Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality

21 Aug 2014, 09:00 → 23 Aug 2014, 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

Sigtunastiftelsen

Andreas Hellerstedt (Stockholm University), Göran Rydén (Uppsala University), Mikael Alm (Uppsala University)

In recent historiographical developments, two major themes have emerged, that on ‘Practices’ and that on ‘Performances’. The purpose of this conference is to bring these together, and relate them to historical change: how did practices and performances change over time, and how were they involved in making change happen? Pre-modern societies must be studied in order to uncover long-term change. In short, history must not be viewed backwards, from a modern perspective, but forwards, from a pre-modern perspective. In addition, the concepts of practices and performances need clarification. What do they signify? Could there be performance without practice, or should practice be understood as the larger concept, performances as a sub-set of practices? The conference has its beginning in the recent initiative taken by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) on ‘Research on pre-modernity’, and it aims to bring scholars from this initiative in contact with international scholars within similar fields. The conference is made possible by funding from RJ.

Thursday, 21 August

09:00 → 10:00 Tea and coffee

10:00 → 11:00 Introduction

11:00 → 12:00 Key note lecture

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Right & Wrong

This session will consider questions of morality in pre-modern Europe. Society was permeated by Christian and Classical, religious and secular, values. How were these varying and sometimes conflicting conceptions, virtues and vices, practiced and performed, condemned and encouraged, in the political, economic and social arenas?

Conveners: Babette Hellemans (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Johan Tralau (Uppsala University), Kajsa Brilkman (Lund University), Kristiina Savin (Lund University), Rosa Maria Lupo Wallrup (Università degli studi di Palermo)

13:00 The World on Fire. Right and Wrong in Lutheran Confessional Culture around the Year 1600.

Speaker: Kajsa Brilkman (Lund university)

Slides Presentation.Practices.and.Performances.pdf

13:20 Space and the Morality of Sadness in Abelard and Montaigne

Speaker: Babette Hellemans (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Paper Space and the Morality of Sadness in Abelard and Montaigne

13:30 Regret and Remorse in Early Modern Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric.

Speaker: Kristiina Savin (Lund university)

Paper Text_Sigtuna_KS.doc

13:40 An overwhelming dialectical moment. Aeschylus, Euripides and the origins of political philosophy

Speaker: Johan Tralau (Uppsala University)

Paper Tralau%20Euripides%20Sigtuna%20PDF.pdf

13:50 Aristotle and the Structure of Political Argumentation in Light of the Material Constraints of the Human Being.

Speaker: Rosa Maria Lupo Wallrup (Università degli studi di Palermo)

Paper LUPO%20SIGTUNA.docx

14:00 The Moral Path to the Roman Past

Speaker: Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)

Paper Tschudi,_The_Moral_Path_to_the_Roman_Past.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Tea and coffee

15:30 → 17:30 Here & There

The session is dedicated to the question of space. The recent ”spatial turn” has highlighted the importance of spatial arrangements. In what ways, and according to which mechanisms, did space produce and reproduce perceptions of self and other, man and woman, friend and foe, prescribed and forbidden?

Conveners: Anna Blennow (University of Gothenburg), Jon Stobart (University of Northampton), Jonas Nordin (The Swedish History Museum), Lisa Hellman (Stockholm university), Mårten Snickare (Stockholm university), Sabina Norlander Eliasson (Stockholm University), Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)

15:30 The Order of Things. Appropriating Time and Space in Early Guidebooks to Rome.

Speaker: Anna Blennow (University of Gothenburg)

Paper The%20Order%20of%20Things.pdf

15:50 Intersecting Spaces in 18th Century Canton.

Speaker: Lisa Hellman (Stockholm university)

Paper Practices_and_Performances_Hellman.pdf

16:00 Mercantilist Materialities: People, Things and Expressions of Colonialism and Globalization.

Speaker: Jonas Nordin (The Swedish History Museum)

Slides Mercantilist_Materialities.docx

16:10 A Contested Site: Religious Practices and Performances in The Colosseum

Speaker: Mårten Snickare (Stockholm university)

Paper Snickare_paper.docx

16:20 Making Space in the Country House: Practice, Performance and Plans.

Speaker: Jon Stobart (University of Northampton)

Paper Making_space_in_the_country_house.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Friday, 22 August

09:00 → 10:00 By bus to Drottningholm

10:00 → 11:30 Walking seminar, the Baroque park and Canton

11:30 → 12:30 Lunch

12:30 → 15:00 Walking seminar, the English park & the Palace

15:00 → 16:00 Research presentations, the theatre

16:00 → 17:00 Light snacks and drinks at the theatre

17:00 → 18:00 Departure at 17.00, bus to Sigtuna

19:00 → 20:00 Dinner

Saturday, 23 August

09:00 → 10:00 Key note lecture

10:00 → 10:30 Tea and coffee

10:30 → 12:30 Making & Taking

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.

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

10:30 The Axe, the Hoe, and the Plough: Cultivation on the Anglo-Atlantic Frontier in the Eighteenth Century.

Speaker: Chris Evans (University of South Wales)

Paper The_axe.pdf

10:40 Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedism and the Making and Taking of Knowledge: A Web of Borrowed Texts and Images.

Speaker: Linn holmberg (Umeå university)

Paper L._Holmberg_-_Eighteenth-Century_Encyclopedism_and_the_Making_and_Taking_of_Knowledge.pdf

10:50 English workshops, dinner tables and prison cells: The makings and takings of an eighteenth-century Stockholm-cutler

Speaker: Måns Jansson (Uppsala University)

Paper English workshops, dinner tables and prison cells

11:00 Doing Household, Performing Power: Agency, Authority and Space in Early Modern Sweden.

Speaker: Karin Hassan Jansson (Uppsala University)

Paper Jansson_Doing_household_Performing_Power.pdf

11:10 The Blue Peasant: Indigo as an Ethical Problem in Rural Sweden, 1770–1830.

Speaker: Leif Runefelt (Södertörn University)

Paper Runefelt_the_blue_peasant.pdf

11:20 Finland 1809 and the Art of Making a Legitimate Diet: Ceremonies, Objects, Balls and an Emperor.

Speaker: Henrika Tandefelt (University of Helsinki)

Slides Tandefelt,_Sigtuna_2014.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Similar & Different

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?

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

13:30 Estate or Profession? Principles for Social Stratification by Titles in Early 1700s Sweden.

Speaker: Henrik Ågren (Uppsala university)

Paper Sigtuna,_Henrik_Ågren.docx

13:40 'I have had them in my hands often': Domestic Servants and the Material Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Domestic.

Speaker: Ms Tessa Chynoweth (Queen Mary, University of London)

Slides I_have_had_them_in_my_hands_often.docx

13:50 Dance of Death. Staging and Performing Difference in the Burial Culture in the Age of Greatness. A Case Study of Axel Oxenstierna.

Speaker: Alexander Engström (Uppsala University)

Paper Wishes_and_preparations_A_Oxenstierna.pdf

14:00 To Make a Difference. Cultural and Social Change Performed in the Elitist Art of Commemorative Medals in Early Modern Sweden.

Speaker: Martin Johansson (Stockholm university)

Paper Johansson_To_Make_a_Difference.pdf

14:10 Performing Status: Cardinals and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Speaker: Martin Olin (The Swedish Institute, Rome)

Paper OlinPerformingStatus.pdf

14:20 Costume and Control: Sumptuary Laws and Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Tallinn.

Speaker: Astrid Pajur (Uppsala university)

Paper astrid_pajur_sigtuna_article.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Tea and coffee

16:00 → 17:00 Round table discussions