English
15-18 July 2014, Wolfenbüttel
UPDATE: This event has already happened. Click here to read the Conference Report.
The aim of this first international Marrying Cultures workshop is to bring together scholars from universities, museums and libraries who work on the material aspects of cultural exchange for an intense exchange of ideas. The format of the conference, with short talks on a single object or relevant consort or collection, is designed to provide ample time for general discussion on methodology and approaches to working on the history of the cultural contribution of dynastic consorts.
This emphasis on methodology is intended to provide members of the Marrying Cultures team with a forum in which to tease out the theoretical problems involved in conducting research on persons and objects which inhabited very different notions of identity and culture our own: ‘foreign’ and ‘national’, for example, are not terms which translate well across the centuries; and understanding terms which early modern people took as foundational to their culture - ‘dynasty’, for example - can prove exceptionally challenging to scholars. To engage with these problems, each speaker will comment on an item of their work, focusing on issues which they feel are unresolved, the challenges posed by the source material, and how they would alter their approach to the material now in light of advances in theory.
Workshop Programme
15th July 2014 |
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| 15.00-16.00 | Tour of the library for conference participants |
| 18.00-19.15 | Public lecture by Clarissa Campbell Orr: Exhibiting the Mind: material culture versus intellectual networks? Main Hall of the Bibliotheca Augusta Read the abstract |
| 19.30 | Buffet and reception |
16th July 2014 |
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| 9.00-10.30 | Introduction to the Marrying Cultures research project: Helen Watanabe O’Kelly, Jill Bepler, Almut Bues, Elise Dermineur, Adam Morton, Svante Norrhem, Maria Skiba, Urszula Zachara-Związek |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Volker Bauer: Some thoughts on cultural exchange Round table discussion:
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| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-16.00 | Cultural transfer - exemplary collections and objects
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| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-18.00 | Cultural transfer - exemplary collections and objects
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17th July 2014 |
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| 9.00-10.30 | Cultural transfer in travel and fashion
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| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Cultural transfer and case studies
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| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-15.30 | Cultural transfer and case studies
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| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.30 | Final discussion and summary |
| 19.00 | Buffet |
