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From the conference program:

Bildnisbuesten der Aufklaerung
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 11—13 September 2013

Registration due by 30 August 2013

Begleitend zur Sonderausstellung „Charakterköpfe. Die Bildnisbüste in der Epoche der Aufklärung“ (6.6.–6.10.2013) behandelt eine internationale Fachtagung das plastische Porträt am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts, ein Zeitalter großer geistiger und politischer Spannungen und Umbrüche. Vorgestellt und diskutiert werden unter anderem Fragen zur Funktion von Porträtbüsten im privaten und öffentlichen Raum, die seit der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts leidenschaftlich geführte
Debatte zur Physiognomik und Charakteristik sowie die florierende Wachsplastik. Einzelstudien beleuchten die Gleichzeitigkeit gegensätzlicher Stile, die sich in den Bildnissen von Regenten, Bürgern, Künstlern und Gelehrten zwischen Ideal und Individualität bewegen wie in kaum einer anderen Epoche. Bislang war das plastische Porträt als repräsentatives Medium ausschließlich dem fürstlichen Stand vorbehalten, in den Jahren nach 1780 gelangt es auch in bürgerlichen Kreisen zu großer Popularität. Die Tagung richtet den Blick außerdem auf die neuen Materialien und Techniken, die diese Verbreitung bis hin zur Anlage umfangreicher Bildnisgalerien förderten.

Bitte melden Sie sich verbindlich bis 30. August an. Es werden keine Tagungsgebühren erhoben. Information und Anmeldung: Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel, charakterkoepfe@gnm.de.

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14:00  G. Ulrich Großmann (Generaldirektor des Germanischen Nationalmuseums): Begrüßung

14:15  Frank Matthias Kammel (Nürnberg): Blickwechsel. Warum man sich mit Bildnisbüsten beschäftigen sollte

14:45  Ulrich Söding (München): Die Heiligenbüste im 18. Jahrhundert. Funktionale und typengeschichtliche Aspekte

15:30  Andrea M. Kluxen (Nürnberg): Gibt es eine aufgeklärte Herrscherbüste? Absolutistische Inszenierung und aufgeklärter Legitimationswechsel

Kaffeepause

16:45  Karin Tebbe (Heidelberg): Das Haupt des Kurfürsten und andere Köpfe aus der Kurpfalz

17:30  Claudia Maué (Nürnberg): Die Porträtbüsten des Kurfürsten Maximilian III. Joseph von Roman Anton Boos

Pause

19:00  Roland Kanz (Bonn): Öffentlicher Abendvortrag:Physiognomik versus Charakteristik. Rollenmodellierungen in Porträtbüsten um 1800

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9:00  Axel Christoph Gampp (Zürich): Ein Wiener Charakterkopf: Franz Christoph von Scheyb (1704–1777)

9:45  Mariana Scheu (Salzburg): Die Hervorhebung des Individuums – Johann Baptist Hagenauers Porträtbüsten in St. Peter in Salzburg

Kaffeepause

11:00  Peter Husty (Salzburg): Porträt des Porträtisten. Ein Blick ins Antlitz des Künstlers und Kunstmäzens Franz Laktanz Graf Firmian (1709–1786)

11:45  Anna Seidel (Hamburg): Bildnisbüsten von Bartolomeo Cavaceppi. Herzog Carl I. von Braunschweig-Lüneburg und König Friedrich II . von Preußen

Mittagspause

14:00  Beatrize Söding (München): Grabmal und plastisches Porträt. Die Denkmäler des 18. Jahrhunderts in der Wiener Schottenkirche

14:45  Ingeborg Schemper (Wien): Gelehrte Köpfe in Wien. Zu den Anfängen ehrenhalber aufgestellter Bildnisbüsten im 18. Jahrhundert und ihrem Kontext

Kaffeepause

16:00  Frank Matthias Kammel (Nürnberg): Der Garten als Denkmalort. Bildnisbüsten in Parks

16:45  Bernd Ernsting (Köln): Wie den Jungen der Tod gebildet. Karl Friedrich Wichmanns Zimmerdenkmal für Henriette Jordan im Kontext privater Memorialkultur um 1800

17:30  Yasmin Doosry (Nürnberg): Papierne Büsten. Die Bildnisbüste im Spiegel von Zeichnung und Druckgraphik

