Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
which has recently been instituted, is hosted at the
Monash
University Centre in Prato, near Florence. Currently
the Consortium consists of six participating institutions,
who all have traditional strengths in medieval and renaissance
studies. Alongside Monash University and the Centre
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University
of Edinburgh, these are:
Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of
Durham Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
University of Toronto
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
and the
Archivio
di Stato, Prato
The inaugural director is Professor Bill Kent (Monash
University), an international authority on the Italian
Renaissance.
The Prato Consortium :
- is premised on a pooling of expertise and skills
to enhance teaching and research in Medieval and Renaissance
Studies
- will cover undergraduate and postgraduate coursework;
higher degree research; collaborative research; the
organisation of conferences and workshops, and publishing
projects
The ways this will be achieved include:
- collaborative teaching at the Monash University
Centre in Prato , and distributed learning based at
the campuses of those institutions involved
- sponsored sessions at conferences pertinent to Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, such as the annual conference
of the Renaissance Society of America; the annual
conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies (Arizona State University); the
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
(The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University),
and the International Medieval Congress (Institute
for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds).
- facilitation of staff and higher degree student
exchange and other opportunities between partner institutions
Latest news :
Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Texts, Objects and Practices, 10th-14th January 2011
This course is designed for postgraduate taught and research students at the University of Edinburgh and taught in conjunction with the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, housed in the Monash University Centre in Prato.
Full information on the course is available on the Medieval and Renaissance Italy website.
For further information about the consortium, please
contact the Edinburgh CMRS Research Director, Dr
Jill Burke.
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