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From The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland:

London’s Huguenot Heritage: A Colloquium in Honour of Robin Gwynn
Orange Street Congregational Church, London, 6 October 2012

Robin Gwynn is one of the most prolific and capable historians of the Huguenots in England, dealing (among other things) with patterns of migration, the nature of the Huguenot community, and the relationship between the Huguenots and their fellow citizens.  He has also sought to integrate the findings of his detailed research into a coherent overall picture, and to highlight the contribution of the refugees to English life, which (he has suggested) has traditionally been underestimated. Much of Dr Gwynn’s work has been on Huguenots in London, which makes London’s Huguenot Heritage an appropriate title for a conference to celebrate his achievements.

The conference takes place on Saturday, 6 October 2012, starting at 10:00am at the Orange Street Congregational Church, the site of the former Leicester Fields French Church (Orange Street, London WC2H 7HR). For details and a booking form click here»

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P R O G R A M M E

• Robin Gwynn — Conformity and non-conformity: Refugees’ dilemma, historian’s nightmare
• Anthony and Daniel Chamier — Daniel Chamier (1660/61-1698): A founder minister of Leicester Fields
• Greig Parker — Through the keyhole: Seeking Huguenot identity through domestic material culture
• David McKinley — Huguenot silversmiths in London
• Tessa Murdoch — A French noble household in London: Montagu House, Bloomsbury 1689-1709
• Charles Littleton — Huguenots in London scientific communities: From medical guilds to the Royal Society
• Barry Hoffbrand — Dr John Misaubin, Hogarth’s ‘quack’
• Angela Lloyd — ‘The Stage is my world’: David Garrick, Shakespeare and the making of modern theatre

From the Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker:

Castles and Manor Houses in the Baltic Sea Region: Components of a European Cultural Heritage
Greifswald, 3-6 October 2012

The post-medieval castles and manors, up to the present, are a central piece of the cultural landscape of the Baltic Sea region. They are spread over altogether 10 countries: Germany, Poland, Russian region Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The central theme of the symposium (Schlösser und Gutshäuser in der Ostseeregion: Bausteine einer Europäischen Kulturlandschaft) will be the characteristic architecture of castles and manor houses in the Baltic Sea region from the early modern period to the present. Furthermore the symposium will focus on history and cultural history. The functional, sociological and political differences and similarities of the manors of the landed gentry in the different countries will be analysed as well as the cooperation of architects and other artists. It will be examined if there is a transcultural history of art of castles and manor houses in the Baltic Sea region and, finally, how the reception and adoption of castles and manors in the different countries is proceeding.

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W E D N E S D A Y ,  3  O C T O B E R  2 0 1 2

16.00  Begrüßung
16.15  Führung durch Herrenhaus und Gutskapelle
17.30  Abendvortrag: Göran Ulväng (Uppsala), Manor House Building and Economic Growth in Sweden in the 18th and 19th Centuries
19.00  Empfang

T H U R S D A Y ,  4  O C T O B E R  2 0 1 2

Typologien und Perioden

9.00  Dorota Piramidowicz (Warschau), Seats of a Lithuanian Magnate in the First Half of the 17th Century
9.30  Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen (Aarhus), Epochen der Gutsbauten in Dänemark und ihr gesellschaftlicher Hintergrund
10.00  Diskussion

10.30  Pause

10.45  Ulrich Lange (Göteborg), Aspects on Closed and Open Forms in the Nordic Manors Renaissance and Neo-Renaissance Period
11.15  Diskussion

Das ‘internationale’ 18. Jahrhundert

11.30  Ants Hein (Tallin), From War Destruction to the Golden Era: The Development of the Architecture of Estonian Manor Houses in the Beginning and in the Middle of the 18th Century
12.00  Diskussion

12.15  Mittagspause

14.00  Anna Oleska (Warschau), Maisons de plaisance in 18th-Century Poland: Fashionable Architecture, New Social Mode
14.30  Sigrid Puntigam (Schwerin), Ludwigslust – Schlossbau in der Spätphase des Ancien Régime
15.00  Diskussion

15.30  Pause

Verspätungen –  Traditionalismen – Anachronismen

15.45  Vytautas Volungevicius (Vilnius), Das 16. Jahrhundert und die Entstehung der Adelsburg im Großfürstentum Litauen: soziopolitische Umstände und ‚verspätetes‘ Phänomen
16.15  Malgorzata Buchholz-Todoroska (Sopot), The Pomeranian Manors at the Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries: Living a Peaceful Life in the Picturesque Landscape
16.45  Michael Lissok (Greifswald), Letzte Vertreter einer anachronistischen Baugattung: Beispiele für die Landschloss- und Herrenhausarchitektur der 1920er und 1930er Jahre in Brandenburg und Pommern
17.15  Diskussion

F R I D A Y ,  5  O C T O B E R  2 0 1 2

Transkulturalitäten im Ostseeraum?

