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Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe
Padua, 17-19 September 2025
Call for papers
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the conference Minding the Present: Bodies, Places, Matter in and between Australia and Europe, to be held on 17-19 September 2025, at the University of Padova (Italy). In this conference we aim to explore the demands of the present, the actions and interactions we are all bound to set into motion in order to engage in political and art-activistic practices to start caring for and curing our vulnerable planet and our insecure standing on and with it.
Central to our exploration is the ontology of the present—the hic et nunc (here and now)—together with the concepts of present orientation and the re-figurations of time/s. We will focus on how, through discourse, art, literature and geopolitical praxis, we can understand, experience, and potentially reshape both our perception of time, particularly in relation to the present moment. We are especially interested in investigating the present as a dynamic space situated between archives of the past (Hall, 2001) and what P. Saint-Amour has defined as traumatic anticipations of the future (Saint-Amour, 2015), taking into account nonlinear, non-Western and Indigenous cosmologies and heterotopias. In this way, we assert that, as Hodgson suggests, “the present moment is not… a static fixed coalescence but a super complexity, the dynamism of which determines its ability for anticipation” (2013, p. 31).
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We seek to examine the shaping experiences, identities, and perceptions of the present as a catalyst to urgent action both in Australia—with a special alertness to the very rooted cultures of Indigenous Australia—and in the complex relations between Europe and Australia. The conference particularly welcomes contributions from literature, linguistics, the performing arts, anthropology, cultural geography, memory studies, political and legal studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches.
Among the questions that contributions may address, we would be interested in the following ones:
- How are traditional notions of past, present, and future being reshaped in contemporary contexts? How do these reconfigurations manifest in cultural, social, and political spheres?
- How do ‘we’ negotiate between historical archives and future anticipations? How is this tension made readable and visible in/via art?
- Relationality: how do Indigenous epistemologies challenge and expand Western notions of the time, especially the concept of the present?
- Rootedness and ‘inauguration’ (see M. Augé, “Starting again is living through a new beginning, a birth” The Future, 2014): How do individuals and communities maintain a sense of rootedness in the face of global changes? How does rootedness interact with our orientation in the present?
- Caring/Curing: How do practices of care and healing manifest in the present moment? How do they shape our understanding and orientation of bodies, places, and matter?
- The ontology of the present: How do we understand and conceptualize the nature of our current reality, especially in its entanglement with the vulnerable, powerful, meaningful places, matter and shapes of more-than-human and human life that inhabit Australia and Europe and the spaces in-between them?
- How can our understanding of the present moment inform and inspire concrete actions and interventions? Is there hope in the present tense, and how might melancholic epistemologies be transformed by, for example, Indigenous cosmologies?
- How does the anticipation of future events, changes, or challenges shape our present experiences and actions in the connections between Australia and Europe?
- How do historical traumas continue to influence the literary and cultural relations between Australia and Europe?
We invite contributions that address the following topics (but are not limited to them):
- The role of cultural, literary, artistic archives in shaping present understandings and future projections
- Temporal re-configurations in literature, performing arts, anthropology and politics
- Anticipatory practices and their impact on literature and art
- Nonlinear and alternative conceptions of time in artistic, cultural and literary practices
- Present-oriented practices in various disciplines and contexts
- Performing arts as a medium for exploring and transforming the present
- Corporeality and embodiment in relation to time and cultural contexts
- Geographies of the present: making and claiming places and spaces in and between Australia and Europe
- Migrations and diasporas: bodies in motion through time and space
- Resurgence of Indigenous knowledge systems and practices, including temporal philosophies, relational cosmologies, and storytelling
- Regeneration initiatives: rethinking time in ecological contexts and texts
- Relationality: how do Indigenous epistemologies challenge and expand Western notions of the time, especially the concept of the present?
