{"id":12577,"date":"2017-02-09T07:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T06:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=12577"},"modified":"2017-03-01T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T07:03:24","slug":"academic-lectures-florence-spring-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/florence\/academic-lectures-florence-spring-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic lectures in Florence, Spring 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florence offers a lively English-language intellectual community thanks to the presence of many American and other foreign universities, as well as libraries and research centers. Many of these offer lectures open to the public. I\u2019ve gathered as much as possible for the academic lectures in Florence from January to June 2017.<\/p>\n

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At the British Institute Library<\/strong> on the Lungarno, there are regular talks by scholars, museum directors and public personalities either residing in or passing through Florence. Of those listed here, the talks at the British are the most accessible for the general public. Membership of the British Institute Library is requested.\u00a0 Lectures are all at 6pm. For the full schedule of their events see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at some of the highlights in Spring 2017. US Consul-General in Florence, Abigail Rupp, looks at a slice of American musical history in her February 1 talk \u201cRock and roll diplomacy: how American music influenced the Rolling Stones, and how the Stones changed America\u201d. On February 8th, Renaissance fans will enjoy the talk by Professor Chriscinda Henry (who was my fellow student at the University of Chicago in what seems like a century ago!) entitled \u201c<\/em>Playful pictures: art and carnival culture under Lorenzo de\u2019 Medici.\u201d If you\u2019ve ever read her classic book on Florence, you\u2019ll want to hear Eve Borsook talk about artisans in the Tuscan capital on March 15th. And another interesting lecture will be that given by Uffizi director Eike Schmidt on April 12, \u201cThe English and the Uffizi: three centuries of cultural exchange\u201d.<\/p>\n

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A photo posted by British Institute of Florence (@britishinstituteflorence)<\/a> on