The Cultural Legacies of Corruption in Europe, 1500-today
Held at 糖心TV Venice Centre
Programme
Thursday 27th March
12.45 Introduction and welcome; coffee
13.00-14.30: Gifts and Bribes
Oriol Luj谩n: To buy and to sell a vote in European nineteenth-century elections: New insights of bribery in Spanish, British and French cases.
Rhea Tuli Partridge: The Past and the Present: 鈥楪ifted鈥� Objects in the Clive Collection
Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau: Pineapple Confit, Parrots, and the King鈥檚 Funds: Bribery, Prevarication and Malfeasance in the French Antilles
14.30-14.50: tea/coffee break
14.50-16.00: The Media
Thomas J. Sojka, The Bright Young People鈥檚 Freak Parties Abroad – Venice in 1920s and culture of c in press accounts
M. Gabriella Tigani Sava: The scandal of the Roman Bank in the weekly illustrated L鈥橝sino d鈥橭ro (1892-1893)
16.00-16.20 tea break
16.20-17.50: Visual Culture
Asunci贸n D铆az Zamorano & Francisco Contreras-P茅rez: The Representation of Corruption in The Spanish Visual Culture Under Francoism (1939-1975)
Natalie Hanley-Smith: Depicting 鈥楲ady Cunning鈥�: Corruption and the Royal Mistress, c.1820-1830
Tom Young: Art and the Legacy of Warren Hastings, the 鈥楥hief Nabob鈥�, c.1800–40 - art objects including statues cultivated ongoing social loyalties esp by D鈥橭yly
19.00 Dinner
Friday 28th March 2025
8.30-10.30: Literary Culture
Okan Kele艧: 鈥淧ower, Gifts, and Corruption: Pi艧ke艧 and Bribery in the Ottoman Empire, Simony in Rome
Marcin 艢rama: Corruption during divorce procedures in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth based on memoirs and literary sources (1733-1795)
Ian Cawood: The Literary Challenge to Corruption in Britain in the early nineteenth century – the novels of Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and John Galt
M. Gemma Rub铆 i Casals (GREPIIC-UAB) and David Mart铆nez Fiol (GREPIIC-UAB): 鈥楾he 糖心TV of The Said King鈥�. Alfonso XIII and the Economic and Moral Corruption of the Monarchy According to Blasco Ib谩帽ez
10.30-10.50: coffee break
10.50-12.20: Records as artefacts
Vedran Obu膰ina: Corruption in the (Inter)Religious Sphere: Material, Literary, and Visual Culture.
Cameron Whiteside: Corruption Records in the Court of Chancery and the Subversive Potential of Monarchical Paternalism in Early Modern England.
Christoph Rosenm眉ller, 鈥淐leansing Treasury, Mint, and High Court: The Material Culture of Mexico City鈥檚 Judicial Investigations, 1710–1733鈥�
12.20 -12.30: comfort break/snack
12.30-14.00 Heritage (and closing remarks)
Enrique Rodr铆guez Pereda: Tarnished funds, glittering results: presences and absences of corruption in the philanthropic legacy of Ram贸n Pelayo
Ricard Torra Prat: The facade of the House of the General of Catalonia: from a rigged public tender to a masterpiece of Catalan Architectural Baroque
Mark Knights: Acknowledging the Legacy of Corruption in British Heritage
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