Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 19. Jahrhunderts

The Gendered Interior In Nineteenth-Century Art

Internationales Symposium an der Universität Bern
20. November 2013

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The Gendered Interior In Nineteenth-Century Art

This symposium is part of the activities of the Bern based SNSF Sinergia project “The Interior: Art, Space, and Performance (Early Modern to Postmodern)”. It aims to present new and innovative approaches to the study of Victorian art and material culture with reference to Gender Studies by bringing together international scholars and graduate students. The conference seeks to elucidate the impulses behind the presentation of the interior scenes and discuss new premises for understanding the interior as both a phenomenon of cultural change and a system of individual, social and political self-positioning. Papers address presentations of interiors as objectively verifiable reflections of competing worldviews.

20. November 2013

• University of Bern, Lernzentrum, room 205, 2nd floor Hallerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern

• 8:30 Uhr

  Registration / Coffee and Tea

• 9:00 Uhr

  Norberto Gramaccini and Simone Streibich

  Welcome and Introduction

• 9:15–9:45 Uhr

  Thad Logan, Rice University, Huston, Texas

  Men, Women and Windows: Gendered Bodies in Domestic Space

• 9:50–10:20 Uhr

  Caroline Arscott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

  Drapery and Whiteness in Victorian Paintings of Interiors

• 10:20–10:40 Uhr

  Discussion

• 10:40–11:00 Uhr

  Coffee and Tea

• 11:00–11:30 Uhr

  Suzanne Fagence Cooper, University of York

  ‘Through the Looking-Glass’: Photographs by Clementina, Lady Hawarden (1822–1865)

• 11:35 Uhr

  Caroline Dakers, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

  Gendered Collecting? An Examination of the Personalities, the Taste and the Display‘s of two 19th Century Collectors

• 12:05–12:30 Uhr

  Discussion

• 12:30–14:00 Uhr

  Lunch

• 14:00–14:30 Uhr

  Robert Hewison, Lancaster University ‘The Awakening Conscience’: John Ruskin and the Moralised Interior

• 14:35–15:05 Uhr

  Ayla Lepine, University of Nottingham

  Touching the Word Made Flesh: Religion and the Senses

• 15:05–15:30 Uhr

  Discussion

• 15:30–16:00 Uhr

  Coffee and Tea

• 16:00–16:30 Uhr

  Stefan Muthesius, University of East Anglia, Norwich

  The Artistically Designed Home of the 19th Century in Illustrations

Ellen J. Beer Lecture 18:15 Charlotte Gere, London Prince Albert’s Invention of the Royal Family. ‘Feminisation of the Royal Residences’

For more information please visit our project website: www.interior-unibe.ch

Concept and coordination

Norberto Gramaccini and Simone Streibich, Department of Art History, University of Bern. Attendance is free of charge but due to limited seats, registration is required until 15 November 2013.

Contact

Michèle Seehafer, Project Assistant,
michele.seehafer@[at]ikg.unibe.ch