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9:00  Anna Pawlik (Nürnberg): Christian Benjamin Rauschner. Zur Materialvielfalt von bossierten Wachsbildnissen im späten 18. Jahrhundert

9:45  Elisabeth Taube (Nürnberg): Alles nur Wachs? Eine kunsttechnische Studie zu den Wachsbildnissen des 18. Jahrhunderts im Germanischen Nationalmuseum

Kaffeepause

11:00  Doris Lehmann (Bonn): Die Guillotine als Porträtmaschine? Madame Tussauds Wachsköpfe und ihre Vermarktung

11:45  Petra Rau (Frankfurt am Main): Über den Handel mit prominenten Köpfen. Die Kunstmanufakturen in Leipzig, Weimar und Gotha/Altenburg

Mittagspause

13:15  Stefan Schnöll (Wien): Porträtbüsten der Kaiserlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Wien

14:00  Jürgen Klebs (Berlin): Die plastischen Bildnisse Goethes aus seiner Lebenszeit

14:45  Hans Ottomeyer (Berlin): Genies und Heroen. Europäische Galerien und andere Geschichtsforen

15:30  Schlusswort

From the conference programme:

Materializing the Spirit: Spaces, Objects, and Art in the Cultures of Women Religious
Histories of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (HWRBI) 2013 Conference
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, 5–7 September 2013

This conference explores architecture, art, and design produced by and for women religious in Britain and Ireland from the Middle Ages to the present. Keynote speakers are Mary Schoeser on textiles and interiors, and Julian Luxford on medieval convents. Presenters include Emily Gee (English Heritage), Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum), and Helen Hills (York). The conference also includes a thematic tour of the V&A’s collections. Additional information is available at the HWRBI website.

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2.00 – 3.30 Women Religious and the Arts at the V&A
Tessa Murdoch (Acting Keeper of Metalwork, Sculpture, Ceramics and Glass, V&A) will lead a tour of the museum’s collections. Places are limited. Further information on registration.

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9.00  Registration and Refreshments

9.30  Welcome and Introduction

9.45  Session I: Place and Purpose, chaired by Caroline Bowden (QMUL)

• Roderick O’Donnell FSA, ‘The Pugins’ Houses of men and women contrasted’

• Michael O’Boyle (Bluett & O’Donoghue Architects), ‘The nature and character of convent buildings in Ireland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’

• Sue Acheson RSCJ, ‘Space for the Heart: Representing Devotion in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton’

11.15  Break

11.30  Session II: Patrons and Subjects, chaired by Dominic Janes (Birkbeck)

• Tim Knox (Fitzwilliam Museum), ‘A Soldier and a Nun: Two “Ancestral Portraits” of English Sitters by Pietro-Tommaso Labruzzi’

• Patricia Harris CJ, ‘The Mystery of the “Painted Life” of Mary Ward’

• Anselm Nye (QMUL), ‘Artistic and Comic: The cartoon as historical memory amongst the English Dominican Sisters’

1.00  Lunch

2.00  Session III: Material and Immaterial, chaired by Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck)

• Susan O’Brien (Cambridge), ‘A Spirituality Represented: Images of the Holy Child in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, England since 1846’

• Helen Hills (York), ‘Making Religion Matter?’

3.00  Break

3.15  Teaching and Publishing Session

“…Nuns are a remote reality, detached from the world”: The Challenges of Teaching and Researching Female Religious Life, (Session sponsored by History Lab Plus, IHR & Higher Eduction Academy)

5.00  Break

5.15  Keynote I | Mary Schoeser (President, The Textile Society), ‘Fair and beautiful to behold’

6.15  Reception and H-WRBI Annual Meeting

8.00 Conference Dinner

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9.00  Registration and Refreshments

9.30  Session IV: Space and Context, chaired by Lynne Walker (IHR)

• Ellie Pridgeon (Leicester), ‘Space and Location: The Cloister Paintings at Lacock Abbey’

• Deirdre Raftery (UCD), ‘ “Cover the Earth with Houses”: The form and function of the convents of the Society of
the Sacred Heart in nineteenth-century Ireland, North and South’

• Brenda King (The Textile Society), ‘Stitch and Stone’

11.00  Break

11.30  Session V: Symbolism and Devotion, chaired by Jane Hamlett (RHUL)

• Kate Jordan (UCL), ‘Artists Hidden from Human View: Mysticism and Art in the Victorian Convent’

