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Summer School, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg

 

Summer
School, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, University of
Heidelberg

July
13 to 16, 2009

Objects
on the Move – Circulation, Social Practice and Transcultural Intersections


 

The summer school takes at its starting point the
premise that objects are seldom mere objects – inert, mute or purely
utilitarian. Rooted within human and social contexts, they animate the worlds
of societies, past and present, and transmit a gamut of meanings. When on the
move, they are subject to appropriation, display and reuse, causing their
meanings to undergo radical changes. Not infrequently objects become the site
of contesting interpretations, conflicts or productive dissonances born out of
the space they occupy at the intersection of cultures. The study of manifold
transactions centred on things has attracted practitioners of a range of
disciplines – from economic to religious and art history, branching out into
material culture, museum studies, anthropology and psychoanalysis. Eminent
representatives of many of these areas will lecture and conduct seminar
sessions during the summer school. A central concern of the themes to be
discussed is the transcultural mobility of objects with a view to understanding
the entanglement of local and global power structures and the working of a
complex economy of relationships across national and cultural boundaries.

The Summer School is addressed to an international and
multidisciplinary constituency of graduate students. It will be organised
around lectures and seminars with readings, a museum visit, excursions and a
final round table.

The Keynote Address will be delivered by Richard H.
Davis (New York) whose book Lives of
Indian Images
was awarded the prestigious Ananda Coomaraswamy Prize.

For a detailed programme, application procedures and
organisational matters see:

 http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/Plone/summer-school-2009

Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja, Karl Jaspers
Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg.

Programme

Sunday July 12

Arrival of participants

18-00-20.00

Welcome Dinner, Karl Jaspers Centre


 

Monday July 13

Morning
session: 9.30 – 12.30

9.30-10.30

Welcome (Acting Director of Cluster)

A few words about the summer school

Introduction of participants

10.30-11.00

Coffee break

11.00-12.30

Keynote lecture

Richard Davis
(New York)

12.30-13.30

Lunch

Afternoon session: 13.30-17.00

Commodities in global context –
networks, consumption and local cultures

13.30- 15.00

Kim Siebenhüner (Basel)

Jewels
on the move – global connections, local agents

15.00-15.30

Coffee
break

15.30-17.00

Anne Goldgar (London)

Tulipmania  - profit, desire and legend

Evening Programme

Walk through historic town of
Heidelberg


 

Tuesday July 14 

Morning
session: 9.00 -12.30

Gifting, exchange and hybrid
modernities

9.00-10.30

Natasha Eaton (London)

Gift
and the circulation of charisma in India

10.30-11.00

Coffee
Break

11.00-12.30

Melanie Trede (Heidelberg)

Banknotes
as the Battlefield of Gender Politics and National Representation in Meiji
Japan

12.30-13.30

Lunch

Afternoon session: 13.30-17.00

Collecting, display and curatorial
practice

13.30-15.00

Christoph Lind (Mannheim)

Can
the object speak – if so, to whom?

15.00-15.30

Coffee
Break

15.30-17.00

Nic Leonhardt (Heidelberg)

Moving
objects – objects on the move. Waxwork displays and anatomical cabinets in
European Panoptika of the 19th century.

Evening programme

Visit
to a wine cellar


 

Wednesday July 15

Morning session: 9.00-12.30

Translating object into image – exotic
goods, visual practice and the shaping of art history

9.00 – 10.30

Matthias Bruhn (Berlin)

Species,
prints and property: changing concepts of the „image“ in European visual
history.

10.30-11.00

Coffee
Break

11.00-12.30

Lothar Ledderose (Heidelberg) response awaited

12.30-13.30

Lunch

Afternoon session: 13.30 -17.30

Visit to Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt a. Main

 

Thursday
July 16

Coordination:
Martin Gieselmann and Nic Leonhardt (Heidelberg)

Morning session: 9.00-12.30(with a coffee break of 30 minutes)

The
participants work in two groups and try to connect their own research areas
with the methodological impulses provided by the sessions.

12.30-13.30

Lunch

Afternoon session: 13.30-17.00

13.30-15.00

Presentation
of group work in a plenary session

15.00-15.30

Coffee
break

15.30-17.00

Concluding
Discussion, Evaluation of Summer School


 

Evening

Farewell
party on the Neckar

 

Friday July 17

Departure
of participants

 

 

 

 

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