ENBaCH
General Conference in Wien (9/26/2012) 
European Networks in the Baroque Era
26-29 September 2012
International Conference hosted at the "Josephinum", Vienna
The first general conference of the ENBaCH Project is intended to bring together research on Baroque forms of exchange and networking, as a basis for a modern network of researchers working on themes related to the cultural heritage of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The European Network for Baroque Cultural Heritage (ENBaCH) - is a research project supported and funded by the European Commission.
"Baroque" of course has various connotations depending on regions and cultural contexts but also on various approaches in different research fields. As ENBaCH is defined as an interdisciplinary project it is intended to confront these aspects and discuss their impact on what might be defined as "European Cultural Heritage"
A well-known historiograpical conundrum is the question of periodization. One useful, practicable approach is the collection of characteristics of an epoch from the cultural point of view: works of art, intellectual activities and developments, societal structures and contemporary ways of coping with diverse challenges in a specific society. Baroque culture was influenced by war, famine and epidemic diseases, and the resulting urgency of finding collaborative solutions for survival. New environments and infrastructures, increased mobility of craftsmen, artists and workers as well as the trade of artefacts and goods, and a vivid exchange of knowledge mark the period as much as its art, which represents a reaction to these threats to life in various ways.
We welcome papers on the following aspects of Baroque culture and exchange in particular:
• formal and informal networks of politics (e.g. the role of courts, diplomacy, agents) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• the Baroque circulation of ideas and knowledge (e.g. the Republic of Letters)
• the development of arts and cultural practices ("artists and artefacts on the move", baroque festivals and piety, fashion, cooking, etc.)
• (with particular relevance to the venue of the conference): the Baroque perception of the human body in various works of art, death and dying in relation to confessional
frameworks, coping with disease and disaster from a medical point of view (e.g. health care provisions, facing famine and epidemic disease) and collaboration in medicine
and health care
Conference language: English. The papers should be given in English and should take max. 20 minutes.
Discussions and commentaries by attending delegates may include also other languages.
Abstracts of one page max., in English, accompanied by a very short CV, should be sent to [email protected] by the end of April 2012
We will be able to cover moderate travelling costs and accommodation for invited speakers other than those involved in the ENBaCH project. Please enquire for details.
European Networks in the Baroque Era
International Conference of the Project
"European Networks of BarqoueCultural Heritage" (ENBaCH)
Vienna, Josephinum 26. - 29.9. 2012
Wednesday, 26.9.2012
17.00: Warming up
17.30: Welcome by Richard Kühnel, Representative of the European Commission in Austria
Introduction to the project ENBaCH by the coordinator Prof. Dr. Renata Ago (Università La Spienza, Rome)
18.00: Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite in H - Moll (BWV Nr. 1067) performed by "Camerata Medica", accompanied by a presentation of texts by Abraham a Sancta Clara, Hans Jakob Christophel von Grimmelshausen, Rainer Maria Rilke and an unknown soldier of the 30 years´ war, which will be supported by a visualisation of Baroque works of art.
As Camerata Medica is a charitable institution, the artists and the organising team of the conference decided to kindly ask for free donations, which will be given to "Integrationshaus Wien" (http://www.integrationshaus.at/) in memory of the displaced persons of the Baroque era, who contributed to the development of Baroque culture.
Thursday, 27.9.2012
9.00: Coffee
9.15 - 10.00: Key Note:
Christine M. Boeckl Vienna's Imperial Plague Monument: Its Symbolism and Functions.
