About the Project
Caput Mundi is a research and teaching project led by Einar Petterson. International, interdisciplinary conferences were arranged every year at the Norwegian Institute in Rome on topics of enduring interest in European art and culture from antiquity to the modern world.
Research from these conferences enriched courses arranged every semester at the Norwegian Institute in Rome.
Symposia
2008: Exempla Moralia
Time and place: Oct. 17, 2008 – Oct. 18, 2008, The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Friday 17th, October
Moral struggle
- Einar Petterson, Prof., University of Oslo: Virgin Martyrs: A Patristic re-vision
- Kirsten Stabel, M.A.: Anastasis and Descensus. Christ in Limbo in Byzantine and Western iconography. (Kristi strid i dødsriket)
- Leif Holm Monssen, Prof., University of Oslo: Notes on the Virtuous Christian Soldier in Cinquecento Italy
Heroes, Heroics and Heroism
- Sivert Thue, M.A., Researcher, Munch Museum, Oslo: Did Laocoon deserve his punishment? Pagan Hamartia and Christian sin in El Greco’s “Laocoon"
- Tor Hønnigstad, M.A.: Pieter Lastman: “Constantine's Victory at the Milvian Bridge”, 1602
- Arne Holm, dr.polit.: An ideological interpretation of Giuseppi Chiari’s “Apotheosis of Marc Antonio Colonna II” in Palazzo Colonna
Saturday, 18th October
Popes, propriety and public relations
- Karen Lloyd, cand. PhD, Rutgers University: What’s in a name? Cinzio and Pietro Aldobrandini as Papal nephews and Patrons
- Torgeir Melsæter, cand. PhD, University of Antwerp: Heraldic and para-heraldic elements in Roman Baroque Art and Architecture as Mediators of Papal Virtues
- Roumiana Popova, cand. PhD, Univ. of Amsterdam: Poetic Representation of Insight and Virtue in The Studiolo of Alessandro Farnese at Caprarola. A cryptic portrait of Aristotle in the guise of Paul III and Plato?
2009: New Perspectives on Baroque Art and Culture
Lectures were held by: Einar Petterson, Prof. University of Oslo, Carolyn Smyth, Prof. John Cabot University, Rome, Antonella de Michelis, PhD, University of California, Daniela Dumbrava, PhD, American Academy in Rome, Ingrid Rowland, Prof. University of Notre Dame, Rome, Eric Bianchi, cand. PhD, American Academy, Rome, Arne Holm, dr.polit., University of Oslo, Joris van Gastel, cand. PhD, University of Leiden
The Workshop was led by: Mieke Bal, Prof. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Time and place: – , The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Thursday, 4th June
Iconography and Topography
- Einar Petterson, Prof., University of Oslo: Reflections on Divine Love in 17th century Roman art. Mixing, unmixing and remixing metaphors
- CAROLYN SMYTH, Prof. John Cabot University, Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Baroque Iconography: The Souls in Purgatory
- ANTONELLA DE MICHELIS, PhD Courtauld Institute: Topography as Text: Reading the Rome of Giovan Battista Nolli and Leonardo Bufalini
- DANIELA DUMBRAVA, PhD, American Academy: A Baroque traveler describes northern Asia for the Romanov's
Geology, Music, Art and Politics, Aesthetics
- INGRID ROWLAND, Prof. University of Notre Dame: Athanasius Kircher and Geology
- ERIC BIANCHI, cand.PhD Yale, American Academy: Athanasius Kircher and the new music of Baroque Rome
- ARNE HOLM, dr.polit., Oslo: Using art in pursuit of social and political status. The Colonna case
- JORIS VAN GASTEL, cand. PhD, Univ. of Leiden: Sculptural Franchezza: Dynamic Percepts of the Baroque Fold
Friday, 5th June
Preposterous Baroque
Workshop with Mieke Bal
- MIEKE BAL, Academy Professor Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science: Contemporary Baroque and Preposterous History
- Mieke Bal presents examples of contemporary “baroque” art and theoretical concepts as background for discussions of texts.
DISCUSSION OF TEXT 1
- Mieke Bal: Quoting Caravaggio. Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, Chicago 1999, p. 1-25
DISCUSSION OF TEXT 2
- Mieke Bal: Quoting Caravaggio. Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, Chicago 1999, p. 231-268.
