Palatium : Court Residences as places of exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1400 - 1700

Copenhagen colloquium “Beyond Scylla & Charybdis”

Workshops and Colloquia 30/04/2012 → 02/05/2012

Beyond Scylla and Charybdis. European Courts and Court Residences outside Habsburg and Valois/Bourbon Territories, 1500-1700

• Location: Copenhagen (The National Museum of Denmark) and Hillerød (The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle), Denmark
• Date: 30 April - 2 May 2012
• This event fits within WP3
• Convenors: Konrad Ottenheym and Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen
• Call for papers (pdf) - closed
• Awarded grants
• Programme (pdf)
• Programme flyer (pdf)
• Book of abstracts (pdf)
• Poster (pdf)
• Book publication: Beyond Scylla and Charybdis (2015)

This colloquium is co-organized by:
   The National Museum of Denmark
   The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
   The Royal Danish Collections, Rosenborg Castle

Review article in Weekendavisen: Pomp og pragt og pli (page 1 2 3).

Attending the conference is free, but for practical reasons registration is required. Please register by submitting this Registration form.

PROGRAMME

• Per Kristian Madsen, Director of The National Museum of Denmark
• Krista De Jonge, Chair of the PALATIUM Steering Committee
• Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen (The National Museum of Denmark) & Konrad Ottenheym (University of Utrecht), organizers of the Copenhagen Conference

• Introduction
  Jørgen Hein (Rosenborg Castle)
• Visiting the King in Lisbon: Etiquette between Europe and the Sea
  Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova, Lisbon)
• A War of Magnificence. England’s Royal Palaces in the Reign of Henry VIII
  Lee Prosser (Historical Buildings, Hampton Court Palace)
• Visual Culture and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Diplomacy outside the Habsburg and Valois Territories: The Tudor Court
  Tracey A. Sowerby (Keble College, Oxford)

12h00  Lunch break

13h30  SESSION I (continued)

• Introduction
  Steffen Heiberg (The Royal Library, Copenhagen)
• Visual Culture and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Diplomacy outside the Habsburg and Valois Territories: The Muscovite Court
  Jan Hennings (St John’s College, Oxford)
• Space and Ceremony at the Swedish Court
  Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University, Kalmar)
• Staging Diplomatic Interaction at the Danish Court 1600-1670
  Juliette Roding (University of Leiden)
• Spanish Tradition - French Fashion: The Residence of Duke Vittorio Amedeo II in Turin
  Elisabeth Wünsche-Werdehausen (Munich)

• Servants at Court: A Global Perspective
  Jeroen Duindam (University of Leiden)

• Presentation of the Exhibition "Europe meets the World" (The National Museum of Denmark)
  Poul Grinder-Hansen (The National Museum of Denmark)

• Introduction
  

  Badeloch Vera Noldus (Owner Heritage & Transformation Consultancy, Copenhagen)

• The Importance of the Informal Setting. The Use of Non-Official Space in Private, Political and Diplomatic Activities of King Frederik II of Denmark (1559-1588)
  Poul Grinder-Hansen (The National Museum of Denmark)
• The Spaces and Rituals of the Royal Hunt during the Reign of Frederik II of Denmark
  John Robert Christianson (Luther College, USA)
• French, English or just different? Ceremonial and Privacy in the Scottish Court and its Palaces
  Charles McKean (University of Dundee)

• Introduction
  Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova, Lisbon)
• Two in One: The Oratory in the Evangelical Palace Church in 16th and 17th Northern Europe
  Hugo Johannsen (The National Museum of Denmark)
• Magdalena Sibylle (1617-1668). The Dynastic Woman and the Confessional Space of Female Cultural Agency
  Mara R. Wade (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• The Sacred Space of the Double Funeral at the Roman Court
  Martine Boiteux (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris-Rome)

15h45  Coffee break

• Introduction
  Krista De Jonge (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven), Respondent
• Interpreting the Past: The Performativity of Adrian de Vries’ Sculptures in the Garden of Drottningholm
  Rikke Garfield Lagersted-Olsen (Bakkehus Museet, Copenhagen)
• The Commemoration of the Anti-Ottoman Wars as reflected in the Art and Architecture of Noble Residences in 17th Century Poland-Lithuania
  Sabine Jagozinski (University of Leipzig)
• Standing on Scylla and Charybdis: Iconography and Symbolism in the Visual and Aural Embellishment of the Palazzo Medici
  Jennifer Halton (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

• Introduction
  Konrad Ottenheym (University of Utrecht)
• Architecture as a Reference to the Past. Different Models of Antiquity at the Court of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490-1545) and their Sources
  Stephan Hoppe (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)
• The Stirling Heads: an Essay in Nobility
  Sally Rush (University of Glasgow)
• The Statua Danielis as a Political Image of the Translatio Imperii
  Barbara Uppenkamp (University of Hamburg)

• ‘Antiquum magis quam splendidum’. Appropriating Anachronism: The Case of Copenhagen Castle
  Birgitte Bøggild Johannsen (The National Museum of Denmark)
• Dignity of the King’s Architecture. Translation and Reception on the Edges of the Holy Roman Empire
  Herbert Karner (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
• The Great Baronial Houses of Post-Restoration Scotland 1667-1682
  Charles Wemyss (Scotland)

• Introduction
  Ingrid Ciulisová (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
• Keeping in Control: The Building Administration of Northern European Courts in the 15th and 16th Centuries
  Merlijn Hurx (University of Utrecht) 
• Building the Representation. Artists and Architects at the Courts of the Polish Kings, Sigismund III Vasa and Laislaus IV Vasa (1587-1648)
  Franciszek Skibinsky (University of Utrecht)

• Presentation of the Salzburg Residence Project
  Ingonda Hannesschläger and Gerhard Ammerer (University of Salzburg)
• Announcement of forthcoming PALATIUM events