CONFERENCES

The Society for Court Studies holds conferences on major topics in the field at least once a year. These conferences include papers both from acknowledged authorities and from younger students, and always involve the presentation of ground-breaking work.

 

Note: The published proceedings of our past conferences are still available and can be ordered from the Society or the respective publishers. Click here to see a list of publications.

 

 

Forthcoming Conferences Organised by the Society for Court Studies

 

10-11 May 2012
 
Rubens and the Thirty Years War: Dynastic Politics, Diplomacy and the Arts, c. 1618-1635
 
(Rubenianum, Antwerp)
 
Using the career of Peter Paul Rubens as an organizing thread, this conference will examine the complex relationships between diplomacy, dynastic politics and the visual arts between 1620 and 1635. Rubens – who painted major commissions for the courts of England, France, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands -- saw himself not only as a great artist but also as a polymath, diplomat and cosmopolitan courtier. Speakers include john Adamson, Nicola Courtwright, Jean-Marie Dubost, Erin Griffey and Antien Knaap. Download the flyer or consult the programme here. For further information please contact Professor Malcolm Smuts at Malcolm.smuts@umb.edu

 

 

Forthcoming Conferences Organised by Other Institutions

 

8-10 November 2012

Royal Hunts and Early Modern Courts

(Venaria Reale, Turin)

International Conference organized by "The Court Studies Forum", with the Centro studi of the Venaria. The conference will be interdisciplinary, with historians, art historians, historians of literature and music. For further information please contact Marcello.Fantoni@ksuflorence.net

Speakers include:

John Christianson, The Infrastructure of the Royal Hunt

Jeroen Duindam, Between relaxation and instrumentality: the royal hunt at early modern European and Asian courts

Suzanne J. Walker, The culture of hunting in early modern Europe

Andrea Spiriti, L’evoluzione del casino di caccia e dell’iconografia venatoria nello Stato di Milano in età spagnola e austriaca

Laura Facchin, Giovanni Battista Curlando: un pittore sabaudo e il ciclo delle cacce bavaresi di Schleissheim (1689)

Gérard Sabatier, Royal Hunts in France

Andrea Merlotti, The Hunts of the Savoy

Stefano Lorenzetti, Music and Hunting in Early Modern Europe

José Martinez Millan, Hunts and the Spanish court

Philip Mansel, Royal Hunts in an age of Revolutions: from Louis XVI to Napoleon III

6-8 June 2012

The Making of A Monarchy for the Modern World

(Kensington Palace, London)

The theme is monarchy and its relationship to the modern world. The keynote speaker will be Professor David Cannadine. There will be associated events such as an evening public lecture series sponsored by History Today magazine, and a musical performance. There will be a double ‘strand’ on Friday 8 June on the topic of monarchy and material culture, with special reference to royal dress, and particularly to the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. The papers for this strand will be reviewed and selected with the input of a member of the Costume Society’s committee, and will be preceded by a special plenary keynote address on the topic of royal dress.

For more information, see: www.hrp.org.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/Ourcurators/conferences.aspx