The Renaissance Society of America

Tentative Program

This is the first tentative program for the RSA annual meeting in Venice, 8 - 10 April 2010. Please email any corrections to the RSA office (rsa@rsa.org), including formatting errors and typos. Abstracts have been posted more or less as submitted, thus spelling and formatting errors may still be present.

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Tentative Program as of February 24, 2010:
All Days
Thursday Morning
Thursday Afternoon
Friday Morning
Friday Afternoon
Saturday Morning
Saturday Afternoon

Room Chart (as of February 24, 2010)
Index of Presenters (as of February 25, 2010)
Venice Tours (as of February 24, 2010)
Special Events(as of February 24, 2010)

Preliminary Information (as of August 5, 2009)

The hub of conference, with the registration desk, book exhibit, and breakout rooms will be the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli - Centro Congressi, Fondamenta Zattere ai Gesuati, Dorsoduro 909/A (http://www.donorione-venezia.it/), which is a former ecclesiastical complex with multiple courtyards, a restaurant, and other facilities.

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini on Isola San Giorgio Maggiore will serve as the other major site of conference. In addition to many breakout sessions, we shall hold the plenaries and the closing reception there. See http://www.cini.it/index.php/it/foundation. The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is also opening at the time of the conference its Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture. If you are interested in applying for a fellowship to the Center, go to http://www.cini.it/index.php/en/news/show/45.

The Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia has kindly joined in the enterprise and will be providing us with a generous number of breakout rooms. See http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=60550.

We have been fortunate enough to have the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti give us space for breakout sessions in its Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti and Palazzo Loredan . See http://www.istitutoveneto.it/roomsfacilities/index.htm and http://www.istitutoveneto.it/ivinglese/attivita/convegniescuole/18_26_04_2009.htm.

In addition, the

Ateneo Veneto (http://www.ateneoveneto.org/),

Biblioteca Marciana (http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/),

Istituto Ellenico di Venezia (http://www.istitutoellenico.org/),

Wake Forest University’s Casa Artom http://www.wfu.edu/provost/houses/venice.htm

Warwick University's Palazzo Papafava

will all be generously hosting sessions.

Housing and Transportation

The well known Venetian conference and tourism agency Kele & Teo will be handling housing and local transportation. The general link for housing and services is:

http://www.veniceconventionbureau.com/congresso/

For hotels alone, you can use this link:

http://www.veniceconventionbureau.com/congresso/hotel.php

For apartments, you can use the link:

http://www.veniceconventionbureau.com/congresso/apartaments.php

For services such as multi-day passes (strongly recommended) for the municipal "vaporetto," sightseeing tours, help upon first arrival at the airport or train station, etc., you can use this link:

http://www.veniceconventionbureau.com/congresso/richiesta.php

Are you looking for someone to share housing expenses? Click here to visit our Room Sharing page where you can enter your request or connect with someone who has already submitted a request.

Registration

Member Registration Fee $175
Student Registration Fee $125
Guest Registration Fee $250
Non-Member Registration Fee $250

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Message for Book Exhibitors (updated 15 February 2010)

For information about the 2009 Los Angeles Meeting, please visit the meeting archive.