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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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• 26 oct 2017

  27 oct 2017

  28 oct 2017

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Dance and Nations: identities, otherness, boundaries, in Europe

  (17th -19th centuries)

  The international and interdisciplinary symposium "Dance and Nations: identities, alterities, boundaries" is a scientific meeting organized within the framework of the of the HdD (Hermeneutics of Dance research program, directed by Arianna Fabbricatore),. Il brings together a team of scholars to question how theatrical dance evolves in the European social and cultural space. Its purpose is to discuss the different aspects related to the circulation of dance in Europe and to open up research on the semiotic, political and social issues of dance as a sign, expression or representation of the permeable bounderies between cultural identities.

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• 05 jui 2017

  Paris

  Study days - Representation

  The triumph of Republican art

  Se tenant à la mairie du XI^e arrondissement de Paris, cette journée se propose d'étudier le triomphe de l'art républicain en France depuis le XVIII^e siècle jusqu'au début des années 1900.

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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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• 01 mai 2017

  Call for papers - Representation

  Travelling People, travelling objects

  The reception of Swiss art in the context of the eighteenth-century European Grand Tour

  In 2018, a special issue of the Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunst (ZAK) will be dedicated to Swiss art in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the context of European travel culture, the issue will address the various ways in which Grand Tourists perceived, purchased, and collected Swiss art objects during and after their travels. This perspective will help to gain new insight into the distribution and reception of Swiss art in eighteenth-century Europe.

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• 03 fév 2017

  Caen

  Study days - Representation

  Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno by Haendel (K. Warlikowski / E. Haïm)

  Artists' speech and researchers

  À l'occasion de la reprise au Théâtre de Caen du Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno de Haendel, dirigé par Emmanuelle Haïm et mis en scène par Krzysztof Warlikowski, cette journée d'études propose de réfléchir à la réception du répertoire baroque sur la scène contemporaine.

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