DISCUSSION OF TEXT 3
- Mieke Bal: Travelling Concepts in the Humanities. A Rough Guide, Toronto 2002, p. 3-21, 56-95.
2010: Utopia symposium
The lecturers discuss Utopia from a wide variety of perspectives ranging from philosophy, history, comparative literature, the history of architecture, art history, gender studies, the history of science and technology, islamic studies and the history of cinema.
Time and place: – , The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Thursday, 6th May
Political science, sociology, psychology
Chair: Peter Seyferth
- Lecture 1. Dan Mills, PhD candidate, Georgia State University: Internalizing the External: The Adverse Psychological Effects of Utopian Societies
- Lecture 2. Dr. Victor S. Vakhshtayn, Dean of sociology and political science department, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences: Defining “utopia” from microsociological perspective: utopian rationality, heterotopian space and everyday practice
- Lecture 3: Peter Seyferth, Research Associate/Fellow, Section for Political Theory and Philosophy, Section for Empirical Theory of Politics, Geschwister-Scholl-Institute (GSI) for Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich: Homo Economicus and Homo Utopicus: a Synthesis
Philosophy and History of Ideas
Chair: Panos Dimas
- Lecture 4. Panos Dimas, prof. UiO and director of the Norwegian Institute in Athens: Myth and theory in the Republic and Timaeus
- Lecture 5: Ionut Untea, doctoral candidate at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Paris: Thomas Hobbes´s Political Eschatology: Against Utopian and Millenarian Visions
History
Chair: Adam Jortner
- Lecture 6. Adam Jortner, Assistant Professor of American History, Auburn University: A Utopia of Ghosts: Spirit Communication in American Shakerism, 1837-1853
- Lecture 7. Dr. Ilaria de Seta, MPhil University College Cork, PhD Università di Napoli Federico II, Literary Historian: The concept of Utopia in the US based World Federalist Movement between 1940 and 1953
History of Science and technology
Chair: Arthur Molella
- Lecture 8. Bradley W. Hart, PhD candidate, Cambridge University
(Unfortunately Bradley had to cancel at last moment. Einar Petterson read his paper for him. He will reply to questions by podcast.): Utopian Biology: Eugenics and the Promise of a Better Future - Lecture 9. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, PhD candidate, American Studies, Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University, Wales: Gerard K O'Neill’s “High Frontier” as a Technological Frontier Utopia: Confronting Limits to Growth and other “Models of Doom.”
Architecture, urban planning and design
- Lecture 10. Einar Petterson, Professor of art history, University of Oslo: Hendrik Christian Andersen's “World City of Communication”
Friday, 7th May
Architecture, urban planning and design
Chair: Einar Petterson and Antonella de Michelis
- Lecture 11. Dr. Antonella De Michelis, University of California Rome Study Center: Translating Utopia: The Garbatella, an 'English' garden suburb in Rome
- Lecture 12. Dr. Arthur Molella, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Re-inventing Eden: Italy's Techno-cittá.
- Lecture 13: AnnMarie Brennan, Lecturer University of Melbourne, Australia: A Genealogy of Branding: The Industrial Utopia of Adriano Olivetti
- Lecture 14. Carlotta Darò, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Art History and Communication Studies. McGill University: Networked City: Utopian Visions for the Twentieth Century
- Lecture 15. Meredith L Miller, Fellow in Architecture, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan: Infrastructures of Utopias: The Biosphere II
- Lecture 16. Dr. Mina Marefat, Mina Marefat, PhD, (MIT), architect, Design Research and Georgetown University faculty, Communications, Culture & Technology: Paradise Lost or Imagining Eden: Frank Lloyd Wright's Baghdad
Utopian architecture in the Islamic world
Chair: Dr. Zeynep Aygen and/or Dr. Roya Marefat