- Ecologies and environment: comparing Australian and European perspectives on orientation, the immediate present, care, and rootedness
- Environmental resurgence and regeneration initiatives as forms of immediate care and reorientation
- Cultural and literary approaches to the ontology of the present
- Activist strategies and calls for action in contemporary Australia and in Australia-Europe relations
- Collective memory and forgetting and their role in shaping present anxieties and actions
We particularly encourage papers that explore the interplay between archives of the past, the present moment, and anticipations of the future, examining how these temporal dimensions interact in the Australian and Australia-Europe contexts, especially those that draw from literature, the performing arts, anthropology, postcolonial studies, gender studies, trauma and disability studies, politics and legal studies.
References:
Augé, M., The Future, London, Verso, 2014
Hall, S., “Constituting an Archive”, Third Text, 15(54), 2001, pp. 89–92
Hodgson, A., “Towards an Ontology of the Present Moment”, On the Horizon, 21(1), pp. 24-38
Jameson, J., A Singular Modernity. Essay on the Ontology of the Present, London, Verso, 2002
Saint-Amour, P., Tense Future. Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015
Deadlines
Abstract (300-400 words) and a short bionote (200 words)
8 June 2025
Notification of acceptance
20 June 2025
(open from 2 July – please note that panelists must be or become regular EASA members)
Early bird – 2-25 July 2025
200 euros
25 August-14 September 2025
280 euros
PhD students
100 euros
Students and PhD students of the University of Padova
no fees
Fees include coffee and lunch breaks, plus a conference set.
The conference dinner will take place on 18 September (more info on costs and the location will be offered at a later stage on the dedicated website).
Gail Jones
One of Australia’s foremost novelists, Emeritus Professor at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, and Visiting Professorial Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
Originally from Western Australia, she has travelled widely and worked in many countries, and now lives in Sydney.
Maggie Nolan
Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia
Director of AustLit, a comprehensive information resource and research environment for Australian literary, print, and narrative culture.
Joseph Pugliese
Professor at the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
KEY RESEARCH AREAS: Social justice-understood in the most expansive sense so that it includes the more-than-human world, is the superordinate term that encompasses my research.
Programme
General Programme
FRAUGHT ENCOUNTERS
14.30-16.15 – Room 4
Chair: Iva Polak
Jan Lencznarowicz (Krakow), The Present as an Inspiration and Transitional Stage towards Future Australia in Early Australian Nationalist Voices in the Colonial Period
Chen Hong (Shanghai East China Normal University), Chinese ANZACs in Europe: A Study of Chinese Australians’ Participation in the First World War
Daozhi Xu (Sydney), Negotiating Race, Intimacy, and Law: Chinese-Indigenous Relations in Settler Colonial Australia, 1890s–1930s
ENTANGLEMENTS
14.30-16.15 – Room 5
Chair: Eleonora Federici
Paul Gillen (Sydney-Canberra), When Is Communism? – Jack Lindsay’s Temporalities
Tihana Klepac (Zagreb), Archival Interventions and Memory Work: Rosa Praed, Marcus Clarke, and the Literary Afterlife of Colonial Trauma
Meg Brayshaw (Sydney), Dymphna Cusack and the Politics of the Realist Novel, then and now
David Carter (Queensland), Minding the Past: The Significance of Cultural Magazines, Regional Print and Modernity in Australia
SHIMMERS
16.45-18.30 – Room 4
Chair: Astrid Schwegler-Castañer
Theodora Patrona (Thessaloniki), “The Tragedy of Success”: Greek Australian Women’s Subjectivity in Vasso Kalamaras’s Short Story “Kyra Kalli’s Daughter” (2006)
Cecilia Gall (Budapest), Ange and the Boss: Centre, Displacement, and the Margins of the Beautiful Game
