Conference: Sketching prohibited! Military Interdictions of Drawing and Artistic Practice in Europe from Early Modern Times to the Twentieth Century
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Hörsaal B (ground floor)
17:30 Welcome and Introduction
Ulrike Boskamp/Sebastian Fitzner
18:00 Keynote Lecture
Ulrike Gehring (Trier), Sketched Knowledge: Epistemic Procedures of Mapping
Landscape around 1650
Friday, November 6, 2015
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin, Room A 163 (1st floor)
9.15 Opening
Ulrike Boskamp/Sebastian Fitzner
9.30 Valeria Manfrè (Madrid), „Copy and Paste“. The Reuse of Visual Culture in Early Modern Urban Cartography
10.30 Amrei Buchholz (Hamburg/Berlin), Tracing El Dorado. Maps of Secret
Territories: Between Imagination and (Topographic) Projection
11.30 Coffee Break
12.00 Djoeke van Netten (Amsterdam), Publication Prohibited! Secret Drawings in the Dutch East India Company in the 17th Century
13.00–14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 Pedro Luengo Gutiérrez (Sevilla), Just War and Transcultural Dialogue. Dutch and Spanish Fortifications in Southeast Asia in the 18th Century
15.00 Simon Paulus (Stuttgart), A „Friendly Rivalry“? Some Notes on Studying the Art of Fortification in Practice around 1700
16.00 Coffee Break
16.30 Sean Willcock (London), Image-Making and Imperial Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South Asia
17.30 Ulrike Boskamp (Berlin), Mnemotechnics and the Trickery of Spies. Special Artists’ Strategies on the Frontlines of the Franco-Prussian War
18.30–19.00 Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
The conference is generously supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft.
Registration is recommended but not required.
Concept and contact:
Ulrike Boskamp, DFG-Research Group 1703 „Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art“: ulrike.boskamp[at]fu-berlin.de
Sebastian Fitzner, Juniorprofessor für Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie der Frühen Neuzeit in Europa und Amerika: sebastian.fitzner[at]fu-berlin.de