The Scientific Committee

Claire Judde de Larivière holds a PhD in history (Toulouse 2, 2002). She is a lecturer in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail (France) and a permanent member of the Framespa Laboratory (History of Societies from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age). She is also an honorary research fellow at the Birkbeck College/University of London. Her research focuses on the critical capacities of ordinary people in Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Lucas Burkart has been professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Basel since 2012. He holds a PhD from Basel University that he received after research stays in Bologna, London, Verona and Bonn. He has been a lecturer in Basel before being awarded a position at the University of Lucerne. His research interests include the cultural history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, their global interconnectedness, and the history of historiography. He is currently supervising the critical edition of the works of Jacob Burckhardt; furthermore, he runs the ongoing research project “Economies of Space. Practices, Discourses and Actors in the Basel Real Estate Market (1400-1700)” link. Finally, with the initiative “Digitales Schaudepot” he drives his vision of open cultural heritage in the digital age website. His latest publications include “Materialized Identities. Objects, Affects and Effects in Early Modern Culture–1450-1750” (Amsterdam University Press 2021 Open Access) and “Burckhardt. Renaissance. Explorations and Re-readings of a Classic” (Wallstein Verlag 2021). Muster der Renaissance / Renaissance Patterns. Special Issue. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte Vol. 87 (2024), 1 (Deutscher Kunstverlag, March 2024 Open Access).

Daniela Di Pinto is Archivist at the Vatican Apostolic Library, in the Archives Section, Manuscripts Department. She is specialized in Archival and Library Heritage (8 EQF), at the Vatican School of Library Science and at the School of Paleographic and Diplomatic Archival Studies of the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC). She is Lecturer at State Archives of Rome post-graduate school for archivists, as well as Professor of Archival Studies at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of San Bonaventura – Seraphicum, Licentiate in Franciscanism. Daniela is Dame of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for uni-duality studies “Mulieris Dignitatem”, at the Pontifical Theological Faculty "San Bonaventura" – Seraphicum in Rome. She is also member of the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome, in partnership with the Kingdom of Norway. In 2014 she was awarded the Bibliographica national award for publishing the best final projects during her bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and post-graduate degree, that dealt with the lay confraternities of the Archdiocese of Trani. Daniela is member of the Editorial Board of the international magazine Confraternitas, Society for Confraternitas Studies, of the University of Toronto. Furthermore, since 2015 she is member of the Ecclesiastical Archives Association (AAE) and since 2014 she is also member of the National Italian Archives Association (ANAI) As scientific director, she is currently coordinating the research project on the papal bulls of the Franciscan Custodial Archive in the Holy Land.

Chiara Rabbiosi is associate Professor in Economic and Political Geography at the University of Padua. Her research interests address the social and spatial dimensions of mobilities, including tourism mobilities, cultural heritage and place branding. She was awarded a PhD in Urban and Local European Studies in 2009 and have been working in the field of tourism since 2012, first as a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Recherche et d’Études Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST) at the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (France) and then as a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism (CAST) at the Rimini Campus of the University of Bologna (Italy). In April 2019 she joined the Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA) at the University of Padua to work on a high impact project on Mobilities and Humanities. At the University of Padua, she teaches at the Master in Local Development and in Mobility Studies. She likes to alternate the scientific writing between Italian and English. She has published in different international academic journals including Annals of Tourism Research; Tourist Studies; Cultural Geographies; Gender, Place and Culture; Journal of Consumer Culture.