Bárbara Arizti (Zaragoza), Transmodern Metaphorising in Sofie Laguna’s Infinite Splendours
Samantha Lenglos (Arras), “That is the way to all time…”: re-thinking the notion of archive through the Indigenous concept of Deep Time in The Yield by Tara June Winch
GRIEVING (IN) THE PRESENT
16.45-18.30 – Room 5
Chair: Claudia Davidson-Novosivschei
Marilena Parlati (Padova), Stuck at the Edge of Time: Nuclearity On The Beach
Brigid Rooney (Sydney), The Ancient Present: Time and the Self in Writing by David Malouf
Irma Krcan (Zagreb), Grief, Nostalgia and Solastalgia in All Times: Pluralising the Temporality of the Anthropocene in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
Dany Adone (Köln), Geoff Rodoreda (Stuttgart), Arteries of ‘Country’: Re-thinking Rivers
AFTERMATHS
11.15-13.00 – Room 4
Chair: Maria Renata Dolce
Dolores Herrero (Zaragoza), Environmental Dystopia and Relational Solidarity in Charlotte McConaghy’s Migrations
Jaroslav Kušnír (Prešov), Past, Present, Dreaming and Aboriginal Identity: Nardi Simpsons Belburd
Lars Jensen (Roskilde), Gordon Bennett’s Artistic Practice and Thoughts in a Rapidly Changing Indigenous Australian Artistic Landscape
Roberta Trapé (Melbourne), Rejecting Rootedness to Begin again: Michelle de Kretser’s Theory & Practice
NAMING, PLACING, ROOTING
11.15-13.00 – Room 5
Chair: Salhia Ben-Messahel
Anna Gosebrink (Köln), Dany Adone (Köln-Sydney), ‘Bigmoba triyi’: Insights into Quantification in an Australian Creole Language
Katarína Danková (Košice), Rooted in the Present: Indigenous Temporality, Language, and Land in Tara June Winch’s The Yield
Margherita Zanoletti (Milano), Australia’s Stolen Generations and (Inter-)Epistemic Translation: The Case of Ali Cobby Eckermann
THINKING THE FUTURE?
14.30-16.15 – Room 5
Chair: Dany Adone
Salhia Ben-Messahel (Toulon), Writing as Activism, the Dark Age of Innocence in Tim Winton’s Juice
Zuzanna Zarebska Sanches (Lisbon), The Narratives of Care and Ageing in Charlotte Wood’s The Weekend and Stone Yard Devotional: Of Women, Mice and Dogs
Stacey Roberts (Melbourne), Colonial Mythscape in Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow (1980)
Iva Polak (Zagreb), Indigenous Epistemologies and AI: Deep Time Meets Deep Tech in Australia
TIME FOR CARING
11.30-13.00 – Room 5
Chair: Geoff Rodoreda
Reia Farrall-Anquet (Grenoble), Strategic Pasts and Precarious Futures: Rethinking the Indo-Pacific in the Present (maybe online)
Valérie-Anne Belleflamme (Liège), Minding the Present and Speaking Shadows: Time and Responsibility in Gail Jones’ Writing
Astrid Schwegler-Castaner (Balearic Islands), “And We’ll Start Our Lives”: The Politics and Poetics of Love in Madeleine Gay’s Green Dot
Claudia Davidson-Novosivschei (Babeș-Bolyai), Violence: From the Epistemology of Ignorance to the Multiplicity of Voices
Keynote Speakers
Gail Jones
Gail Jones is Emeritus Professor at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, and Visiting Professorial Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She is an internationally renowned writer, the author of two collections of short stories and eleven novels, including Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, Five Bells and A Guide to Berlin. Her books have won numerous national and international literary awards: Sixty Lights which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Dreams of Speaking which was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize, and Sorry was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Étranger. Her latest novel, The Name of the Sister, has just been published. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages.
Contact: gail.jones@westernsydney.edu.au
Maggie Nolan
Maggie Nolan is an Associate Professor of Digital Culture Heritage at the University of Queensland and the Director of AustLit. Her research focuses on representations of race and ethnicity in Australian literary culture, contemporary Indigenous Australian literature, and literary hoaxes and imposture.