10.00 - 12.30: Parallel sessions, breaks will be held on demand
Session I
Rhea Fessl Men at work. Coping with killing and dying killing in the 30 year´s war with the support of Raymundus Minderer´s "Handstücklein"
Ulrich Schlegelmilch Till death do us part: Balthasar Timaeus' medical correspondence on consumption (1656-1661)
Florian Steger Medicine between theory and practice. Friedrich Hoffmann's (1660-1742) contribution to the production of knowledge
Fabio Zampieri, Alberto Zanata, Maurizio Rippa Bonati The Scientific Network of Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1711)
Session II
Federica Favino Circulation of scientific knowledge across Baroque Europe: the Jesuit net of the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687)
Petra Lindenhofer "Unfröhliche Kinder". Confession and the death of unbaptized children
Rebekah Ahrendt Spectacular Migrations
Lionel Laborie & Olaf Simons Connecting Networks: Prophecy and Diplomacy in the Huguenot Diaspo
Session III
César Esponda de la Campa Prints from the Southern Netherlands as a medium of a common pictorial language in Spanish colonial America (16th-18th centuries)
Fernando Sanchez-Marcos Cultural Circulation and Irenical Scholarship in 17th C. Europe. The "Hispanica Illustrata" by Andreas Schott and Johann Pistorius
Zlatan Gruborovic Tiepoloʹs Allegory of the Planets and Continents: Conditioning the Bodies of the Old and the New Continents
Sebastian Pittl Baroque as a subversive way to live modernity. Bolívar Echeverría`s interpretation of Baroque as a contribution to an understanding of Latin-American modernit
12.30 - 14.00: Break
14.00 - 14.45: Key Note:
Ulrike Czeitschner / Claudia Resch ABaC:us - Austrian Baroque Corpus. Gaining access to digital cultural heritage: data, tools, standards and approaches
15.00 - 18.30: Parallel sessions, breaks will be held on demand
Session I
Christine Boeckl Baroque Depictions of the Human Body in Plague Imagery: the Impact of the Theological Debate
Bruno Atalic Religion against Plague: the Most Holy Trinity Monument in the City of Osijek
Ida Mauro "Invocando il Divino Aiuto". The Plague of 1656 in Neapolitan Festive Decorations
Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska Plagues and Fear in Early Modern Thorn
Dominkovicsné Anita The Black Death in Western Hungary
Christian Gepp "Ein Weh ist weg von Wien, das Wohl wird darauf erscheinen". Mastering the plague of 1713 in Vienna.
Session II
Jean Pierre Cavallé Sulla storiografia della nozione di barocco. Presentazione della raccolta di saggi online per Enbach
Haim Mahlev The Role of Academic Dissertations and Disputations in the Transformation of Knowledge in the Baroque Era
Agneta Markuszewska Un selvaggio eroe: noble savage on operatic scenes before Rousseau
Hanns-Peter Neumann The Correspondence Network of Ernst Christoph Count of Manteuffel and the German Enligthenment Philosopher Christian Wolff between 1738 and 1748
Elisabeth Tiller Baroque Architects, Artist, Scholars and their private Libraries Some Dresden Examples
Anja Schnabel The role of fashion in Baroque literature
Session III
Adrian Scerri The Diplomacy of the Order of St John and Information Networking in the Papal States in the 1680s
Alfredo Esteban Chamorro The legacy apostolic in Spain. Ceremonial conflicts arising in the envoys of holy father days in the catholic monarchy
Ewa Manikowska Art and Diplomacy. The Papal Gift in the Early Modern Era
María Albaladejo-Martínez Appearance and representation of the Infanta of Spain in the court of Philip II
Mark De-Vitis On The Value of Likeness in Portraits of Queen Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche
Leticia De Frutos Written female networks - Correspondence and Memories of Maria Mancini Colonna between Paris, Rome and Madrid
Friday, 28.9.2012
9.00: Coffee
9.15 - 10.00: Key Note:
Joan Lluís Palos From Genoa to Naples through Castile with a stop in Rome. Historical paintings in the Neapolitan palace of the Spanish viceroys
10.00 - 12.30: Parallel sessions, breaks will be held on demand
Session I
