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07/02/2021 | Campus-Meldung

Virtual Italy Day 2021: Venice Myth

The seventh Italy Day, hosted by the Italy Network at the University of Kassel on June 17, reached an international audience as a virtual conference and was a complete success. The theme this year was "Venice - a myth in history, art and literature".

The virtual seventh Italy Day was attended by some 150 participants from far beyond Kassel and Germany, including Wuppertal, Freiburg, Frankfurt, Oxford, Venice, Florence and Cremona. The speakers considered the myths that have always accompanied the city of Venice: its rise as a medieval metropolis, a trading power and a 'city of artists and thinkers', before the lagoon city finally developed into one of the most important tourist destinations in the world. Thus, today the city faces new problems, to whose sustainable solution innovative research perspectives as well as an interdisciplinary and culturally semiotic tourism science can contribute. Exciting insights and lively discussions about Venice's past, present and future emerged from the presentations.

The Italy Day of the Italy Network of the University of Kassel imparts intercultural competences, prepares for international cooperation and promotes a European awareness.

Speakers and topics:

Irmgard Fees: Venice - the rise of the city to a medieval metropolis

Hans Aurenhammer: Andrea Palladio and Venice: moments of a difficult relationship

Robert Faje: The aristocratic city: Venice and the patriciate

Rembert Eufe: Non s'a degniato mai à scriver una letera in termene de sie ani - Venice and the Venetian in the Mediterranean

Marita Liebermann: Venice and mass tourism - cultural semiotic perspectives on a polarizing discourse

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner
Chair of Medieval History
University of Kassel
Department 05 Social Sciences
Nora-Platiel-Str. 1, Room 3307
34109 Kassel

Tel: +49 561 804-3104
eMail: ibaum@uni-kassel.de