Contact: maggie.nolan@uq.edu.au
Joseph Pugliese
Joseph Pugliese is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His key research areas are: social justice-understood in the most expansive sense so that it includes the more-than-human world, is the superordinate term that encompasses his research. Under this meta-rubric, one includes colonialism and decolonisation; state violence; more-than-human ecologies; race, whiteness and ethnicity. He has published the edited collection TransMediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolitical Spaces (Peter Lang, 2010) and the monograph Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics (Routledge, 2010) which was short-listed for the international Surveillance Studies Book Prize 2010. The monograph State Violence and the Execution of Law: Biopolitical Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones (Routledge, 2013) was nominated for the UK’s Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2013, the US’ Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize 2013; it was awarded the MQ Faculty of Arts Research Excellence Award 2013 and it received High Commendation in the MQ Research Excellence Awards 2014 and 2015. With Professor Suvendrini Perera, he was a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded transnational project, Deathscapes, on racialized state violence in settler societies. Deathscapes was shorlisted for the Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distinctive Work Prize 2019. With Suvendrini Perera, he co-edited Mapping Deathscapes: Digital Geographies of Racial and Border Violence (Routledge 2022).
His book, Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (Duke University Press, 2020), was awarded the IHR/ASU Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award 2022, presented by the Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at Arizona State University, USA: “Established in 2008, the annual award celebrates outstanding writers whose contributions to the humanities change the conversation by fostering new directions for their discipline.” His most recent book is More-Than-Human Diasporas: Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery (Routledge, 2025).
Contact: joseph.pugliese@mq.edu.au
Plenary Lectures
Nowadays; the Extra-terrestrial, the Expanded Present and the Indigenous ‘Everywhen’
Gail Jones
Current postcolonial thinking admits not just terrestrial knowledge of imperial settlement, but also the extra-terrestrial, the ways in which ocean and sky have been sites of colonization and ‘Western’ hegemony. This paper considers the globe, the present, and the cross-cultural history of the sky. It asks whether it is possible to think from ‘other side’ of colonial temporality. First, I argue for radical locatedness in the ways in which we might come to imaginative and academic knowledge between Europe and Australia. Second, I say a little about global thinking and philosophies of time, emphasizing unpredictability as a rejection of determinism and a refocussing on agency and capacity to change the future. Part three of this paper looks at the history of imagining the Southern skies, from their first description in Augsburg, Germany, in 1603, and compared to the development of ethnoastronomy and the ‘situated knowledge’ of Indigenous Australian cosmology. The final section considers the Indigenous ‘everywhen’ and ‘literary futurism’ and closes with a celebration of the sky painting of the great Walpiri artist, Paddy Japaljarri Sims (1917-2010).
The Politics of Allegiance in Anita Heiss’s Dirrayawadha
Maggie Nolan
In the field of Australian literary studies in the 1990s, there was a surge in books by white Australian authors that dealt explicitly with the issue of reconciliation between settler Australians and First Nations /Indigenous Australians. These were frequently historical fictions by some of Australia’s most renowned writers including Kate Grenville, Alex Miller and Gail Jones.
More recently, though, there has been an increase in historical novels by Indigenous authors who are less likely to draw upon the tropes of reconciliation. Rather, these novels focus more on the challenges and limitations of allegiance and alliances. In this sense, they are as much about the present, as they are about the past. After setting out the broad field, this paper will focus on Anita Heiss’s recently published historical novel Dirrayawadha (2024). Dirrayawadha, which means “Rise Up!” in Wiradjuri, and the novel is a fictionalised telling of the Bathurst Wars of the 1820s that had such a profound impact on Wiradjuri people and set up a pattern for frontier violence that continued across the continent.
Dirrayawadha tells the story of the historical Wiradyuri leader, Windradyne, through the lens of a fictional sister, a young Wiradyuri woman, Miinaa, who works as a domestic for an Irish family, the Nugents, who were granted land ownership by the British which they called ‘Cloverdale’. When Irish convict and political prisoner, Dan O’Dwyer, arrives at Cloverdale, Miinaa and Dan bond, partly through a shared sense of having faced injustice at the hands of the British. Through this relationship, and using some of the tropes of romance, Heiss explores the complexities of unequal power relationships within and between allies. While ostensibly historical fiction, this novel is also about the challenges of the present in contemporary Australia, and the importance of historical ties to Europe over two centuries.