- Lecture 17. Dr. Zeynep Aygen. Course leader of MsC Historic Building Conservation at the University of Portsmouth: Virtuous City versus City Beautiful Urban Utopias from the Standpoint of Muslim Thinkers
- Lecture 18. Dr. Roya Marefat, PhD Harvard, Historian of Islamic art and architecture: Timurid Utopia
Saturday, 8th May
Art history
Chair: Ingrid Rowland and Einar Petterson
- Lecture 19. Ingrid Rowland, Professor, Notre-Dame University, Rome: The Utopian Rome of Alexander VII (1655-1667)
- Lecture 20. Jasmin W. Cyril, Associate Professor, Benedict College, Columbia, SC: Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “Allegory of Good Government in the City, 1338-9”. Sala dei Nove, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena – Paradigm of Late Medieval Urban Cohesion
Literature
Chair: Peter Carafiol
- Lecture 21. Peter Carafiol, Professor, English, Portland State University: Utopian narratives in this “American” vein
- Lecture 22. Dr. Elana Gomel, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University: The Darkness within: Utopian Spaces, Dystopian temporalities
- Lecture 23. Dr Zeynep Tuna Ultav, Assistant Professor, Izmir University of Economics: Utopia versus Dystopia: The Duality between metropolis and Garden City in The Ultimate City by J.G. Ballard
- Lecture 24. Jamey Graham, PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, Harvard University: Poetic license in the Essais of Montaigne
Gender studies
Chair: Paola Di Cori & Dr. J. Edgar Bauer
- Lecture 25. Paola Di Cori, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Urbino: Utopianism in Contemporary Italian Feminism
- Lecture 26. Dr. J. Edgar Bauer, Former Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and at the Jain Vishva Bharati University, Ladnun, Rajasthan, India: Fourier, Hirschfeld, Mieli: Nature and the Utopian Disclosures of Androgyny
Film/Cinema/TV
Chair: Einar Petterson and Mathew Kapell
- Lecture 27. Natalia Samutina, Institute for theoretical and historical studies in the humanities (IGITI), Senior research fellow, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia: Utopia as Excess and Attraction: “New Moscow” by Alexander Medvedkin and Utopian Imagery in Cinema
- Lecture 28. Marie Lottmann, PhD candidate, Universität Giessen, Germany: Televised Utopia? New Science Fiction Television Series
- Einar Petterson, University of Oslo: Concluding remarks
2011: Dystopiasymposium
The Norwegian Institute in Rome, 30:31. May 2011
Viale XXX Aprile 33, 00153 Roma, Italia
Monday, 30th May
Religious conceptions and representations of Dystopia
Chair: Einar Petterson
10:00–10.30 Lecture 1
Einar Petterson, Professor of art history, University of Oslo
Taddeo di Bartolo´s Tortures of Hell, La Collegiata di San Gimignano
10.45 - 11:15 Lecture 2
Ingrid Rowland, Professor, Notre:Dame University, Rome
Working title: Heaven,&Hell and the Antichrist
12.00- 12.30 Lecture 3
Carolyn Smyth, Professor, John Cabot University, Rome
From Dystopia to Anti-Dystopia: The Transformation of the Image of Purgatory in
the Counter-Reformation
Sociology
Chair: Einar Petterson
12:45-13:15 Lecture 4
Peter Seyferth, Research Associate and Lecturer for Empirical Theory of
Politics at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Homo sociologicus and Homo Dystopicus: An Analogy
History
Chair: Adam Jortner
14.30–15.00 Lecture 5
Mattia Marino, Bangor University, Great Britain
Witches and Dystopian Nightmares in Global Europe: Juli Zeh,&Isabella Santacroce,&
Lars von Trier
15.15–15.45 Lecture 6
John M. Hunt, Assistant Professor of Early Modern History, University of
Louisville. Mock popes and Dystopia among Peasants of the Early Modern Papal States
16:30 - 17:00 Lecture 7
Adam Jortner, Assistant Professor of American History, Auburn University
Going to Hell in Cincinnati: The Universalist Controversy and the
Rhetoric of Damnation on the Ohio River, 1770D1850Literature
Chair: Florian Mussgnug & Paola di Cori
17:15-17:45 Lecture 8
Florian Mussgnug. University College London
The Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Origins of Modern Dystopia
18:00-18:30 Lecture 9
Paola Di Cori, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the
University of Urbino.
