Collections, Displays & The Agency of Objects
Keynes Library, The Cambridge Union Society
20/09/2017 – 23/09/2017
Conference organized as part of the BMBF project Parerga and Paratexts – How Things Enter Language. Practices and Forms of Presentation in Goethe’s Collections in collaboration with the Department of Art History in Cambridge.
September 20, 2017
6:00 pm : Welcome & Introduction
6:30 pm : Opening Lecture. Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center), Display Displayed
September 21, 2017
Moderator: Johannes Grave (Universität Bielefeld)
9 – 9:45 am : Ruth Bielfeldt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Do Things Talk? On the Practice of Epigraphein in Greek Sanctuaries
9:45 – 10:30 am : Elsje van Kessel (University of St. Andrews), The Street as Frame
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30 am : Peter Schade (National Gallery, London), The Framing of Sebastiano del Piombo’s The Raising of Lazarus
11:30 am – 12:15 pm : Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University of London), Staging Belief: Immersive Encounters and the Agency of Religious Art in 18th-Century Paris
Encounters with Objects
Moderator: Wolfgang Holler (Klassik Stiftung Weimar)
4:15 – 5:00 pm : Eelco Nagelsmit (ETH Zürich), Interiority on Display: Models of Holy Sites in Halle Pietism
5:00 – 5:45 pm : Thomas Schmuck (Klassik Stiftung Weimar), Vestiges of Earth History. Objects and Order in Goethe’s Geological Collections
5:45 – 6:30 pm : Diana Stört (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Goethe’s Cabinets as Epistemic Furniture
September 22, 2017
Moderator: Cindy Kang (The Barnes Collection)
9:00 – 9:45 am : Mechthild Fend (University College London), Order and Affect. The Museum of Dermatological Wax Moulages at the Hôpital Saint Louis in Paris
9:45 – 10:30 am : Juliet Carey (Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection), Staging Things: Framing the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 am : Dario Gamboni (Université de Genève), Ready-made Eye-opener: Models, Functions and Meanings of the Ironwork in Albert C. Barnes’s Displays
Encounters with Objects
Moderator: Valérie Kobi (Universität Bielefeld)
4:15 – 5:00 pm : Noémie Étienne (Universität Bern), Unfolding the Specimen. Display and Diorama in New York, 1900
5:00 – 5:45 pm : Angela Matyssek (Philipps-Universität Marburg), Death by/Life by Wall Label
Final Discussion & Conclusions
Conference venue : Keynes Library, The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB
Contact, Information & Registration : displayagencyconference17@gmail.com
Registration is open until September 10, 2017.
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