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21-23 April 2016, Warsaw
UPDATE: This event has already happened. Click here to read the Conference Report.
Aims: The focus here will be on points of conflict arising from the queen consort’s presence in her new court. These may be religious (consorts were often of a different faith to that of their husband and new country); personal (rivalries with mistresses or favourites); diplomatic; or political.
Elucidating what these frictions tell us a) about the specific context in which they occur; and b) about the problems, limitations and challenges of cultural transfer more broadly, will be a central part of this workshop. This workshop will also consider (in a broader sense) whether ‘success’ and ‘failure’ are adequate and helpful terms in assessing the impact of Queens consort.
This workshop will be tied to two other events:
- an exhibition on queens consort to be held in Poland
- an educational event with local schools
Workshop Programme
Thursday 21st April 2016 | |
| 14.00 | Visit to Wilanów Palace |
| 18.00 | Opening of the exhibition |
Friday 22nd April 2016 | |
| 9.00 | Frictions and Failures Chiara Franceschini (London/New York) - Le due parti della corte. Female courts, projects and failures in and outside Italy, c. 1450-1650 Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford) - Dealing with ‘the Other Woman’: the consort and her mother-in-law Coffee Grethe Jacobsen (Copenhagen) - A room and a life of her own: Queen Christine (1461-1521) of Denmark during the last decade of her marriage (1503-1513) Orsolya Réthelyi (Budapest) - muess hindurch Maister oder knecht zu werden! Mary of Hungary (1505-1558) and the reinvention of the queen’s court in late medieval Buda |
| 13.00 | Visit to the Royal Castle in Warsaw Coffee with sandwiches |
| 15.30 | Queens of Sweden Svante Norrhem (Lund) - Ideological friction and political crisis: Queen Luise Ulrike of Sweden and a failed coup d’état Elise Dermineur (Uppsala/Umeå) - Pride and prejudice: Luise Ulrike of Sweden, the Pomeranian War and the question of loyalty Malin Grundberg (Stockholm) - ‘Equal representation of men and women’. The new permanent exhibition of the Royal Armoury in Stockholm |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner at Ujazdów Castle |
Saturday 23rd April 2016 | |
| 9.00 | Polish Queens and Princesses Robert Frost (Aberdeen) - Marrying out: the queenship problem in the Polish-Lithuanian Union from Jadwiga to Marie Louise Gonzague de Nevers Ewa Kociszewska (Oxford) - Woman with a past: adventures, reputation, and penitence of Marie Louise Gonzague de Nevers, Queen of Poland Coffee Maria Skiba (Wolfenbüttel) - La Principessa è molto compita. Anna Catharina Constantia Vasa and failed dynastic networking Aneta Markuszewska (Warszawa) - ‘And all this because of the weakness of your sex.’ Marital vicissitudes of Maria Klementyna Sobieska Stuart, wife of the Old Pretender to the English throne Lunch buffet |
| 14.00 | East West Frictions? Giedrė Mickūnaitė (Vilnius/Oxford) - United by blood, divided by faith: Helena of Muscovy and Alexander Jagiellon Miia Ijäs (Tampere) - Catherine Jagiellon (1526-1583) and the keys to new diplomacy Coffee Jill Bepler (Wolfenbüttel) - Marriage markets and risk assessment: the lure of the Russian Empire at the turn of the Eighteenth Century Leslie Peirce (New York) - Hurrem Sultan - Polish captive, Ottoman queen Closing session |