Space and Gaze. Michel de Certeau, the devil and the possessed
Tuesday, 31st May
Literature &film
Chair: Florian Mussgnug & Paola di Cori
9.30–10.00 Lecture 10
Ricarda Vidal, The Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of
Advanced Study, University of London
Dystopian visions of Atlantropa
10.15–10.45 Lecture 11
Arianna Casali, Sapienza, Università di Roma
The evolution of dystopia in The Children of Men by P.D. James from novel to film
10:30–11:00 Lecture 12
Dan Mills, PhDcandidate, Georgia State University
The Apocalyptic Pornotopia: Henry Neville's Isle of Pines
11:15-11:45 Lecture 13
Nicoletta Vallorani, University of Milan
The Stairway to Heaven,or How to Access Paradise Without a Lift
2012: Ars et Medicina symposium
Time and place: – , The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Monday, 7th May
Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary investigations of art and medicine
Chair: Einar Petterson
9:30–10.00 Lecture 1
Einar Petterson, Professor of art history, University of Oslo
The pathology of female lust in 17th c. Dutch medicine, art and culture
10.15‐10:45 Lecture 2
Knut Kvernebo, MD, PhD, FRCS, Professor of Cardio‐Thoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevaal
Can wounds of religious stigmata be caused by changes of skin blood flow? A Case of a bleeding wound during religious ecstasy 2004 A.D.
11:30‐12:00 Lecture 3
Dr Stelios Manganis, School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University
The use of PANAS‐X scales of affect measure in artwork development
12.15–12.45 Lecture 4
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo and Paul Craddock, London
Consortium Television From Medical Science to Posthumanism: Creating a multidisciplinary framework
The history of medicine and art
Chair: Einar Petterson
14.30–15.00 Lecture 5
Else Mogensen, PhD, Classical Philology, Ghent University,
Belgium Medicine, Art and the Classics
15.15–15.45 Lecture 6
Ingrid Rowland, Professor, Notre‐Dame University, Rome
Art, Health and Food: Under the Microscope with Athanasius Kircher
16:30‐17:00 Lecture 7
Jacomien Prins, Wolfson College, Oxford University
Marsilio Ficino and his readers on music, health and happiness
17:15‐17:45 Lecture 8
Elisa Treccani, PhD cand., University of Verona
The translation of the Régime du corps
Art and psychology
Chair: Gloria Lauri‐Lucente
18:30‐19:00 Lecture 9
Paola Di Cori, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Urbino.
Freud, Psychoanalysis and Sculpture
Tuesday, 8th May
Art and psychology
Chair: Paola di Cori
9:30–10.00 Lecture 10
Gloria Lauri‐Lucente, Professor and Head of the Department of Italian at the University of Malta
Eros, Thanatos and the Inception of Psychoanalysis. The Case of Sabina Spielrein, Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud in the Filmic Versions of Roberto Faenza and David Cronenberg
Medical illustrations, visualizations and artistic representations
Chair: Mattia Marino and Einar Petterson
10.15–10.45 Lecture 11
David Lomas, Professor of Art History, University of Manchester
‘Courbes médicales: The Graphic Trace in Medicine and Art.’
11.30‐12.00 Lecture 12
Francesca Marchetti, PhD in Byzantine and Eurasia Studies at the University of Bologna
The Influence of Late Antique and Byzantine Iconography on Renaissance Illustrated OrthopaedicTexts
12:15–12:45 Lecture 13
Cecilia Mariani, University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
Jenny Saville. Autopsy of contemporary pain
Medicine in Writing and Acting
Chair: David Lomas
14.30–15.00 Lecture 14
Tessa C. Gurney, PhD cand., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“A me non venderà egli vesciche”: Questionable Medici and Medicine Questioned in Machiavelli’s Theater
15.15–15.45 Lecture 15
Mattia Marino, Bangor University, Great Britain
Sick Bodies Brimming with Satanic Thoughts. Visual Verbal Vermin Venoms of Demons in Denims from Lady Gaga to Amélie Nothomb
Art and medical pedagogy and therapy
Chair: Dagmar Reichardt & Knut Kvernebo
16:00‐16:30 Lecture 16
Dagmar Reichardt, University of Groningen/The Netherlands
The doctor as a poet – The poet as a doctor. Trauma, therapeutical autobiographism and the power of literature
17:15‐17:45 Lecture 17
Dana Gage MD, MA candidate, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York
The Use of the Play as a Model for Training Medical Students
Lecture and Performance by the Lullaby music therapy project group
18:00‐18:30 Lecture and Performance
18 Lullaby Project
Speaker: Carlo Virzi, Lullaby project initiator and leader
Music therapist, musician, instructor and project officer in educational and clinical settings.
Lullabyers:
- Marta Rabbiosi Conductor of theatre-related training groups with children, elderly people and disabled people
- Monica Milani Music therapist, project officer and trainer in clinical training courses.
