Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality

Session

Making & Taking

23 Aug 2014, 10:30

Sigtunastiftelsen

Conveners

Making & Taking

• Måns Jansson (Uppsala University)
• Chris Evans (University of South Wales)
• Linn Holmberg (Umeå university)
• Karin Hassan Jansson (Uppsala University)
• Leif Runefelt (Södertörn University)
• Henrika Tandefelt (University of Helsinki)

Description

The session departs from the idea that notions of production and consumption are the result of modern developments, and the ambition is to discuss the making, circulation and usage of goods, ideas and people from a pre-modern perspective.

14. The Axe, the Hoe, and the Plough: Cultivation on the Anglo-Atlantic Frontier in the Eighteenth Century.

Chris Evans (University of South Wales)

23/08/2014, 10:30

15. Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedism and the Making and Taking of Knowledge: A Web of Borrowed Texts and Images.

Linn holmberg (Umeå university)

23/08/2014, 10:40

26. English workshops, dinner tables and prison cells: The makings and takings of an eighteenth-century Stockholm-cutler

Måns Jansson (Uppsala University)

23/08/2014, 10:50

16. Doing Household, Performing Power: Agency, Authority and Space in Early Modern Sweden.

Karin Hassan Jansson (Uppsala University)

23/08/2014, 11:00

17. The Blue Peasant: Indigo as an Ethical Problem in Rural Sweden, 1770–1830.

Leif Runefelt (Södertörn University)

23/08/2014, 11:10

18. Finland 1809 and the Art of Making a Legitimate Diet: Ceremonies, Objects, Balls and an Emperor.

Henrika Tandefelt (University of Helsinki)

23/08/2014, 11:20