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Practices and Performances: Between Materiality and Morality

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Sigtunastiftelsen

Sigtunastiftelsen

Manfred Björkquists allé 4 Sigtuna
Andreas Hellerstedt (Stockholm University), Göran Rydén (Uppsala University), Mikael Alm (Uppsala University)
Description
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.
Participants
  • Anna Cullhed
  • Astrid Pajur
  • Babette Hellemans
  • Henrik Ågren
  • Jon Stobart
  • Jonas Nordin
  • Leif Runefelt
  • Linn Holmberg
  • Lisa Hellman
  • Måns Jansson
  • Mårten Snickare
  • Tessa Chynoweth
  • Thursday, 21 August
    • 09:00
      Tea and coffee
    • Introduction
    • Key note lecture
    • 12:00
      Lunch
    • 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)
      • 1
        The World on Fire. Right and Wrong in Lutheran Confessional Culture around the Year 1600.
        Speaker: Kajsa Brilkman (Lund university)
        Slides
      • 2
        Space and the Morality of Sadness in Abelard and Montaigne
        Speaker: Babette Hellemans (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
        Paper
      • 3
        Regret and Remorse in Early Modern Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric.
        Speaker: Kristiina Savin (Lund university)
        Paper
      • 4
        An overwhelming dialectical moment. Aeschylus, Euripides and the origins of political philosophy
        Speaker: Johan Tralau (Uppsala University)
        Paper
      • 5
        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
      • 6
        The Moral Path to the Roman Past
        Speaker: Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
        Paper
    • 15:00
      Tea and coffee
    • 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)
      • 7
        The Order of Things. Appropriating Time and Space in Early Guidebooks to Rome.
        Speaker: Anna Blennow (University of Gothenburg)
        Paper
      • 8
        Intersecting Spaces in 18th Century Canton.
        Speaker: Lisa Hellman (Stockholm university)
        Paper
      • 9
        Mercantilist Materialities: People, Things and Expressions of Colonialism and Globalization.
        Speaker: Jonas Nordin (The Swedish History Museum)
        Slides
      • 10
        A Contested Site: Religious Practices and Performances in The Colosseum
        Speaker: Mårten Snickare (Stockholm university)
        Paper
      • 11
        Making Space in the Country House: Practice, Performance and Plans.
        Speaker: Jon Stobart (University of Northampton)
        Paper
    • 19:00
      Dinner
  • Friday, 22 August
    • By bus to Drottningholm
    • Walking seminar, the Baroque park and Canton
    • 11:30
      Lunch
    • Walking seminar, the English park & the Palace
    • Research presentations, the theatre
    • 16:00
      Light snacks and drinks at the theatre
    • 17:00
      Departure at 17.00, bus to Sigtuna
    • 19:00
      Dinner
  • Saturday, 23 August
    • Key note lecture
    • 10:00
      Tea and coffee
    • 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)
      • 12
        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
      • 13
        Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedism and the Making and Taking of Knowledge: A Web of Borrowed Texts and Images.
        Speaker: Linn holmberg (Umeå university)
        Paper
      • 14
        English workshops, dinner tables and prison cells: The makings and takings of an eighteenth-century Stockholm-cutler
        Speaker: Måns Jansson (Uppsala University)
        Paper
      • 15
        Doing Household, Performing Power: Agency, Authority and Space in Early Modern Sweden.
        Speaker: Karin Hassan Jansson (Uppsala University)
        Paper
      • 16
        The Blue Peasant: Indigo as an Ethical Problem in Rural Sweden, 1770–1830.
        Speaker: Leif Runefelt (Södertörn University)
        Paper
      • 17
        Finland 1809 and the Art of Making a Legitimate Diet: Ceremonies, Objects, Balls and an Emperor.
        Speaker: Henrika Tandefelt (University of Helsinki)
        Slides
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • 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)
      • 18
        Estate or Profession? Principles for Social Stratification by Titles in Early 1700s Sweden.
        Speaker: Henrik Ågren (Uppsala university)
        Paper
      • 19
        '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
      • 20
        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
      • 21
        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
      • 22
        Performing Status: Cardinals and Diplomacy in Seventeenth-Century Rome
        Speaker: Martin Olin (The Swedish Institute, Rome)
        Paper
      • 23
        Costume and Control: Sumptuary Laws and Social Order in Seventeenth-Century Tallinn.
        Speaker: Astrid Pajur (Uppsala university)
        Paper
    • 15:30
      Tea and coffee
    • Round table discussions
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