• Ayla Lepine (Yale), ‘”The Story of a Life”: Nuns at the Epicentre of Modern Visual Culture’

12.30  Lunch

1.30  Session VI: Heritage and Preservation, chaired by Emily Gee (English Heritage)

• Abbot Geoffrey Scott (Catholic Archives Society), ‘The Archives and Collections of English Nuns Deposited at Douai Abbey’

• Frederick O’Dwyer (Conservation architect), ‘Historic Irish Convents, Redundancy and Reuse’

• Sophie Andreae (Vice Chair, Bishop’s Conference Patrimony Committee), ‘Important Artefacts: Some Recent Case Studies’

• Emily Gee (English Heritage, Head of Designation), ‘Reflections on the Heritage Landscape’

3.30  Break

4.00  Keynote II | Julian Luxford, (St Andrews), ‘Nuns, Art and Patronage in Later Medieval England’

5.00  Closing remarks

5.15  Reception

To register online, visit the HWRBI Eventbrite page.

From the symposium website:

Eighteenth-Century Gothick Symposium
University of Oxford, 7 August 2013

The Gothick Revival in eighteenth-century Britain is a multi-faceted phenomenon, simultaneously liminal and mainstream, historical and modern, whimsical and serious. This international and interdisciplinary symposium is supported by the Georgian Group and the University of Oxford, and comes thirty years after the landmark Gothick conference held by the Georgian Group at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. It will bring together current high-quality research by scholars and students on the revival and explore its many dimensions.

Conference registration is now open. Further details can be found on the symposium’s website.

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Oleksandr Golozubov, Laughter and Evil in the English Pre-Romanticism

Alice Labourg, The Pictorial Gothic in Ann Radcliffe’s Novels: From Decorative Details to Picturesque Tableaux

Jenny McAuley, English Literature and the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Revival: The Example of Ann Radcliffe

Thomas Willette, Horace Walpole’s Gothick Cellini

Cathryn Spence, King Alfred’s Hall, Cirencester

Oliver Cox, Back in the Summer of ’69 — Alfred’s Castle and Alfred’s Tower

Ruth Musielak, Gothic and Classical: Gothic Ornaments at Marino, Co Dublin

Peter N. Lindfield, Dicky Bateman, Shobdon Church and Kentian Gothic: The Great Mystery

Jonathan Kewley, Eighteenth-Century Gothick in the Regency: The Career of Thomas Brine

Jean-Marie Guillouët, Pursuing Historiographical Myths during the Eighteenth Century: English and Irish Art Historians and the Late Gothic Architecture in the Iberian Peninsula

Dustin Frazier, Samuel Pegge: A Reassessment

James Marsden, Thomas Leland, Gothic Novelist, Gothic Historian and Classical Educator

Philip Aspin, Enlightened Reactionaries? Gothic Revival thought in late Georgian England

From the Seminar on Collecting and Display:

Torino Britannica: Political and Cultural Crossroads on the Grand Tour in the Early Modern Age
The British School at Rome and the Centro Studi Reggia di Veneria Reale in Turin, 19-21 June 2013

Traditional views of the cultural and political phenomenon broadly known as the ‘Grand Tour’ focus on a stereotype of the eighteenth-century British aristocratic traveller resolute on acquiring both cultural artefacts and diplomatic and political know-how from the antique European states, especially those in Italy. More detailed analysis of specific features of the Grand Tour allows for a more insightful assessment of this important historic development during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. This conference will introduce and explore a significant aspect of the Grand Tour long neglected by scholars but which formed an integral part of the education and cultural formation of many British travellers: their sojourn at Turin, capital of the Savoy-Piedmont Polity. The conference will also address another overlooked, yet critical feature of this international movement – the Italian side of and contribution to the Grand Tour experience – a phenomenon which may be called a ‘reverse’ Grand Tour; namely, the movement of artists, writers and other protagonists travelling from Turin to Britain and enriching the cultural exchanges between the two.