Ludovica Galeazzo is an architectural and urban historian whose research focuses on Venetian architecture in the early modern period, with a special interest in new technologies to demonstrate the process of the city’s change over time. She received her PhD in History of Arts from the Graduate School Ca’ Foscari-Iuav in Venice and was later a Research Fellow at the Iuav University of Architecture (2013-2016) and a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University (2016-2017). In 2019 she was the recipient of the Kress fellowship in Digital Humanities at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, where she continues to hold an appointment as a Research Associate. Galeazzo is the coordinator of the project Metapolis (I Tatti) and the international consortium Florentia Illustrata, a multi-institutional research on digital Renaissance Florence. She has been a member of the collaborative initiative Visualizing Venice/Visualizing Cities since 2011, and she has worked as assistant curator on three international exhibitions on early modern Venetian history displayed at the Ducal Palace (Water and Food in Venice, 2015; Venice, the Jews, and Europe, 2016) and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke (A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of 1500, 2017). She also serves on the editorial board of the Architectural Histories journal (EAHN). Ludovica Galeazzo has published extensively on the relationship between architecture, urban studies, and social history, and the wide-ranging issue of place-making processes. Her publications include the monograph Venezia e i margini urbani. L’insula dei Gesuiti in età moderna (IVSLA 2018), the co-edited volume Acqua e cibo a Venezia. Storie della laguna e della città (Marsilio 2015), and more than thirty essays and articles. She was awarded the ERC 2021 Starting Grant for the project Venice’s Nissology. Reframing the Lagoon City as an Archipelago, which aims to reconstruct the transformations of Venice’s lagoon islands alongside their interwoven relationships in a geographically- and temporally-based digital environment.

Miguel Taín Guzmán is an associate professor of art history at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His research focuses on Spanish Baroque art and architecture and its connections to Italy. His latest monograph is entitled "La ciudad de Santiago de Compostela en 1669. La peregrinación del gran príncipe de la Toscana Cosimo III de Medici (The City of Santiago de Compostela in 1669. The Pilgrimage of the Grand Prince of Tuscany Cosimo III de Medici), published in Spanish in 2012, with the support of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in 2010 and 2011.

Dimitri Ioannides is Chaired Professor of Human Geography in the Institution of Economics, Geography, Law and Tourism and a researcher in the European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University in Östersund, Sweden. He obtained his PhD in Urban Planning and Policy Development at Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey. He also holds a MA degree in environmental planning from the University of Nottingham, UK as well as a BSc in geography from the same University. Previously, he taught at Missouri State University in the US and held a part-time position at the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research in Bornholm, Denmark. He has published extensively in various journals including Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Professional Geographer, Tourism Geographies, and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism on issues such as the economic geography of tourism, sustainable development, and tourism in peripheral regions including islands. He is especially interested in matters relating to the social-equity dimension of sustainability, including the geographies of tourism workers and work. He has co-authored books relating to tourism issues, including the Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry (Routledge) and more recently the Handbook of Tourism Impacts (Elgar) and Peer to Peer Accommodation and Community Resilience (CABI). Recently, he also co-edited a volume (forthcoming) with the title Polar Tourism and Communities: Experiences, Knowledge Building, Challenges and Opportunities (CABI). Currently, he is an editor of Tourism Geographies (in charge of special projects) and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. He also edits the New Directions in Tourism Analysis series (Routledge) as well as serving on the board of the International Polar Tourism Research Network. He is also a member of the UNESCO-UNITWIN Culture, Tourism, Development Network. He is a past recipient of the Roy Wolfe Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Recreation, Tourism and Sport specialty group of the American Association of Geographers.

Gabriele Bucchi graduated from the Catholic University of Milan in 2001 and obtained his Phd in Italian Literature from the University of Lausanne in 2008, where he also studied History. He was Lecturer at the University of Lausanne and since 2023 is full professor of Italian Literature at the University of Basel. His main research interests touch on Italian literature and culture of early modern period, with a focus on epic and chivalric poetry, the reception of classics in Renaissance (Ovid, Tacitus), the political and moral thought of the Counter-Reformation, the relations between learned and popular culture in 16th and 17thcenturies. His publications include two monographs (Meraviglioso diletto, Pisa, ETS, 2011 on Ovid’s Metamorphoses reception in 16th century translations and Il grido del pavone. Alessandro Tassoni tra fascinazione eroica e demistificazione scettica, Florence, Sef, 2023). He co-founded the Ephemera Helvetica association for the study of large-circulation printing (https://www.ephemerahelvetica.ch/accueil).

