Digitizing the Grand Tour II

We are bringing to Stanford leading scholars of Grand Tour studies and eighteenth-century cultural history for two days of reflections on eighteenth-century travel to Italy and digital approaches to its study. Speakers will present new research engaging with the Grand Tour Explorer, the interactive database that we have created, and discuss its further development.

Friday, September 8, 2017

10:45–11:00 am - Giovanna Ceserani, Stanford University

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Session I: Placing Travelers’ ExperiencesChair: Zephyr Frank, Stanford University

11:00 am–12:00pm - Melissa Calaresu, Cambridge University

Urban experience in 18th-century Naples: Comparative approaches

12:00–1:00 pm - Thea De Armond, USDA Forest Service & Stanford University

Czeching in with the Grand Tour Explorer: the Bohemian Crown Lands and the Grand Tour

Session II: Routes and Destinations Chair: Grant Parker, Stanford University

2:00–3:00 pm - Rosemary Sweet, Leicester University

Who travelled, where and when? Using the Grand Tour Explorer to examine patterns of travels and traveler

3:00–4:00 pm - Rachel Midura, Stanford University

Travel Infrastructure and the Grand Tour, 1650-1780

Change of location to CESTA (Bldg. 160, Rm. 433A)

Session III: Workshopping the Grand Tour Explorer

4:30–6:00 pm - Group discussions of travel & biographical data in the Grand Tour Explorer

Saturday, September 9, 2017

Session IV: Arts, Artists, and Patrons between Italy and Britain Chair: Elaine Treharne, Stanford University

10:30–11:30 am - Malcolm Baker, UC Riverside

Sculpture, Sculptors and the Grand Tour: Intersections and Agency

11:30 am–12:30pm - Catherine Sama, The University of Rhode Island

Going Digital: Mapping Connections Between Rosalba Carriera and British Grand Tourists, Phase II

Session V:  Professing Arts and Tourism on the Grand Tour Chair: Jonathan Sheehan, UC Berkeley

1:30–2:30 pm - Carole Paul, UC Santa Barbara

Ciceroni and Their Clients: Making a Profession of Tourism

2:30–3:30 pm - Simon Macdonald, Institut d’études avancées de Paris

Non-Grand Tours on the Grand Tour (Explorer): Travelling Circuses and Other Unidentified Travellers

Session VI: Indexing 18th-century Travelers to Italy, 1949–2017

4:00–5:00 pm - Giovanna Ceserani, Stanford University

From Brinsley Ford’s Archives to a Digital Dictionary of Travelers

5:00–6:00 pm - Closing Discussion