Artifacts, resources and circulation during the early modern period

Program:

• 12.30-12.45: Introduction by the organisers

  • Anna Grasskamp (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IFIKK)

  • Alessandro Rippa (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C SAI)
     

• 12.30-15.00: Extraction and Materiality in Early Modern Europe
  Read the three abstracts (PDF)
   

  • 12.45-13.30: Tina Asmussen (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum & Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum), Mining, Knowledge, and Power: The Cosmogeopolitics of Early Modern Europe

    • Discussant: Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University)

  • 13.30-14.15: Rachel King (The British Museum), Amber, eighteenth-century England, and Uncomfortable Truths: decolonizing European amber studies

    • Discussant: Alessandro Rippa (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C SAI)

  • 14.15-15.00: Zuzanna Sarnecka (Universit?t Bern), In Defence of ¡°Strangeness¡±: Mining Materials for Central European Ceramic Glazes

    • Discussant: Kjetil Fallan (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IFIKK)
       

• 15.00-15.30: Break with coffee, tea and refreshments
   

• 15.30-16.30: Asian Art and Material Culture from An Ecological Perspective 

  • Introduction by Anna Grasskamp (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IFIKK)

  • Presentations by:

    • Marie Ngiam (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IFIKK)

    • Yixin Xu (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IFIKK)

    • Sarah Chen Huang (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IFIKK)

  • Responses by:

    • Elke Papelitzky (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C IKOS)

    • Alessandro Rippa (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C SAI)

    • Mariana Zegianini (University of London)
       

• 16.30-17.00: Concluding Roundtable

  • Christopher Heuer (University of Rochester)

  • Alessandro Rippa (Universitetet i Oslo ¨C SAI)

  • Mariana Zegianini (University of London)

  • Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University)

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This event is supported by ERC grant (ERC, ECOART, 101124354, and ERC, AMBER, 101075511).

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