Eucalyptus: Transnational Relations of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery
Joseph Pugliese
The eucalypt tree is a pervasive presence in the Italian South, often encompassing vast forests that inscribe the southern landscape. Prompted by the knowledge that the eucalyptus is a native tree of Indigenous Nations in the continent of so-called Australia, in this paper I attempt to answer two research questions: When did the eucalypt tree first arrive in the Italian peninsula? Which forces were operative in its translocation? In the course of the paper, I trace an historical genealogy of the eucalyptus in the context of its transnational history and its diasporic journeys from so-called Australia to Britain and thence to the Italian South. My concern is to reveal the topological relations of empire, settler colonialism, slavery and botany that are materialised by a critical examination of the eucalyptus in its southern Italian context. In doing so, I examine how the eucalyptus arrived in the Italian South via Sir Joseph Bank’s expropriation of the plant during his Endeavour voyage with Captain James Cook.
The eucalyptus tree was first planted in Italy in the English Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta, north of Naples, through the mediation of Banks. Caserta’s Royal Palace and English Garden, I argue, are entangled with intersecting histories of empire, settler colonialism and slavery. By discussing a number of eucalypt trees across a diversity of spaces, I envisage the trees as witnesses that attest to and disclose transcultural histories which would otherwise remain occluded.
Accommodation
Hilton Garden Inn Padova City Centre
How to get there from the train/bus station: tram stop “Ponti Romani”
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 13’ walking
Hotel Majestic Toscanelli
Via dell’Arco, 2
Ask for the special prices for UNIPD guests!
How to get there from the train/bus station: tram stop “Tito Livio”
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 19’ walking
Albergo Verdi
Via Dondi dall’Orologio, 7
How to get there from the train/bus station: tram stop “Ponti Romani”
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 16’ walking
Hotel al Prato
Via Prato della Valle, 54
Ask for the special prices for UNIPD guests!
How to get there from the train/bus station: tram stop “Prato”
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 34’ walking
Hotel Europa
Largo Europa, 9
Ask for the special prices for UNIPD guests!
How to get there from the train/bus station: tram stop “Eremitani”
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 12’ walking
Hotel Patavium
Via Beato Pellegrino, 106
How to get there from the train station: 17’ walking
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 4’ walking
B&B Casa al Carmine
Via E. Vendramini, 1
How to get there from the train station: 10’ walking
Distance from the meeting venues:
● Dept. of Studi linguistici e letterari – Via E. Vendramini 13: 2’ walking
Getting there and Touring the City
By Train
The railway station is a 15-minute walk away from the old city center; high-speed trains connect Padua to Venice, Trieste, Verona, Milan, Bologna, Florence and Rome; local trains connect Padua to smaller towns and villages.
For timetables and information:
Trenitalia (high-speed and local trains)
phone: 892021
www.trenitalia.com
Italo (high-speed trains)
phone: 060708
www.italotreno.com
By Plane
Venezia “Marco Polo” Airport (49 km)
From the airport, you can travel to Padua by:
– Busitalia coach Venezia Marco Polo-Padova: every 40 minutes from 5.30 am to 11.30 pm. The trip takes 45 minutes and the route terminates at Padua railway station. You can buy tickets online or at the airport. More information, timetables, baggage allowed and tickets here.
– Train: from Venice Santa Lucia (Venezia Santa Lucia) or Venice–Mestre (Venezia Mestre) railway station. The airport is linked to Venezia Santa Lucia railway station by ACTV city bus n.5 and ATVO bus “Venice Airport Express”. The airport is linked to Venezia Mestre railway station by ACTV city bus n.15 and ATVO bus “Mestre Express”.
– Private shuttle: Private shuttles or mini buses are useful if you need to reach Padua or the airport late at night or early in the morning, since public transportation such as coaches or trains might not be available during the night. Some shuttles can bring you directly to your home address. If you need to use a private shuttle, we suggest you book your place as soon as possible. Some private shuttle options are:
GoOpti (international company)
Air Service (website in Italian, booking@airservicepadova.it)
Treviso “Antonio Canova” Airport (62 km)
From the airport, you can travel to Padua by:
– Busitalia or MOM coach Venice Treviso airport-Padova: (fastest option) – MOM coach 101: every 20-30 minutes from 5.30 am to 8.26 pm. The trip takes around 1 hour and the route terminates at Padua railway station. You can check timetables here. You can buy tickets online or at the airport at the bus ticket counter.
