Benjamin Ringot (Centre de recherche du château de Versailles) : « VERSPERA Project : Versailles From Historical Records to Virtual Worlds » (Thursday, 17 April 2025 18:00 CET)
The VERSPERA project, led by the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, is an ambitious research initiative dedicated to the preservation, digitisation, and valorisation of 17th- and 18th-century plans of the Versailles estate.
This initiative not only aims to protect fragile documents housed in the Archives nationales de France and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, but also opens the way for new scholarly insights. Central to its success are 3D reconstructions developed by the Laboratoire ÉTIS and students from Cergy Paris Université, which enable the recreation of lost or projected spaces, offering a deeper understanding of the Palace’s history.
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Benjamin Ringot is Research Coordinator at the Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, overseeing the Research, Trainings and Conferences activities. More specifically, he coordinates the ‘Networks and sociability at the court of France, 17th-18th century’ research programme and its ‘Prosocour’ database, which lists individuals who gravitated to the French court from Louis XIV to Louis XVI and aims to study sociability networks at court. He is also a member of the scientific team behind research projects such as VERSPERA and IMMERSAILLES. Finally, he teaches at the École du Louvre, where he co-supervises Masters students in the ‘Versailles’ research group.
Ludovic Jouvet (Austrian Academy of Sciences) : « The Medal Cabinets in the Habsburg Monarchy » (Thursday, 15 May 2025, 18:00 CET)
Medal Cabinets appear as instruments of a prestige policy and the most appropriate setting to house the Prince’s metallic history. Although the history of the collections and their administrative organisation is now better understood, the role of these spaces within palace architecture and the significance of their decoration have not received the same attention from historians.
This conference, based on a work-in-progress project, focuses on coin and medal cabinets within the Habsburg Monarchy from the 15th century to the end of the 18th century across the Empire, encompassing Habsburg possessions as well as the Holy Roman Empire. Taking Vienna as the centre of Habsburg power, the project will examine both the cabinets of princely courts (e.g., in Dresden, Gotha, Karlsruhe, Munich) and major abbeys favoured by imperial authority and holding numismatic collections, such as Göttweig and Sankt Florian.
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Ludovic Jouvet is a postdoctoral researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, Austria) and a lecturer at the University of Vienna. His research focuses particularly on the history of small-scale sculpture and the history of collections in the early modern period.
The Society for Court Studies launched the ‘Virtual Scholarship Series’ in 2020, which is organised by the European branch. Currently, the scholarship series consists of seminars, workshops, roundtable discussions, and interviews with scholars. The programme for the Virtual Scholarship Series can be found here, with further details provided through the registration link listed : https://courtstudies.org/events/virtual-scholarship-series/
It is essential that all those who wish to attend these digital seminars to register in advance.
The virtual series takes place via Zoom on a Thursday each month at 18:00 CET (17:00 GMT), unless otherwise noted below.
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