- Cosimo Filieri Music therapist and musician
- Alessia Pasini Music therapist and professional singer
2013: Temptation symposium
The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Time and place: – , The Norwegian Institute in Rome
Monday, 27th May
Temptation, Seduction and Desire
Chair: Einar Petterson
10:15–10.45
Lecture 1
Einar Petterson, Professor of art history, University of Oslo
Demons, Disease and Duck Feet. Grünewald´s Temptation of Saint Anthony
11.00-‐11:30
Lecture 2
Elena Raisi, PhD University of Bologna
Desiring Medusa, choosing Perseus. The seduction of Knowledge and the triumph of Virtue between 16th and 17th century
12:15-‐12:45
Lecture 3
Ingrid Rowland, Professor, Notre-‐Dame University, Rome
The Swedish Eden of Olof Rudbeck (1630-‐1702)
Temptation and Wrath
Chair: Paola Di Cori
14.30–15.00
Lecture 4
Dagmar Reichardt, University of Groningen/The Netherlands
The temptation of violence in Giovanni Verga and Ennio Flaiano
15.15–15.45
Lecture 5
Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University
The Temptation to Kill. Representations of Murder in Calvino, Moravia, and Italian Literature of the 40s and 50s
Temptation and Objects
Chair: Gloria Lauri-Lucente
16:30-‐17:00
Lecture 6
Paola Di Cori, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Urbino
Tempting objects. (In)animate and evocative Things in times of crisis
Tuesday, 28th May
Temptation in Cinema
Chair: Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
9:30–10.00
Lecture 7
Gloria Lauri Lucente, Professor and Head of the Department of Italian at the University of Malta
“Sexual Desire and its Eternal Deferral in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence”
10.15–10.45
Lecture 8
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University
Altered States of Consciousness in Liliana Cavani’s Cinema
Temptation and Gluttony
Chair: Einar Petterson
11.30-‐12.00
Lecture 9
Cecilia Mariani, University of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
Temptations in Disguise. Gluttony, Chocolate and the Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century
12:15–12:45
Lecture 10
Andrea Borghini, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross
A Defense of Gastronomic Hedonism
2014: Ars et Scientia (Animalia) symposium
Time and place: – , The Norewwgian Institute in Rome
Tuesday, 3rd June
Dogs, Cats, Serpents, Dragons and Basilisks
Chair: Einar Petterson
9:15–9.45
Lecture1
Einar Petterson, Professor of art history, University of Oslo
Serpents, Dragons and Saints
10.00-10:30
Lecture 2
Elena Raisi, PhD University of Bologna
The Basilisk in the mirror. Beauty and moral blame from Critical explanation to literature in early modern Europe
11:15-11:45
Lecture 3
Ingrid Rowland, Professor, Notre‐Dame University, Rome
Artists and their cats
12:00-12:30
Lecture 4
Carolyn Smyth, Professor John Cabot University, Rome
'De Canis Inutilis:' The Lapdog and Its Uses in the Paintings of TItian and His Contemporaries
Wolves, Donkeys, Birds, Mice, Rabbits and Axolotl
Chair: Paola Di Cori & Dagmar Reichardt
14.30–15.00
Lecture 5
Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University and American Academy in Rome
“What Does the volpe Say?: Literature’s Role in Animal Studies, an Italian Perspective.”
15.15–15.45
Lecture 6
Dagmar Reichardt, University of Groningen/The Netherlands
"Resilient donkeys and sustainable birds. Literary Ecocriticism from Verism to the Animals' Turn in modern Italian literature"
16:30 ‐17:00
Lecture 7
Paola Di Cori, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Urbino.
Animals in the writings of Julio Cortàzar's
17.15‐17:45
Lecture 8
Gaetana Marrone‐Puglia, Princeton University
"Of Mice and Rabbits: Reflections on Francesco Rosi's 'Tre fratelli".
