes Different in Rome?"

Evelyn Lincoln (Brown University) "Useful Lives: Female Printmakers in
Counter-Reformation Rome"

Angiolina Arru (U of Naples) "Immigrate a Roma fra '700 e '800"

1-2:30 pm Lunch (tickets available for L. 15.000; places must be reserved
by 11 am)

2:30-4 pm
Marina Karrer d'Amelia (U di Roma "La Sapienza") "Network femminile nella
famiglia aristocratica fra '500 e '600"

Carolyn Valone (Trinity University) "Women, Wealth, and Patronage Networks
in Cinquecento Rome"

Deanna Shemek (U of California-Santa Cruz) "'Machiavelli in gonnella':
Isabella D'Este and the Papal Court"

4-4:30 pm Tea

4:30-6 pm
Angela Groppi (Enciclopedia Italiana) "I luoghi dell'internamento femminile
a Roma nell'età moderna"

Eunice Howe (U of Southern California) "Women Enclosed at the Hospital of
Santo Spirito in Sassia during the Counter-Reformation"

Gabriella Bonacchi (Fondazione Basso) "Donne e giustizia nella Roma dei papi"

6-6:30 Comments and General Discussion

                Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)

                Maria Teresa Guerra Medici (U of Rome "La Sapienza")

                Elissa Weaver (U of Chicago)

Conference Coordinators: Franca Camiz and Julia Hairston

For further information, contact Julia Hairston: tel. fax 06/5744801 or
jl.hairston@caspur.it