Description
Presented paper: "Visualising Egypt, giving birth to collections: Amalia Nizzoli, Marianne Brocklehurst and their pioneering activity".The tenth Egypt and Austria conference took place in Prague from the 1st to 3rd October, 2014. It was organized by the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) and the Faculty of Humanities (FHS UK) of the Charles University under the title: Visualizing the Orient. Central Europe and the Near East in the 19th and 20th Century.
The role of visualisation in the production of knowledge on Orient has become a subject of great interest in recent years. However, the question how the Oriental Other was represented in modern Central European visual culture has not yet stimulated an adequate scholarly interest. From the last decades of the 19th century onwards, the Orient became an integral part of a whole range of media and objects including photography, cinema, painting, and sculpture or book illustration. The Orient was staged, among others, in the most of Central European theatres and opera houses.
Last but not least, orientalist imaginations were incorporated into period pop culture objects, such as comic cartoons, advertising or fashion. Travels and travellers often played the role of actual or imaginary mediators The main goal of our conference is thus to discuss both the wide range of visual forms and the conceptual frameworks suitable for the analysis of their social impacts.
Period | 1 Oct 2014 |
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Event type | Conference |
Conference number | 10 |
Location | Prague, CzechiaShow on map |
Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Archaeology
- Egyptology
- Ancient Egypt
- Modern History
- Marianne Brocklehurst
- Amalia Nizzoli
- European travellers
- Memoires
- memory studies
- Manuscript studies
- History of Collections
- Museum Collections
- Museum studies
- Egypt
Documents & Links
Related content
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Activities
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Central European Conference of Egyptologists VII
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Egypt and Austria IX
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Press/Media
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Nizzoli Project: Featuring articles on the discovery of Amalia Nizzoli's grave and the published monograph
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Nizzoli Project: Featuring article on the monograph about Amalia Nizzoli, "A release for connoisseurs"
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Nizzoli Project: EEF Press Report on the discovery of Amalia Nizzoli's grave and the published monograph
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Nizzoli Project: News on the discovery of Amalia Nizzoli's grave and the published monograph
Press/Media: Blogs, Podcasts and Social Media › Social Media Mentions
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Nizzoli Project: Featuring article on the published monograph about Amalia Nizzoli
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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'La Nazione' featuring Amalia Nizzoli's discovery
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Research output
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The traveller as a direct witness: re-investigating Amalia Nizzoli's memorie sull'Egitto
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
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Amalia Nizzoli e la sua tomba perduta. Storia di un ritrovamento e degli ultimi anni di vita dell'autrice di «Memorie sull'Egitto»
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Other
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Projects
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The Nizzoli Project
Project: Research