9.00  Carsten Neumann (Schwerin), Das Herrenhaus Bothmer in Klütz – Ein englisch-holländischer Landsitz in Mecklenburg
9.30  Cynthia Osiecki (Apeldoorn), A Cultural History of the Baltic Area: The Sixteenth-Century Migration of Dutch Sculptors into the Baltic Area
10.00  Diskussion

10.30  Pause

10.45  Ojars Sparitis (Riga), Beziehungen zwischen der Familie von Behr und dem Hof von Rudolph II. und deren Auswirkung auf die Kultur Kurlands
11.15  Rafal Makala und Monika Frankowska-Makala (Stettin), Das Residenzschloss der Herzöge von Pommern in Stettin als Kunstwerk und Ort von Kunstsammlungen
11.45  Diskussion

12.15  Mittagspause

Funktionswandel in der Moderne: Umnutzungen und Aneignungen

14.00  Dorota Sikora (Warschau), Historic Residences of the Puck (Putzig) Region and the Wejherowo (Neustadt) Region: Their Present Condition, Function and Surroundings
14.30  Herle Forbrich (Hamburg), Herrenhäuser ohne Herren. Ostelbische Geschichtsorte im 20. Jahrhundert
15.00  Diskussion

15.30  Pause

Erberezeption – Erbediskussion

15.45  Michael Paarmann (Kiel), Historische Gutsanlagen in Schleswig-Holstein – Ein ausgeschlagenes Erbe oder Chance für die Zukunft?
16.15  Salvijus Kuleviiius (Vilnius), Cultural Memory and Reconstruction of Castles in Lithuanian in the Second Half of the 20th and 21st Centuries
16.45  Diskussion

18.00  Führung durch Herrenhaus (in zwei Gruppen)
19.00  Abendvortrag: Sabine Bock (Schwerin), Haben Häuser einen Stammbaum? Wie sich der Bautyp ‚Herrenhaus’ entwickelt hat Kleiner Empfang

S A T U R D A Y ,  6  O C T O B E R  2 0 1 2

9.30  Malgorzata Rozbicka (Warschau), Manor Houses of the Lower Landed Gentry in Village Inventory Albums from the Collection of the Department of Polish Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology
10.00  Kilian Heck (Greifswald), Von der Ordensburg zum Barockschloss. Steinort/Sztynort in Masuren
10.30  Oliver B. Hauck und Piotr Kuroczynski (Frankfurt am Main), Virtuelle Rekonstruktion des kulturellen Erbes – Ein räumliches Informationssystem

11.00  Abschlussdiskussion

12.30  Exkursion auf die Insel Rügen — Geplant sind Besichtigungen unter anderem folgender Häuser: Boldevitz, Kartzitz, Spyker, Venz

From the CRASSH website:

We Need to Talk about ‘Things’: Concluding Colloquium
CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 27-28 September 2012

This year CRASSH has hosted a Graduate Research Group concerned with ‘Things: Material Cultures of the Long Eighteenth Century’. Our speakers have considered specific eighteenth-century objects ranging from coins to ships, porcelain to plants, from different disciplinary perspectives. We have discussed how these objects allow us to tell complex. inter-disciplinary stories about consumption, production and display in this period.  This colloquium pulls together the speakers and themes that have defined the series. The day will consist of several papers with invited responses, as well as space for discussion. The colloquium is preceded by a keynote lecture by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova  on Thursday evening, Talking about Things.

Both keynote lecture and colloquium talks on Friday 28 September are open to everyone. The lecture is free to attend and no registration is required. However, registration is required for the colloquium. The fee is £20 (including lunch and refreshments at the colloquium) with a reduced £10 charge for students. For information about the event and the graduate research group please contact Katy Barrett or Sophie Waring.

