Exhibiting entangled histories  Reflections from Oceania Museum collections are increasingly understood, not as masses of artefacts, art works or specimens, but as assemblages made up of relations as well as objects, and […]

Photography and Visual German-Jewish History, 1910-1950 Please register until November 6 if you are planing to attend to the workshop. The workshop intends to analyse the roles of private German-Jewish photography between […]

Things that talk badly? Collecting Scandalous Antiquities in the Late Eighteenth-Century French Asia In the last decade, one saw the emergence of a global history of antiquarianism (Miller, 2012; Schnapp, 2016; Bleichmar […]

Wednesdays, 4.15 – 5.45 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) – Green Hall, Historic Observatory 7th November 2018, 6:15 p.m. Public Lecture: Stéphane van Damme (EUI Florence): “Things that talk badly: Collecting Scandalous Antiquities […]

Dr. Mariët Westermann (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, Executive Vice President for Programs and Research): “The curious case of the lemon in Dutch still life”   The lecture is organized […]

Panel discussion: Jennifer Pitts: Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire Historic Observatory, Green Hall, Wednesday 6th June 2018, 6.15 p.m Jennifer Pitts: Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire (Harvard University […]

Programme – 5. May 2018, 11 a. m. – 5 p. m. Guided Tours / Cupola (every 30 min) – 11 a. m. – 5 p. m. Children Programme in the Garden – 11 […]

Programme Colloquium Summer Term 2018  Wednesday, 11th April, 4.15 p.m. Demetrius Eudell (Wesleyan University): “A Language for the Eye”: Lichtenberg, Lavater, Hogarth and the Spirit of Observation in the 18th Century Wednesday, […]