Visitors to Turin were confronted with an entirely different experience from that of the other classic Grand Tour sites, including Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice. While these obligatory stopovers were famous for viewing (and purchasing) antiquities, for studying the great repositories of cultural treasures, and for participating in society, a sojourn at Turin, by contrast, became regarded as exceptional, offering the visitor an altogether more pragmatic learning experience. The Savoyard capital boasted important modern royal urban and architectural enhancements, public features that placed Turin in the vanguard of European capitals. Due to the tight controls the Savoy dynasty exercised – by way of a highly efficient bureaucracy – over all cultural, military, religious, ceremonial and social activities throughout its realm, but particularly in Turin, the city was also admired as a model of public functionality and even rationality not seen elsewhere in Italy. The biggest draw for British visitors, however, was undoubtedly the Turin Royal Academy (l’Accademia Reale), which offered an up-to-date and prestigious education in military and diplomatic culture to a wide range of young Europeans who frequented it for extended periods, permitting a cosmopolitan exchange among future statesmen.

As a military power and a flourishing princely court of strategic diplomatic stature, Turin was fully integrated into European affairs, including its important diplomatic and cultural relations with Britain, which peaked in the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1678. Foreigners began to flock there, and the manner in which these European elites shared a common culture formed by their mutual experience of the Academy is one of the questions the conference will address. A model example of an elite military school, the Academy taught not only martial arts and equitation but also mathematics, geography, history, languages (Italian and French), continental social skills and gentlemanly virtues necessary for diplomacy and salon conversations of fashionable society. Fundamentally different from the other Italian Grand Tour sites, which were visited primarily for their historical art treasures, antiquities, musical and theatrical offerings, or even landscape and climate, Turin offered a course of study for the modern man. Torino Britannica will explore these differences while illuminating the significance of the Torinese experience of the Grand Tour in the larger historical narrative of this important British political and cultural phenomenon. In line with the most recent scholarship on the Grand Tour, its intention is to highlight the need to recover these less celebrated and previously underappreciated pathways along which cultural and artistic trends were spread across Europe in the early modern period.

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Rome, British School at Rome

9.15     Opening Remarks, Christopher Smith (British School at Rome) and Andrea Merlotti (Centro Studi, Reggia di Venaria Reale)

Session 1 — Britain in Turin: Politics at the Savoy Court / Britannia a Torino: politica alla corte dei Savoia

Chair: Paola Bianchi (Università della Valle d’Aosta)

9.30  Edward Chaney (Southampton Solent University), Torino Britannica and the Cultural Memory of Egypt: Stuarts, Savoys and the Divine Right of Kings

10.00  Toby Osborne (Durham University), England and Savoy: The Culture of Dynastic Affinity

10.30  Andrea Pennini (Università di Torino), Un’altra via possibile? Progetti matrimoniali fra Stuart e Savoia nel Seicento

11.00  Break

11.30  Edward Corp (Université de Toulouse), The Court of Turin and the English Succession, 1712-1720

12:00  Christopher Storrs (University of Dundee), British Diplomats at the Savoy Court and International Politics

12.30  Paolo Cozzo (Università di Torino), “La metropolitaine des catoliques”. La cappella dell’ambasciata di Savoia nella Londra di Giorgio II.

13.00  Lunch

Session 2 — Turin: Gateway to the British Grand Tour / Torino: porta del Grand Tour britannico

Chair:  Karin Wolfe (British School at Rome)

14.30  Paola Bianchi (Università della Valle d’Aosta), Cosmopolitismo e pragmatismo confessionale: gentiluomini britannici in Accademia Reale

15.00  Andrew Moore (Attingham Trust and Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, 2011-13), Thomas Coke: Playhouse, Rope Dancing and the Venaria Real

15.30  Andrea Merlotti (Centro Studi Reggia di Venaria Reale), Salotti, conversazioni, logge. I viaggiatori inglesi nella sociabilità aristocratica torinese del Settecento

16.00  Discussion

16.30  Break

17.00  Exhibition: James Hakewill’s Grand Tour Drawings in the British School at Rome Library

18.00  Keynote address: Cesare De Seta (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II), Viaggi, viaggiatori e pittori a Torino tra Sei e Settecento

19.30  Reception

20.00  Dinner

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Rome, British School at Rome

Session 3 — The British in Turin: Art and Diplomacy / Britannici a Torino: arte e diplomazia

Chair: Joanna Kostylo (British School at Rome)

10.00  Karin Wolfe (British School at Rome), John Molesworth: British Envoy and Cultural Intermediary in Turin

10.30  James Rothwell (National Trust), Silver from London and Turin: The Collection of the 2nd Earl of Bristol, Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Savoy 1755-58