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P R O G R A M M E

Thursday, 27 September

18.00  Keynote Lecture, Ludmilla Jordanova (King’s College London) — Talking about Things

19.00  Drinks reception at CRASSH

Friday, 28 September

9.00  Registration and coffee

9.30  Welcome and Introduction — Sophie Waring (University of Cambridge) and Katy Barrett (University of Cambridge)

9.45  Session 1:  W R I T T E N  T H I N G S — Chair: Dr Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, London)
• Sarah Kareem (University of California, Los Angeles) — Romantic Bubbles, Fictional Worlds
• Leanna McLaughlin (University of California, Riverside) — “A Lampoon Put on his Door”: Poetry and Politics, 1678-1689

11.15 Coffee break

11.45  Session 2:  F A M I L I A R  T H I N G S — Chair: Dr Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge)
• Sara Pennell (University of Roehampton) — Familiarity Breeds Contempt?  ‘Everyday’ Objects and ‘Small Things Forgotten’ in the early modern English Household
• Melanie Keene (University of Cambridge) — Title tbc

13.15  Lunch

14.15  Session 3:  G E N D E R E D  T H I N G S — Chair: Dr Elizabeth Eger (Kings College London)
• Catherine Eagleton (British Museum) — Sarah Sophia Banks: Money, Medals and a ‘Collection of Scraps’
• Mary Brooks (University of Durham) — Curiosities from Female Hands

15.45  Tea Break

16.15  Session 4:  T R A V E L L I N G  T H I N G S
• Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles) — The Dynamics of Natural History: Collecting and Collections in the Eighteenth Century
• Jonathan Eacott (University of California, Riverside) — Few Constitutions Can Stand Against East Indian Luxury: Tropical Lifestyles and the Health of Britain’s Global Power

From the University of York:

Histories of British Art, 1660-1735
King’s Manor, University of York, 20-22 September 2012

Organized by Claudine Van Hensbergen

Histories of British Art is the third and final conference organised as part of  Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735, a major research project run by the University of York and Tate Britain, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Held at the King’s Manor in York, this three-day conference includes a drinks reception at York City Art Gallery and a visit to Beningbrough Hall (built 1716) for a private viewing of the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of over a hundred artworks from the period.

Keynote speakers: Malcolm Baker, Diana Dethloff, Charles Ford, and David Solkin

Conference spaces are limited and we therefore encourage early booking to avoid disappointment. For any other queries please email email clare.bond@york.ac.uk

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From St Andrews:

Emblems of Nationhood: Britishness 1707–1901, A Multidisciplinary Conference
University of St Andrews, 10-12 August 2012

National identity is a central point of enquiry that is repeatedly called upon in contemporary social and political rhetoric. Our conference, Emblems of Nationhood, 1707–1901, will address the roots of this theme by discussing depictions of Britain and Britishness in literature, philosophy, and art between the Act of Union in 1707 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Over the course of this multidisciplinary conference, we aim to explore how expressions of nationalism have moulded both critical perspectives on national identity and their creative products.

Discussing emblems of nationhood in 2012 is a fitting way to mark the twentieth anniversary of Linda Colley’s seminal account of Britishness, Britons: Forging the Nation, and coincides with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Several broad questions could potentially  be explored in the course of the conference: What did Britishness mean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how was it represented and perceived? To what extent is nationalism tied with military events and empire building? How “British” was Britain before the launch of the Empire? How did concepts of nationalism enter the public consciousness, both within the British Isles and abroad? What is the impact of artistic and cultural depictions of Britain and Britishness in domestic and international contexts? How can these historical ideas of Britishness enhance our contemporary understanding of the concepts of nationalism and national identity?

Speakers include: Colin Kidd, Emma Major, Linda Colley, and Calum Colvin

Details on the full programme and registration are available at the conference website.

From the Royal Society’s website:

Curiously Drawn: Early Modern Science as a Visual Pursuit
Royal Society, London, 21-22 June 2012

Science produces some of the most intriguing and arresting images in modern culture, from wildlife photographs to scanning electron microscope images. Yet the historical links between scientific research and visual representation are not always apparent. This conference brings together historians of science and art in order to examine the relationship between science and visual culture in the first hundred years of the Royal Society. We hope that the meeting will demonstrate how art, artists, and print-makers enabled creativity and innovation in science, and the extent to which naturalists and natural philosophers, in turn, transformed visual resources and strategies into something of their own.