Stefania Gialdroni is Full Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History at the Department of Private Law and Critique of Law of the University of Padua (DPCD). She is currently the PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant MICOLL – “Migrating Commercial Law and Language. Rethinking Lex Mercatoria (11th-17th Centuries)”: https://www.micoll-erc.eu and of the related project, awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), IUSTITIAM – http://Iustitia Mercatoria: Places, Spaces, and Iconographies of Mercantile Justice in Europe (11th-17th Centuries)”: https://www.micoll-erc.eu/iustitiam/. After obtaining a Degree in Law from the University of Roma Tre (JD equivalent), she received, in 2009, a PhD en-cotutelle from the University of Milano-Bicocca (legal history) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (history). As a PhD student, she spent one year at the Research School for Comparative Legal History of the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt a. M. (2005-2006), one year at the London School of Economics (2006-2007) and two years at the EHESS (2007-2009). Before arriving in Padua, she was postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Roma Tre, Palermo, and Helsinki and research fellow in Medieval and Modern Legal History at the RomaTre University Law Department. Her research interests concern the history of commercial law between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the ancient trade routes, and the relationships between law, language, and art.

Rolv Petter Amdam is professor of Business History from 1997. From 2006 to 2010 He was Associate Dean of BI’s Executive Master of Management programmes, and from 2011 to 2014 he was the Dean of BI’s executive programmes. He received his PhD degree from the University of Oslo based on a study of the development of business education in Norway. His aim is to do research that is relevant both within the field of international business and business history. He teaches courses in international business and management. His main research interests are: business education and career development; international development of executive education; internationalization processes; globalization and industrial clusters, focusing on the maritime industry.

Director of the Manuscripts Department of the Vatican Library, Scriptor Latinus and member of the Council and of various Commissions of the Library (Exhibitions, Publishing, Accessions, Digitization, Restoration, Scientific Committee History of the Vatican Library). She graduated in Latin Literature at the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome with a thesis entitled Le indicazioni del tempo nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio (1995), later expanded and extended to all of Ovid’s works in her doctoral thesis in Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Pisa (Le indicazioni del tempo nelle opere ovidiane, 2002). She specialised in Latin Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archivistics at the School of the Vatican Apostolic Archive (2000). She spent several periods of study in Munich, for research (1996-1997) and then as editor of some lemmas (letter P) of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, as a CNR scholarship holder and then at the DAAD (1997-1998). He has collaborated as a reviewer and author with several editors of the Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani (History of Medieval Art, History of Science, Biographical Dictionary of Italians). She is a member of the American Boccaccio Association, the International Advisory Board for the supervision of the MeMo project. Memory of Montecassino, Academician of the Class of Greek and Latin Studies of the Ambrosian Academy, member of the International Society for the History of Miniatures. A scholar of Latin literature, she has published, in addition to various articles, the monograph Il tempo in Ovidio. Functions, mechanisms, structures (Florence, L.S. Olschki, 2005). She deals with Latin manuscripts and iconography, as well as coordinating cataloguing projects and analysing manuscripts for digitisation in the Digital Vatican Library. She has collaborated on exhibition catalogues, facsimile commentaries and publications on Vatican manuscripts (Libri d’Ore, Palatini manuscripts, liturgical manuscripts, fragments in beneventana); she edited the Bibliography of the manuscript collections of the Vatican Library in exhibition catalogues (1998-2015), Vatican City 2017 (Studi e testi. 510), the third volume of Storia della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (La Vaticana nel Seicento (1590-1700): una Biblioteca di biblioteche, Vatican City 2014), in which she is also the author of two contributions, the commentary to the facsimile of the Libro d’Ore of Gregory XIII, Vat. lat. 3767 (Modena, ArtCodex, 2018), contributions to the volume The Process for the Digitization of Manuscripts in the Vatican Library 8Città del Vaticano 2024) and to various conferences.

Richard Holt is Professor emeritus in Medieval History at the University of Tromsø, Norway’s Arctic University. Born in Lowestoft in eastern England in 1948, he was awarded bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Birmingham, where he was employed before taking up a post at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He was Professor of Medieval History at Tromsø from 2001 until he retired in 2015. He has published extensively on medieval urbanisation in the early and high Middle Ages, and on town life, with an emphasis on the economic and social implications and consequences of urban growth. He has also conducted important analyses of the phases of town planning in several early English towns, identifying the separate roles of royal and ecclesiastical authorities. In addition to his work on towns, Holt has established a reputation in the field of medieval technology, with major publications on the use and limitations of the use of waterpower and windpower. On moving to Tromsø, he was one of the founders of the interdisciplinary research group Creating the New North (of which he is still a member) which aims to develop a new understanding of how the most northerly areas of Europe grew from a situation of open interaction between different ethnic groups in the early Middle Ages to one which saw them become northern peripheries subject to emerging national states with administrative centres further south. Querini’s visit to Røst, and what we can learn about fifteenth-century northern Norway’s relations with the wider world, are of great relevance to the work of the group.

