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