Fabio Cafagna The sight of death - Devotion, seduction and knowledge in the ceroplastic art between the 17th and 18th centuries
Joris Van Gastel Death, Wax and Portraiture in Baroque Italy
David Packwood Representing the Body in Pietro da Cortona's Tabula Anatomicae of 1619
Helen Hills Relics, inventio & place: finding relics & inventing place in baroque architecture and sculpture
Kimberley Skelton Manipulative Motion as Baroque Perception
Session II
Vania Santon Porcia: an Italian noble family in the Baroque Vienna
Roberto Quiros Rosadeo Friendship's rhetoric? - A view about the political epistolary between two Austracistas ministers (Vienna-Barcelona, 1711-1712)
Milena Viceconte "Per farsi merito nella corte di Spagna". The Duke of Medina de las Torres and the diplomatic gift during the Seventeenth centuries
Francesca Gallo The aristocrat living in the Baroque. Cultural tourist itineraries in Italy and Spain
Blythe Alice Raviola & Anna Cantaluppi The Compagnia di San Paolo in Turin. A Baroque network in early modern Italy
Session III
Dirk Van Waelderen The Ottoman Turks in baroque public display in the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands
Cecile D'Albis Creating the event: Communication, circulation and reception of the second siege of Vienna (1683) in Italy, Spain, Portugal and France
Daniel Aznar Celebration, War and Politics: Cultural Exchange between Paris and Barcelona, around the French Viceroys in Catalonia (1643-1647)
Molly Taylor-Poleskey Festkultur trifft Alltagsgeschichte: Post-War Dining at the Court of Brandenburg-Prussia
Laura Olivan & María Angeles Pérez Samper Spanish recipe books at the court of Vienna (1665-1700)
Afternoon: Excursion to the Baroque abbey Stift Melk
Saturday, 29.9.2012
9.00: Coffee
9.15 - 10.00: Key Note:
Lucien Bely La circulation des diplomates entre publicité et secret
10.00 -12.30: Parallel sessions, breaks will be held on demand
Session I
Diana Carrió-Invernizzi A New Diplomatic History and the Spanish Networks during the Baroque Age
Joana Fraga Between Agent and Subject: D. Duarte of Braganza in the context of the Portuguese diplomatic network across Europe (1640-1647)
Anton Tantner Intelligence Offices in Baroque Europe
Giuseppe Mrozek A spanish-italian network of corruption. The royal secretary Pedro Franqueza and his officials (1598-1611)
Session II
Benedetta Borello Spaces, publics and "public spheres" in baroque Rome
Carlos González Reyes The project for the urban renewal of Palermo in early seventeenth century as an idea for a Baroque city
Nicoletta Bazzano Ceremonials, culture and politics in Spanish baroque Palermo
Verónica Salazar Baena The Royal Ceremonies in the Viceroyalty of New Granada
12.30 - 14.00: Break
14.00 - 17.00: Parallel sessions, breaks will be held on demand
Session I
Paola Besutti Music for Holy Week: Chieti, Naples and the Spanish tradition
Andrea Zedler The Cultural Practice of Music on the Grand Tour as Exemplified by the Bavarian Electoral Prince Karl Albrecht (1715-1716)
Daniel Unger Eclecticism and the Emergence of Baroque Painting in Italy
Maria do Rosário Salema de Carvalho Azulejos and Prints
Matthias Müller Transfer of Baroque taste - Sculpture and sculptors in Stralsund at the beginning of the eighteenth century
Michał Wardzyński Vanitas Sarmatarum. Majesty of Life and Death's Representation in Sepulchral Baroque Sculpture in the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth in the Second Half of the 17th and the First Years of the 18th Centuries
Session II
Iva Lelkova Intellectual Correspondence Networks in Early Modern Czech Lands
Franz Eybl The Author of the "Curieuse Hauß=Apothec" (1699) and His Scientific Network
Vittoria Feola Librarian and Networker - Petrus Lambecius and the Imperial Library as a Centre of Knowledge
Lisa Roscioni Body and soul care in the Baroque Age: melancholic delusions, alchemy and spagyric art in Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695)
Gosline Sheldon To Advertise or NOT?: Forming a Medical Ethics of Self-Promotion
17.00: Chill Out
Abstracts of the papers