– Train: from Treviso Centrale railway station. The airport is linked to thestation by MOM line 6 coach or Treviso Airlink shuttle bus.
– Private shuttles: If you need to use a private shuttle, we suggest you book your place as soon as possible. Some private shuttle options are:
GoOpti (international company),
Air Service (website in Italian, booking@airservicepadova.it).
Verona “Valerio Catullo” Airport (86 km)
From the airport, travel to Padua by:
– Train: from Verona Porta Nuova railway station. The airport is linked to thestation by the Verona Airlink shuttle bus.
– Coaches: Private coaches connect Verona to Padua e.g. Flixbus
– Private shuttles: If you need to use a private shuttle, we suggest you book your place as soon as possible. Some private shuttle options are:
GoOpti (international company)
Air Service (website in Italian, booking@airservicepadova.it)
Bologna “Guglielmo Marconi” Airport (120 km)
From the airport, you can travel to Padua by:
– Train: from Bologna Centrale railway station. The airport is linked to thestation by the Marconi Express monorail.
– Coaches: Private coaches connect Bologna to Padua e.g. Flixbus
Milano Malpensa Airport
From Malpensa, you can travel to Padua (281 km) by train from Milano Centrale station. The airport is linked to the train station by the Malpensa Express train.
Milano Bergamo – Orio al Serio Airport (194 km)
From the airport, you can travel to Padua by train. The airport is linked to Bergamo train station (10 minutes) by ATB buses.
Milano Linate Airport (240 km)
From Linate, you can travel to Padova by train from Milano Centrale station. The airport is linked to the train station by ATM buses.
By Coach
Flixbus
Bus stop in Padua is located in via Fra’ Paolo Sarpi 42, Padova
By Car
A4 Torino – Trieste. Exit at Padova Ovest or Padova Est
A13 Bologna – Padova at Padova Sud or Padova Zona Industriale
Sights to See in Padua
Basilica of Saint Anthony
An important pilgrimage site with artworks by Donatello and magnificent Gothic architecture. (map)
Prato della Valle
One of the largest squares in Europe, surrounded by statues and crossed by an elliptical canal. (map)
Scrovegni Chapel
A masterpiece by Giotto, featuring frescoes that depict the life of Mary and Christ. (map)
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Botanical Garden
The oldest university botanical garden in the world, founded in 1545 and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. (map)
Caffè Pedrocchi
A historic 18th-century café, known as the “café without doors” and a former hub of culture and politics. (map)
Palazzo della Ragione
Medieval courthouse with a vast frescoed hall and views over Padua’s lively market squares. (map)
University of Padua
Founded in 1222, once home to Galileo, and site of the world’s oldest anatomical theatre. (map)
Eremitani Museum
Houses important archaeological finds and artworks, right next to the Scrovegni Chapel. (map)
Church of the Eremitani
Famous for Mantegna’s frescoes (partially damaged), still a place of great artistic charm. (map)
The Specola and Astronomical Observatory
A medieval tower turned into an observatory in the 18th century, symbol of Padua’s scientific legacy. (map)
The Baptistery of Padua Cathedral
A small gem of medieval art, famous for its extraordinary frescoes painted by Giusto de’ Menabuoi in the 14th century. (map)
Historic Center Squares
Piazza delle Erbe, Piazza della Frutta and Piazza dei Signori are lively, perfect for a stroll and for an aperitif. (map)
Scientific Committee
Dany Adone, Valérie-Anne Belleflamme, Salhia Ben-Messahel, Matthew Graves, Marie Herbillon, Irma Krčan, Maggie Nolan, Claudia Novosivschei, Marilena Parlati, Iva Polak, Geoff Rodoreda, Astrid Schwegler Castañer
Organising Committee
Maria Renata Dolce (University of Lecce)
Eleonora Federici (University of Ferrara)
Francesca Mussi (University of Pisa)
Marilena Parlati (University of Padova)
Info
The Conference is meant as an in-person event for accepted speakers, but the conference will be available on zoom for external attendees.
Details on this will be published at a later stage