English
15-18 April 2015, Oxford
UPDATE: This event has already happened. Click here to read the Conference Report.
Aims: The focus here will be on the impact which consorts had on their new courts and the extent to which they were active agents of cultural transfer or mere instruments or catalysts. A major aim of the workshop will be to consider if any common patterns and trends can be discerned between the experiences of different consorts and to outline what this tells us about political culture and gender relations at court more broadly.
Exeter College
Turl Street
Oxford
OX1 3DP
Workshop Programme
Wednesday 15th April 2015 | |
| 17.00 | Public Lecture: Taylor Institution Room 2 Maureen Cassidy-Geiger (Dora Maar/Brown Foundation Fellow, Menerbes, France): Gender, Dynasty and the Politics of Porcelain: the Fact and Impact of Meissen Gifts to Sweden, Naples, Vienna and Paris, 1732-50 Buffet supper and drinks in the Rector’s Lodgings, Exeter College |
Thursday 16th April 2015: Cultural Opportunities | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Constructing an Image Anna-Marie Linnell (Exeter University) - The Construction of British Queenship in Succession Texts Adam Morton (Newcastle University) – Majesty through Bad Images: Catherine of Braganza and the Withdrawal of the Restoration Monarchy |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Marriages Good and Bad Britta Kägler (LMU Munich) - Brides, consorts and their foreign households in Munich: cultural transfer between success and tension Tracey Sowerby (Oxford University) – The Cultural Agency of Henry VIII’s Foreign Queens |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-15.30 | Marital Cultural Partnerships Katrin Keller (Vienna University) - Princess and prince as working couple: Court culture in Dresden in the second half of the sixteenth century Andrew Barclay (History of Parliament) - Mary of Modena: the Queen in the Shadows? |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-17.30 | Widowhood Almut Bues (DHI, Warsaw) - Cultural Opportunities for Widows - The Example of Zofia Jagiellonska David Parrott (Oxford University) - Anne of Austria: changing fortunes of a Queen Regent and Queen Mother, 1643-1666 |
Friday 17th April 2015: Cultural Achievements | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Art and Architecture Catharine MacLeod (National Portrait Gallery) – Facing Europe: the portraiture of Anne of Denmark Jacqueline van Gent (UWA, Australia) - Orange-Nassau women and their collections and displays of exotic objects as forms of dynastic power |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Science and Learning Margherita Palumbo - The Book Collection of the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover Emma Jay (National Archives, UK) – Philosopher-queens: the libraries of Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737) and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818) |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-15.30 | Dance and Music Sara Smart (Exeter University, UK) – Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Preussen: Monarchic Design and Cultural Opportunity Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarminska (Institute of Arts and Sciences, Warsaw) – Habsburg Queens of Poland and music at the Polish royal court at the end of 16th and in the 17th century |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.30 | Meeting of scholars of Poland with members of the Oxford Jagiellonian Project |
| 17.30-18.00 | Music for Consorts, Exeter College Chapel Maria Skiba (soprano), David Allen (organ) |
| 18.00 | Drinks and supper in Exeter College Dining Hall |
Saturday 18th April 2015 | |
| 09.00-12.00 | Team Meeting Marrying Cultures Project |
