Eva van Kemenade
Eva van Kemenade is a Joint PhD Candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at 糖心TV and the University of Amsterdam (2020-2024), co-supervised by Prof. David Lines, Prof. Ingrid De Smet and dr. Maartje van Gelder. Her doctoral project, 鈥�Public Festive Rituals in Space, Senses and Print in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bologna鈥�, investigates the political implications of popular festive rituals in the urban context of Bologna. Her research combines popular politics with spatial, sensorial and book history, by focusing on these festivals' (political) meaning through space, vision, smell, touch and sound, as well as print.
Eva van Kemenade studied history and philosophy at the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales (pre-PhD), University of Amsterdam (rMA), University of Groningen and Universit茅 Paris-Sorbonne IV (BA). She has held various research fellowships, amongst others at the 脡cole fran莽aise de Rome (EFR) and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). In 2018-2019 she was awarded the Prix de Paris by the French Embassy of the Netherlands and the Fondation Prix de Paris for her research on popular festivals in sixteenth and seventeenth century Lyon.
She is a research fellow and lecturer in manuscript and book history at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.
Her research interests include public rituals, early modern power relations, artisanal and popular urban culture, spatial politics and book history.
Email: eva.van-kemenade@warwick.ac.uk
Publications
- 鈥楶olitics at Play: The Joyful Company of the Book Printers and Carnivalesque Street Theatre in Early Modern Lyon鈥�, in Marc Jaffr茅, Bram van Leuveren, and Alex Robinson, Marginalised Voices and Figures in French Festival Culture, 1500鈥�1800 (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming)
- 鈥楳arginalised Voices in French Festival Culture鈥�, The Court Historian, No. 27.1 (2022)
- 鈥楥odifying the Genre of Early Modern Guidebooks: Oskar Pollak, Ludwig Schudt and the Creation of Le Guide di Roma (1930)鈥� with Arnold Witte, Niels Graaf and Jo毛lle Terburg in Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota (eds.) Rome and the Guidebook Tradition: From the Middle Ages to the 20th century (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019): pp. 313-338.
Teaching
- 鈥楳ining Library Treasures: KNIR's rare books collection鈥� (2017-present, teacher and coordinator, BA/(R)MA course taught on location in Italy at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR))
- FR122: 鈥楩rench Cultural Landmarks: Love, Language and Power鈥� (2021-present, seminar tutor)
- RS201 & RS301: 鈥楻enaissance Europe II: Movement, Revolution, and Conflict鈥� (2021-present, seminar tutor)
Conference papers
- 'Ritualized Food Practices in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Bologna', FOOD! Gastronomic Discourse in Early Modern Europe International Workshop, Medici Archive Project, Florence (20 January 2023)
- 鈥楽patial Politics, Festivals and the Catholic Reformation in Early Modern Bologna: Gabriele Paleotti and the Decennali Eucaristiche Processions鈥�, European Association of Urban History Conference 2022, Antwerp (August-September 2022).
- 鈥楥reating political identities through smell, taste and touch: the Festa della porchetta in early modern Bologna鈥�, Renaissance Society of America, Dublin (March-April 2022)
- 鈥楧emarginalising Popular Street Theatre: Louis Garon, Les Plaisants devis (1568-1601) and Colloque des trois supposts du Seigneur de la Coquille (1610)鈥� Marginalised Voices and Figures in French Festival Culture, 1500鈥�1800, King's College London (24-25 April 2021)
- 鈥楾ruth and Falsehood in Politicised Street Theatre in Renaissance Lyon鈥�, Conf茅rence Vrai et faux 脿 la Renaissance, Centre d鈥櫭塼udes Sup茅rieures de la Renaissance, Universit茅 de Tours (May 2019)
- 鈥楾he Powerplay of Popular Festivals in 16th and 17th Century Lyon鈥�, Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Prato, Italy (December 2018)
- 鈥楨arly Modern Guide Books to Rome鈥�, Nacht van Rome, De Balie, Amsterdam (May 2017)
- 鈥楥ollecting Guide books in Early Twentieth-Century Rome: The Case of Oskar Pollak鈥�, Rome Modern Italy Seminar, in collaboration with the 脡cole Fran莽aise de Rome, British School at Rome and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (December 2016)
Talks
- 鈥楩estive rituals and food in early modern Italy鈥�, Community course, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of 糖心TV (June 2022)
- 鈥楨xpos茅 de recherche鈥�, Journ茅e des laur茅ats, Residency of French ambassador in the Netherlands, (27 June 2019)
- 鈥楧iscours de r茅sistance: faits d鈥櫭ヽriture, faits d鈥檋istoire鈥�, Scientific contest 鈥楲a n茅cessit茅 de l'innovation鈥�, Italian Embassy of France, Paris (11 April 2019)
- 鈥楧iscours laur茅ate鈥�, Remise du Prix de Paris 2018, L鈥橢chapp茅e Belle, Amsterdam (23 Nov. 2018)