University of Cambridge
Keynes Library
20. – 23.09.2017
Collections, Displays & the Agency of Objects
The Cambridge Union Society
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
PROGRAM
September 20, 2017
Moderator: Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge)
6 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
10:30-10:45am 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
2-4pm Encounters with Objects
Moderator: Wolfgang Holler (Klassik Stiftung Weimar)
4:15-5 pm
Eelco Nagelsmit (ETH Zürich)
Interiority on Display: Models of Holy Sites in Halle Pietism
5-5:45 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)
9-9:45 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
10:30-11am Coffee Break
11-11:45 am
Dario Gamboni (Université de Genève)
Ready-made Eye-opener: Models, Functions and Meanings of the Ironwork in Albert C. Barnes’s Displays
2-4pm Encounters with Objects
Moderator: Valérie Kobi (Universität Bielefeld)
4:15-5 pm
Noémie Étienne (Universität Bern)
Unfolding the Specimen. Display and Diorama in New York, 1900
5-5:45 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
Conference organized by :
Universität Bielefeld
University of Cambridge
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Reference: CONF: Collections, Displays & the Agency of Objects (Cambridge, 20-23 Sep 17). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 19, 2017. <https://arthist.net/archive/16130>.