Wednesday, 4th June
Metamorphoses, Hybrids, Horses and Loplops
Chair: Martin Eisner, Gloria Lauri‐Lucente & Einar Petterson
9:00–9.30
Lecture 9
Gloria Lauri‐Lucente, Professor and Head of the Department of Italian at the University of Malta
'Mutatas formas': Ovidian Metamorphoses, the Human, the Arboreal, and the Animalesque
09:45–10.15
Lecture 10
Elisa Treccani, University of Verona
Animals in some Italian medieval Comic poets (Peraccio Tedaldi)
11.00 ‐11.30
Lecture 11
Martin Eisner, Duke University and American Academy in Rome
Machiavelli’s Hybrid Animals: Dante, Ovid, and the Making of The Prince
11:45–12:15
Lecture 12
Jasmin Cyril, Professor of Fine Arts, Benedict College, Columbia, SC
Leonardo's Horses ‐ Drawings for the Sforza Horse Project.
12:45 – 13:15
Lecture 13
David Lomas, Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester
The Artist ‐Sorcerer: Mimicry and Magic in Max Ernst's Loplop.æ
2015: Intercultural Encounters
9. October 2015
Program
9.15 Einar Petterson, Professor, University of Oslo Intercultural Encounters: Introduction
Chair: Einar Petterson
9.30 Gert Jan van der Sman, Professor, The Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence (NIKI) The migration of Netherlandish artists and cultural exchange in early 17th-century Rome
10:15 Rieke van Leeuwen, Project Manager Gerson Digital project, RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague Gerson Digital: High art from the Low Countries in Northern Europe
11:30 Marije Osnabrugge, PhD, Research Fellow at Université de Montpellier III – Paul Valéry / Universiteit Leiden The identity of the immigrant artist: migrant experience and its effect on artistic production
12:15 Tania De Nile, PhD, Research Fellow at Università della Calabria Domenicus van Wijnen in Rome: national identity and strategies of inclusion
15.15 Ingrid Rowland, Professor, University of Notre Dame, Rome Johan Jansson of Amsterdam: a 17th-century Dutch publisher on the Roman book market
16:30 Ragnhild M. Bø, Senior Lecturer, University of Oslo Image, Imitation, Indulgence: Netherlandish Art and Devotional Practices in Denmark-Norway c.1400-1550
17.15 Jeannette van Arenthals, affiliated researcher, Utrecht University The social lives of an obelisk. Understanding the agency of intercultural art objects
Organizers
This symposium was organized by Einar Petterson, Caput Mundi project, University of Oslo at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome Via Omero 10/12 KNIR Auditorium This symposium was organized by Einar Petterson, Caput Mundi project, University of Oslo with the support of the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo as a contribution to the Masterclass Mieke Bal on Interculturality, KNIR, 7-16 October 201
2016: Art and Agency
14-15. October 2016
Program
Friday, 14. October
8.15 Einar Petterson, Professor, University of Oslo Art and Agency: Introduction
9.00 IJsbrand Hummelen, Senior Researcher, Rijksdienst Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE), Amsterdam
Material agency and technical mediation of artists’ practices
9:45 Cornelia Peres, Conservator of Paintings, Koblenz and Rome Agency and Art Technology in the Past
11:00 Roos Theuws, Artist, Amsterdam
Case study: The Same Sun
11:45 Marien Schouten, Artist, Amsterdam
Case study: Green Room/Vault
14.15 Gloria Lauri Lucente, Professor, University of Malta. Agency and Identity: Italian / English identity in Film Adaptations of E.M. Forster
15:00 Kari Greve, Head of Conservation, National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design, Oslo Agency and Process: Lars Hertervig’s paper
conglomerates
16:15 Paola di Cori, Independent Scholar, Rome
Agency and Antiquity: Past Ruins and Present Rubble: Rome and Greece versus New York, Palmira, Aleppo, Amatrice
17.00 Jeannette van Arenthals, PhD candidate, Utrecht University. Agency and Antiquity: Neo-platonic hieroglyphs. Two prints of the Lateran obelisk by Nicolaus van Aelst
18:15 James Weinheimer, Librarian and Independent scholar, Rome
Agency and Metadata: a strange case of political correctness in the library catalog
Saturday, 15. October
Monument visits & Workshop Discussions
The Norwegian Institute is closed during the weekend. Our monument visits and discussions will be in museums, churches and restaurants in Rome.
We will plan Saturday´s monument visits and workshop discussions during the Symposium on Friday 14. October.
Organizers
This Symposium-Workshop was organized by Einar Petterson, Caput Mundi project, University of Oslo at the Norwegian Institute in Rome Viale XXX Aprile 33 Seminar Room in an effort to establish an international and interdisciplinary research project about Art and Agency, with the support of the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo