Event

We invite you to a presentation by Dr. Alessandro Mulieri, Global Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.

This talk aims to present the research proposal OTHREN (‘Othering the Renaissance. Conceptualizing Foreigners, Slaves, and Infidels in Early Modern Political Thought, ca. 1520-1610’), which has been funded within a Global Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship in the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission and will be hosted at the University of Pennsylvania and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice between 2022 and 2025. The project aims to study how six Aristotelian authors who lived ca. between 1520 and 1610 (Antonio Brucioli, Piero Vettori, Giovanni Botero, Francisco Vitoria, Juan Sepulveda, Lucrezia Marinelli) theorized otherness and dealt with outcasts in their political works. The talk will be divided into three different parts. First, it will focus on the origins of the OTHREN project and situate its main idea within the recent debates of different academic fields (ranging from history of philosophy to intellectual history, history of political thought, and post-colonial studies). Second, the presentation will outline the main research objectives of this project and explain the research output as well as the dissemination and communication activities that are included in OTHREN. Third, the talk will provide a comprehensive overview of the methodology and the different divisions of tasks that are involved in the implementation of this project.