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• 29 nov 2017

  30 nov 2017

  01 déc 2017

  Zurich

  Conference, symposium - History

  “Num’rous Uses, Motions, Charms, and Arts”. Fans as Images, Accessories, and Instruments of Gesture in the 17th and 18th Centuries

  This interdisciplinary conference discusses the cultural role of European folding fans in art, fashion, and material culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The conference aims to take a closer look at the pictorial and intermedial interplay of or- namental patterns, figurative elements, and artistic subject matters against the background of European fan manufacture, artistic net- works and international trade. Furthermore, it seeks to closer examine fans as gender-specific instruments of gesture and communication.

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• 30 jui 2017

  Zurich

  Call for papers - Representation

  “Num’rous uses, motions, charms, and arts”. Fans as images, accessories, and instruments of gesture in the 17th and 18th centuries

  This interdisciplinary conference discusses the cultural role of fans in art, fashion, and material culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Taking the visual and material diversity of fans as a point of departure, it aims at gaining new insights into the various interrelations between fans, paintings, and printed artworks in this period.

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• 20 avr 2017

  21 avr 2017

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  The gift of direction

  Visual and textual representations of the act of donation in the arts in the early modern period

  Cette rencontre ambitionne d’étudier l’acte de donation au cours de la première modernité, un acte que l’on envisagera comme forme de communication et comme acteur du lien social. C’est plus précisément la mise en scène du don d’œuvres d’art et d’objets que l’on souhaite interroger. Car pour pouvoir participer pleinement de l’affirmation d’un statut ou d’un pouvoir, cet acte suppose un espace de visibilité et de représentation, assurant sa publicité au sein d’une communauté. Deux axes de réflexion complémentaires seront privilégiés : celui des mécanismes visuels, rhétoriques et littéraires qui participent de la mise en scène du don ; et celui de ses effets au sein des dynamiques relationnelles qu’il institue.

   

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• 25 avr 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - Early modern

  Shakespeare Unbound

  The Société Française Shakespeare is dedicating its annual conference to “Shakespeare Unbound”. The topic addresses Shakespeare’s propensity to negotiate with dominant ideologies, his ability to break and renew formal and cultural rules and his long-lasting influence in creating innovative dramatic and poetic forms, new words and thoughts, “And all that faith creates or love desires, / Terrible, strange, sublime and beauteous shapes” (Shelley), Prometheus-like.

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