The Oxford-Venice Initiative: Collaborations with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini

A new series of collaborations between Oxford Humanities and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice), generously funded by the John Fell OUP Fund.

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini  is one of Venice’s principal cultural and research institutions. Based on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, it has a capacious and well-appointed residential center for visiting scholars (the Vittore Branca Center), and its libraries have important holdings in history, history of art, literature, music, theatre and photography, with particular emphasis on Venice and its relations with the rest of the world.

Application are currently on hold. If further calls are possible in the future they will be published on here.

Click here to browse the Cini libraries’ online catalogue

Click here to see a short film about the Branca Centre 

Click here to see more about Harriet Boyd-Bennett's research project.

Click here to see more about Luca Zenobi's research project.

Click here to see more about Erin Maglaque's research project.

If you have questions relating to this series of collaborations between Oxford Humanities and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, please contact the principal investigator in Oxford, Professor Richard Scholar: richard.scholar@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk