Venerdì 14 e sabato 15 novembre avrà luogo online una due giorni dal titolo “Photography and the rural european environnement during the long 19th century”, organizzata nell’ambito dell’Alleanza Universitaria Circle U.
At a time when the rural environment was being radically transformed by the Second Industrial Revolution, photography captured a crucial tension between a romanticized, pastoral past and a mechanized, rationalized future. This project’s approach allows us to examine the topic across different scales, from the micro-level of individual photographs to the macro-level of national identity and global circulations of agricultural, artistic, or scientific information, ideas, and power. By studying how rural environments were visually represented in photographs, as well as the ideologies, networks, and material culture structuring these photographic processes, we can better understand the historical construction of rural space and place. Furthermore, by drawing from case studies from all over Europe, including Great Britain, Romania, Poland, and Germany, we hope to investigate the role of rural representations in the construction of regional, national, or European identity and explore the diverse meanings of rurality across the continent.
Programma
Venerdì 14 novembre
09:30
Rural Photography, Tourism, and the Making the Picturesque Lake District
10:15
Above and Beyond: The cloud as drifting conceptual and visual motif in photographic theory
11:10
Framing Nature: Serbian Landscape Photography at International Exhibitions
12:30
TEXTURE (Flax and River Lys Museum): Rural Photography in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century
14:15
Digging through the Hinterland(s) of the Front(s) during the Great War
15:10
Rediscovering Vitold Rola Piekarski’s Photographic Fieldtrips in Rural Romania
Sabato 15 Novembre
09:30
Nature in German Photographic Publications (1871-1933)
10:15
Intoxicating Landscapes: Visual and Narrative Representation of Polish Peasant Drinking Culture in the Second Half of the 19th Century
11:10
Conclusion
Per la partecipazione è necessaria la registrazione da effettuarsi entro e non oltre mercoledì 12 novembre. Registrati
