Upcoming Conference

THE MUTABILITY OF COLLECTIONS: TRANSFORMATION, CONTEXTUALISATION AND RE-INTERPRETATION

LONDON 7th JULY, 2023

Room MAL G14, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

09.00 – Introduction to the day

9.15 -9.45 – Laura Moretti: Object history and museum display. The adventurous life of the Berlin Adorante

9.50-10.20 – Vincent Pham: Vernacular Veneration – Lord Chesterfield’s library portraits and their afterlives

10.25-11.05 – Lara Pitteloud:  From a Private to an Imperial Cabinet:  the various re-interpretations of the Comte de Baudoin’s collection

Coffee

11.35-12.05 – Emily Monty: Prints and Books in the Dutch Fagel Collection:  Continuity and Disjuncture in the London Market around 1800

12.10-12.40 – Ludovica Scalzo Collections on display in the Braccio Nuovo:  a new Interpretation

lunch break 12.45-13.30

13.30 introduction to the afternoon session

13.35-14.05 – Hannah McIsaac: Dutch Botanical Gardens:  Visual Representation and the Impermanence of Collections

14.20-14.40 – Michal Mencfel:  The Pulawian Relics of Unhappy Lovers, or the Poetics of Framing

14.45-15.15 – Solmaz Kive: Framing the Other:  Decorative Art at the South Kensington Museum

Break

15.45-16.15 – Maria Silina: Re-making Soviet Collections:  Knowledge Production and Border Divisions [via Zoom link]

16.20-16.40 – Renata Komiƈ Marn: “Sammlung Attems”: the identity of the collection in its Changing Contexts [via Zoom link]

16.40 – 17.00 closing discussion 

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