11.00  Break

11.30  Jonny Yarker (British School at Rome), Domenico Duprà: A Turinese Painter and the British

12.00  Christopher Johns (Vanderbilt University), Chinoiserie in Piedmont: An International Language of Diplomacy and Modernity

12.30  Discussion

13.00  Lunch

14.30  Departure from the British School at Rome for Turin

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Turin, Reggia di Venaria, Aula magna del Centro restauro

Session 4 — Britain and Turin: Architectural Crossroads on the Grand Tour / Britannia e Torino: percorsi architettonici del Grand Tour

Chair: Costanza Roggero (Politecnico di Torino)

10.00  Tommaso Manfredi (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria), Architetti e Re nell’Europa del Grand Tour: da Wren a Juvarra

10.30  Cristina Ruggero (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma), L’album juvarriano per Lord Burlington a Chatsworth

11.00  Giuseppe Dardanello (Università di Torino), Esperienze dell’Inghilterra nella cultura architettonica e figurativa nel Piemonte del Settecento

11.30  Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino), Englishmen in Turin, 1747-1748

12.00  Paolo Cornaglia (Politecnico di Torino), Il giardino inglese in Piemonte a fine Settecento: declinazioni pittoresche, anglo-cinesi e paesaggistiche

12.30  Discussion

13.00  Lunch

Session 5 — Turin in Britain: Cultural Exchange in the Age of the Grand Tour / Torino in Britannia: scambi culturali nell’età del Grand Tour

Chair: Andrea Merlotti (Centro Studi della Reggia di Venaria)

15.00  Alastair Laing (National Trust), A Plurality of Pluras: Members of the Plura Family and Their Work for the British

15.30  Olga Zoller (Independent Scholar), Crossing Professional and National Limits: the Pioneering Role of the Versatile Architect-Engineer Giovanni Battista Borra (1713-1770)

16.00  Cristina Bracchi (Archivio delle Donne in Piemonte), Baretti inglese: la didattica e la critica

16.30  Francesca Fedi (Università di Parma), Alfieri in Inghilterra

17.00  Annarita Colturato (Università di Torino), Con talento e intraprendenza: musicisti piemontesi a Londra nel secondo Settecento

17.30  Discussion

18.00  Concerto: Benvenuto Robbio di San Raffaele (1735-1794), Sonate 1, 2, 3 e 5 dalle Sei Sonate a Violino o Cembalo Solo — Silvia Colli, violino; Gioele Gusberti, violoncello; Mario Tonda, clavicembalo

From the The University of York:

Synergies: The Role of Collectors, Critics, and Curators in Artistic Practice, c. 1780-1914
Humanities Research Centre, The University of York, 26 June 2013

In May 1884 the art critic Marion Harry Spielmann wrote in defence of the often criticised profession of art criticism: ‘The critic – (I am not now referring to the mere notice writer of daily journalism) – spends his life in devotion not only to art but to artists: and, so far as public recognition is concerned, he reaps his reward in sneers and ‘chaff’: sneers from painters, thoughtless and irresponsible, like Mr Whistler; indifference from others less splenetic and querulous’. Spielmann, a prolific author, editor and arts administrator, was an advocate for and close friend of numerous contemporary artists. Along with the collectors and curators whom he frequently worked with and wrote about, he was an active and influential participant in contemporary art practice in late-Victorian London.

Relationships between artists, collectors, critics and curators are often considered in isolation but rarely in tandem. Drawing upon a diverse range of case studies, covering a variety of local and global contexts, this afternoon workshop aims to unpick consistencies, changes and crossovers in the sometimes fraught but often productive relationships between artists, collectors, critics and curators in the long nineteenth century. By bringing together students, early-career researchers and established academics and curators, we hope to provide an informal but stimulating forum for conversation, debate and interdisciplinary exchange about the nineteenth-century art world and its constituents.

Admission is free, but places are limited. Please email collectorscriticscurators2013@gmail.com to register.

From The University of York:

Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300–1800
The University of York, 21-22 June 2013

Keynote addresses from Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton), Nicky Hallett (University of Sheffield), and Matthew Milner (McGill University)

Religion has always been characterised as much by embodied experience as by abstract theological dispute. From the sounds of the adhān (the Islamic call to prayer), to the smell of incense in the Hindu Pūjā (a ritual offering to the deities), the visual emblem of the cross in the Christian tradition, and the ascetic practices of Theravada Buddhism, sensation is integral to a range of devotional practices. At the same time, the history of many faiths is characterised by an intense suspicion of the senses and the pleasures they offer.

