73 research outputs found
The Treasured Hunt: Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Past, Present, and Future
Welcome and Opening Remarks: E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, and Lynn Ransom, Free Library of Philadelphia
Session 1. Beginnings: Collecting in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Session Chair: Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Claire Richter Sherman, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, The Manuscript Collection of King Charles V of France: The Personal and the Political
David Rundle, History Faculty and Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, The Butcher of England and the Renaissance Arts of Book-Collecting
Session 2: Civic Service: The Legacies of Philadelphia-Area Collectors
Chair: Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
James Tanis, Director of Libraries and Professor of History Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College, Migrating Manuscripts
Derick Dreher, Director, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Of Private Collectors and Public Libraries: Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach and John Frederick Lewis
Session 3: Keynote address
Welcome: H. Carton Rogers, Vice Provost & Director of Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Robert Maxwell, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher de Hamel, Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, The Manuscript Collection of C. L. Ricketts (1859-1941)
Session 4: The Hunters and the Hunted: A Roundtable Discussion with Private and Institutional Collectors
Chair: David Wallace, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Richard Linenthal, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Panelists:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Private Collector
Gifford Combs, Private Collector
Toshiyuki Takamiya, Private Collector, Keio University
Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Columbia University
William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Walters Art Museu
“This is proof”? Forensic evidence and ambiguous material culture at Treblinka extermination camp
In recent years, a forensic archaeological project at Treblinka extermination camp has uncovered significance evidence relating to the mass murder that took place there. A number of questions emerged regarding the provenance and origins of objects discovered as part of this work, and why they had remained undiscovered for over seventy years. These discoveries led to an opportunity to confirm and challenge the history of the extermination camp, and demands (from the public) to view the objects. This paper will outline how archaeologists and artists came together to reflect on these issues, whilst simultaneously providing access to the new findings
Conspiracy theory as spatial practice: the case of the Sivas arson attack, Turkey
This article discusses the relationship between conspiratorial thinking and physical space by focusing on the ways conspiracy theories regarding political violence shape and are shaped by the environments in which it is commemorated. Conspiratorial thinking features space as a significant element, but is taken to do so mainly figuratively. In blaming external powers and foreign actors for social ills, conspiracy theorists employ the spatial metaphor of inside versus outside. In perceiving discourses of transparency as the concealment rather than revelation of mechanisms of governance, conspiracy theorists engage the trope of a façade separating the space of power’s formulations from that of its operations. Studying the case of an arson attack dating from 1990s Turkey and its recent commemorations, this article argues that space mediates conspiracy theory not just figuratively but also physically and as such serves to catalyze two of its deadliest characteristics: anonymity and non-linear causality. Attending to this mediation requires a shift of focus from what conspiracy theory is to what it does as a spatial practice
Young children’s learning and generalization of teleological and mechanistic explanations
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