Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality

Session

Similar & Different

23 Aug 2014, 13:30

Sigtunastiftelsen

Conveners

Similar & Different

• Astrid Pajur (Uppsala university)
• Martin Johansson (Stocholm University)
• Henrik Ågren (Uppsala university)
• Alexander Engström (Uppsala university)
• Martin Olin (The Swedish Institute, Rome)
• Tessa Chynoweth (Queen Mary, University of London)

Description

This session focuses on questions of hierarchy. Pre-modern societies were thoroughly unequal, with a multitude of co-existing, and sometimes colliding, hierarchies and notions of social difference. What were the modes of differentiation, and how were differences performed?

19. Estate or Profession? Principles for Social Stratification by Titles in Early 1700s Sweden.

Henrik Ågren (Uppsala university)

23/08/2014, 13:30

20. 'I have had them in my hands often': Domestic Servants and the Material Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Domestic.

Ms Tessa Chynoweth (Queen Mary, University of London)

23/08/2014, 13:40

21. Dance of Death. Staging and Performing Difference in the Burial Culture in the Age of Greatness. A Case Study of Axel Oxenstierna.

Alexander Engström (Uppsala University)

23/08/2014, 13:50

22. To Make a Difference. Cultural and Social Change Performed in the Elitist Art of Commemorative Medals in Early Modern Sweden.

Martin Johansson (Stockholm university)

23/08/2014, 14:00

23. Performing Status: Cardinals and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Martin Olin (The Swedish Institute, Rome)

23/08/2014, 14:10

24. Costume and Control: Sumptuary Laws and Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Tallinn.

Astrid Pajur (Uppsala university)

23/08/2014, 14:20