This international, interdisciplinary conference, to be held at the University of York will bring together scholars working on the role played by the senses in the experience and expression of religion and faith in the pre-modern world. The full conference opens on Friday 21st June, but there will be an opportunity to register early on Thursday evening, plus some informal events,
including a Workshop for Postgraduates and a walking tour of
York; see the programme for details.

From the conference website:

Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day
The King’s Manor, University of York, 28-29 June 2013

As the field of eighteenth-century studies continues to boom within the academy, the eighteenth century – invoked around names like Rousseau, Voltaire, and Adam Smith – is becoming an increasingly frequent interlocutor in contemporary debates in the international media about society, democracy, human rights, and the economy. Whilst social and political commentators are reading our present in dialogue with our eighteenth-century past, cultural appetites for the eighteenth century on page, stage, and screen continue to grow: powerful suggestions that intertwined discourses like (E)nlightenment and modernity, central to so much eighteenth- and twentieth-century thought, remain vital to the social, political and cultural construction of our contemporary moment.

This interdisciplinary academic conference and arts festival seeks to explore the complex webs of interconnection between the long eighteenth century and the ‘long’ twentieth century, from 1900 to the present.

Over the course of two days, the historic King’s Manor in the centre of York will play host to leading academics, early-career scholars, and postgraduate students from around the world, as well as showcasing the work of exciting young artists, photographers, designers, and performers from across the UK.

From the conference programme:

Lost Mansions and Country Estates
Wivenhoe House, University of Essex, Colchester, 13 July 2013

Marks Hall, Coggeshall, Essex, engraving by John Carr Armytage, 1833. The house was destroyed in 1950; the site is now an archeological excavation.

The conference will offer a broad historical context for the destruction of great houses in modern Britain, asking questions about the causes of their loss, the representation of lost mansions and estates at the time of their disappearance, and contemporary resurgent interest in the ‘great estate’. At issue will be the nature of ‘heritage’, the relevance of conservation, and our understanding of proprietorship and estate management in times of social, political and economic transformation. What was the place of the great house in local society, politics and economy, and how does this relate to the popular romanticisation of the great house from Brideshead to Downton?

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P A R T  1 — Wivenhoe House, University of Essex, Colchester

10:30  Registration and welcome over coffee (James Raven)

10:45  Session 1: Irish Mansions
• Terry Dooley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): ‘The Disappearance of Irish Country Mansions, 1879-2013.’
• Ian d’Alton (Co. Kildare, Ireland): ‘An Aesthetic of Living: Bowen’s Court, Co Cork, and Its Significance in the Imagining of the Irish Gentry’

11:45  Session 2: Rescue and Ruin
• Christopher Ridgway (Castle Howard Estate, Yorkshire): ‘Castle Howard: Lost and Saved’
• Michael Davis (West of Scotland): ‘Better Off As Ruins? The Scottish Castle Restoration Debate’

12:45  Lunch

13:15  Session 3: The Country Estate and General Loss
• Jon Stobart (University of Northampton): ‘Lost Aspects of the Country Estate’
• Barbara Wood (National Trust, South West Region): ‘The Loss of Country Houses and Estates through the Destruction and Obscuring of Identity’
• John Harris (1975 exhibition organiser, London): ‘Empty Country Houses and the Destruction Exhibition in 1975’

W.M. Roberts will sign copies of his book Lost Country Houses of Suffolk during the registration and lunch periods.

P A R T  2 — Marks Hall, Coggeshall

14:45  Coaches to Marks Hall (assemble outside the main entrance to Wivenhoe House)

15:15  Tea at Marks Hall Visitor Centre

15:30  James Raven (University of Essex): ‘The Lost Mansion of Marks Hall’

16:00  Tour of the Marks Hall mansion site and estate

17:00  Discussion at Marks Hall Visitor Centre

18:00  Coaches back to University

Registration: Karen Shields, ‘International History Conference: Lost Mansions and Country Estates’, Departmental Administrator, Department of History, Room 5NW.7.20, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ. Cheques payable to ‘The University of Essex’. £25; £15 for student concessions.

From the conference website:

Sculptural Mobilities
University College London, 3 July 2013

Tracing the flows of sculptural artworks between the Nordic Countries and Europe from the early modern period to the present day

A one-day symposium organised collaboratively by University College London’s Department of Scandinavian Studies, and Kingston University’s Visual and Material Culture Research Centre. This symposium is funded by the Henry Moore Foundation.

