Mediterranean Renaissance: Art, Literature, Culture

This BIP offers a reassessment of the European Renaissance as a basis to rebuild cultural foundations both in terms of its internal dynamics, as in view of the cultural and geographical links between the mainland and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Renaissance stems from the encounter of the rediscovery of antiquity and the geographical and intellectual expansion of civic life, from the encounter of the eastern Greek culture with the western Latin tradition, from the fall of Constantinople (1453) and the discovery of the Indias; from the recovery of the classical world with Petrarch and Erasmus to the mathematical construction of the new future of Luca Pacioli, Copernicus and Kepler, from Savonarola to Luther: it encompasses the very heart of the European cultural tradition and it is essential as a founding moment of our cultural heritage.

• Mediterranean Studies: Diachronic and Intercultural Perspectives
  
• Heritage and Global Epistemologies
• Multicultural and Multilingual Communication and Education
• Interdisciplinarity

The course will be promoting the exchange of knowledge, ideas and discussions on the European Renaissance; creating bonds among partner institutions, academics and students, offer networking opportunities; supporting learning/ research collaboration or strategies; managing a variety of sources and materials to understand the Renaissance.

The workshop sessions and keynote lectures will mainly be held in Aix-en-Provence. The students will be able to discuss together and with the lecturers various aspects of the Renaissance dealt with during the whole BIP.

Study-visits organized both in Aix-en-Provence and in Marseille will allow to discover some of the most important cultural institutions of both cities.

A study-visit will be organized to explore the Renaissance in another part of Provence.

All these activities are intended to further the understanding of the Renaissance by discussing topics and sharing views which also aims at developing communication skills.

The visits, keynotes and workshops are intended to discover other aspects of the Renaissance and to be a way for the students to put into practice the knowledge acquired during the virtual part and the preparation of their written work.

The virtual part will take place between 3 February - 14 April 2027, on Wednesdays. 

• 7 online sessions of classes and lectures on different topics (listed below) allowing to explore the Renaissance through a variety of disciplines;
• 2 online tutoring sessions mainly for the preparation of the written work that will be handed in after the virtual part for assessment.

Sessions' schedule:

• 3 February: 15:30 - 18:00 CET
• 10 February: 15:30 - 18:00 CET
• 17 February: 15:30 - 18:00 CET
• 24 February: 15:30 - 18:00 CET
• 10 March: 15:30 - 17:30 CET - tutoring
• 17 March: 15:30 - 18:00 CET
• 31 March: 15:30 - 18:00 CET
• 7 April: 15:00 - 18:00 CET - final session
• 14 April: 15:30 - 17:30 CET - tutoring

Sessions' topics:

• Renaissance Literature
• Renaissance exchanges and diplomacy
• Women in the Renaissance
• Renaissance maps, geography, travel
• Classical tradition and the Renaissance
• Renaissance arts (visual arts and music)
• Printed books during the Renaissance.

• 1 written work to be handed in after the virtual part and that will be the basis for discussions and exchanges with all the students and teachers during the physical part;
• 1 written essay to be handed in after the physical part.

Motivation Letter

CV

The applications will be evaluated based on the relevance of the field of studies of the applicants, and of their motivations for taking the course, with the main core of the BIP.

• Sophie-Bérangère Singlard, Aix-Marseille Université
• Lorenzo Bartoli, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  
• Francesco Lucioli, Sapienza Università di Roma
  
• Vassiliki Koutsobina, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Georgios Pelidis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Margarita Vázquez Manassero, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Alexandra Litu, University of Bucharest
• Emilio Russo, Sapienza Università di Roma
• Marco Ruffini, Sapienza Università di Roma
• Gerassimos Pagratis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
• Leila Maziane, Université Hassan II de Casablanca
• Abdelwahed Mokni, Université de Sfax