Archive 2012
14 May 2012, 16–18h
Ellen J. Beer Lecture, University of Bern, room 220 (main building).
Invited speaker: Stephen Calloway, Curator of the
exhibition Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860–1900 (2011),
Victoria & Albert Museum, London: “Palaces of Art: Artists,
Collectors and the Creation of the Aesthetic Interior”
10 October 2012, 18–20h
Opening lecture of the project’s lecture series, University of Bern, room 220
(main building).
Invited speaker: Prof. Niklaus Largier, Professor of
German and Comparative Literature, University of California,
Berkeley: “Die Konstruktion des Inneren Menschen: Vom Gebet zum
ästhetischen Experiment”
In cooperation with the Department of
German Studies, University of Bern
20 November 2012
Lecture in context of the lecture series Cologne Media Lectures,
University of Cologne.
Invited speaker: Prof. Tracy C. Davis, Professor of
Performance Studies, Northwestern University, Chicago: “Performance
Study, à la 1854–63”
11 December 2012
Lecture in context of the lecture series Cologne Media Lectures,
University of Cologne.
Invited speaker: Dr. Emma Smith, Lecturer in English Language
and Literature, Oxford University: “Shakespeare and London
2012”
12 December 2012, 18–20h
Second lecture of the project’s lecture series, University of Bern,
room 220 (main building).
Invited speaker: Prof. Jeffrey L. Collins, Professor of
17th- and 18th-century European Art and Culture, Bard Graduate Center:
Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New
York: “Interior Designs: Imagining the Museum in
Eighteenth-Century Italy”