This meeting is supported by the AHRC as part of an international network on ‘Origins of science as a visual pursuit: the case of the early Royal Society’. Relevant printed books and manuscripts from the Royal Society’s collections will be on display during the meeting.

Registration details are available here»

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Thursday, 21 June

10:00  Registration and coffee
10:30  Sachiko Kusukawa (University of Cambridge), Welcome and Introduction
11:00  Paula Findlen (Stanford University), The Specimen and the Image: John Woodward, Agostino Scilla, and the Depiction of Fossils
12:00  Kim Sloan (The British Museum), Sir Hans Sloane’s Pictures: The Science of Connoisseurship or the Art of Collecting?
1:00  Lunch
2:00  Domenico Bertoloni-Meli (Indiana University, Bloomington), Disease in the Philosophical Transactions
3:00  Urs B. Leu (Zentralbibliothek Zürich), Swiss Mountains and English Scholars: Johann Jacob Scheuchzer’s Contributions to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
4:00 Tea
4:30  Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge), Illustrating the History of the Earth
5:30  Opportunity to view the exhibition
6:00  Public lecture by John Barrow (FRS), Pictures, Images, and Visualization in Science

Friday June 22

9:30  Nathan Flis (Oxford University), Barlow’s Pursuits: Pictures of Birds and Beasts before the Era of Modern Scientific Illustration
10:30  Coffee
11:00  Lorraine Daston (Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin), Super-Vision: Weather Watching across Space and through Time at the Early Royal Society and Académie Royale des Sciences
12:00  Matthew Hunter (McGill University), Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Society, and the Temporally-Evolving Chemical Object in the British Enlightenment
1:00  Lunch
2:00  Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, University of London, Emeritus), Commentary
3:00  Further avenues of research

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Correction: An earlier version of this posting, following a preliminary programme, did not include the title for John Barrow’s talk, and Matthew Hunter’s presentation was described as ‘Commentary’.

Colour in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Connexions between Science, Art, and Technology
Technische Universität, Berlin, 28-30 June 2012

Organized by Magdalena Bushart, Reinhold Reith, and Friedrich Steinle

Knowledge of how to use, combine, analyse, and understand colour has always been widely distributed, if not dispersed. Painters and architects, dyers and printers, pigment producers and merchants, physicists and chemists, natural historians and physiologist, among others, have been dealing with colour, its properties, mixtures, harmonies, meanings and uses. For long periods, different communities that were concerned with colour and the knowledge about it did not interact? at least so it appears.

One of the first to come up with fundamental claims concerning colour in full generality was Newton whose 1704 Opticks indeed quickly became a common reference point for most of those who reflected on colour. Throughout the 18th century, however, the reactions to Newton remained wildly controversial, from unrestricted appraisal via indifference to open and fierce opposition. Several attempts to reconcile Newton’s account with practitioner’s knowledge remained unsuccessful, and this was still the case in early 19th century, when the physiology of colour perception opened yet another field of colour research. The central aim of the conference is to bring together scholars who are interested in how the various strands of colour use and knowledge were interwoven and connected.

Technische Universität Berlin, Architekturgebäude, Room A 053, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin,

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P R O G R A M M E

Thursday, 28 June

12:00  Registration

13:00  Welcome

13:30  Sarah Lowengard (New York), Analogies, Adaptations and Disorientations in the Mechanization of Color-Printing

14:30  Coffee Break

15:00  PRACTICES Chair: Reinhold Reith (Salzburg)
• Ad Stijnman (Amsterdam) and Elizabeth Upper (Cambridge), Early Modern Colour Printing 1600-1700
• Susan Wager (New York), Coloring the Rococo: Intermedial Reproduction and the Invention of Color in Eighteenth-Century France
• Carole Blumenfeld (Rome), Colors for Paintings Sold at Market in Rome and Paris

17:00  Coffee Break

17:30  COLOURS IN NATURE Chair: Magdalena Bushart (Berlin)
• Karin Leonhard (Berlin), Painting the Rainbow: Colour in Nature versus Colour in Art
• Ulrike Kern (Los Angeles), Broken Colours: A Key Concept in Seventeenth-Century Colour Theory