Dorthe Eide is a Full Professor at Nord University Business School specializing in organization, management, and innovation. She holds a doctorate in political science, focusing on practice-based knowledge and learning, and has extensive teaching experience at bachelor, master, and PhD levels. Eide leads research on innovation in tourism, cultural experiences, and sustainability, managing multiple externally funded projects, including Sami tourism and World Heritage destinations. Her scholarly contributions include over 30 publications on sustainable tourism, innovation networks, and experience design. Additionally, she has served on strategic boards like Visit Norway and is actively involved in cultural and educational initiatives such as Bodø 2024, the Cultural Capital project.

Antonello Alici is graduated in 1986 from the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, he is a researcher of History of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona. He has been Visiting Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki, at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and at Silpakorn University in Bangkok. He is a member of the National Observatory for Landscape Quality of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. He is the promoter and coordinator of the international summer school ‘The Culture of the City. Understanding the Urban Landscape’, aimed at studying the contemporary urban landscape. He coordinates the international research group on ‘Italy and the Nordic Architects’, concerning the study of the relationships and mutual influences between Italian culture and that of the Nordic countries, with a focus on the arts and architecture. His privileged areas of research include Finnish architecture from National Romanticism to the post-World War II period.

Silvia Beltramo is an Architec and a researcher, also she has PhD in the history of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin; lecturer in history at the Faculty of Architecture, where she was a research fellow for several years. She conducts research in the field of the history of the city and architecture in the medieval and modern age, with a particular focus on the study of the historical landscape and historical construction techniques. She has been an expert evaluator for the Council of Europe of European Cultural Routes since 2012; in this capacity, she has participated in numerous European meetings and seminars on the topics of landscape and cultural routes. She has conceived and implemented several European projects (Interreg and cooperation programmes) related to cultural heritage, following the preliminary and implementation phases in the context of her assignments at SiTI-Politecnico di Torino and Compagnia San Paolo. She is the author of numerous essays and articles on the themes of urban history and medieval and modern architecture in Piedmont and Italy, also published internationally. From 2009 to 2014 she was a member and president of the Saluzzo Local Landscape Commission and from 2010 to 2011 of the Po Valley Local Landscape Commission. She is the creator and scientific advisor (together with Paolo Bovo) for the Saluzzocittà storica e di paesaggio project. She is a founding member and vice-president of the cultural associations SassiVivaci (since 2001) and Piemonte Medievale (since 2015).

Hermenegildo (Nuno Goinhas) Fernandes is Full Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL),where he was elected Dean in 2024, and a researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon. His research focuses on the transitions from Islamic to Christian societies in medieval western Iberia, dealing mainly with the integration of Islamicinstitutions, both economic and territorial, in the Christian kingdom of Portugal. More recently, he has also concentrated on the history of medieval universities and was, subsequently, PI of a project funded by the FCT: "OECONOMIA STUDII. Funding, management and resources of the Portuguese university: a comparative analysis (13th-16th centuries)" (PTDC/EPH-HIS/3154/2014).Among his recent publications, one can highlight the work, co-authored by Flocel Sabaté, "Muslim and Christian polities, 700-1200",in An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula 700-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and "Models of Funding, StateInstitutions and Economic Trends in Universities (14th-16th centuries)", in CIAN-Revista de Historia de las Universidades 24 1 (2021).Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of a project under the COST Program (EUNIVERCITIES) [SUBMITTED], focusing on buildingnetworks of cities, scholars, and knowledge in the second millennium. In addition, he has been actively involved in various researchinitiatives, including the projects iForal, MEDCRAFTS, DEGRUPE, CODOLPOR, and PROGRESSORE, the Programme for the study ofEuropean Rural Societies, under the Cost A35. Throughout his career, Hermenegildo Fernandes has held various academic leadership positions within the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, including Vice-Dean (2009-2013); Director of the Centre for History (2012-2019); and Director of the Area of History (History, Art History, Archaeology) (2020-2024), and has supervised eight doctoral theses and twenty-one master's theses.