INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VENICE BETWEEN EAST, WEST, AND ITSELF 2025
September 18-20, 2025
Online Conference
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CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
According to the dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, as imagined by Italo Calvino in his Le città invisibili [Invisible Cities], the Venetian traveller would have said “Ogni volta che descrivo una città dico qualcosa di Venezia. [Every time I describe a city, I am saying something about Venice.]”
Indeed, despite the fact that it preserved its singularity of being originally raised on the lagoons, Venice also represented a combination of a lot of cities and places, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to settle its definite association with the West or the East.
Far from wishing to clarify these possible affiliations, the Serenissima series of Trivent Publishing is organizing the online conference, “Venice between East, West and Herself,” by gathering papers focused on two different major panels:
- Venice and the West,
- Venice and the East,
- A third panel complements the two: Venice and Itself, as a return of the city to its internal life and affairs.
Papers can be presented in English, Italian, and French.
PROPOSED TOPICS
The conference is addressed not only to scholars dealing with the history of Venice, but also to those specialized in the history of the communities that came in contact with the Venetian state from both the East (Byzantium, Mamluk Sultanate, Ottoman Empire, Hungary, and so on) and the West (non-Venetian Italy, Western Empire, France, England, Iberian Peninsula, and so on). As mentioned, the panel entitled “Venice and Itself” leaves the door open to those scholars who examine the internal history of the Venetian state.
Furthermore, the conference is not limited to the field of political history and international relations, but also to art history, social history, economic history, linguistics, codicology and palaeography, arts and architecture, and daily life.
ORGANIZERS
The organizers for the conference are
the Editors of the book series “Serenissima. Venice between East and West”,
Series editor, Dr. Serban V. Marin (National Archives of Romania)
and in collaboration with with Trivent Publishing
SUBMISSIONS
You are kindly invited to submit abstract proposal to serbmarin@gmail.com and publishing@trivent-publishing.eu.
Abstract requirements: Title + abstract (max 500 words) + 3 keywords + author short bio
DATES AND DEADLINES
Abstract submission deadline: April 14, 2025
Abstract acceptance: within two weeks after abstract submission
PUBLICATION
The papers presented at this conference will be published in an edited collection in
the book series “Serenissima. Venice between East and West”
Full paper word-count: max 8.000-10.000 words (including footnotes and bibliography).
All papers should be submitted in English.
CONFERENCE FEES
There are no participation fees for this conference.
CONTACT
For any questions, please contact us at:
Dr. Serban Marin, serbmarin@gmail.com
publishing@trivent-publishing.eu