18:50: Snacks

20:00  PUBLIC LECTURE — Jenny Balfour-Paul (Exeter), Indigo: Not Just a Colour

Friday, 29 June

9:15  Alan Shapiro (Minneapolis), Newton’s Theory of Color and Painters’ Primaries

10:15  Coffee Break

10:30  COLOUR AND NEWTONIANISM Chair: Friedrich Steinle (Berlin)
• Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (Twente), Perception of Colours by Different Eyes
• Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (Melbourne), Practitioners’ Materials and Optical Theories: Colour in Dutch Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy
• Heiner Krellig (Berlin/ Venice), Algarotti, Newton, and the Advantage of Their Theory of Light for Painterly Practice

12:30  Lunch Break

14:00  NATURAL PHILOSOPHY BEFORE NEWTON Chair: Sven Dupré (Berlin)
• Tawrin Baker (Bloomington), Colour in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy Textbooks
• David Brafman (Los Angeles), Broken Colours: A Key Concept in Seventeenth-Century Colour Theory

15:20  Coffee Break

15:40  PRACTICE AND SYSTEM Chair: Lissa Roberts (Twente)
• Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge), The Colour Chart of Richard Waller, FRS, 1686
• Bruno Belhoste (Paris), Dyeing at the Gobelins in the Eighteenth Century: The Challenge of Quémizet

17:00  Coffee Break

17:20  COLOURS AFTER NEWTON Chair: Sven Dupré (Berlin)
• Robin Rehm (Basel), ‘Beauty and Perfection of the Pure Colours’: Anton Raphael Mengs and the Singularity of Yellow, Red, Blue
• Olaf L. Müller (Berlin), Border Spectra in the Atmospheric Colours of Hokusai and Hiroshige?

Saturday, 30 June

9:15  Ulrike Boskamp (Berlin), Primary Colours in the Eighteenth Century: Concepts and Uses

10:15  Coffee Break

10:30  MEANINGS Chair: Regina Lee Blaszczyk (Philadelphia)
• Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (London), Words of Fashion: Words of Colours in Parisian Textile Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Theresa M. Kelley (Madison, WI), Fugitive and Variable: Color, Material Practice, and Aesthetic Contingency
• Romana Filzmoser (Florence), Color Knowledge and Color Practice in English Cosmetic Treatises of the Seventeenth Century

12:30  Lunch Break

14:00  ARTISTS’ ACCOUNTS I Chair: Ulrich Heinen (Wuppertal)
• Audrey Adamczak (Paris), A Dry Coloured Powdery Medium: The Art of Making Pastel and the Artistic and Technical Literature in France Ancien Régime
• Matthias Vollmer (Berlin), Disegno versus Colorito: Science versus Illusion?

15:20  Coffee Break

15:40  ARTISTS’ ACCOUNTS II Chair: Ulrich Heinen (Wuppertal)
• Ioana Magureanu (Bucharest), Colour: From Damnation in the Scientific Discourse to Its Recovery in Art Theory
• Petra Schuster (Berlin), How Knowledge of Color Affected Value Judgments in Siglo de Oro Painting Technique Innovation: Carducho’s Diálogos de la Pintura (1633) in Comparison to Pacheco’s Arte de la Pintura (1649)

17:00  Coffee Break

17:20  BLUE! Chair: Lissa Roberts (Twente)
• Aida Yuen Wong (Boston), Kingfisher Blue in Ming China
• Francois Delamare (Paris) and Bernard Monasse (Paris), Dyeing with Berliner Blue: A Jointed French Venture

18:40  Closing Remarks

From Tate Britain (as noted at BARS) . . .

Contested Views: Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Tate Britain, London, 19-20 July 2012

Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The Field of Waterloo,” exhibited 1818

In July 2012, in advance of commemoration of the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, Tate Britain will be hosting a two-day conference exploring the impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on worldwide visual culture, from the outbreak of the pan-European conflict with France in 1792 to the present day. Centred on themed panels, plenary lectures and workshops, this cross-disciplinary conference will promote knowledge and understanding of the range of ways in which the ‘first total war’ has been mediated in visual cultures, not only in Britain and continental Europe but throughout the world. Confirmed plenary speakers: Mary Favret, Gillian
Russell, Susan Siegfried, Paul White.