This interdisciplinary symposium investigates the cultural mobility of sculptural artworks. Positioning the Nordic Countries as a contact zone of sculptural exchange, the project traces the flows of artworks to and from the Nordic Countries and Europe and examines the impacts these flows generate on both local/regional contexts of display and the nature of the sculptural artwork itself. Histories of sculpture within the Nordic region are arguably under-studied and the region’s influence upon and translation of influences from the wider Europe remain insufficiently traced. Our symposium emphasises the Nordic Countries’ important role as an interstice between the East, West and the North, and to bring to light individual histories of sculptural mobility from the early modern period onwards.

Stephen Greenblatt has defined cultural mobility as ‘the restless process through which texts, images, artefacts, and ideas are moved, disguised, translated, transformed, adapted, and reimagined in the ceaseless, resourceful work of culture.’ The sculptural artwork by contrast is often imagined as static and fixed, stable and immutable. To what extent is the sculptural artwork changed by transcultural recontextualisation? What is the potential for movement to compel a performative response within the moving object itself – what are the ways in which it is materially made to move via this process of transcultural exchange? Conversely, how do sculptures impact their new contexts of display? To what extent do moving sculptures confirm or critique the complexity, interdependence and instability of ‘localised’ cultures?

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7.30pm  Thorvaldsen (1949) by Carl Theodor Dreyer (Wilkins Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL) — Screening and lecture by Claire Thomson (Lecturer in Scandinavian Film and Head of UCL Scandinavian Studies) followed by an informal reception in the Wilkins North Cloisters, UCL.

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9.00  Sara Ayres and Elettra Carbone / Claire Thomson and Fran Lloyd — Introduction and welcome

9.30  Panel 1: Courtly Patronage and Sculptural Mobilities

• Francesco Freddolini (Assistant Professor of Art History at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada), Denmark and the International Mobility of Italian Sculpture, ca. 1709-1725

• Cynthia Osiecki (PhD Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Training Group ‘Baltic Borderlands’ at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald), The Import of Flemish Sculpture into Sweden’s Courts in the Second Half
of the Sixteenth Century

• Kristoffer Neville (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University in Berlin), A Gothic Neptune: Georg Labenwolff’s Sculpture for the Danish Court, 1575-1583

11.00  Coffee break

11.30  Panel 2: Danish Myth, Italian Maestro: The Unveiling of Bertel Thorvaldsen

• Stig Miss (Director of The Thorvaldsen Museum), The Making of Sculptural Awareness in Copenhagen: The Contribution of the Works of Thorvaldsen

• Elettra Carbone (Teaching Fellow in Norwegian, University College London), Reading Sculpture: The Remediation of Thorvaldsen’s Sculpture in Printed Culture

• David Bindman (Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London), The Original Drawings for Thiele’s Biography of Thorvaldsen in the UCL Library

1.00  Lunch break — There will be time to view the one-day exhibition Rediscovered: Unique Thorvaldsen Portfolios held by UCL Special Collections alongside Karin Lowenadler’s Standing Male Nude (1936)

2.00  Panel 3: Post-War Sculptural Exchange between Britain and the Nordic Region

• Frances Lloyd (Associate Dean Research & Enterprise, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University), ‘Back in from the Cold’: Karin Jonzen’s Commissions for the World Health Organisation

• Christina Brandberg (PhD Candidate, University of Hull), Henry Moore in the Nordic Countries: The First Two One-Man Shows in 1952

• Sara Ayres (Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Kingston University), Transfiguring Memorials in Norway and Britain

3.30  Coffee break

4.00  Panel 4: Curatorial Mobilities

• Linda Hinners (Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, National Museum, Stockholm), Establishing a Platform for National Sculpture Production: The Recruitment of French Sculptors to Sweden during the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries

• Liisa Lindgren (Senior Curator, Parliament of Finland, Helsinki), Sculpture Hand in Glove with Architecture: The Sculpture Collection at the Finnish Parliament

• Marjorie Trusted (Senior Curator of Sculpture, V&A), Medieval Scandinavia and Victorian South Kensington

5.30  Concluding remarks and final discussion, chaired by Marjorie Trusted

6.00  Drinks

7.00  Conference dinner for speakers and guests