La Sfera Events

Public Events 

Coming Up!

CEB and LKM, "The World in the Renaissance: Digital Tools and Primary Sources." A teacher-training workshop sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida, 8 March 2025. 

Past

CEB and LKM. "The Sfera Project: Florentine Cosmology in the Computer Age." Medieval Academy of America Centennial Digital Humanities Showcase, 24 January 2025 (virtual).

CEB and LKM with Jessica Maier (Mount Holyoke) and Chet Van Duzer (University of Rochester). Imagining the World in the Italian Renaissance. A public outreach event sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Gulf Coast Italian Culture Society. Mildred Sainer Pavilion, New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida, December 5, 2024.

Conference presentations and lectures

Carrie Beneš:

(forthcoming) "Dati’s Sfera: Between Merchants, Mapmakers, and Humanists," part of “Mappings at Leeds”, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2025.

“The 15th-Century Globe (La sfera) between Manuscript and Print”, Early Modern Rome 5, Rome, Italy, 14 November 2024.

“The Analysis & Presentation of Global Knowledge in the Manuscript Tradition of Dati’s Sfera,” Spatial Humanities 2024, Bamberg, Germany, 26 September 2024.

“Immaginare La sfera: Mercanti, mappe e manoscritti nell’Italia del primo Quattrocento,” invited presentation to the Circolo medievistico romano, Rome, Italy, 11 December 2023. 

Repeated as “Imagining The Globe: Digital Approaches to Merchants, Mapping, & Manuscripts,” invited lecture for the Warburg Institute, London, 18 January 2024.

“Florence in Tunis, Ancona on the Black Sea: An Italian Geography of the Mediterranean in Goro Dati’s La sfera”, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 4 July 2023. 

“Armchair Merchant and Vulgar Humanist: Goro Dati, 15th-Century Florence, and the Imagined East.” Invited presentation to the St Louis University Crusade Studies Forum, 24 March 2023.

“Assessing Audience in the Manuscript Tradition of Dati’s La sfera,” New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, 5 March 2022. (Part of a set of 2 panels.)

“New Technologies IV: Digital Collaborative Editing Best Practices: The View from La sfera” (roundtable panelist). Renaissance Society of America (virtual), 15 April 2021.

Laura Morreale:

with Amanda Madden, "Digital La sfera: Florentine Cosmology in the Computer Age," invited presentation at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy, 19 September 2024

“Transcription’s Children: The La Sfera Challenge and What Came After,” invited presentation for Between Technology and Theory: Digital Humanities Projects in Progress, The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, (virtual), 9 June 2022. 

"A Textbook for Merchants’ Sons: How La Sfera navigated the pandemic world online,', Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities Between Italy and the World, Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies Conference, New York, New York, 26 March 2022.